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Latest issue of ‘The Primary Source’ newsletter now available 2023-05-11
Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections Makes the Unusual Available to the Public

People associate libraries with books, of course, but they are increasingly known for much more than just what lines their shelves. Take a peek inside Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections and learn how and why staff and faculty help make the unusual…

2023-01-25
Special Collections Manager Tamara Belts to Retire After 42 Years at Western 2020-01-31
Arlene Blum to Speak at WWU about Women in Mountaineering, Feb. 25 2019-02-15
Western Washington University Libraries to host WWU history retrospective exhibit 2017-03-30
Vast WWU collection is dedicated to fly fishing

It seemed like a rather benign phone call.

It turned out to be something much larger than a simple plea to come look at a collection of fly rods, in order to price them for a garage sale.

Danny Beatty of Anacortes got that call back in 1986. And when the Fidalgo Fly Fishers club…

2016-02-16
Wallie Funk honored at Western 2016-02-04
Former Anacortes American editor's photos on display

Anyone who has spent time in Anacortes in the past five decades has probably seen the work of Wallie Funk.

The former editor and co-publisher of the Anacortes American, Whidbey News-Times and Whidbey Record left his mark on the community through his columns, editorials and thousands of…

2016-02-04
Exhibit features the work of noted photographer Wallie V. Funk 2016-01-06
WWU exhibit features photographs by Wallie Funk

Heritage Resources at Western Washington University Libraries will open an exhibit of images from the archival collection of journalist and photographer Wallie V. Funk on Monday, Jan. 4, in the Special Collections space on the sixth floor of Wilson Library.

Funk’s four-decade career as…

2015-12-28
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