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WSU Libraries are seeking student, faculty and staff volunteers to participate in one-hour focus groups for the redesign of the libraries’ website. The focus groups will take place at 11 a.m. on Jan. 9, 3 p.m. on Jan. 10 and noon on Jan. 11 at the Holland and Terrell Libraries. All participants will receive $15 […]

To prevent another round of cuts to WSU Libraries’ journals subscriptions, WSU President Kirk Schulz and WSU Provost Dan Bernardo recently designated an additional $150,000 to the libraries’ budget. This is the second consecutive year the president and provost have allocated additional money to the libraries’ journal fund, with $500,000 designated in 2017. Like other academic libraries around […]

WSU librarian Trevor Bond has been selected by the Washington State Historical Society as the recipient of the 2018 Charles Gates Memorial Award for his article “Documenting Missionaries and Indians: The Archive of Myron Eells.” The award recognizes “the most significant achievement among all articles published in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly.” He will be honored […]

Retired WSU librarians Vicki Croft and Marilyn Von Seggern recently received honors from the Medical Library Association and the American Library Association. Croft, former head of the WSU Animal Health Library, shared MLA’s Erich Meyerhoff Prize with Susanne K. Whitaker, retired veterinary librarian at Cornell University, for best unpublished essay on the history of medicine […]

A new exhibit in WSU’s Terrell Library this month highlights the collected books and other media of library employees when they’re not at work. Called “After Hours 5: Don’t Judge a Book by its Owner,” the exhibit runs through August in the atrium display case. Started in 2014, the “After Hours” exhibits celebrate the creativity […]

Scholarly Communication Librarian Talea Anderson was recently awarded the Student Success Seed Grant to conduct her research on the Affordable Learning Project. The research surrounding this project was designed to make course materials more affordable for students and, therefore, to support their success in courses at WSU. The project had two main components: an open […]

In response to requests from ASWSU leadership, the Holland and Terrell Libraries will offer extended hours during the end of Summer Session. They will be open until 11:45 p.m. on Wednesday, June 13, and Thursday, June 14.

Obituaries, especially ones from the early 1900s, have much to teach the living. WSU senior Liz Cairns knows because she scans newspaper obituaries from those decades for the Kimble Northwest History Database. Working with obituaries might not seem like the best form of student employment, but Cairns says she loves reading them. “If it’s written […]

WSU Libraries will be transitioning from the Kanopy streaming video patron-driven purchasing program to a mediated purchasing model. The change will not apply to the WSU Vancouver campus. Faculty can still browse the Kanopy catalog at https://www.kanopy.com/, and send purchase requests to their departmental library liaison, however film trailers and previews will not be available on the Kanopy […]

The manuscript from Honest Abe wasn’t so honest. It took more than 60 years for the staff of Washington State University’s Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections to learn that the document was a forgery. Part of an Abraham Lincoln collection purchased in the early 1940s, the handwritten fragment, entitled “On Administration,” was considered one of […]