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WSU School of Music Professor Keri McCarthy has been named the 2021 recipient of the WSU Libraries’ Excellence Award. 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 the libraries; personal use of the libraries; personal […]

Many of DJ Lee’s stories in Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots embody the powerful force of the Selway River that carves out a portion of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in Idaho and Montana, the spiritual home Lee discovered in midlife. Lee’s 2020 memoir is also the culmination of research into her family history with the wilderness area, […]

WSU Libraries are seeking undergraduate and graduate students and student-workers to serve on their new 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 LSAB also helps determine […]

With walk-in reference help shuttered at academic libraries around the country because of COVID-19, helping patrons virtually is more critical than before. WSU humanities librarian Erin Hvizdak learned this recently when a professor in San Francisco contacted her to check a footnote in a book at the last minute for her research. All nearby libraries […]

Are you interested in helping WSU Libraries Pullman improve their online services and websites? Sign up to receive occasional invitations to surveys, feedback sessions, usability tests, participatory design sessions and more, including some that involve $15 gift cards as incentives. This pool is managed by the Web Advisory Group at WSU Libraries Pullman. We will […]

WSU Libraries’ patrons now have access to a new video database, ProQuest’s Academic Video Online (AVON), offering 71,000 titles spanning such subject areas as anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music and more. The database was recently made available to member institutions of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, which includes WSU. AVON provides a variety of […]

International Open Access Week officially takes place Oct. 19-25 and focuses on the theme “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion.” With campuses shifting their delivery of instruction and resources to foster inclusion and accommodate equitable online access, the pandemic has elevated the relevance of this year’s theme. Due to COVID-19, […]

A recent grant from the Center for Research Libraries’ Project CERES will allow Washington State University Libraries to digitize some 41,000 documents of early Washington State College Extension home economics publications as well as reports of the then-named Tree Fruit Experiment Station, today’s WSU Wenatchee Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center. The digital collection will […]

It started with a search for a newspaper photo of an uncle with former U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson, taken at the Green Giant plant in Grandview, Wash., in the early 1970s. Laura Solis knew the history of her uncle, that he, her father and their family traveled from south Texas every year to do […]

The U.S. Constitution is a living document—come be a part of it on Constitution Day from 3-4:30 p.m. (Pacific Time) Tuesday, Sept. 17, by joining other members of the WSU community to read the Constitution out loud via Zoom. The annual WSU Libraries’ event, organized by Social Sciences and Government Information Librarian Lorena O’English, celebrates […]