Becker Library Archives & Rare Books Division

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Contact Archives & Rare Books at (314) 362-4236 or arb@wusm.wustl.edu

Room 702, Becker Library
MSC 8132-13-01, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110-1010

Archives and rare books open house

3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Archives & Rare Books Posts

Beautiful bindings at Becker

We often value books for their text. The text is, of course, the book’s reason for being, and book binding evolved in order to protect precious pages. But bindings have their own stories to tell, and those interested in the material aspects of book history have long appreciated them. In this post, we’ll take a  [Read more]

Helen Tredway Graham, Heinbecker, Ernest Simms “… contributed measurably to Washington University’s reputation for research pre-eminence.”

The Becker Library exhibit “Compounding Potential – A History of the Neurosciences at WashU” gives a brief historical overview of neuroscience research at Washington University. The exhibit still is on display in the Glaser Gallery on the 7th floor of the Bernard Becker Medical Library for a few more days in June 2026 so it  [Read more]

BJC Today now available in Digital Commons@Becker

528 recently digitized issues of BJC Today are now accessible through the Digital Commons@Becker. Digital Commons@Becker is an institutional repository designed to share the scholarly work and research materials of WashU Medicine with a broad audience, and to make them more easily accessible. Becker Archives uses the Digital Commons to make certain archival materials more  [Read more]