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By Nella Letizia To hold a first-edition novel by Jane Austen is a once-in-a-lifetime event for a book lover like me. Sitting in Terrell Library’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) reading room for two days, this authoress first smelled the volumes. A musty essence rose from the pages, composed of imagined, imprinted perfumes and […]

One of Allie (Spraul) Altamura’s favorite parts of working as a WSU student in Owen Science and Engineering Library was getting to interact with so many other students, staff, and faculty members every day. For Jacqueline Taylor, a student worker in Terrell Library’s Access Services, it was her coworkers. Both will take those memories with […]

Hardhat Days: My Re-Education in Seattle’s Shipyards, published by WSU Press’s general interest imprint Basalt Books, has been recently featured in two Seattle-area media outlets, adding to the buzz over Mike Nolan’s memoir of a broke and desperate college graduate who joined the gritty, dangerous—yet still often humorous—world of Seattle shipyard labor. On Nov. 10, […]

Cougar Commons officially opens in the new year in the Terrell Library first floor overlooking the atrium, and construction is progressing for the new WSU Libraries’ academic support center for all students. Demolition to make room for the space is tentatively slated to begin Dec. 15. This week, Access Services’ employees and volunteers will move […]

NOTE: We inadvertently omitted several library faculty who also published research articles in 2025. Their articles have been added to this story. In the last year, WSU Libraries’ faculty and a research assistant have published research articles in various academic journals, bringing their scholarship endeavors to a broad audience. The articles include the following:

By Trevor Bond The WSU Libraries recently received a remarkable gift of $231,000 from the estate of Melvin “Mel” Hamre, adding to the Hamre Endowment to support students and to enhance library collections. Hamre’s story is one of hard work, curiosity, and lifelong dedication to education. Born in 1932 in Edgewood, Washington, north of Puyallup, […]

WSU Press’s 34th annual Holiday Book Fair is set for 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, in the Terrell Library atrium. The event is free and open to the public. Festivities include authors signing books, steep discounts of 30-50 percent on all titles, drawings for free books, and […]

A panel highlighting the lives of Washington State College students who died during World War II is planned for 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, in the Terrell Library Atrium. In all, 250 WSC students are commemorated in the Fallen Cougars Project, directed by Raymond Sun, associate professor in the WSU Department of History. The panel, […]

WSU Libraries recently entered an agreement with ProQuest to add over 530,000 e-books to their collections—bringing the libraries’ total to more than 810,000 titles on the ProQuest Ebook Central platform. The e-books support unlimited simultaneous users and are ideal for course integration. They are now discoverable in Search It, and the platform also features a […]

For the first time, WSU Libraries team up with the University of Idaho Library to host GIS Day 2025 on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at the UI Student Union Building’s Clearwater Room and over Zoom. Free and open to everyone, the event will bring together scholars, students, professionals, businesses, and the public to discuss geospatial technologies […]