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International Open Access Week officially takes place Oct. 19-25 and focuses on the theme “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion.” With campuses shifting their delivery of instruction and resources to foster inclusion and accommodate equitable online access, the pandemic has elevated the relevance of this year’s theme. Due to COVID-19, […]

A recent grant from the Center for Research Libraries’ Project CERES will allow Washington State University Libraries to digitize some 41,000 documents of early Washington State College Extension home economics publications as well as reports of the then-named Tree Fruit Experiment Station, today’s WSU Wenatchee Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center. The digital collection will […]

It started with a search for a newspaper photo of an uncle with former U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson, taken at the Green Giant plant in Grandview, Wash., in the early 1970s. Laura Solis knew the history of her uncle, that he, her father and their family traveled from south Texas every year to do […]

The U.S. Constitution is a living document—come be a part of it on Constitution Day from 3-4:30 p.m. (Pacific Time) Tuesday, Sept. 17, by joining other members of the WSU community to read the Constitution out loud via Zoom. The annual WSU Libraries’ event, organized by Social Sciences and Government Information Librarian Lorena O’English, celebrates […]

A library orientation for new WSU faculty and staff is planned for 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, through the Human Resource Services’ Skillsoft online learning system. The one-hour course, taught by WSU Animal Health Sciences Librarian Suzanne Fricke, will assist new and returning faculty and staff in gaining full-text access to electronic journal articles, eBooks […]

WSU Libraries are now offering a 24/7 contactless locker pickup adjacent to Terrell Library as a safe way of providing library materials to patrons. Locker pickup will provide the fastest delivery, generally one day for WSU materials on average once a request has been made. Patrons must first be logged into their library account in […]

The Washington State University Libraries on the Pullman campus will remain closed for fall semester due to the evolving environment surrounding COVID-19. “We regret making this decision but think it is necessary for everyone’s safety,” said WSU Libraries Dean Jay Starratt. “Libraries and library staff are very committed to helping people and to providing resources […]

In order to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and meet the quarantine recommendations of a national COVID-19 research partnership, WSU Libraries in Pullman will not offer physical course reserves this fall. Faculty who already placed requests have been contacted with alternative options, which include requesting that the libraries purchase the item in […]

The Summit service, which allows WSU Libraries’ patrons to request library materials from member libraries of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, will resume on Monday, Aug. 3, for the Pullman campus only at this time. Because the campus is currently closed, materials can be mailed to a physical location. The WSU Libraries are planning for onsite […]

In 1942, London’s Hogarth Press published a pamphlet by British physician Isaac Harris called “The Calcium Bread Scandal,” a spirited denunciation of the Food Ministry’s proposal of adding nutrients, including calcium, to bread as a way to fortify the health of the British public during wartime. “In any case, the disease [osteoporosis] is so rare […]