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A poetry collection from Native American writers of western Washington and a Palouse Country history and pictorial artbook are among new available titles from WSU Press. A Muckleshoot Poetry Anthology: At the Confluence of the Green and White Rivers, curated by former Poet Laureate and journalist Susan Landgraf, originated from a grant and more than […]

Before Ann Dyer became director of the WSU Health Sciences Library in Spokane, she served as a research and instruction librarian at the Maine Maritime Academy. In some ways, the job was not unlike what she does as a medical librarian today. “Working at a maritime library allowed me to hone my experience of being […]

Last June, WSU Libraries and the Washington State School for the Blind collaborated on an exhibit, a popup experience called “War of the Dots.” The exhibit’s goal was to engage blind and low-vision students in the history of tactile print, connecting accessibility challenges of the past with the present day. Now, exhibit collaborators are organizing […]

The Inlander’s Azaria Podplesky writes that art and outer space have always gone together, with creators of all mediums endlessly inspired by the knowns and unknowns of the galaxy. Add WSU Libraries’ Jason E. Anderson and Kahyun (Kate) Uhm to that list. The two musicians created Music for Observations, a series of free live electronic […]

The national Council on Library and Information Resources has awarded $334,000 to WSU, institutional partners, and nine Native American nations to extend their work advancing collaborative curation between Native communities and non-Native repositories. The funding is part of CLIR’s “Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices” grant program for digitizing rare and unique content stewarded by […]

As we finish the first month of the semester, it’s a great time to remind WSU students and faculty of the Libraries’ services and resources available to meet all their information and research needs. For Pullman campus students who are searching for research help, library information, and resources specific to them, this website has links […]

The 34th annual unveiling of the Ig Nobel Prizes takes place on Thursday, Sept. 12, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and via webcast. To celebrate locally, Owen Science and Engineering Library is hosting a watch party from 3-5 p.m. on the second floor. The party is free and open to the public, […]

To celebrate Constitution and Citizenship Day on Tuesday, Sept. 17, WSU Libraries will sponsor a round-robin public reading of the Constitution (with amendments) starting at noon in the Terrell Library Atrium on the Pullman campus. The reading takes about an hour; if there is interest, organizers will do a second reading. The event is free […]

The 30-year history of WSU’s Terrell Library is one of adaptation, according to Phil Gruen, a professor in the School of Design and Construction. Terrell’s completion in 1994 helped save the library system; the existing Holland Library, completed in 1950, was running out of room for books by the early 1990s. (For a deep dive […]

Around 1835, Perkins School for the Blind student Henry Stephens noted that he sometimes had to work for days to understand a single page written in Boston Line Type, one of several early tactile print systems for blind and low-vision individuals. Deafblind author Helen Keller wrote during the 1860s that another system, New York Point, […]