Libraries

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – For National Poetry Month in April, Washington State University Libraries is sponsoring three weeklong activities to celebrate all forms of poetry.

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – Not much is different about the two side-by-side photographs of fourth-year Washington State University veterinary student Seth Bynum. He’s seated in the back of the same Chevy Tahoe, wearing a short-sleeved shirt, shorts, sandals and long hair, holding up a hand-lettered sign with the words “Montana or […]

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – 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.

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University Libraries has joined HathiTrust Digital Library, a partnership of major academic and research libraries working to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form.

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – How would Herbert Niccolls, the 12-year-old who shot and killed Asotin County’s sheriff in 1931, have fared in today’s criminal justice system? A new exhibit at Washington State University Libraries will prompt this and other questions related to the treatment of juvenile offenders past and present.

PULLMAN, Wash.—Washington State University researchers have received a $69,500 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—the first from the foundation to WSU—to support planning of a shared online platform for the curation, management and preservation of Native American library and archive collections.

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University freshmen and sophomores who need help with their 100- and 200-level class projects and papers can book their own librarian to help figure out a research strategy.

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – A new program at Washington State University’s Holland and Terrell Libraries brings the traditional reference desk to students instead of the other way around.

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – 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.

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – Before filmmaker Humphrey Leynse came to work at Washington State University in 1970, he made the movie of his dreams. The subject was a remote island 180 miles east of the Korean mainland in the Sea of Japan/East Sea: Ulleung-Do.