When the Owen Library opened in 1978, 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 WSU student, faculty, staff and residents of Washington State. Reference assistance is provided to enable all library users to learn about the library resources, available and in science and engineering subject areas and to solve problems that library users encounter in the course of they research and 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.