The library extends our warmest congratulations to all those graduating in the class of 2008. We want to thank you for being part of our campus community. We hope that, whatever your future plans, you continue to seek knowledge, explore the world and build communities with the same level of curiosity, collaboration and scholarly interest that you developed during your years here.
Best wishes!
The Library will be closed on Saturday, May 10th for Commencement. We will resume normal summer session hours on Sunday, May 11th at Noon.
Congratulations to all those graduating!
Beginning Saturday, May 3rd, the Library’s Summer Session hours begin. These hours are:
Summer Session Hours (May 3 - July 25, 2007)
Monday - Thursday: 9am - 8pm
Friday: 9am - 6pm
Saturday - Sunday: Noon - 5pm
The library will be CLOSED on May 10 for Commencement, May 25th & 26th for Memorial Day and July 4th for Independence Day.
Please contact us if you have any questions.
The following books have recently been added to the Library’s collection:
You can locate these books using Griffin. To see what else we have added to our collection recently, take a look at our New Books page.
In an effort to ease your end-of-semester stress, the library will be offering free coffee/tea and cookies all day (9-5) on Wednesday, April 23th. Please feel free to stop in for a pick-me-up throughout the day!!
As many of you know, there have been email problems on campus this week. Please be aware that you may not receive email from the library about your ILLiad article and book requests.
If you are expecting an article or book and haven’t received email notification about it, give us a call at 360-546-9686 and we’ll check on the request for you. If you ordered something via ILLiad, you can also login to ILLiad to see the status of your requests and to see if articles have been delivered.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
There are a number of people working behind the scenes in the library to make our library experience pleasant. They are busy getting the items you need available when we need them and solving complicated problems behind the scenes to make our experience quick and easy. They make items easier for us to find, make archives and local history available for study, and streamline account processes. These wonderful people tirelessly process reserves and all the books, articles, dvds, cds, microfilm, etc., etc, etc, that come from other places and make it easy for all of us to get the exact information we need. They write code and make data more accessible and a million other tasks that make the library work.
These champions are doing wonderful work to give the WSU Vancouver community quick and easy access to the information we all need. So lets all take a moment and celebrate those who provide the tireless effort and complex problem solving that takes place behind the scenes allowing us enjoy smooth and easy access to information.
Having a hard time tracking down books with call numbers A through HL? They are now shelved in the room to the right as you enter the library.
But that’s not the only change – books with the pink/red label “EIC” have been interfiled with our main collection (EIC = Environmental Information Cooperative). These books previously were shelved in the room next to the photocopy room.
The EIC’s large video collection is shelved separately, along the wall in the room with the A – HL books.
Our Children’s Book Collection also has a new home – the room that previously housed the EIC collection.
All of these books/videos are available for loan.
Come check us out!
Come in and see our display of Banned and Challenged Books, part of the National Library Week display case.
Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored.
Intellectual freedom is the basis for our democratic system. We expect our people to be self-governors. But to do so responsibly, our citizenry must be well-informed. Libraries provide the ideas and information, in a variety of formats, to allow people to inform themselves. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas.
Censorship is the suppression of ideas and information that certain persons—individuals, groups or government officials—find objectionable or dangerous. It is no more complicated than someone saying, “Don’t let anyone read this book, or buy that magazine, or view that film, because I object to it! ” Censors try to use the power of the state to impose their view of what is truthful and appropriate, or offensive and objectionable, on everyone else. Censors pressure public institutions, like libraries, to suppress and remove from public access information they judge inappropriate or dangerous, so that no one else has the chance to read or view the material and make up their own minds about it. The censor wants to prejudge materials for everyone.
In addition to being Tax Day, April 15th marks the second annual National Library Workers Day. In honor of this Day and as part of National Library Week, we would like to acknowledge and celebrate the work of all our library employees without whom the Library would not be able to provide our services and collections.
Our Library currently has 15 staff and faculty and 13 student employees. These fabulous folks are responsible for:
These are just a few of the many things our Library employees do to help make sure our Library is a friendly, helpful place that supports the diverse academic pursuits of the WSU Vancouver community. Good work!