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Libraries in the News Archive
- Gary Adkins (video)
- Seattle Channel - November 10, 2004 (video approx 30 min) | Gary Adkins, author of Gay Seattle, talks about the importance of the University of Washington Libraries and their rich collections.
- Bloedel's Forest Resources library to fold into Allen's Natural Sciences
- University Week - August 19, 2004 | 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.
- Libraries Receives Highest Honor for Academic Libraries
- University Week - February 12, 2004 | University Libraries was awarded the prestigious Excellence in Libraries Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
- The power and the glory of the restored Suzzallo reading room
- Seattle Weekly - December 4, 2002 | 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."
- One of earliest Buddhist manuscripts acquired by Libraries
- University Week - August 20, 2002 | 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.