The news @ Western Libraries
Happy New Year
Posted on Wed, 2011-01-05 10:35
Happy New Year!
You are invited to visit Special Collections in the new year.
Special Collections is open Monday thru Friday 11:00am to 4:00pm.
Also available by appointment.
Call 360-650-3193 or email us at speccoll@wwu.edu for more information.
Textbooks not in yet?
Posted on Tue, 2011-01-04 11:19Don't panic! Check to see if your textbook is at the Library!
Search COURSE RESERVES to see if your professor has put it on Reserve. Often faculty will put 1 copy on reserve, in addition to online articles & other required reading.
Search online from the Library homepage, under "Start Your Research", or select the "Course Reserves" heading in the search box.
Anoth
er option, if not on Reserve, is to check our catalog. The Western Libraries do not automatically purchase textbooks, but it's worth a try. If we don't have it, select the "Repeat Search in Summit" button at the top of the catalog screen.
Summit is a consortium of over 35 Washington & Oregon college & university libraries that share resources, delivery is about a 3-5 day turn-around.
Uncle Sam Wants Your Opinion
Posted on Fri, 2010-12-03 14:37
Western receives free publications from the federal government (almost half a million since 1964.) The Government Printing Office wants to know what you think of their work - and ours.
Please take a few minutes to complete a survey, click the link below!
Exploring Decadence in Special Collections
Posted on Wed, 2010-12-01 14:53 |
On September 30, 2010, we welcomed Professor Kristin Mahoney and her students enrolled in English 410: Studies in Literary History (Decadence). Among the Special Collections resources introduced to the students was The Yellow Book, the late 19th century avant-garde periodical published in London from 1894 to 1897. Co-founded by Aubrey Beardsley who also served as its art editor, The Yellow Book was associated with aestheticism and decadence and frequently featured Beardsley's striking drawings. |
Charles and Pauline LeWarne visit Special Collections
Posted on Wed, 2010-12-01 14:37
On October 20, 2010, we enjoyed a visit with WWU alumnus Charles LeWarne (BA/BAE 1955) and Pauline LeWarne. They brought additional items for the Charles Pierce LeWarne Collection, part of The Western Collection, as well as three Northwest history-related children’s books published in the 1930s, welcome gifts to the Special Collections Children’s Collection.
Charles LeWarne, who received a master’s degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and a doctoral degree in history from the University of Washington, is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and monographs concerning regional history, including, most recently The Love Israel Family (2009) , the first extensively researched study of the well-known Western Washington commune.
He has been an enthusiastic contributor to The Western Collection and we thank him for his generous continuing support of this unique archive of scholarly and creative works by members of the Western community.
Up Western! Special Collections Book of the Month
Posted on Wed, 2010-12-01 13:23
As Western faces strenuous fiscal challenges,
it may help to remember that the institution has met and surmounted such situations before, notably in the mid-1970s. At that time, budgetary cutbacks resulted in invocation of the dread Reduction in Force (RIF) policy resulting in numerous lay-offs.
Western’s faculty engaged in vigorous debate with then-President Jerry Flora, a peppery leader with a distinctly confrontational style. Out of this environment came Up Western, a slim volume illustrating the viewpoint of the then-faculty union (AFT Local 2084) through cartoons and sharp caricatures of Flora created by faculty members Bob Balas and Bob Urso, professors of French and Art, respectively.
Balas, who taught from 1969 to 2001, passed away in 2006; Urso came to Western in 1969 and retired in 2008. Together, they created indelible images of the interactions between equally passionate parties at a pivotal moment in Western’s history. As Up Western demonstrates, a little humor at such times never hurts.
~Marian Alexander, Special Collections
Up Western
| As Western faces strenuous fiscal challenges, it may help to remember that the institution has met and surmounted such situations before, notably in the mid-1970s. At that time, budgetary cutbacks resulted in invocation of the dread Reduction in Force (RIF) policy resulting in numerous lay-offs. |
Fine Facsimile Publisher Visits Special Collections
Posted on Wed, 2010-11-24 11:19On October 8, 2010, a representative of the fine facsimile publisher M. Moleiro, based in Barcelona, visited Special Collections while participating in the 2010 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair. The M. Moleiro company specializes in the reproduction of codices, maps, and works of art usually made on parchment, vellum, paper, or papyrus created between the 13th and 16th centuries. Many national as well as major museum libraries hold facsimiles created by the company. Here, Jeanne Armstrong of the library faculty and Kathryn Vulic of the English department examine examples of Moleiro’s outstanding work.
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Paul and Mary Ann Ford Continue Their Generous Ways
Posted on Wed, 2010-11-24 10:36
Thanks to the generosity of Paul and Mary Ann Ford, Special Collections can now offer deluxe seating to visitors interested in the Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection and other fly fishing resources. In May 2010, the Fords donated funds enabling the purchase of special furniture and in September, two new wing-back chairs, upholstered in fabric with a fly fishing theme, were installed in the corner of our Research Room where fly fishing books and related materials are continuously displayed. We thank the Fords for their continuing support of our efforts to develop a premiere resource for fly fishing research.
Guide to the Claude C. Hall Papers available online
Posted on Tue, 2010-11-23 14:51A guide to the newly-processed Claude C. Hall Papers is now available online. Housed at the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, this archival collection documents the work of Claude C. Hall (1896-1977) while employed with the United States Army Corps of Engineers on the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, during World War II. Hall worked for Seattle-based Pacific Huts, Inc., setting up pre-fabricated wooden structures that were used to house troops in Alaska during the war. World War II materials include a scrapbook and photographs documenting construction and use of Pacific Huts throughout the Aleutian Islands, a copy of The Battle of the Aleutians: A Graphic History 1942-1943 (written by Cpl. Dashiell Hammett and Cpl. Robert Garland Colodny), and a 1944 limited edition of This Is The Pacific Hut, describing the history and production of Pacific Huts. The collection also includes some of Hall's World War I papers, as well as a small selection of personal items.
