Studying the Salacious Since humans first began drawing, they have drawn genitals. Throughout history, what defines literature and imagery as pornographic, explicit, or...
Libraries Complete Digitization of 1963 Campus Film WashU Libraries have completed the preservation and digitization of the short film Once Upon a Hill…There was a School! (1963) in University...
Staff Pick: Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day Resistance can often take on a daunting and overwhelming aura. Author Kaitlin Curtice helps her readers learn how everyday choices...
Stanley Elkin’s “Wall of Respect” In the summer of 2022, Special Collections acquired a substantial amount of books, papers, artwork, and more that belonged to...
Libraries Search Tool Primo Renamed to Quick Search On Tuesday, May 28, the University Libraries’ discovery search tool Primo was renamed to Quick Search. Quick Search replaces the...
Telling the Story of Asian Americans in St. Louis A new digital StoryMap project, Asia in St. Louis, traces the history and experiences of people of Chinese and Japanese...
Staff Pick: Information Desk: An Epic After graduating college, poet Robyn Schiff took a job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she...
Ornamenting Poe: Illustrations of The Raven Illustrator W.A. Dwiggins, when tasked with illustrating a version of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination in 1930,...
Announcing a New Four-Year Open Access Deal with Elsevier Washington University Libraries and Bernard Becker Medical Library announce a new and transformative open access agreement with Elsevier, spanning from...
Joy Novak Selected to 2024 Archives Leadership Institute Joy Novak, head of Special Collections at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected as a participant in the...
Collection Spotlight: Haggadah Shel Pesach As the end of the semester approaches, many WashU students are also preparing to observe the Jewish holiday of Passover....
No Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones: A Collector’s Journey “A Collector’s Journey” is a companion essay to the exhibition Pasted Youth: Analog Design of the Punk Movement, currently on view...