While her husband was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, three years ago, Heather Wiegmann photographed a Japanese white-eye, or mejiro, amid the first cherry blossoms of spring. “When looking up into the trees, it isn’t uncommon to see tiny birds flitting around and lapping up nectar,” said Wiegmann, a 2011 graduate of WSU’s College of Veterinary […]

Thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases will be available to Washington State University faculty and students this fall through a service offered as a pilot by WSU Libraries. Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that provides 12 million students and faculty with access to more than 26,000 films […]

It is part of human nature to collect things. Washington State University Libraries’ exhibit of personal employee collections includes such treasures as vintage purses, holiday Beanie Babies, 1940s-era menus, shot glasses and gaming miniatures. “After Hours 3: Gathering Our Spare Time” will run in the Terrell Library atrium display case through Aug. 13. The annual […]

A new exhibit from WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections reveals the history of student protest on the Pullman campus during the incendiary years of Kent State and Vietnam. “Protest: Students, War + Racism, WSU 1969-70” runs in the MASC main lobby at Terrell Library through December. Exhibit hours are 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, except […]

WSU Libraries’ Talea Anderson was one of five faculty members to earn a Student Success Seed Grant from the university aimed at improving student retention and progress toward graduation. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the seed grant competition generated 150 letters of intent and 41 full proposals. Anderson earned a $22,000 grant for […]

WSU emerita faculty member and retired animal health sciences librarian Vicki Croft is among the team that earned the 2016 Medical Library Association’s Section Project of the Year Award. The honor was announced during the MLA annual meeting May 13-18 in Toronto, Canada. Croft, Laura Rey of Texas A&M University, Susanne Whitaker, formerly of Cornell […]

Cynthia Faux will receive the 2016 WSU Libraries’ Excellence Award during a 2 p.m. reception Thursday, May 5, in the Terrell Library Atrium. The award recognizes a non-library faculty or staff member who has shown consistent support for the WSU Libraries. Faux is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience. […]

A brief history of the Hanford nuclear site – from pre-Manhattan Project to the present – is the subject of an exhibit in the atrium case at Terrell Library through June 30. With the opening of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in mid-November, a new chapter has started for Hanford, where – along with […]

WSU Libraries are conducting a survey about receiving research help from library staff. To participate, please go to http://tinyurl.com/z727a89. The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete. Enter your email address for a chance to win $25 in Cougar Cash! The survey ends May 7. For more information, contact WSU reference and instruction librarian Erin Hvizdak […]

The Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL), of which WSU Libraries is a part, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year of digitizing and providing permanent access to more than 53,000 government technical reports. According to its website, TRAIL was formed to meet the challenges of access to technical report literature. These reports are rapidly […]