WSU Libraries and the Center for Civic Engagement will sponsor a book drive Oct. 5-16 to benefit inmates of Washington State Penitentiary.

The drive is part of a related exhibit (https://news.wsu.edu/2015/09/21/exhibit-book-drive-highlight-prison-literacy-programs/#.Vglsy02FOfD) in Terrell Library on programs that provide free books to prisoners and this year’s Common Reading Program book “Just Mercy,” by Bryan Stevenson.

“The book drive and exhibit give people a chance to not only learn about how important books-to-prisoners programs are, but also provide the opportunity to make a difference,” said Holly Luetkenhaus, WSU instruction librarian and exhibit organizer. “Having books available through libraries and bookstores is something many of us take for granted, but those who are incarcerated have limited access to education and reading material. This book drive is one way to help provide these resources.”

“We know that formal education programs in prisons have declined in recent years, making the availability of books even more important,” said Melanie Brown, director of the WSU Center for Civic Engagement. “Donating a book or two is a small but meaningful act.”

Gently used novels, chess books, dictionaries and GED test preparation books are frequently requested by inmates. Also popular are thesauruses, African American history and fiction, Native American studies, legal materials, vocational-technical manuals, politics, anthropology, art and drawing books (including blank notebooks) and books on paranormal phenomena.

Donors are asked to NOT include spiral-bound or hardback books, romance novels or books published before 1984 (binding glue used before that year becomes brittle, causing books to fall apart).

Collection bins will be located in Holland/Terrell Library, Owen Science and Engineering Library and the Student Recreation Center.

For more information about the book drive, please contact Luetkenhaus at 509-335-4667 or holly.luetkenhaus@wsu.edu.

More than 30 programs work to provide free books to people incarcerated around the country, improving literacy in prisons and bolstering poorly funded prison libraries. An exhibit opening this week in the Washington State University Terrell Library atrium explores the history and role of these programs.

The exhibit is one of several events tied to this year’s WSU common reading book, “Just Mercy,” by Bryan Stevenson. He is executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, which offers legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners. Read more at http://CommonReading.wsu.edu.

Book drive starts Oct. 5

WSU Libraries and the Center for Civic Engagement will sponsor an exhibit-related book drive Oct. 5-16 to benefit inmates of Washington State Penitentiary. Collections bins will be located in Holland/Terrell Library, Owen Science and Engineering Library and the Student Recreation Center.

Gently used novels, chess books, dictionaries and GED test preparation books are frequently requested by inmates. Donors are asked to NOT include spiral-bound or hardback books, romance novels or books published before 1984 (binding glue used before that year becomes brittle, causing books to fall apart).

For more information about the book drive, please contact Holly Luetkenhaus, WSU instruction librarian and exhibit organizer, at 509-335-4667 or holly.luetkenhaus@wsu.edu.

Luetkenhaus said she hopes those who stop by the exhibit will learn how books-to-prisons programs can transform not only individuals, but also the system of incarceration.

“They are a good way for inmates to have access to reading material and education, which can reduce recidivism,” she said.

For the full story about the exhibit, please visit https://news.wsu.edu/2015/09/21/exhibit-book-drive-highlight-prison-lite….

Clock in, clock out, five days a week, eight hours a day (frequently more) is the common work routine. But a WSU Libraries’ exhibit looks at the creative lives of library employees after the workday is done.

“After Hours 2: What Do You Do?” will run in the Terrell Library atrium display case through July 30. Started last year as a nod to “Mythbusters” TV show cohost Adam Savage and his 10 Commandments for Makers (http://www.tested.com/art/makers/461282-my-10-commandments-makers/), the “After Hours” exhibit has expanded its focus from the creative works of staffers to all interests and activities.

So in addition to arts and crafts, Terrell passersby will see roller derby skates, Zentangles, iced cookies, kung fu weapons, a great-grandmother’s cherished recipe for apple cake and more in the display.

“We wanted to encourage folks to show off what they do with their time when they’re not at the day job,” said Wendy Blake, a library and archives paraprofessional in the technical services unit and exhibit co-organizer. “We are all so very much more than what we collect a paycheck for, and it’s a good thing to remind ourselves of that once in a while.”

For the full story, visit https://news.wsu.edu/2015/07/14/through-july-30-after-work-creativity-displayed-at-library/#.Vabpxvn3RAM. To read profiles of the nine exhibitors, go to the libraries’ Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/HollandTerrellLibraries.

Update: Exhibit extended through August 20th.

Bob Pringle, nursing and pharmacy librarian and director of WSU’s Spokane Academic Library, retires July 1 after 35 years at WSU. A reception will be 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, in the Spokane Academic Center 501.

The library serves the WSU colleges of nursing, pharmacy and medicine, as well as Eastern Washington University health and business programs.

“One high point has been working with, and for, an array of amazingly competent nurses,” Pringle said. “They challenged me to meet their needs for information, instruction and help. They gave me the chance to work with highly motivated, caring students who ask really hard questions, both for content and for my ability to help find answers.

“Helping EWU and WSU folks come together to support all our students is another high point,” he said. “I think the library may be the best example on campus of cooperation and collaboration between the universities, and I’m glad I helped it become that.”

For the full story, visit https://news.wsu.edu/2015/06/11/reception-june-16-longtime-head-of-healt….

An exhibit opening this week in Washington State University’s Terrell Library continues the yearlong exploration of America’s garbage problems through the entity in charge of monitoring and fixing them: the government.

“Government and Waste” runs in the Terrell atrium exhibit case until June 12. It is organized by the WSU Libraries’ working group on government information to coordinate with the common reading book for 2014-15, “Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash,” by Edward Humes.

“Government is deeply embedded in national efforts to manage waste and mitigate the negative effects of waste on our landscape, in our water and in space,” said government information librarian Marilyn Von Seggern. “Virtually all state and city governments are involved in waste management as well.

“We can only scratch the surface of this immense topic, presenting graphics and photos that portray the stark realities of too much garbage and suggesting a few of the many solutions that are being researched and tested,” she said.

For the full story on the exhibit, visit https://news.wsu.edu/2015/05/20/exhibit-explores-government-management-o….

Shannon Tushingham, assistant director of the Washington State University Museum of Anthropology, will receive the 2015 WSU Libraries’ Excellence Award during an 11 a.m. reception Tuesday, May 12, in the Terrell Library Atrium.

The award recognizes a non-library WSU faculty or staff member who has shown consistent support for the WSU Libraries.

Recipients are chosen based on personal use of the libraries; encouraging students to use the libraries; personal support of or contributions to the libraries’ collections or services; interaction and cooperation with library faculty; and service on library-related committees.

Since coming to WSU in 2013, Tushingham has been an active collaborator with WSU Libraries and others on several initiatives, said award nominator Trevor Bond, head of Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections. Key to her efforts is making connections with local communities and perspectives.

“She initiated a program of museum interns who helped organize tours of more than 200 Lincoln Middle School students to MASC and the Museum of Anthropology,” Bond said. “In her teaching, she regularly engages her students in undertaking archival research and learning more about library collections.

“Dr. Tushingham also collaborated with MASC on an exhibit in College Hall of glass slides taken at Celilo Falls, a major Native American fishing grounds on the Columbia River submerged with the construction of The Dalles Dam in 1957,” he added. “As part of this exhibit planning, Dr. Tushingham arranged for (Nez Perce cultural resources ethnographer) Josiah Pinkham to come to campus and work with students to provide a Nez Perce perspective on the photographs held in MASC.”

For the full story, go to https://news.wsu.edu/2015/05/08/may-12-tushingham-to-receive-wsu-librari….

Delicate works of crochet are on display this month in the Terrell Atrium display case, organized by business and economics librarian Mary Gilles.

The craft has been practiced by both men and women in many countries for two centuries. According to the Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion, “crochet is an outstandingly versatile technique whose applications have ranged from the most basic utilitarian to haute couture.”

Across generations and decades, crochet has been a medium for creativity, Gilles said. The items in the exhibit illustrate how crochet has been interpreted. Featured pieces include two dresses and tops from the early 1900s, as well as doilies, gloves and even a water cup cozy.

Exhibit contributors are Mardi Bolick, Wendy Blake, Beth Blakesley, Cheryl Gunselman, Sharon Westerberg and Marsha Willams.

April is National Poetry Month, and Washington State University Libraries is sponsoring three weeklong activities during the month to ramp up poetry mojo on the Pullman campus.

Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture, according to the Poets.org website.

“We want to celebrate poetry as literature and art, and also inspire students to interact with poetry and our libraries in a fun, creative way,” said Holly Luetkenhaus, WSU Libraries instruction librarian.

Activities, to be set up in Terrell Library’s New Books Room, include the following:

• April 6-10 theme: “Poem in Your Pocket.” Visitors can pick up poems to take home or share them with others. Social sciences librarian Lorena O’English suggests taking two poems for your pocket and that of a friend; posting a poem on Twitter (#pocketpoem); writing or photocopying a poem and leaving copies anonymously all over campus; and leaving a copy of your favorite poem in the dullest book you can find as a treat for the next reader.
• April 13-17 theme: “Dada Poetry.” The Dada or Dadaist poem sprang from the European avant-garde art movement of the early 20th century, embracing all things nonsensical, experimental and surreal. Kits will be available for people to create their own Dada poems and post them on a display board. Email (wsulibrariespullman@gmail.com) or tweet (@WSULibraries) Dada poems to Luetkenhaus or O’English, and they will print and display them.
• April 20-24 theme: “Spine Poetry.” Spine poems are photographs of poems created from book titles on the spines of a small pile of books. Luetkenhaus and O’English encourage visitors to hunt for titles in the library book stacks, build their poem, take a picture and send it to them by email or Twitter.

Displays of all poems will stay up in Terrell throughout the month. For more ways to celebrate National Poetry Month, visit http://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/30-ways-celebrate-national-poetry-month.

The published works of Washington State University authors will be recognized at the second annual “Crimson Reads: A Celebration of WSU Authors,” at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, in the Terrell Library atrium. Crimson Reads is part of WSU Showcase, the annual celebration of faculty, staff and student excellence.

“Crimson Reads publicly acknowledges and honors our faculty, students, staff, alumni and retired university community members who have authored, co-authored or edited a book, including e-books, within the past year,” said Chelsea Leachman, co-organizer with WSU Libraries’ Lara Cummings and Erica Nicol. “The event is an opportunity to create a greater awareness of the diverse publishing activity and achievements of WSU authors.”

Refreshments will be offered during a reception open to the public. For more about Crimson Reads, including the full book list, visit http://libguides.wsulibs.wsu.edu/crimsonreads.

For the full article, including reviews of three Crimson Reads, see https://news.wsu.edu/2015/03/23/march-24-celebrate-wsu-authors-at-crimso….

Learn what can legally be uploaded into course management systems (CMS) and other aspects of applying copyright in online learning environments during an e-learning workshop from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, in Terrell Library, Room 103.

Online platforms have become the base of operation for instruction of both face-to-face classes and distance education; yet current copyright law does not provide direct guidance on allowed CMS content. Lawyer and librarian Gretchen McCord will break down the elements of CMS use and help participants assess risk and analyze copyright law to ensure their CMS is within copyright regulations.

For more details, contact WSU science and instruction librarian Chelsea Leachman, 509-335-8527, chelsea.leachman@wsu.edu.