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For Ying Lee, the yellowing newspaper clippings she scans for Washington State University Libraries unexpectedly opened the door to a conversation with a stranger on an airplane this past Christmas. Lee, one of several WSU students working on the libraries’ online Kimble Northwest History Database, had been reading articles about Alaska—an intriguing state to the […]

During the 1930s, proponents of the Grand Coulee Dam were quick to emphasize the progress the dam would bring to the country. Indeed, Grand Coulee provided thousands of jobs during the Great Depression, aided the American World War II effort and irrigated vast areas of central and western Washington. The dam remains the largest energy […]

Before filmmaker Humphrey Leynse came to work at Washington State University in 1970, he made the movie of his dreams. The subject was a remote island 180 miles east of the Korean mainland in the Sea of Japan: Ulleung-Do. “Out There, A Lone Island” and more than 50 other documentaries he filmed of Asian peoples, […]

Study room reservations are now available at the Owen Library in addition to the Holland and Terrell Libraries. The group study rooms can accommodate 4-6 people and have dry erase boards. To book a room, visit http://calendar.libraries.wsu.edu/booking/groupstudy_owen.

A rare 17th-century Bible at WSU is part of a discussion of Bible errors in a recent blog from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. The Folger is home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection and a primary repository for research material from the early modern period. This includes a 1610 Geneva Bible printed […]

While one little girl in Boise, Idaho, mistook the pink van parked down her street for an ice cream truck in the 1970s, teenager Barb Stone of Benton City, Wash., was already an old pro of the bookmobile circuit. A July 1960 photo shows 4-year-old Stone holding a small stack of books, standing next to […]

Washington State University students who come to the Terrell Library reference area for answers now have another service available to them: consultations with Writing Center tutors for help with research papers. The new service runs 1-3 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays in the Terrell reference area next to the group study rooms. Government information librarian Marilyn […]

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 […]