Reading as a pleasurable act is what Carl Neureuther, a 1940 graduate of the Washington University School of Business, hoped to promote among students when he set up an endowed book fund for the WU Libraries in 1987. Today the fund provides the resources for the annual Neureuther Student Book Col...
Did you see the new movie “Mary Poppins Returns” starring Emily Blunt? Have you seen the 1964 “Mary Poppins” starring Julie Andrews? Did you know that WU alum Mary Wickes played the first Mary Poppins in a one-hour live ‘Studio One in Hollywood’ presentation on CBS on December 19, 1949? Well, ...
Washington University Libraries will begin accepting applications for the 2019 Newman Exploration Travel Fund on January 14. The fund awards up to $10,000 per award to two student scholarships, one faculty grant, and one staff grant for members of the Danforth Campus who wish to explore this vast...
On November 30, 2018, Washington University celebrated Mary Jo Bang–her work as a poet, English professor and artist, and her extensive collection of manuscripts, books, journals, photographs and other research materials in the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections. The event star...
The John M. Olin Library main elevator, centrally located adjacent to the grand staircase, will be upgraded over winter break. The elevator is expected to be unusable starting on the morning of Thursday, December 20, until spring semester begins on January 14. During this time, the Olin freight e...
This past Saturday, a small group of book enthusiasts gathered at the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections in Olin Library to learn how to craft tunnel books as part of a series of book making workshops generously funded by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. We began the afternoon b...
As the holiday season approaches, we are wrapping up our year of remembrance of WWI with a look at life in the trenches at Christmas time with photographs and letters from the collection of Washington University alum Arthur W. Proetz in the University Archives. About Arthur Proetz and the Base Ho...
Due to a small construction project in a nearby staff area, users in the northeast corner of Olin Library on Levels 2 and 3 may experience intermittent noise starting Tuesday, December 11, between the hours of 6 a.m. and 2 p.m., Monday-Friday. The project will continue into January 2019, and inte...
On November 16, 2018, the Contemporary German Literature Collection at Washington University Libraries was renamed the Mike Lützeler Contemporary German Literature Collection in honor of Paul Michael Lützeler, Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities and director of the Max K...
“The Monster in the Library: Frankenstein Lives!” is a student curated exhibition now on display at Olin Library in Special Collections. Students enrolled in the Fall 2018 class “Frankenstein: Origins and Afterlives” explored materials from the library collections and beyond as a way to in...
