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Announcements

Getting to Know the New Becker Library Catalog

By Anna Vani — April 27, 2021

As we announced last year, Becker Library now shares an integrated catalog with Washington University Libraries. In the new catalog, users can search resources, find links to Becker’s interlibrary loan service, an Ask Us @ Becker button to reach our help desk, and a journal-title search, among other tools. Shared electronic resources records have a WUSM full text [Read more]

Col. Lee Cady, Miss Lillian Hansen, and patients cutting a cake at the party celebrating the end of World War II, 21st General Hospital, then stationed in Mirecourt, France, 1945

Archives and Rare Books

The 75th Anniversary of the End of World War II

By Philip Skroska — April 12, 2021

The end of World War II brought elation for some. The staff and patients of the 21st General Hospital, the US Army reserve hospital staffed by members of the Washington University medical community, were almost certainly among those in celebration. The personnel of the 21st had served continuously since 1942 and shared an immense relief [Read more]