Libraries

All Terrell Library study rooms can now be reserved online

The Terrell Library study rooms on all floors, including those rooms found in MMR, can all now be reserved online.  Anyone with a WSU email account can reserve a group study room for up to four hours, per 24 hour period. All reservation requests must be confirmed within 30 minutes of requesting.  Reservations can be confirmed or cancelled by responding to the notification email sent by the system at the time of the initial reservation request.

Happy 2013! January's reference item of the month is Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy, a rich and compelling resource for anyone interested in exploring the mysteries of the universe! For more about this book an other reference items of the month, check out our website: http://libguides.wsulibs.wsu.edu/refitemofthemonth.

• Starting on Monday November 26^th,  Terrell 111/113  (The group study rooms closest to the Reference desk in the Holland and Terrell Library) will be available for booking through our LibCal Calendaring Service (check it out here http://wsulibs.wsu.libcal.com/rooms.php?i=102 ).  We hope to expand the calendaring service to all of the HAT study rooms by next semester. 

Every year libraries on the Palouse sponsor a regional author. This year the book is Border Songs by Jim Lynch. Williamette Week noted of the book that it is "A fascinating look at the confluence of small-town life, the global drug trade and illegal immigration, and it places Jim Lynch at the forefront of Northwest writers to watch." Lynch will be reading at the Holland and Terrell Libraries at noon on Tuesday November 13^th in the Quiet Study Lounge. Please come, and tell your friends!

LibQUAL+ 2012

WSU Libraries Seek Student and Faculty Feedback on Service Quality

On November 2, 2012, a randomly selected group of Washington State University undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty will receive an email message from the Dean of Libraries, inviting them to participate in a web-based survey designed to measure library service effectiveness from the perspective of the library user.

Halloween is getting closer!  Start celebrating now by looking through the spooky and strange resources available from the WSU Libraries.  Visit the Paranormal Libguide and browse books, videos, articles, and internet sources that are bound to spook and haunt you the rest of the year!

The WSU Libraries' Paranormal Libguide!

The WSU Libraries have recently acquired a subscription to Filmakers Library Online,a collection of over 1,000 streaming documentary videos. Filmakers Library Online provides access to award-winning titles with relevance across the curriculum, including race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

Longtime Washington State University supporters and alumni Mike and Liz Johnson are making the largest-ever commitment to The Libraries at WSU, a bequest valued at $3.2 million. By naming the libraries as beneficiary of their estate, the Kirkland, Wash., couple looks to ensure the libraries keep pace in the future with the ever-changing ways information is stored and shared.