Western Libraries

Today's Hours

Main Library (Haggard & Wilson)

8am - 8pm

10am - 5pm

9am - 4pm

10am - 5pm

Goltz-Murray Archives Building

8:30am-12pm | 1pm-4:30pm | Appt. Required

8:30am-12pm | 1pm-4:30pm | Appt. Required

Music Library

8am - 5pm

News & Events

Creative Writing Workshops

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Mondays 1-2 pm & Thursdays 2-3 pm
| Haggard Hall 210, Kitto Graduate Student Hub

Are you interested in creative writing? Drop by one of the Hacherl Research & Writing Studio’s Creative Writing Workshops held twice a week through spring quarter!

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Western Libraries has a plethora of teaching and learning resources available online 24/7, including a series of eLearning modules and easy-to-digest tutorials that support research and writing.

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A new system that will allow students to reserve library group study rooms is coming this summer!

Displays & Exhibits

LGBTQ+ Pride with rainbow banner
June 2024
| Online Only

Western Libraries is pleased to celebrate Pride and to highlight a selection of items in our collections and partner libraries through Summit, to give voice to the many intersectional identities in the LGBTQ+ community.

Three illustrations side-by-side showing an owl holding an "ABC's" book, an excerpt from sheet music, and a small child surrounded by ducks on a grassy lawn. All images were taken from children's poetry books that are available at Western Libraries.
April 1, 2024 through December 13, 2024
| Special Collections | Wilson 6

Selected from nearly 1,200 rare books donated to Western Libraries by award-winning author and inaugural U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky, the material in this exhibition spans two hundred and fifty years in the history of poetry for the young and young at heart.

Featured Topics

Haggard Hall Entrance

Whether you need help with your thesis statement, finding sources for a research paper, or citations and proofreading, the Hacherl Research & Writing Studio is here for you.

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What was it like to be part of the counterculture in Western Washington in the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s? You can explore that question and much more through the local underground newspaper, 'Northwest Passage.'

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Part of a global movement promoting access to scholarship and creative works, CEDAR, (which stands for Contributing to Education through Digital Access to Research), is Western’s open access institutional repository.

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Looking for extra sources for that paper you’re writing? Reviewing materials for an upcoming syllabus? Try ordering what you need through Summit!

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