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Faculty and Instructor Perceptions of Open Educational Resources in Engineering

Leachman, Chelsea; Williamson, Evan Peter; Anderson, Talea; Gaines, Annie (2017)

As open education initiatives aiming to lower the cost of course materials appeared at two universities, librarians became involved in identifying open educational resources (OERs) for university courses. However, when ...

Filling the Treasure Room: Professor Carl Milton Brewster and the Development of Rare Book Collections at Washington State University, 1938-1950

Bond, Trevor James (4/17/2009)

With limited resources, but boundless enthusiasm, President Holland and a handful of faculty including Professor of Organic Chemistry, Carl Milton Brewster, set the foundation for Washington State University's Rare Book ...

Finding a Socratic Method for Information Literacy Instruction

Schiller, Nicholas (Haworth, 2008)

Librarians can find techniques for improving information literacy in Plato’s Socratic dialogs. The Socratic Method is an effective tool that can help engage students in critical thinking about their research, guide students ...

First time attendee conference report

Shippert, Linda (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2006)

First year course programmatic assessment: Final essay information literacy analysis

Luetkenhaus, Holly; Johnson, Corey M.; Borrelli, Steve (Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2015)

Washington State University recently launched a new general education system with a foundational first year course called Roots of Contemporary Issues. Roots features a set of library research assignments and a culminating ...

Fostering collaborative communities: more than technology-based tools

Henry, Ray (Elsevier, 2015-08)

From Babine to Yakima: Academic Libraries and Endangered Language Preservation

Reznowski, Gabriella (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2009)

The Northwest Pacific Coast is home to over 50 Native American languages, yet this area has also been identified as one of the most severe hotspots for language loss. Libraries of the Pacific Northwest have a unique role ...

From Local Catalog to World Wide Web: Google Scholar, Open WorldCat and the OCLC eSerial Holdings Pilot

Chisman, Janet; Matthews, Greg; Zhu, Lihong (2/10/2006)

Google Scholar, Open WorldCat and the OCLC eSerial Holdings Pilot Project have moved the availability of library-subscribed electronic resources from local catalogs, electronic journal lists, and link resolvers to the World ...

From proposal to program: Seven years of the Northwest Digital Archives

Helmer, John F.; Landis, Larry; Cornish, Alan (2008-02-22)

Northwest Digital Archives--a 31-institution consortium of archives in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska--was "born" at Online Northwest in 2001. In seven years, the consortium has built a successful program ...

From Treasure Room to Archives: The McWhorter Collection and the State College of Washington

Bond, Trevor James (Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 2011)

Fundamental questions and answers

Johnson, Corey M. (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2003)

In 2003, the Oregon/Washington chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries awarded two scholarships to its fall conference. One went to Leslie Hurst and the other to Corey Johnson. In this newsletter ...

General Education 111 Section 25 Syllabus

Bond, Trevor James (2008-01)

During the course, we will take a comparative global approaching to examining world cultures from 1500 to the present. Through the careful reading of a variety of primary and secondary sources, we will examine a number ...

Government and Waste

Government Information Working Group; Blake, Wendy; Galbraith, Betty; Beebe, Nancy; Von Seggern, Marilyn (5/15/2015)

Waste, debris, garbage, trash—all words for the unwanted material that is discarded (either intentionally or not) and has become a problem of immense proportions in the United States. Debris permeates not just the land ...

Grant to survey Manuscript and Photograph collection for preservation needs and to create preservation photocopies for the McWhorter collection and contact prints for the Henderson and Hutchison collections.

Bond, Trevor James; Gunselman, Cheryl (2003-12)

We propose to conduct a prioritized preservation survey of processed manuscript and visual collections in WSU MASC, and to create preservation photocopies from the Lucullus V. McWhorter collection and preservation contact ...