About the Collection
This digital collection is comprised of samples from collections from the WSU Vancouver Library Archives including digital copies provided courtesy of Lynn Degerstedt, the first director of operations for the Southwest Washington Joint Center for Education. Other collections include selections from WSU Vancouver's Campus Master Plans and Environmental Impact Statements as well as the WSU Vancouver Historic Photographs and Documents Collection. In addition, several interviews conducted for the WSU Vancouver 20th Anniversary Oral History Project in 2010 are included. The date range of items featured in this digital collection is from 1983 to 1997. Over 500 items have been indexed, including photographs, commencement programs, campus publications, documents, oral history transcripts, audio files and ephemera.
In the Spring of 2016, the first four volumes of the VanCougar newspaper were included in the collection. See below for full-text, searchable access to early issues of the VanCougar.