Winter 2021
How Virginia Woolf’s library came to WSU
Washington State University’s collection of titles from Virginia and Leonard Woolf is among the most extensive in the world. » More ...
Library
Summer 2019
How may we help you?
The changing role of public libraries includes services for homeless people, seeds, equipment, and community involvement. » More ...
Winter 2014
In plain sight
Broken Arrow sits in the foyer of the Terrell Library. Thousands pass by it each week, most not realizing it is the work of artist Harold Balazs ’51, or that it was a gift from the Friel family whose lives entwined with the history of the school long after graduation.
Though he planned to be a teacher, Jack Friel ’23 started his 30-year career as the Cougars’ head basketball coach in 1928. As a student, he met Catherine (Matthews) Friel ’23, ’58 MAT in the original college library. They married a few years later and raised their family just a few blocks from campus. Three … » More …
Summer 2010
The Academic Library in the Age of Google
Information naivete suggests a broader blind faith in the offerings of Google–mirroring a general faith in technology that in some ways defines our culture and propels our economy. » More ...
Summer 2005
Washington State loves its literature
In a report released last summer, the National Endowment for the Arts
warned that literary reading has declined over the last 20 years. Scary
stuff, huh? So we did our own informal survey of faculty, students, and
alums. Their response? Read on! » More ...
Summer 2002
The Dynamics of Change: A History of the Washington State Library
Who better to write about the Washington State Library than Maryan Reynolds, state librarian from 1951 to 1974? She also played an important role in procuring the State Library building constructed in 1959 on the Capitol grounds in Olympia. The library moved to Tumwater and was opened to the public January 2, 2002 in its new location.
The Dynamics of Change is an original and valuable history of the Washington State Library from its territorial beginnings in 1853 to the late 1990s. Reynolds provides a personal account of the library’s expansion since the 1940s, when she joined the staff.
The author chronicles the development of … » More …