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Peter Boag may not have realized in January 1987 that two books would emerge from his dissertation research at the Linn County Historical Museum in Brownsville, Ore. His first book, “Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon,” published in 1992, stemmed from Boag’s research interest in the American West’s society and culture from 1850-1950. […]

Want to learn more about Black history but don’t know where to start? Washington State University Libraries faculty and staff have compiled online resources and selections from a juvenile book collection to help patrons explore Black history during February and all year round. University Archivist Mark O’English suggests the following: The Black Oral History Collection consists of […]

Coinciding with WSU’s first observance of the National Day of Racial Healing (NDoRH) on Jan. 17, WSU Libraries have created an accompanying book exhibit in the Terrell Library display case, running through January. The exhibit focuses on self-care, mindfulness, and love as acts of nonviolent resistance to oppression, and their role in racial healing, according […]

Email notifications from BrowZine are now available for WSU Libraries’ subscribed patrons. An interface provided by the company Third Iron, BrowZine allows patrons to browse and stay current with the electronic journals in their academic fields. BrowZine provides multiple entry points to connect with scholarly materials, including from within WSU Libraries’ Search It and via the BrowZine web and […]

WSU printmaking professor Kevin Haas has collected artist’s books for roughly 25 years. With each new acquisition, a unique creative exploration is revealed. For example, Margot Lovejoy’s “Book of Plagues” examines the AIDS crisis, the fear and stigmatization surrounding it, and government indifference to the epidemic, with parallels to current crises. Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo made her […]

Beth Piatote, author of “The Beadworkers,” the 2022 selection for the Everybody Reads program, will speak at noon Wednesday, Nov. 2, in the Quiet Lounge at WSU’s Terrell Library. Piatote is on tour around area libraries Nov. 1-4 to discuss her book and initiate community conversations. “The Beadworkers,” Piatote’s debut short story collection, opens with […]

International Open Access Week 2022, set for Oct. 24–30 with the theme of “Open for Climate Justice,” seeks to encourage connection and collaboration among the climate movement and the international open community. Sharing knowledge is a human right, say organizers, and tackling the climate crisis requires the rapid exchange of knowledge across geographic, economic, and disciplinary […]

An exhibit of “re-photographed” images of nearby Wawawai County Park by Washington State University fine arts associate professor Dennis DeHart will be on display at WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections through spring semester. Titled “Rambles through the Wawawai: A Re-Photography, Photographic Project,” the exhibit opens with a reception from 3-5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, […]

A collection of equine photographs by local photographer Shaundra Baumwart will be on display as part of the fall 2022 “Art in the Library” exhibit in the Animal Health Library. An opening reception will be held from 5-6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, in the library, Wegner 170. Baumwart’s exhibit will run through December on the […]

To celebrate Constitution and Citizenship Day on Sept. 17, the WSU Libraries will sponsor a round-robin public reading of the Constitution (with amendments) starting at noon on Friday, Sept. 16, 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. […]