Libraries in the News - Archive
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You can trace humankind's exploration of the world in the maps created over the centuries. And now you can be the explorer, examining regional and world maps -- really, really up close -- in UW Libraries Special Collections' newest digital collection, World and Regional Maps Collection, 16th to 19th Centuries.
University Week - November 12, 2009 |
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Chinese Film Week, October 26-31, offers discussions and screenings of award-winning writer and director Peng Xiaolian's films, as well as an appearance by Peng herself
University Week - October 22, 2009 |
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Open access refers to the movement away from proprietary journals and toward open access to scholarly research. The open access movement has gained momentum in recent years largely because of the increasing costs associated with journals combined with the rise of electronic publishing.
University Week - October 15, 2009 |
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Hartnett was inspired to lend the words of the Constitution to voices at the UW after visiting the Constitution Museum in Philadelphia and hearing about public readings sponsored by the National Constitution Center.
UW Daily October 9, 2009 |
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After a four-year process, the UW Libraries has completed a project to identify and preserve the most important Washington state agriculture, forestry and fishery literature published between 1820 and 1945.
University Week October 8, 2009 |
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The switch, which has already been implemented at campus libraries, could reduce printing- and copy-paper volumes by as much as 35 percent.
UW Daily October 5, 2009
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From seasons of M*A*S*H to Goldie Hawn’s Overboard, students can now browse for videos in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library Media Center on their own instead of making specific requests each time they want to rent a film.
UW Daily story by Lexie Krell
August 12, 2009 |
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Despite budget cuts, University Libraries has decided that due to the high popularity of Odegaard Undergraduate Library's overnight hours, it will be keeping the service available through the 2010 fiscal year.
UW Daily story by Eric Staples
May 28, 2009 |
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A comprehensive exhibit covering all of the AYPE, from its origins as an idea to promote Seattle through the transformation of the undeveloped campus into a fairgrounds and the legacy it left behind for the University
University Week story by Nancy Wick
May 28, 2009 |
 UW campus
photo by Alan Berner
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A roundup of summer events marking the 100th anniversary of the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exhibit (AYPE), held on what is now the UW campus. Events at the NW Folklife Festival, Seattle Public Libraries and an exhibit of photographs by Frank Nowell, official AYPE photographer, from the UW Libraries Special Collections archives.
Seattle Times article
May 14, 2009 |
 Pam Yorks
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In mid-January, a Task Force on New Models of Service and Delivery was assigned the task of recommending which libraries could be merged. On April 24, the task force recommended in their final report that the natural science branches — which include the Fisheries-Oceanography, Physics-Astronomy and Chemistry libraries — consolidate.
UW Daily story by Brian Byrnes
May 13, 2009 |
 photo by Marc Studer
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Requiring no new budgetary resources, the new UW Center for Teaching and Learning will launch in July 2009, combining for the first time, informal but related, teaching-oriented campus networks, while pioneering an innovative new partnership with UW Undergraduate Academic Affairs and the UW Graduate School.
University Week story by Nancy Wick
May 4, 2009 |
 ILL staff
photo by Aiden Duffy
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Students can request books any time online through the UW library catalogue. When the book cannot be found in Summit, the ILL (Interlibrary Loan) staff searches library catalogues across the world.
UW Daily story by Brian Byrnes
May 8, 2009
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photo by Mary Levin
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UW Libraries is the largest employer of students at the University, with nearly 500 students working across all three campuses. And the Libraries make sure the students' contributions aren't overlooked.
University Week story by Devin Mills
April 9, 2009 |
Lizabeth ( Betsy) Wilson, Dean of University Libraries
photo by Cass Redstone
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Libraries are invaluable cornerstones of college and university life. By equipping the next generation of engineers, teachers, doctors with the training and research tools needed to compete in the global marketplace, library professionals make a vital contribution in today's challenging economic times.
Special to the Seattle Times by Betsy Wilson and Erika Linke
March 4, 2009
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A collection of photographs by Frank Nowell, taken on and around the UW campus in 1909 to document the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, are featured in A White City in the West, a coffee-table volume with text by Bromberg and photos by official AYPE photographer Frank Nowell, photography lecturer John Stamets and his students, will be published by the University of Washington Press in late 2009.
Columns Article by Ina Zajac
December, 2008
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The Walla Walla Newspaper Indexing Project has received funding for another three years of work to index names, dates, events and other data from the county's earliest newspapers.
Glenda Pearson, UW Libraries Head of Microforms and Newspapers said the project "is a massive undertaking, but one that is critical to the history not just of Washington, but to the entire Pacific Northwest."
Walla Walla Union Bulletin story by Andy Porter
August 26, 2008 |
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Kathy Sauber
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One more fixture of the 20th century library is going away. The Suzzallo periodicals service desk will close at the end of summer quarter. "We regularly review the traffic and transactions at our service points, and traffic at the periodicals desk has just tailed off to where it doesn't pay to keep it open anymore," said Bill Jordan, associate dean of UW Libraries.
U-Week story by Nancy Wick
August 7, 2008
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photo by
Mary Levin
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The first day of spring was the last day of spring rolls for the UW Libraries' staff. For the past two months, libraries staffer Jung-Ho Ryu has been delivering the tasty treat to all his fellow employees -- between 800 and 900 in all. And on March 20, he came to the end with a delivery to the Libraries administration office on the fourth floor of Allen Library.
U-Week story by Nancy Wick
April 3, 2008
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self-portrait by
Arielle Ross
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Arielle Ross is one of eight freshmen who completed a two-credit seminar at the University of Washington last fall. The premise was simple, or so it seemed: Document your transition to college life. Be as honest as you can. Don't skip the details.
Instructors say they thought they knew what they were getting into when they began the program in September. But now, they confess that the photos being temporarily exhibited at the UW's Odegaard Undergraduate Library were surprising.
Seattle P-I story by Amy Rolph
February 22, 2008
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photo courtesy
R. Vize, 1993
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Friends remember David Bell, former owner of the University District store Magus Books, as a private man of few words whose eyes would light up when he came across an old, rare book.
Seattle P-I story by Amy Rolph
January 30, 2008
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Zafir (Jeffrey) Siddiqui
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A three-phase oral history project, chronicling the influx of South Asians to the Seattle area from post-World War II to the 1990s began with a gift from Irene Joshi, who served at the UW's first South Asia librarian from 1970 to 2000,
University Week story by Robert Roseth
November 29, 2007 |
Tonya Lockyer
photo by Steve Korn
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The archive is the product of CDC Director Hannah Wiley's anxiety. She's been helped by John Vallier, head of distributed media services at Odegaard Undergraduate Library.
University Week story by Nancy Wick
Sep 27, 2007 |
Menu from the Space Needle
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It's a fascinating slice of local business and social history. The fact that it's around to be seen at all is to the credit of UW Libraries Special Collections
Seattle-PI story by Bill Virgin
Aug 13, 2007 |
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Marc Studer
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Date stamps are being retired for most all library items except items without bar codes, such as some unbound periodicals and government publications, said Thom Deardorff, UW Libraries coordinator for access services.
University Week story
July 19, 2007 |
photo by Gilbert W. Arias |
The approach to Suzzallo Library is welcoming because of all the intimately scaled Gothic details and the 4-inch risers of the processional stairway.
Seattle P-I story by Lawrence Cheek
April 30, 2007 |
 photo by Kathy Sauber
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a photo essay in Odegaard Undergraduate Library was mounted by Sahar Romani, a graduate student in UW South Asian Studies, who created Kalam: Margins Write, a creative writing program for young people ages 16 to 22 living around Calcutta on train platforms, in a red light district, or in a shelter for daughters of sex workers.
University Week story by Catherine O'Donnell
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Despite the book's complex subject matter, Kolbert makes the science easy to understand, said Jill McKinstry, director of Odegaard Undergraduate Library and co-chairwoman of the committee that selected the common book.
Seattle P-I story by Christine Frey
Mar 28, 2007
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 Betsy Wilson
photo by Dennis Wise
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Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson was recognized for her pioneering and leadership roles in the areas of information literacy and assessment, as well as for her commitment to collaboration and partnership.
University Week story
Feb 7, 2007
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The ability to scan works of art and post them to the Internet is revolutionizing the way curators around the world are managing their collections.
Seattle P-I story by Colin McDonald
Feb 7, 2007 |
 photo by Kathy Sauber
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Dean of Libraries, Betsy Wilson, visits 49 of 50 Libraries sites on annual New Year's whirlwind tour to thank Libraries staff.
University Week photo
Jan 11, 2007 |
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An exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings, will be presented.
University Week story by Nancy Wick
Jan 4, 2007 |
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The UW Libraries have partnered with communities on the Olympic Peninsula to create an unusual online museum that provides access to much historical material that previously was in private hands.
University Week story by Robert Roseth
Dec 7, 2006
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We love the online journals the UW Libraries provide. But do we realize how much they cost? How long will the Libraries be able to absorb relentless increases in subscription prices?
University Week story
May 18, 2006
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National Book Award Winner Charles Johnson delivers the keynote speech at Friends of the Libraries Literary Voices dinner.
 View the Seattle Channel video
April 29, 2006, approx 30 minutes
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The Digital Futures Alliance includes as charter partners such heavyweights as Microsoft, Amgen and RealNetworks and has set up working groups to tackle specific issues including what to keep and how.
Seattle P-I story by Bill Virgin
Apr 4, 2006
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William Dietrich, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and historical novelist, talks about the challenges of writing in seemingly incongruous genres of journalism and fiction.
View the Seattle Channel video
March 10, 2006, approx 66 minutes
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Friends of the Libraries presents Marcie Silllman from KUOW / NPR, speaking about changes in public radio.
View the Seattle Channel video
Jan 27, 2006, approx 53 minutes
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Deep in the bowels of Allen Library is a treasure trove in the process of being discovered. A collection of films that has, for the most part, lain dormant for years is slowly being processed and made accessible to the public.
University Week story by Nancy Wick
Nov 17, 2005
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The University of Washington is launching a book club with 5,000 members — some more willing than others. Beginning next summer, every new student will be handed or mailed the same book and asked to read it by the time classes start
Seattle Times story by Nick Perry
Nov 16, 2005
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The mystery begins last year when Paula Walker, interim head of the East Asia Library, receives a letter of introduction for a doctoral student at the UW.
University Week story by Robert Roseth
July 21, 2005
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Nicolette Bromberg , Visual Materials Curator for University Libraries, will work with the production team to guide them through images from the Libraries archives for an upcoming film on National Parks.
University Week story
July 21, 2005
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"If you need Eric for something, don't bother trying to call him -- just go to the library," said Alexander Baron, a friend and fellow UW student.
Seattle P-I story by Jake Ellison
June 11, 2005
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on the anniversary of his 100th Birthday.
Featuring: Senator Ted Stevens (AK), Senator Daniel K. Inouye (HI) Congressman Norm Dicks (WA), Governor Christine Gregoire (WA), Senator Maria Cantwell (WA), Congressman Jim McDermott (WA), Former Governors Dan Evans (WA) and John Spellman (WA), UW President Mark Emmert, and Magnuson's widow, Jermaine Magnuson.
View the Seattle Channel video
April 9, 2005, approx. 60 minutes
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Friends of the Libraries presents David Horsey, two-time Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist and columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who shares some of his award-winning satires.
View the Seattle Channel video
January 26, 2005, approx. 60 minutes
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UW First Year Programs decided that all FIG students would do an assignment called Library Excursion. Suddenly 3,341 students were descending on the libraries.
University Week story by Nancy Wick
January 13, 2005
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Gary Adkins, author of Gay Seattle, talks about the importance of the University of Washington Libraries and their rich collections.
View the Seattle Channel video
Nov 10, 2004, approx 30 minutes
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The task might sound simple enough -- at first, that is. Just blend the smaller library into the bigger one. We're talking about 40,000 books and periodicals here.
University Week story by Peter Kelley
Aug 19, 2004
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University Libraries was awarded the prestigious Excellence in Libraries Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
University Week story
Feb 12, 2004
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Suzzallo's architect, Carl F. Gould, was a conservative designer — until late in his career he typically raided the past for his inspiration. But he was ambitious and passionately idealistic. Beauty, he insisted, "is the very soul of our profession."
Seattle Weekly story by Lawrence Cheek
December 4, 2002
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A birch bark manuscript from a Buddhist monastery, believed to have been written in the first or second century A.D., was recently acquired by the University of Washington Libraries and will become a key component of the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project.
U-Week story by Robert Roseth
Aug 20, 2002
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