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After a six-year hiatus, WSU Libraries will bring back the Edible Book Festival, a popular event during Mom’s Weekend, now Family Weekend, since it began in 2016. This year’s festival is at 2 p.m. Friday, April 17, in the Terrell Library ground-floor atrium. Register your edible book entry by completing the online form. The deadline […]

WSU Libraries’ new academic support center, the Cougar Commons saw a brisk start of the year with two events and major construction work to reconfigure networking and power in Terrell Library. A professional headshot session with Robert Hubner from WSU Photo Services, held on Jan. 22 and cosponsored with the WSU Academic Success and Career […]

By Trevor James Bond If you’ve ever wondered how old a book really is—or where its paper was made—the answer may be hiding in plain sight. In Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC), a newly purchased light sheet (or flexible light panel) now helps researchers see through the page to the structures and watermarks embedded […]

WSU Libraries will host “As Long as a Writer is Read, They’re Alive” from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, in the Terrell Library atrium in observance of the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The event will honor fallen Ukrainian poets who have died since 2022. Professor and poet Colin Criss of the […]

Brian McManus, Amy Thielen, and Libby McKeighen conducted a tour just after the new year to highlight the mailing operation in place for sending out WSU Press book orders. Access Services only assumed the shipping responsibilities that used to be handled through Cooper Publications Building in November. Now the mailroom is one well-organized room of […]

The Cougar Commons academic support center in Terrell Library has undergone major work over the last several weeks. As of Jan. 8, the designated construction company completed demolition of the old reference collection stacks area on the first floor. Workers finished laying out carpet on Jan. 14 and have moved on to painting and patching […]

WSU Libraries’ new Synth Lab opens Thursday, Jan. 22, with a reception from 4-5:30 p.m. in the Holland Library first-floor Dimensions Lab, room 120C. The lab for using electronic music production equipment is available to all Pullman students, faculty, and staff. A free, self‐serve library resource that anyone can book, the Synth Lab can be […]

Starting Jan. 20, WSU Libraries will run trials on three artificial intelligence (AI)-powered research platforms: Consensus, Scite.ai, and Undermind. The platforms help researchers analyze citation context, conduct deep literature searches, and synthesize findings across scientific papers. The Consensus trial will run through the spring semester. Scite.ai and Undermind will be available to evaluate for 6-8 […]

By Trevor Bond WSU Libraries recently announced a major expansion in their Cambridge University Press holdings beginning this year. The libraries will increase their Cambridge University Press journal subscriptions from 10 titles in 2025 to more than 420 titles, dramatically enhancing access to high-quality research for faculty and students across disciplines. Cambridge University Press publishes […]

By Nella Letizia To hold a first-edition novel by Jane Austen is a once-in-a-lifetime event for a book lover like me. Sitting in Terrell Library’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) reading room for two days, this authoress first smelled the volumes. A musty essence rose from the pages, composed of imagined, imprinted perfumes and […]