When the Owen Library was built in the 1970's, it was planned to be a building that would never need to physically expand. Librarians and teaching faculty of the day thought that the use of microforms would create a library collection that would grow in volume at an extremely slow rate. Instead, electronic materials, principally electronic journals, are starting to make this goal more reachable, despite large increases in our holdings of printed books and journals over the years. The Owen Library provides assistance to residents of Washington State and to WSU students, faculty and staff. Reference assistance is provided to help library users to learn about the resources and services of the libraries and to solve any problems library users may encounter in the course of their studies.
Reference desk is staffed during the following hours.
Library Assignments Professors who intend to give their students an assignment that requires use of the library are encouraged to send in a Library Assignment Form to make the librarians aware of the intent of your assignment.