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Meet your Hamersly staff: Valerie Latham

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 Valerie Latham. If you’re a night owl, you’ve probably seen [more…]

New fall exhibits on 2nd and 3rd floors

The Fall exhibits in Hamersly Library are up! Check them out on the 2nd and 3rd floors: Down the Ballot II: Candidates of Western Oregon University (2nd floor) Curator: Carl Fisher, WOU Alumnus       Laugh or Cry (3rd floor) Cartoons by Rob Harriman, WOU Alumnus

New students: learn about your WOU library this week!

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 [more…]

New library system is live

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 [more…]

Hamersly has books to read for fun, too!

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 [more…]

Thanks for helping the library!

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 [more…]

Meet your Hamersly staff: Elaina Glasscock

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 [more…]

The library is offering a *new course* starting Fall Term

Attention students! Starting next fall (Fall Term 2014) your favorite librarians are teaching a new course. LIB 225: Advanced Research for College, Work, and Life bridges the gap between the basic-level research you did in you 100-level introductory courses, and the advanced-level research that is expected of you in 300 and 400 level courses. [wpspoiler name=”More [more…]

New Books in the Recreation Collection

We just got a fresh, new batch of books for the Recreation Collection on the first floor of Hamersly. We have something for everyone: Oprah book club picks, literary award winners, celebrity memoirs, historical fiction, and more. Below is just a sampling of our new arrivals. Browse the collection online or in-person to see all of our recreational [more…]