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Editor’s Note: WSU Libraries can renew their open access agreement with Wiley Publishing thanks to a one-time strategic investment of $240,000 from the WSU Office of the Provost. University researchers can continue to publish their work in more than 1,400 scholarly journals without individual article processing charges (APCs). To balance WSU Libraries’ collections budget this […]

WSU Arts Assistant Professor Jiemei “Mei” Lin is painting a new mural of sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell in the hallway adjacent to Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) on the Terrell Library ground floor for the start of classes this fall. According to Lin, the Virginia and Vanessa mural celebrates the creative lives […]

WSU Libraries’ faculty members David Luftig and Sam Lohmann received their tenure and promotion to Librarian 3 earlier this year. According to WSU Provost Chris Riley-Tillman, “the granting of tenure and promotion is the strongest possible statement that can be made of the confidence your colleagues, the college, and the university administration have in your […]

Fifty-one WSU Press authors (or their heirs) waived royalty payments on 2024 sales of their titles, totaling roughly $2,000 that can be used to support future publications and operations. “The waiving of royalties has a significant impact on WSU Press, as it helps us to earn back the cost of producing a title more quickly, […]

In June, Keiko Hara, longtime painter, printmaker, and subject of a WSU Press book about her art, earned the 2025 Twining Humber Award from the Artist Trust, a nonprofit organization that supports and encourages individual artists working in all disciplines to enrich community life throughout Washington state. The $10,000 award is given annually to a […]

For co-founding and co-leading the WSU Queer Archives with WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Josie Cohen-Rodriguez (she/they/ella) has been named the 2025 Library Excellence Award recipient. The award recognizes a non-library WSU faculty or staff member who has shown consistent support for the WSU Libraries. Recipients are chosen based on encouraging students to use […]

Bruce A. Ramsey is the author of the WSU Press book Seattle in the Great Depression: A History of Business, Labor, and Politics Drawn from Local Chronicles. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Washington and studied graduate-level journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Ramsey began his journalism career […]

WSU librarians Talea Anderson and Erin Hvizdak have received WSU David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities Fellowships for Anderson’s book project on the history of vegetarianism and Hvizdak’s examination of the intersections of race, gender, and art in New Orleans from 1830 to 1940. According to the center’s faculty opportunities website, the fellowships […]

Three WSU Libraries’ student workers graduated May 3 and are ready to take what they learned—in class and in their jobs—into the next chapter of their lives. Research Services’ student reference assistant Janai Johnson earned a bachelor’s degree in animal sciences, pre-veterinary. From Federal Way, Washington, she plans to spend the summer working, spending time […]

A journalistic history of Seattle during the Great Depression and a wildlife biologist’s 40 years of research on Pacific Northwest wildlife are April releases from WSU Press. Seattle in the Great Depression: A History of Business, Labor, and Politics Drawn from Local Chronicles by longtime journalist Bruce A. Ramsey captures stories from Seattle newspapers and […]