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WSU Libraries will host a screening of the film “The Right to Read” at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, in the CUB Auditorium. A panel discussion follows the film, with a variety of speakers to include WSU faculty, pre-service teachers, and graduate students. “The Right to Read” shares the stories of an NAACP activist, a […]

WSU’s Academic Outreach and Innovation (AOI), with support from the WSU Libraries, has rolled out the LibKey Nomad browser extension to the computers that the division maintains on campus. LibKey Nomad provides one-click access to library content on publisher websites, PubMed, Wikipedia, Google Scholar, and more. The tool allows users to move directly from a […]

Award-winning contemporary Ukrainian poet Lyuba Yakimchuk’s collection “Apricots of Donbas,” written over 10 years, reveals the ramifications of occupation through intimate descriptions of how her family’s life changed when the Ukrainian city of Luhansk became occupied in 2014. In the poem “he says that all shall be well,” a girl recounts her conversation with an […]

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 […]