New carpet is coming to Level 1 of Olin Library starting Monday, September 18! For about a week, a team will work to remove existing carpet and install new carpet between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Some seating and study areas on Level 1 will be disrupted and temporarily unavailable thr...
Jennifer Moore joined the staff of WU Libraries in 2011 as anthropology subject librarian. In 2012, she took on additional responsibilities as the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) outreach librarian. In 2014, she became program faculty in International Areas Studies. The following year, she w...
EclipseMob (http://eng.umb.edu/~eclipsemob/) is a citizen science experiment that’s being organized in connection with the August 21 solar eclipse. NSF and the Geological Society of America are the sponsors. EclipseMob is a crowdsourced effort to conduct the largest-ever low-frequency radi...
Apollo Lunar Samples by Anthony Young Astronomy for Older Eyes by James L. Chen Bohmian Mechanics, Open Quantum Systems and Continuous Measurements by Antonio B. Nassar, Salvador Miret-Artés Computational Non-commutative Geometry Program for Disordered Topological Insulators by Emil Proda...
The annual inventory of Physics Library material will be May 11-19, 2017. The Library will be closed to everyone during this time. It is important that all books be returned to the Library on or before 3:00 pm, May 10, 2017. If the inventory is completed ahead of schedule, the Library will reopen...
Determining the boundaries of poetry, what it is and isn’t, what counts as ‘poetry’ and what doesn’t, is a thorny endeavor even – perhaps especially – for experienced poets. W.B. Yeats offered this standard: “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with our...
Born in 1937 to a cellist and harpist, poet and musician David Meltzer was perhaps destined to a life informed and enchanted by sound. As a child, he performed on the radio and on TV with The Horn and Hardart Children’s Hour. This strong musical heritage was only the beginning of Meltzer’s robust...
February marks the original release date of Federman’s third novel, Take It or Leave It. To celebrate this, we offer a peek into some of the materials related to the book in the Raymond Federman Papers. Published in 1976 by Fiction Collective, Take It Or Leave It exemplifies Federman’s boldly inn...
Construction for the Olin Library Transformation project will take place on Saturday, February 4th, from 6 a.m. – 2 p.m. If noise becomes bothersome, grab a free pair of ear plugs at the Help Desk, or check out one of the departmental libraries on Danforth Campus (remember to check their hours, w...
The Physics and Astronomy Springer ebooks package for 2017 has been purchased and is now available. Titles will be added to the WU Catalog. There are hundreds of titles available in this new collection and the compilations we receive from Springer are slightly delayed. If you are looking for a ...
