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PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University Libraries is on track to launch Search It, a new shared library management service, by the end of December.

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – Claire Tousley never knows when the perfect photo opportunity will present itself. Her favorite photo arrived during a break from laying down sprinkler pipes with her uncle in Wyoming.

    PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University Libraries is offering a tablet-based app for iPads and certain Android devices so users can browse and access scholarly journal articles from the libraries’ holdings. BrowZine pulls articles from databases into complete journals, then arranges them by subject on a library-style virtual newsstand. To download the app, […]

Donald Lindberg, director of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, in front of the library’s Visible Human Project. PULLMAN, Wash. – Donald Lindberg, director of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, will visit Washington State University for the inaugural distinguished lecture series through the Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience. He will present “The History […]

PULLMAN, Wash. – Acclaimed veterinary historian, educator, publisher and editor J. Frederick Smithcors donated his 1,200-volume library to the Washington State University Libraries in 1978. Thirty-five years later, the American Veterinary Medical History Society will host an all-day Smithcors History of Veterinary Medicine Symposium Sunday, July 21, in Chicago to honor the late WSU donor […]

WSU faculty granted tenure and promotion in 2009 include: 2009 PROMOTION AND TENURE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL, HUMAN AND NATURAL RESOURCE SCIENCES NAME ACTION RANK DEPARTMENT EFFECTIVE DATE Matthew F. Bumpus Grant and Promote Associate Professor Human Development August 16, 2009 Kenneth C. Eastwell Promote Professor Plant Pathology, Prosser July 1, 2009 Eric L. Jessup Promote […]

The WSU Libraries has become a Supporter Member of the Open Access Publisher BioMed Central. This membership allows researchers from WSU to publish articles that have been accepted by BioMed Central journals, and those of their fledgling sites Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central, at a 15% discount off the Article processing fees.   WSU libraries, […]

Never mind world-class, the WSU library system isn’t even average in terms of collections, budget, staffing levels and salaries when compared to peer universities. “We are at the bottom in all of these measures even when comparisons are made which account for differences in institutional size,” states a recent report to the Faculty Senate executive […]

An online database allowing access to more than 100 documents related to the impact of the 1918 flu can now be found online.  The topic of the 1918 flu is the focus of the WSU common reading program that freshmen at the Pullman campus are participating in this year. The book Flu, written by Gina […]

Jay Starratt, associate vice chancellor for Information Technology and dean of Library and Information Services at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, has been named as the dean of the Libraries at Washington State University. Starratt will begin his new position effective Dec. 1, 2007. Robert C. Bates, provost and executive vice president said Starratt “brings […]