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For more than 10 years, WSU’s Peter Boag has studied and written of male and female cross-dressers in the 19th-century American West—a research area not typically associated with the era of westward land grabs, Native American conflicts, the Gold Rush and the transcontinental railroad. Professor and Columbia Chair in the History of the American West, […]

In the United States, 43.8 million adults experience mental illness each year, yet it remains a topic of secrecy and stigma for many, including on college campuses. During February, WSU Libraries and Health and Wellness Services are sponsoring a display, “Minds Matter: Advocating for Mental Health,” in the Terrell Library atrium. It examines mental health, […]

Want a book’s call number sent directly to your mobile phone? Use Washington State University Libraries’ new text-a-call-number service, available through the Search It online search tool. “The service makes it easier for students and librarians to find resources more quickly and efficiently,” said instruction librarian Holly Luetkenhaus. Once logged in to the Search It […]

Program CoordinatorWashington State University Libraries, Pullman The primary responsibility of this position is to assist the Libraries’ Development Director in fundraising operations. Duties include: coordinating annual fundraising plans, managing records, processing donor checks and gift transmittal forms, organizing and assisting in the implementation and evaluation of special events. Occasional non-traditional hours, which may include evenings […]

Federal agencies were told in 2013 to ensure public access to federally funded research through national repositories. WSU researchers receiving federal funding have a ready and local tool for making their work accessible: the Research Exchange at WSU Libraries. The newly redesigned repository promotes the preservation and sharing of scholarship produced at the university. All […]

The WSU College of Arts and Sciences’ latest issue of Connect has a story about the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation’s work with native tribes and this year’s Golden and Diamond Graduates to preserve history digitally. Read more about the new center’s efforts at https://connect.cas.wsu.edu/november-december-2015/cdsc-help-for-expandi….

WSU Libraries has joined HathiTrust Digital Library, a partnership of major academic and research libraries working to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. Membership potentially triples the size of WSU Libraries’ collections, said Dean Jay Starratt. The material available “provides a rich resource for researchers interested in computational access to […]

Jonathan Potter is the new director of the library at WSU Spokane, replacing Bob Pringle who retired on July 1 after 35 years at WSU. Potter was located in the WSU Spokane library but worked for Eastern Washington University, which shares the campus and library, and was appointed interim director after Pringle left. Potter has […]

WSU researchers have received a $69,500 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—the first from the foundation to WSU—to support planning of a shared online platform for the curation, management and preservation of Native American library and archive collections. The Mellon grant covers planning activities through December 2016 for Mukurtu CMS, a free, open-source, standards-based […]

No soundtrack to Halloween would be complete without the flapping wings and piercing squeaks of bats. They are the maligned creatures of the night this time of year and also part of the holiday decorating tsunami – as in uber-icky spongey blobs hanging off fishing line on front porches. Even without Halloween, bats give a […]