New E-resources on Visual History and Newspaper Archives The University Libraries have recently acquired some new electronic resources to be used for research and study by WashU students...
Music Library Acquires Rare Edition of The Missouri Harmony In November 2023, the Gaylord Music Library acquired an 1827 edition of The Missouri Harmony, a collection of psalm tunes,...
University Libraries Acquire the Kenneth Cooper Papers The Washington University Libraries recently acquired the Kenneth J. Cooper Papers, an archival collection of materials related to the life...
New Collection Highlight: The Joy of Cooking Special Collections is delighted to add a signed copy of Irma Rombauer’s The Joy of Cooking (1943) to the local...
New Electronic Resources for Students and Faculty The University Libraries have recently acquired new electronic resources for students and scholars across the Danforth Campus. Here are some...
Eugene O’Neill Symposium and the Harley Hammerman Collection Grand Opening On Friday, October 6, 2023 University Libraries hosted a one-day symposium to officially open the Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene...
A New Sports Collection at the University Libraries The Washington University Libraries have recently acquired the Lewis A. Levey Family Collection on Sports and Culture. This vast archive...
Announcing the Joseph D. Murphy Papers The Joseph D. Murphy Papers, now available for research in University Archives, show the work of local architect Joseph D....
Digitally Archiving the Pandemic The COVID-19 experience at Washington University was a watershed event that generated a trove of digital and physical materials. These...
The Mike Lützeler Contemporary German Literature Collection Visitors to John M. Olin library wandering the stacks of Level A, where most of our circulating collection of world...
New Collection Review for Retention Process A new collections deaccessioning policy, which was developed in consultation with the Faculty Libraries Council and approved by the Office...
Digitizing the Tear Sheets in the Walt Reed Illustration Archive Revealing Visual Culture was a grant-funded project awarded by the Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR) foundation. The multi-year...