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In “Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash”—Washington State University’s common reading book for 2014-15—readers learn that the average American throws away about 7.1 pounds of trash every day. Over a lifetime, that’s 102 tons of garbage. WSU Libraries and the university’s waste management department are sponsoring an exhibit through Oct. 12 in the Terrell […]

Roughly 80 members of the Washington State University classes of 1964 and 1954 (and one from the class of 1944) listened to piano performances in the Terrell Library atrium and toured Holland Library Sept. 11 during an annual celebration honoring longtime alumni. For the diamond grads, Holland had just been constructed when they arrived at […]

Students needing study space have some new options this semester.  The Holland and Terrell Libraries have installed new furniture in several areas that should make finding just the right space a bit easier.  You can find the new, wired tables, rolling chairs, and whiteboards like those below in the reference area of Terrell (1st floor).  […]

More than two decades ago, a small parking lot and 140,000 cubic yards of dirt and trees inhabited the spot where Washington State University’s Terrell Library and iconic dome stand. Terrell celebrates its 20th anniversary and kicks off a new academic year with a retrospective exhibit about the library at the heart of campus. “Terrell […]

The WSU Libraries are working to get our new system to correspond to how we do business, specifically with regard to the semester-long loans we have used in the past for faculty, graduate students, staff, professional students, and honors students. To accommodate patron needs, we have changed the dates for semester-length loans to be renewed […]

It is a century old, its tan felt cover worn smooth by fingers that opened the scrapbook many times to see Logan Wheeler’s memories of Washington State College. More than 1,000 photos of campus life, people, events and buildings fill the book. There is also the unseen imprint of a spirited young man who caught […]

A new exhibit at WSU Libraries is inspired partly by the “make and tell” philosophy of TV “MythBuster” Adam Savage and partly by the desire to showcase off-the-job creativity. “After Hours: Makers of the Libraries,” will be in the Terrell Library atrium display case through Aug. 15. It features works by 14 WSU Libraries staff […]

How many books can a Washington State University student check out at a time? What magazine is at call number 901 B772i? And how many copies of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” does the WSU Libraries own? About 80 K-6 students attending Cougar Kids Camp Mini Cougar Week learned the answers (299; […]

Starting July 1st the Findit!@WSU will merge with the Search It discovery interface In an ongoing effort to minimize barriers to information and provide a consistent user interface the FindIt!@WSU interface will be merged with the Search It discovery interface.  For a complete description of the changes with  please visit: http://libguides.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findit_changes and if you have […]

In one of Victoria Olsen-Mikitowicz’s artworks, Tyrannosaurus rex stomps across a page of the 1937 “Dispensatory of the United States of America,” once the pharmacy profession’s comprehensive guide to drugs, including those used in veterinary medicine. The book, like the subject matter, has gone the way of the dinosaurs. Olsen-Mikitowicz, a fourth-year Washington State University […]