Welcome to campus, new students! As a part of New Student Week, we are offering several opportunities for you to learn more about your library. We hope to see you at one of these sessions (see your New Student Week book for full descriptions): Reading, Research, Writing, and ‘Rithmetic – What the WOU library can do for you […]
It’s here! Our new library system is now up and running. The biggest change for you, as a library user, will likely be the new online search interface called Primo, which you will use to locate library materials within Hamersly Library and at our Summit partner libraries. Find Primo at the top of the library […]
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What is Primo? Primo is the new library search tool used to find items in Hamersly Library and our partner Summit libraries, as well as some articles and other electronic resources. Primo scopes allow you to define where your search is performed. You can select a scope in the drop-down menu right of the search box, or by […]
Looking for a good book (or two) to read over summer break? We can help! The Recreation Collection on the 1st floor of Hamersly has something for every type of reader. *And* we just got a bunch of new books in. We have everything from thrillers to love stories to biographies – and everything in between. Want […]
A big thank you to everyone who took our recent survey about your use of social media and mobile devices. In all, we heard from 448 members of the WOU community (mostly students). The winners of the drawings associated with the survey were: Dutch Bros. gift cards: Jordan Westlund, Alyssa Dionne, Emily Eby, and Ashley Flores Grand prize ASUS Transformer […]
The newest issue of PURE Insights is now available and includes a wide variety of pieces ranging from an international journey to help discover one’s identity, to an examination of societal perceptions of feminism, to a mathematical model for predicting award outcomes in baseball. PURE Insights is WOU’s peer-reviewed Undergraduate Research Journal comprised of works by WOU undergraduate students working […]
Did you miss out on winning the prizes from the last library survey? Well, now you have another chance! We’d like your feedback again, this time about how you use social media and mobile devices and how you’d like to hear from Hamersly in the future. The survey will only take you about 10 minutes […]
Each term, we introduce you to a few of the people who work to make Hamersly your favorite place on campus to do research, study, print your papers, meet with a group, or simply kick back and read in a quiet place. This week, meet Elaina Glasscock. You won’t see her at the library’s busy […]
Over the last three weeks, 326 students gave us opinions on study spaces, equipment, and a library coffee shop. Thank you to all! 217 of those students submitted their names for the incentive drawings. Here are the winners: Subway gift cards: Stephanie Stuckey, Riley Nix, and Stacie Loose Grand prize ASUS Transformer tablet: Carol Downey […]