The center will hold one or two readings during spring 1997, and continued success is anticipated, with good reason. The donated material will, however, remain a separate collection. The establishment of the WSU Tri-Cities Poetry Resource Center honors the lively art of poetry. And it honors the devoted donors who make possible the active pursuit of poetry at the WSU Tri-Cities campus. Checks for the purchase of materials are payable to the WSU Foundation with a note designating the Tri-Cities Poetry Resource Center.
All donations are tax deductible.
It has been nearly twenty-five years since I began my career as a professional librarian. When I walked into my first professional library job at a university in upstate New York, I found a library that was not much different from its nineteenth century predecessors. We were using electric typewriters rather than the old manual versions to create cards for the card catalog. But other than these two modest examples of technology, our work resembled that of university libraries of a century before us. Much has happened in libraries during the last two decades.