The Frances Penrose Owen Science and Engineering Library serves the College of Engineering and Architecture, the College of Sciences and the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences on the Pullman campus of Washington State University. The Fischer Agricultural Sciences Library collects materials in the subject areas of crop sciences, entomology, environmental sciences, horticulture, landscape architecture, mycology, plant pathology, soil sciences and weed science.

    When the Owen Library was opened in 1977, it was planned to be a building that would never need to physically expand. Librarians and teaching faculty of the day thought that the use of microforms would create a library collection that would grow in volume at an extremely slow rate. Instead, electronic materials, principally electronic journals, are starting to make this goal more reachable, despite large increases in our holdings of printed books and journals over the years. These electronic materials also allow WSU students, faculty and staff to use more and more of Owen’s collections 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, whether  they are on campus or elsewhere in the state. 

    The Owen Library includes a map room, many public computers (as well as one "creativity station" with a scanner, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, and ArcGIS), hot-wired study carrels, laptop computers for in-library use, and wireless network access.

    The WSU Emeritus Society can be found on third floor Owen. Their office phone number is 335-8090.

Library Hours

Early Summer Term Hours, May 3rd thru June 1st
Monday - Friday	7:30 AM - 5:45 PM
Saturday - Sunday	1:00 PM - 5:45 PM
May 24th - 26th	CLOSED

Mid Summer Term Hours, June 2nd thru July 25th
Monday - Thursday	7:30 AM - 8:45 PM
Friday	7:30 AM - 5:45 PM
Saturday	1:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Sunday	12:00 Noon - 8:45 PM
July 4th - 6th	CLOSED

Contact the Owen Library

Circulation desk or Reserves desk phone number: (509) 335-2672
Information desk: (509) 335-2674 or email or instant message a question to a librarian.

The Owen Science and Engineering Library is located at the southwest corner of the intersection of College Avenue and Library Road (both pedestrian only). Very limited metered parking is available directly behind the library (both on Nevada St and on Washington St). For further parking help, contact Parking and Transportation.