Check out our Textbooks Guide for options to buy and borrow textbooks for your classes this term.
How to find textbooks
Your WOU librarians can give you books to read for fun, too!
Your WOU librarians can give you books to read for fun, too!
What better way to spend a stress-free winter break than curled up with a good book?! The Recreation Collection on the 1st floor of Hamersly has something for every type of reading preference – from sci fi to romance to poetry.
Want a suggestion? Fill out the form below (or here) and your WOU librarians will get back to you with a book you might like.
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The library has e-x-t-e-n-d-e-d hours during dead week and finals
The library has e-x-t-e-n-d-e-d hours during dead week and finals
Hamersly will stay open later for your studying convenience starting Wednesday, Dec 4th through Wednesday of finals week. See the full schedule here. Good luck with those papers and exams!
APA? MLA? SOS! Your WOU librarians are here to help.
APA? MLA? SOS! Your WOU librarians are here to help.
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Need help formatting your paper, citing your sources, or creating your Works Cited page/Reference page/Bibliography? We’ve created new style aids to guide you through using the most common citation styles, including MLA, APA, Chicago, AMA, and CSE. Check them out here.
If you need more help, please let us know! You can find us at the Reference desk in Hamersly or online via our Ask a Librarian live chat option:
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Your work could be published!
Your work could be published!
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The Program for Undergraduate Research (PURE) invites you to submit your work to WOU’s peer-reviewed undergraduate research journal: PURE Insights.
Students and recent graduates can submit original research and creative work including technical papers, research articles, expository articles, poems, short stories, photographs, videos, and other creative works from all academic disciplines. All submissions to the journal must have a faculty sponsor.
The submission deadline for the next issue is coming up quickly on December 31st!
The current issue of PURE Insights as well as complete guidelines and a link for submitting your work is available online at: http://digitalcommons.wou.edu/pure
Get the full text – just click ‘Find it @ WOU’
Get the full text – just click ‘Find it @ WOU’
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Sometimes full articles are available directly from the library databases, and you will see this icon:
But in many instances, there is no link to the full text of the article, and you only have the summary (or even just the citation information). This is when you use the ‘Find it @ WOU’ button. It looks like this:
Just click it and you will be taken to a page with information about how to access the full text of your article.
Need more help? Check out our Find it @ WOU tutorial to discover the different ways we might link you to the full text in our electronic sources, to our print sources & Scan & Deliver service, to Articles OnDemand, and to Interlibrary Loan, as appropriate.
The Library has movies!
The Library has movies!
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Find lots of great movies in the library – from Oscar winners to blockbusters, and everything in between. Most are available in both DVD and Blu-ray. Newer films (within the last three years) are on the 1st floor in the Recreation Collection, and older films are on the 2nd floor. You can also browse movies in the library catalog.
Here are some of the most recent additions:
Zero Dark Thirty |
Skyfall |
Life of Pi |
Lincoln |
Beasts of the Southern Wild |
Get help with your Math class @ the library
Get help with your Math class @ the library
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The Math Center offers free drop-in math tutoring in the library, room 228. Hours are Mon-Thurs 1-7pm, and are always posted on the library homepage under Tutoring Hours. Tutoring is offered for a limited number of classes. To learn more, visit the Math Center’s webpage at wou.edu/math/tutor.
New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Lit in our Recreation Collection
New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Lit in our Recreation Collection
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Need a study break? Can’t get enough of The Walking Dead? Want to escape into a fantastical world of witches and/or Shakespearean Star Wars characters? The library’s Recreation Collection has something new for you:
The Walking Dead, Books 1-3 (each compiling 12 issues of the comic series), by Robert Kirkman. Call Number: REC KIR
Witches of East End; Winds of Salem: A Witches of East End Novel (The Beauchamp Family #1 and #3), by Melissa de la Cruz. Call Number: REC DEL
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope, by Ian Doescher, inspired by the work of George Lucas and William Shakespeare. Call Number: REC DOE
Insurgent (Divergent #2), by Veronica Roth. Call Number: REC ROT
The TRC is now in the library – drop by today
The TRC is now in the library – drop by today
Need pointers on creating a digital movie? Tips on designing a website? Advice on configuring an Excel chart? No appointment needed! Stop by the Technology Resource Center, located in the northwest corner of the first floor of the library (HL 124), during open tutoring hours when a Student Technology Assistant is available to answer your questions.
Fall 2013 Drop-In Technology Tutoring Hours:
- Monday: 11 am – 2 pm
- Tuesday: 3 pm – 8 pm
- Wednesday: 11 am – 2 pm
- Thursday: 3 pm – 8 pm
All equipment is also available for self-service all the hours the library is open. More info about the TRC.
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