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Banned Books Week, an annual event celebrating the freedom to read, began Oct. 1. To coincide with the observance, Washington State University Libraries, the WSU Roots of Contemporary Issues Program (RCI), and the WSU Department of History are hosting a roundtable discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 4. Titled “History in the Future,” the event will take […]

WSU’s Holland and Terrell Libraries will offer Chromebook checkouts starting Monday, Oct. 2. WSU faculty, staff, and students will be able to check out Chromebooks for a semester. This is a successor to the Chromebook loaner program that began in August 2020 as a partnership between the Office of the Provost and Information Technology Services […]

To celebrate Constitution and Citizenship Day on Sept. 17, the WSU Libraries will sponsor a round-robin public reading of the Constitution (with amendments) starting at noon on Monday, Sept. 18, in the Terrell Library Atrium on the Pullman campus. The reading takes about an hour; if there is interest, organizers will do a second reading. […]

One Ig Nobel Prize winner investigated the scientific validity of the five-second rule on whether it’s safe to eat food dropped on the ground. Another electrically monitored the activity of a locust brain cell while the insect was watching selected highlights from the movie “Star Wars.” A third measured the amount of friction between a […]

WSU Libraries want to remind new and returning students about services and resources to help them find reliable sources and refine their research endeavors. Reference Coordinator and Undergraduate Services Librarian Pamela Martin said Holland and Terrell Libraries offer research help in person and on chat, as well as general and subject-specialist help. Students can chat online […]

WSU Libraries systemwide have made the interlibrary loan process simpler, with one spot to request resources through Search It. Use Search It to request physical items (books, government documents, DVDs, and CDs) from other libraries, book chapters from other libraries, e‑book requests, articles not available online, and scans of articles or book chapters the WSU Libraries own in […]

WSU Libraries are implementing changes to Holland and Terrell regular operating hours and Animal Health Library’s physical location effective Sunday, Aug. 20. “As you know, WSU is facing some budget challenges. In order to maintain services and resources that are heavily used, the libraries are reducing services less frequently used,” said Jay Starratt, dean of […]

A traveling exhibition exploring more than 100 years of U.S. health care reform, produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is on display at Washington State University’s Animal Health Library in Wegner Hall 170 through Sept. 9. Titled “For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform,” the exhibition and companion […]

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 […]

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 […]