Libraries

CAMPAIGN GOAL: $4 Million

With formats for recording and sharing information continually changing, today’s students and faculty need a fully equipped, updated, and reliable academic library more than ever. In this dynamic and competitive environment, institutions of higher education cannot build the quality and the excellence expected of them without a strong library system. After all, a world-class academic research university requires a world-class library system.

Within this dynamic environment, The Libraries at Washington State University have become a place of convergence—supporting research and teaching across all majors on all four campuses, and driven by changing needs from both the local learning community and around the world. The WSU Libraries are quite literally the University’s crossroads of learning.

Nevertheless, the crossroads need upgrading to remain competitive. Our growing digital library requires skilled maintenance and updating as more materials, including rare books, are scanned and made available online. Students require advanced training in information literacy to best prepare for a rapidly shifting workplace. Even our learning spaces call for physical upgrades to accommodate changing learning styles.

Through the Campaign for Washington State University, the WSU Libraries seek private funding to create a vibrant intellectual climate that enhances academic and personal achievement one learner at a time. With your help, we will provide the kind of setting where every student will find the resources to succeed—and a place where tomorrow’s “big ideas” are inspired.

Nowhere else is the heartbeat of the University more evident than at the WSU Libraries. Along with exceptional facilities at the Vancouver, Spokane, and Tri-Cities campuses, the six libraries on the Pullman campus help define our scholarly ambitions and our place in the learning universe. They are our centers of activity, discovery, debate, conversation, and collaboration.

Support for The Libraries is support for WSU. Through your partnership with the Campaign for Washington State University, we're working to ensure that every student who seeks a place to learn will find it at the WSU Libraries. By achieving our goal of $4 million in private gifts, together we are furnishing a rich environment where students can connect with our shared past, build a bridge of understanding to the present, and pursue their path to the future-through the open doors of The Libraries at Washington State University.