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WSU Historian Raymond Sun Wins 2023 Library Excellence Award

For his role in introducing Washington State University students to World War II library archival research, Associate Professor of History Raymond Sun has been named the 2023 recipient of the WSU Libraries’ Excellence Award. The award recognizes a non-library WSU faculty or staff member who has shown consistent support for the WSU Libraries. Recipients are […]
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Retiring Access Services Manager Sue Shipman Recalls Circulation Services Before Library Technology

Most patrons of WSU Libraries won’t remember a time when circulation services weren’t online, but Sue Shipman does. “I think I’m the last circulation person left who remembers when there were no e-books or e-journals and everything was in paper,” said Shipman, Holland and Terrell Libraries’ Access Services manager. “We checked out piles of books […]
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‘The Right to Read’ Screening Set for April 25

WSU Libraries will host a screening of the film “The Right to Read” at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, in the CUB Auditorium. A panel discussion follows the film, with a variety of speakers to include WSU faculty, pre-service teachers, and graduate students. “The Right to Read” shares the stories of an NAACP activist, a […]
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LibKey Nomad Browser Extension Improves Access to Scholarly Literature, E-books

WSU’s Academic Outreach and Innovation (AOI), with support from the WSU Libraries, has rolled out the LibKey Nomad browser extension to the computers that the division maintains on campus. LibKey Nomad provides one-click access to library content on publisher websites, PubMed, Wikipedia, Google Scholar, and more. The tool allows users to move directly from a […]
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April 6: Publisher Reads from Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series

Award-winning contemporary Ukrainian poet Lyuba Yakimchuk’s collection “Apricots of Donbas,” written over 10 years, reveals the ramifications of occupation through intimate descriptions of how her family’s life changed when the Ukrainian city of Luhansk became occupied in 2014. In the poem “he says that all shall be well,” a girl recounts her conversation with an […]
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March 28: Crimson Reads Explores Early Professional Scholarship

Peter Boag may not have realized in January 1987 that two books would emerge from his dissertation research at the Linn County Historical Museum in Brownsville, Ore. His first book, “Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon,” published in 1992, stemmed from Boag’s research interest in the American West’s society and culture from 1850-1950. […]
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WSU Libraries Offer Black History Month Resources

Want to learn more about Black history but don’t know where to start? Washington State University Libraries faculty and staff have compiled online resources and selections from a juvenile book collection to help patrons explore Black history during February and all year round. University Archivist Mark O’English suggests the following: The Black Oral History Collection consists of […]
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Explore Libraries’ National Day of Racial Healing Library Guide, Exhibit

Coinciding with WSU’s first observance of the National Day of Racial Healing (NDoRH) on Jan. 17, WSU Libraries have created an accompanying book exhibit in the Terrell Library display case, running through January. The exhibit focuses on self-care, mindfulness, and love as acts of nonviolent resistance to oppression, and their role in racial healing, according […]
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BrowZine Email Notifications Now Available

Email notifications from BrowZine are now available for WSU Libraries’ subscribed patrons. An interface provided by the company Third Iron, BrowZine allows patrons to browse and stay current with the electronic journals in their academic fields. BrowZine provides multiple entry points to connect with scholarly materials, including from within WSU Libraries’ Search It and via the BrowZine web and […]
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