A profile of the Whitman College Penrose Library.

A description of the Allen Room Challenge Book, in which are recorded the names and comments of those who win the studying marathon in Penrose Library's main reading room. Originally published in 50-Year-Plus News 31:1 (2010): 1, 8-9.

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Preprint (13 p.) This is a preprint of an article later published in The American Journal of Physics. The preprint may differ from the final published version.

Preprint (16 p.) This is a preprint of an article later published in The American Journal of Physics. The preprint may differ from the final published version.

A description of five nineteenth-century books from the special collections of the Whitman College Penrose Library that reveal the importance of books in the history of the Pacific Northwest.

We examined the relation between sex and relationship education, communication, and prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among college-aged women.

A history of Whitman College's copy of the first edition of Charles Dawrin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Originally published in 50-Year-Plus News 30:1 (2009): 1, 12.

This article combines history, biography, and the translation of a nineteenth-century primary source to consider the role of Manuel Payno, a Mexican government official and noted writer, in establishing his country's national library. Profiles of Mexican library history and of Manuel Payno provide context for the appended English translation of Payno's 1869 article, "Las bibliotecas de Mexico: La gran biblioteca y la pequen biblioteca de Mexico," in which he requests continued government funding to complete the Biblioteca Nacional.