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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 […]

Travis Baldree, author of the cozy fantasy novel Legends & Lattes, will discuss his book and more at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, at the Holland and Terrell Libraries, part of the regional Everybody Reads program. The event is free and open to the public. For more area talks by Baldree, check out the Everybody […]

“Later in the night, I felt another stirring inside me. Something I had buried and denied for over 20 years began to make itself heard. I cried out, ‘Who am I? Am I Indian—or am I white?’ I heard a voice, and it told me, ‘Go home.’” On Feb. 20, 1993, Roberta Tawlikitsanmay’ (Woman of […]

WSU Libraries and the WSU Academic Success and Career Center (ASCC) hosted an Oct. 13 Résumé Café in Terrell Library’s new academic support space to open in January, the Cougar Commons. In total, 64 WSU students came to receive one-on-one networking and résumé support from 16 representatives of nine companies in attendance, including Boeing, Enterprise […]

International Open Access Week takes place Oct. 20-26, with the theme “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” WSU Libraries will host a Zoom panel, “AI Tools in an Open Research Landscape,” at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) concerns impact academic researchers and their work. Those interested in attending can register here. […]

Florence Shotridge, a Tlingit woman from Alaska, did something unheard of for Native American peoples in the early 20th century: She conducted anthropological fieldwork among Northwest Coast communities and played an “Indian princess” as she educated schoolchildren who visited Philadelphia’s University Museum where she worked. And she did it by using her Indian boarding school […]