Past Events

WSU Libraries will host the 16th U.S. Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) Biennial Conference May 13-16 in Pullman, the first time members will convene in the state. “This conference has never been hosted west of Arizona, so it’s a big opportunity for WSU to showcase Washington state agriculture,” said WSU agriculture librarian and conference chairwoman Lara Cummings. […]

WSU Libraries will host a celebration of International Open Access Week from 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, in the Terrell Library Atrium, featuring a jack o’ lantern judging contest and cookie-decorating station with an open-access theme. Open Access Week, this year scheduled from Oct. 23-29, is a global event to promote free, immediate, online access […]

HYDE PARK, NY — The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will present “Close-ups of Time Forgotten: The WSU Hirahara Photos Created in a Secret World War II Underground Darkroom” with Patti Hirahara at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. The talk […]

Leah Benedict will receive the 2018 WSU Libraries’ Excellence Award during a 10 a.m. reception Wednesday, May 16, in the Terrell Library Atrium. Benedict is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of English. The award recognizes a non-library faculty or staff member who has shown consistent support for the WSU Libraries. Library faculty who […]

WSU and University of Idaho are co-hosting the inaugural Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium through May 18 on both campuses. It is sponsored by WSU’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation and UI’s Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning. The symposium will explore a broad variety of tools, techniques and ideas informing the digital scholarship field, […]

WSU Libraries is sponsoring three weeklong activities in April to celebrate all forms of poetry, as part of National Poetry Month. 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, […]

Play with your food and your words during WSU Libraries’ second annual Edible Book Festival on Friday, April 7, part of WSU Mom’s Weekend activities. Registration for entries closes March 31; to register, visit the library guide at http://libguides.libraries.wsu.edu/ediblebooks. Participants can register individually or as a group. Edible book festivals take place around the country and […]

The published works of WSU authors will be recognized at the fourth annual “Crimson Reads: A Celebration of WSU Authors,” at 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, 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, […]

Before 1900, women were denied entrance to many eastern colleges; but in the West, with fewer people, many colleges were coeducational. This included the small, land-grant Washington Agricultural College and School of Science, today’s WSU. A new exhibit, “Ambitions and Intellect: Pioneering Women at WSU,” will explore the stories of early women contributors at the […]

Join Joel Cummings, head of library collections, in a discussion of the practical challenges the WSU Libraries face providing access to research journals on Thursday, April 13, from 2-3 p.m. in Terrell Library 20E in Pullman; SAC 515 in Spokane; TWST 209 in Tri-Cities; and VLIB 160B in Vancouver. The discussion will include information about recent […]