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Identifier: wwu:40573
Title: Charles Asher (he/him/his), Acquisitions/Interlibrary Loan Specialist in the Western Libraries (essential[at]Western project)
Date: 2021-03-16
Description: This is a photo of me working in the library--actually, a photo of me in a book in the library. I have worked various on-site shifts in the library over the past year: providing curbside service, processing interlibrary loan materials, and scanning requested articles and book chapters. Searching for materials in the Northwest Collection of the Wilson 4 Central Reading Room, I spotted the blue spine of a book in which my wife was interviewed as a commercial fisher in Alaska many years ago. I'm in the lower photo (in the water) with my wife Rebecque and my skipper Don, beach seining for salmon on Kodiak Island. One of our holding skiffs in the background is already half-submerged with the weight of fish (photo in book credit: Leslie Leyland Fields). I've thought about whether the metaphor of fishing applies to searching for and pulling library books from the vast pool of volumes at the Western Libraries. It doesn't. Having LC call numbers, well-organized stacks, and a computerized inventory system to locate an item is an infinitely more efficient method of retrieval than setting a 150 fathom net on a lone jumping fish.
Digital Collection: Telling Our Stories: Essential@Western During COVID-19
Type of resource: Still image
Object custodian: University Archives
Related Collection: Telling our Stories: Western's Response to COVID-19
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_essential_12

Identifier: wwu:40550
Title: WWU COVID story 56: Jaivier
Date: 2021-03-16
Description: My COVID experience has been very up and down from the start of the pandemic. In the beginning it seemed like a beneficial short break, as rules were being enforced, Winter quarter finals were coming up. Then once the pandemic got more intense, I found myself stuck... [open story for full text]
Digital Collection: Telling Our Stories: Western's Response to COVID-19
Type of resource: Text
Object custodian: University Archives
Related Collection: Telling our Stories: Western's Response to COVID-19
Local Identifier: wwu_covid_story_56
Text preview (might not show all results): Telling Our Stories: Western's Response to COVID-19 Story ID: 56 Story date 03/16/2021 Name Jaivier Affiliation Student Source: "Telling Our Stories: Western's Response to COVID-19," a project initiated at Western Washington University by Western Libraries Heritage Resources divi