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Libraries in the News Archive
- Judith Henchy, Distinguished Librarian
- University Week - June 3, 2010
- Behind the Budget: Libraries cuts continue
- UW Daily - April 28, 2010
- HUB Bookstore to move to OUGL
- UW Daily - April 1, 2010 | The bookstore will be behind the information center on the main floor of Odegaard
- Steve Shadle, national cataloging award-winner
- KUOW's The Conversation with Ross Reynolds - March 15, 2010 (story starts at 08:15 in the 12:30 segment) | What is the role of a serials access librarian?
- Libraries joins open-access photographic fun on Flickr Commons
- University Week - March 11, 2010 | Collection will be updated monthly from Libraries rich digital repository of images
- Thai delegation presents Buddhist canon to Libraries
- University Week - March 11, 2010 | World Tipitaka presented by 26-member Thai delegation led by Princess Vudhichalerm Vudhijaya Gilbert
- Steve Shadle receives national cataloging award
- UW Daily - March 11, 2010 | Serials access librarian recongnized for contributions made over 15 years
- Libraries collaborates with Taiwan to digitize rare books
- University Week - March 4, 2010 | The East Asia Library collection includes approximately 600 titles of Chinese rare books
- Libraries staff members help Seattle Symphony "clean its attic"
- University Week - February 25, 2010 | What do you do with 107 years of Seattle Symphony history, particularly when it needs to be professionally organized and preserved?
- Odegaard's self-checkout is all about convenience
- UW Daily - February 19, 2010 | The purpose of the self-checkout station is simple; students in a rush are able to check items out themselves in a hurry.
- OUGL gets first self-checkout station
- University Week - February 10, 2010 | Students waiting to check out a book or open reserve materials now have an option: a self-service checkout station at OUGL
- Celebrate the updated Ethnomed cross-cultural health resource Feb. 9
- University Week - February 4, 2010 | The site has been updated to better help health-care providers and to offer more health information to the community.
- Libraries reduces journal subscriptions due to budget cuts
- University Week - January 4, 2010 | In response to significantly reduced funding, the University Libraries has substantially cut subscriptions to journals.
- Explore old world maps in new UW Libraries digital collection
- University Week - November 12, 2009 | You can trace humankind's exploration of the world in the maps in Special Collections' newest digital collection.
- Chinese Film Week highlights work by award-winning director
- University Week - October 22, 2009 | 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
- Open Access to Scholarship in the Spotlight
- University Week - October 15, 2009 | 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.
- We, the people
- UW Daily - October 9, 2009 | Hartnett was inspired to lend the words of the Constitution to voices at the UW after visiting the Constitution Museum in Philadelphia.
- A growing history: Preserving a century of Washington state agriculture literature
- University Week - October 8, 2009 | 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.
- Libraries Printing now double-sided by default
- UW Daily - October 5, 2009 | The switch, which has already been implemented at campus libraries, could reduce printing- and copy-paper volumes by as much as 35 percent.
- Film collection more accessible to students
- UW Daily - August 12, 2009 | 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.