After 34 years of service to WSU, Joe Ford with Owen Science and Engineering Library will retire Friday, June 29. A reception will be held 2:30-4 p.m. Wednesday, June 27, in the Terrell Library atrium.

The library and archives paraprofessional 3 worked at various WSU units through the years before joining Owen Library in 2001, including Media Materials, Biomedical Communications, Student Publications and the Daily Evergreen.

In response to requests from ASWSU leadership, the Holland and Terrell Libraries will offer extended hours during the end of Summer Session. They will be open until 11:45 p.m. on Wednesday, June 13, and Thursday, June 14.

Obituaries, especially ones from the early 1900s, have much to teach the living. WSU senior Liz Cairns knows because she scans newspaper obituaries from those decades for the Kimble Northwest History Database.

Working with obituaries might not seem like the best form of student employment, but Cairns says she loves reading them. “If it’s written down, it honors the person. It’s especially interesting when the person has lived a long time, to see all that they accomplished and how many lives they’ve touched.”

Leah Benedict will receive the 2018 WSU Libraries’ Excellence Award during a 10 a.m. reception Wednesday, May 16, in the Terrell Library Atrium.

Benedict is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of English. The award recognizes a non-library faculty or staff member who has shown consistent support for the WSU Libraries.

WSU and University of Idaho are co-hosting the inaugural Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium through May 18 on both campuses. It is sponsored by WSU’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation and UI’s Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning.

The symposium will explore a broad variety of tools, techniques and ideas informing the digital scholarship field, including the following sessions:

WSU Libraries will be transitioning from the Kanopy streaming video patron-driven purchasing program to a mediated purchasing model. The change will not apply to the WSU Vancouver campus.

Faculty can still browse the Kanopy catalog at https://www.kanopy.com/, and send purchase requests to their departmental library liaison, however film trailers and previews will not be available on the Kanopy platform after this change.

The manuscript from Honest Abe wasn’t so honest. It took more than 60 years for the staff of Washington State University’s Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections to learn that the document was a forgery.

Part of an Abraham Lincoln collection purchased in the early 1940s, the handwritten fragment, entitled “On Administration,” was considered one of its chief attractions.

Holland and Terrell Libraries, as well as Owen Science and Engineering Library, will have extended hours for dead and finals weeks.

Holland and Terrell will open at 10 a.m. Sunday, April 22, and will not close again until 10 p.m. Friday, May 4. Owen will open at noon Sunday, April 22, and will not close again until 5:45 p.m. Friday, May 4.

For National Poetry Month in April, Washington State University Libraries is sponsoring three weeklong activities during the month to celebrate all forms of poetry.

Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture, according to the Poets.org website.

Activities, to be held in Terrell Library, include the following:

Play with your food and your words during WSU Libraries’ third annual Edible Book Festival on Friday, April 6, part of WSU Mom’s Weekend activities.

Registration for entries closes March 31; to register and for more information, visit the library guide at http://libguides.libraries.wsu.edu/ediblebooks. Participants can register individually or as a group. Entry rules are simple: Submissions must be made from edible materials and somehow relate to a book.