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Libraries in the News Archive
- 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.
- AYPE exhibits open June 1 at Suzzallo and Allen Libraries
- University Week - May 28, 2009 | 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
- OUGL's 24-hour service won't be cut
- UW Daily - May 28, 2009 | 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.