University Libraries have announced that the Chronicle of Higher Education is now available online for all WSU students, faculty and staff. Access is available for everyone on WSU campuses and at the extension sites. The online Chronicle of Higher Education can be accessed like any other electronic journal. To do so, go to the libraries’ […]
Library workers recently voted to decertify their union. These employees now will be covered under the new civil service rules and will receive the same general pay raise, effective today, Sept. 1, that is going to the other non-represented employees at WSU. Glenn Frye, assistant director of Human Resource Services, said today that WSU administration […]
Washington State University Vancouver will host “many voices, one nation, one night @ your library,” an engaging evening in which community members are invited to join faculty and staff in reading aloud from book passages that represent the local community’s rich heritage.WSU Vancouver faculty, staff, and students will share their favorite writings while celebrating the […]
In 1951, a 30-foot relief sculpture by Northwest artist Dudley Pratt was mounted on the west side of the newly opened Holland Library at Washington State College. Entitled “The Reader,” this stylized limestone figure was no doubt meant to portray the importance of study and reading in academic success. A generation of Nat King Cole […]
Laila Miletic-Vejzovic, head of Washington State University’s Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant for lecturing and research in library science at the Research Library in Zadar, Croatia, during a six-month sabbatical that begins this month. Miletic-Vejzovic will initiate, develop and implement a project to provide access to the most […]
Laila Miletic-Vejzovic, head of Washington State University’s Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant for lecturing and research in library science at the Research Library in Zadar, Croatia, during a six-month sabbatical that begins this month. Miletic-Vejzovic will initiate, develop and implement a project to provide access to the most […]
Washington State University President V. Lane Rawlins and Director of Libraries Ginny Steel will host the Nov. 15 dedication of the Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database. The event will be from 9:30-10:30 a.m. in the Samuel H. Smith Center for Undergraduate Education, Room 518. The financial support of alumni Wallis and Marilyn Kimble […]
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Laila Miletic-Vejzovic, head of Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections for WSU libraries, has recently been selected for the Fulbright Senior Specialists grant in library science at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, in Slovenia. She will work with the librarians at the National and University Library (NUK) in Ljubljana to assess their needs […]