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Who Reads Newspapers?  Cougars Enjoy Easy Online Access! We all know that printed newspaper readership has declined.  Would it surprise you to learn, though,  that one of the most popular LibGuides used by the WSU community is the Newspapers and News LibGuide?  Last year WSU students and staff accessed this popular guide over fourteen thousands times! […]

Washington State University honors student Claire Thornton grew up hearing stories of her grandfather, Dell, a combat medic during World War II. This year, Thornton studied the impact GIs had on Washington State College as they left the war behind and entered the halls of higher education. Drafted in the Army in April 1942 and […]

Kyla Lakin’s dogs and cats stare out of her paintings with trust, alertness and hope, much as they did in life. The Washington State University student knew them all as temporary residents of the Humane Society of the Palouse (HSOP) in Moscow, Idaho, before they became the stars of WSU Animal Health Library’s next “Art […]

The 25th anniversary of WSU Spokane’s creation is cause for celebration as well as reflection on where the campus has been and where it is going. An important change to the campus description has been slowly evolving as we engage with more partners outside of Spokane and as we try to market our respective universities. […]

This is the time of the semester when many WSU students are starting to research for assignments, papers, and projects.  If you’re one of them – struggling with an assignment, trying to find the best resource for your paper, or being overwhelmed with the results you’re getting from Google, remember there are helpful library staff […]

Streamlined Summit Requesting through Search It Content from the thirty-seven libraries within the Orbis Cascade Alliance (Summit) is now fully integrated through the single search interface of Search It, and as a result of this integration, the Alliance rolled out the enhancements to the Summit requesting process on January 20, 2015.  Some of the benefits of […]

Associate Dean Beth Blakesley Named Editor-in-Chief of Top Library Journal Beth Blakesley, associate dean of libraries at Washington State University, assumes leadership this month as editor-in-chief of the “Journal of Academic Librarianship” (JAL), one of the top publications in the academic libraries field. Established in 1975, the international and refereed journal publishes articles on issues […]

With a combined 65 years of service to WSU Libraries, husband and wife Lou and Kay Vyhnanek will retire Friday, Dec. 19. A reception will be 3-5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, in Terrell Library atrium. At WSU’s 10th annual Employee Recognition Reception on Dec. 10, the couple joined more than 560 staff and faculty celebrating […]

The passengers aboard the S.S. Spokane cruising through Alaskan waters in 1903 probably didn’t give their lunch menu much thought beyond what they would have to eat. Granted, its totem-pole shape was interesting – a clever play by cruise company marketers to remind them of where they were sailing and maybe to buy a miniature […]

Not every librarian can say she met Peter Graves on the set of the “Mission: Impossible” TV show during the late 1960s in Hollywood or that she helped bring an infamous book thief to justice. But WSU Libraries’ Eileen Brady has done both – and much more. In fact, after 31 years, there aren’t many […]