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Libraries in the News Archive
- Eric Mvukiyehe leaves UW with diploma, desire to heal society
- Seattle P-I - June 11, 2005 | "If you need Eric for something, don't bother trying to call him -- just go to the library," said Alexander Baron, a friend and fellow UW student.
- An evening honoring Warren G. Magnuson by UW Libraries on the anniversary of his 100th Birthday (video)
- Seattle Channel - April 9, 2005 (video approx 60 min) | Featuring: Senator Ted Stevens (AK), Senator Daniel K. Inouye (HI) Congressman Norm Dicks (WA), Governor Christine Gregoire (WA), Senator Maria Cantwell (WA), Congressman Jim McDermott (WA), Former Governors Dan Evans (WA) and John Spellman (WA), UW President Mark Emmert, and Magnuson's widow, Jermaine Magnuson.
- David Horsey (video)
- Seattle Channel - January 26, 2005 (video approx 60 min) | Friends of the Libraries presents David Horsey, two-time Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist and columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who shares some of his award-winning satires.
- Librarians favored following FIG-gy finale
- University Week - January 13, 2005 | UW First Year Programs decided that all FIG students would do an assignment called Library Excursion. Suddenly 3,341 students were descending on the libraries.
- Gary Adkins (video)
- Seattle Channel - November 10, 2004 (video approx 30 min) | Gary Adkins, author of Gay Seattle, talks about the importance of the University of Washington Libraries and their rich collections.
- Bloedel's Forest Resources library to fold into Allen's Natural Sciences
- University Week - August 19, 2004 | The task might sound simple enough -- at first, that is. Just blend the smaller library into the bigger one. We're talking about 40,000 books and periodicals here.
- Libraries Receives Highest Honor for Academic Libraries
- University Week - February 12, 2004 | University Libraries was awarded the prestigious Excellence in Libraries Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
- The power and the glory of the restored Suzzallo reading room
- Seattle Weekly - December 4, 2002 | Suzzallo's architect, Carl F. Gould, was a conservative designer — until late in his career he typically raided the past for his inspiration. But he was ambitious and passionately idealistic. Beauty, he insisted, "is the very soul of our profession."
- One of earliest Buddhist manuscripts acquired by Libraries
- University Week - August 20, 2002 | A birch bark manuscript from a Buddhist monastery, believed to have been written in the first or second century A.D., was recently acquired by the University of Washington Libraries and will become a key component of the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project.