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WSU Libraries are seeking undergraduate and graduate students and student-workers to serve on the Library Student Advisory Board. The board exists as a direct channel for students to give input about the physical and digital experience of the WSU Libraries, including websites, online services, collections, in‑person services, and physical spaces. The board also helps determine best practices […]

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

Effective Aug. 23, WSU Libraries’ Holland and Terrell Libraries will return to their pre-pandemic schedule of staying open 24 hours a day Sunday through Thursday. Office delivery of resources has resumed, and the popular locker pickup service will remain in place. The libraries will continue to offer mailing services to all patrons through the fall. In-person reference […]

WSU Libraries’ SciFinder subscription (http://www.systems.wsu.edu/Griffin/ejournals/splash/SciFindSch.html) has been upgraded to include SciFinder-n, a new product that offers substantial enhancements and new features for chemical research. SciFinder is the premier database for chemistry literature, chemical structures, and patents. To access full-text articles from a SciFinder article record, make sure you are logged into Search It and click […]

When WSU Libraries open July 12, emergency temporary access to their print holdings contained within the HathiTrust Digital Library will end. HathiTrust is a nonprofit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving more than 17 million digitized items. WSU Libraries gained access to the HathiTrust collections in April 2020 following closures due to the COVID-19 […]

Starting July 12, WSU Pullman’s Holland and Terrell Libraries will be open from 8 a.m.–4:45 p.m. Monday through Friday. Owen Science and Engineering Library will be open from 9 a.m.–4:45 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Animal Health Library will be open from 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Libraries’ administrators will work on solidifying plans for regular open hours during the fall semester and announce those plans in […]

In 1847, Presbyterian missionary Henry Spalding acquired handmade Nez Perce artifacts and sent them from north-central Idaho to his friend and supporter, Dudley Allen, in Ohio in exchange for commodities. This was the fate of many early Native American materials, to be appropriated by non-Natives and removed from the hands and lands that created them. The […]

Trevor Bond has been named director of Washington State University’s Center for Arts and Humanities, taking over from founding director Todd Butler, now dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Bond is joined by the School of Music’s Keri McCarthy, who will serve as the center’s associate director. Toria Messinger will continue for a third […]

WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections has acquired first editions of the Jane Austen novels “Emma,” “Mansfield Park,” “Northanger Abbey,” and “Persuasion” thanks to the bequest of WSU alumna Lorraine (Kure) Hanaway, Class of 1949. “Jane Austen is one of the most loved authors in all of literature. The WSU Libraries had no first editions […]

WSU researchers and students have access through August 30 to the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) education section, thanks to financial support from faculty member Martina Ederer, WSU School of Molecular Biosciences. “The Journal of Visualized Experiments is one of the most requested resources by faculty and students,” said Joel Cummings, head of collection development […]