News/Spotlight

Wednesday, August 27: All libraries will be closed for Libraries Clean-Up Day. Online resources and services will remain available at http://www.lib.washington.edu

Theresa Mudrock, the history librarian in the Reference & Research Services Division of UW Libraries, is the recipient of the first-ever Distinguished Librarian Award. She was the creator of the exhibit, Interrupted Lives, which dealt with Japanese American students at the University during World War II.

Theresa will be honored along with other University award winners at the annual Recognition Ceremony, set for 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 12.

This summer, the UW Libraries will be switching to new databases for general periodical, business and newspaper research. EBSCO Academic Search Complete, EBSCO Business Source Complete and NewsBank Access World News will replace our suite of ProQuest databases and provide expanded coverage of journals, business resources and U.S. and international news.

We want to know what you think about the newly redesigned UW Libraries Digital Collection website. Take our short 14 question survey to tell us.

Deadline for Application: May 19, 2008

Win a prize of up to $1,000 for your undergraduate research paper!
Details at www.lib.washington.edu/researchAward

All periodicals which can be checked out are now requestable online. This applies to both bound and unbound (recent, single issues) periodicals. Just follow the same procedures you use for requesting books and other materials: Click on the 'Request Item' button in WorldCat Local or the 'Request/Place Hold' button in the UW Libraries Catalog and follow the prompts.

106 photographic portraits from a 1915 album of local Civil War veterans who had fought for the Union and then formed the Grand
Army of the Republic. The leather-bound album was donated to the Seattle Public Library in 1971.