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A Message from WSU Libraries Dean Regarding Hold on Journal Cancellations

With assistance from WSU Provost Daniel Bernardo and use of one-time money, the WSU Libraries have been able to put off journal cancellations planned for this year. Each year, even when we receive increases in funding, we must cut journals due to price inflation from publishers. This problem has been growing in severity for years […]
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New Video Streaming Tool Available at WSU Libraries

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 […]
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Exhibit on Student Protest Opens at MASC, Runs Through December

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 […]
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Former AHL Head Vicki Croft Part of Winning Team for MLA Annual Award

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 […]
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Complete WSU Libraries Survey for a Chance to Win Cougar Cash

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 […]
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TRAIL Celebrates 10 Years of Providing Access to Government Agency Information

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 […]
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First Edible Book Festival Winners Announced

Our inaugural Edible Book Festival on April 8 drew more than 100 individuals who voted for their favorite entry, including many WSU moms with their students for the Moms’ Weekend festivities. Thanks to the discerning eyes of our celebrity judges Christopher Bruce, Jamie Kohler, Joanna Bailey and Sarah Frame English, the winners were Chelsea Leachman, […]
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Conversation with Peter Boag: The Value of Digitization and Serendipity in Archival Research

For more than 10 years, WSU’s Peter Boag has studied and written of male and female cross-dressers in the 19th-century American West—a research area not typically associated with the era of westward land grabs, Native American conflicts, the Gold Rush and the transcontinental railroad. Professor and Columbia Chair in the History of the American West, […]
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Through February: WSU Libraries, Health and Wellness Services Display Explores Mental Health

In the United States, 43.8 million adults experience mental illness each year, yet it remains a topic of secrecy and stigma for many, including on college campuses. During February, WSU Libraries and Health and Wellness Services are sponsoring a display, “Minds Matter: Advocating for Mental Health,” in the Terrell Library atrium. It examines mental health, […]
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