Washington State University Publications: Anthropology Department, 1972-1980

Location of Collection

Acquisition Information

The “WSU Publications” collections are an accumulation of materials transferred to Washington State University Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections on a nearly daily basis. Some items are transferred directly by the University’s printing department. Many other materials have been forwarded by the Library’s serials cataloging unit. Other items come directly from university departments, and a significant number of publications have been donated by individuals. Most materials in it have no accession records.

Processing Note

The "WSU Publications" collection is an effort to amass significant or representative publications of the University. The effort began in 1955. Until 1977, the publications were managed as part of the university archives. In that year, office records were separated from the publications in order to follow the spirit of the Washington State public records laws. The separation was all but complete; nonetheless, small quantities of non-published materials, records, remain among the WSU Publications. In 1970-1975, Library employees prepared a library card catalog for the WSU Publications collection. That catalog was transcribed and adapted by Tyler Evans and Jeff Zundel in 2005-2006. In March, 2009, University Archivist Mark O’English created this list of Anthropology and Archaeology publications.

Related Materials

A small number of individual items may be found in WSU 28, Washington State University Publications, 1891-2018 (WSU 001-999)

Those interested in similar documents may wish to consult the Washington State University Museum of Anthropology's Archaeological Repository or the WSU Department of Anthropology's Northwest Reading Room.

MASC holds a complete collection of the WARC Project Reports. A large number of them exist elsewhere in the library system; these may be located through the above link. Those not at WSU but interested in finding these should first search for them in a library catalog by title or by the "corporate" author (Washington Archaeological Research Center) and attempt to acquire them through Interlibrary Loan if available; this list is intended primarily as a tool for local researchers and to aid remote researchers in identifying these. MASC will only make copies of these when no other copy is available.