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April 29, 2021

Libraries May Update

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This blog was updated on 5/14/21 with additional news and events!

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Services Update

New Digital Exhibits

Bow Down to Washington: Washington’s fight song has a storied and unique history. Learn all about it in a new digital exhibit from the UW Music Library.

The Story of the Transformation of Leavenworth, Washington – The Price and Rodgers Leavenworth Collection; the eclectic history behind this popular mountainside vacation town.

Events

Going Public: Advocacy, Activism, and Building Trust – May 19th and 20th : With an amazing lineup of keynote speakers, you won’t want to miss the Libraries 2021 Going Public, two days of talks with community leaders and researchers, plus practical workshops that will help you build skills to create social change through advocacy, engage with a broader audience, and showcase the importance of community-engaged research. FREE and open to all: faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students, and community members from outside the university! Sign up and learn more

Professor Tiya Miles

Stephanie M.H. Camp Lecture | Tiya Miles (Harvard), “A Tattered Dress”: Materiality and Memory in the Lives of Enslaved Women- May 19th: Professor Tiya Miles has written widely on history and memory, Black culture, women’s history, and Black and Indigenous interrelated experience. Join us for a talk that explores aspects of her her current project, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake, forthcoming from Random House. Co-sponsored with the UW History Department. Sign up and learn more.

 

NEW! Disruption: What’s New (And Not) About Work During The Pandemic Era – May 25thCOVID-19 has changed our work-life in dramatic ways: blurring distinctions between home and work, casting low-wage workers on the frontlines as “essential” without safety measures, and highlighting existing racial and gender disparities in our work. Join us for a panel conversation featuring the experiences of front-line workers, labor advocates, and historical researchers who together will help us reconsider the role that work plays in our lives. This program is co-presented by MOHAI and the Labor Archives of Washington.  Learn more.

Author Talk with Mason DeaverNEW! Author Talk With Mason Deavers- May 27th: Join The Center for Equity and Inclusion and the UW Tacoma Library for a talk with award-nominated and bestselling author and designer Mason Deaver, author of I Wish You All the Best. Deaver will talk about their novel and their writing process, and then answer questions. ALL ARE WELCOME: students, faculty, staff from all three campuses, and community members.

SAVE THE DATE:

GIS Symposium June 2nd! Connect with others working on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) research and learn about GIS-related resources available to the UW community. The GIS Symposium highlights and celebrates the transformational role of (GIS), remote sensing, and data visualization technologies at the UW and beyond. Learn more.

NEW! The Jews in Kaifeng: Yesterday and Today | Live Webinar By Rabbi Anson Laytner- June 3: Explore the new digital exhibit and the history of the Jewish communities who have lived in China since the Song Dynasty (960-1279) with Rabbi Layter, the coeditor of the scholarly collection “The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng: A Millennium of Adaptation and Endurance”. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.  Learn More

Workshops/ Help Hours

NEW! TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies: Community Coffee Hour – May 24th This community gathering aims to bring together students, faculty, and library staff to share digital scholarship projects and research ideas and offer advice and support. Learn more.

Copyright and the Creative Commons May 26th: Not sure if you can use that piece of music, art, film or other copyright questions? Creative Commons can help you manage rights, share your work and use other people’s work freely and legally. Learn more.

For Current and Future Grad students:

  • Thesis and Dissertations – May 18th: In this webinar, students will have an opportunity think through options for how and when to share their work through an introductory overview of various copyright and publishing issues that can impact submissions and discoverability. Learn more.

Enhance Your Data Visualization Skills:

  • Math & Data Visualization Basics – May 27th: Join the UW Libraries to learn about basic mathematical concepts as they relate to data analysis and visualization. This workshop will teach these concepts using Tableau, although you are welcome to observe only and not use Tableau. Learn more.

Weekly Drop-In Help – No Appointment Necessary:

  • NEW! Open Writing Circles Returns! a semi-formal (mostly informal) meeting time for groups of writers working on long term projects. Current participants are primarily Ph.D. students working on dissertations, though other writers are welcome! Tuesdays: 1:30-3:00pm PST, through June 1st. Learn More
  • Media Arcade: Get help with audio, video, and related digital media projects. We can also assist with any technical troubleshooting and hardware issues!  See calendar
  • Foster Business Help Desk: Get help from the Foster Business librarians: All business research questions welcome! No appointment necessary, daily sessions M-F 12:30-1:30. See calendar.
  • Digital Scholarship Project Help Office Hours: Open to faculty and students, UW Libraries offers weekly office hours to advise on digital scholarship for research and course related projects. Examples include digital publishing, building digital exhibits, data research management, and more! Office hours are most Fridays 2:30-3:30. See calendar.

Stories

NEW- Libraries Peer Educator Program

From the ARL: A Conversation with  Dean Wilson on retirement, career highlights, what inspires and more.

Get Inspired at the Open Scholarship Commons – what it is, what’s new and how it can help you

Passion, Dedication, and Action: Yeen-Mei Wu and Tateuchi EAL’s Taiwan Studies Collection

Featured E-Resource

Statista: From an in-depth report on migration in Germany to a chart tracking increased Facebook use — Statista can help you find data quickly on industries, countries, and global social and political topics. This resource brought to you by UW Libraries gathers information from market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources, all in one place.

For Faculty

Did you miss the Subscription Review Update 4/26?  As we begin the the review process to identify potential subscription cancellations, please note the deadline for preliminary review of the Libraries initial list of proposed cancellations and comments is Friday August 13, 2021. The last day for all comments is October 12, 2021. Learn More. 

Missed it?

If you missed these May events – contact us to learn more about these groups and how our staff can guide you to helpful resources and support on these topics.

  • Make Your Research More Accessible – May 3rd: Data visualization best practices and tools do not always discuss accessibility, which can exclude many groups of people. This workshop will review ways to make your visualizations more accessible. Learn More
  • “Show Me the Money”: Don’t miss the Finding Funding for Graduate School on Tuesday, May 4th Learn more about how you can fund your graduate education. Join the Graduate Funding Information Service for an overview of funding types, search tools, and search strategies.
  • Community Reads Food Justice Panel May 5th:  In addition to our asynchronous programming over Canvas, UW Bothell and Cascadia Libraries’ Community Reads program will also be hosting a panel of local farmers, community activists, and campus representatives to talk about different aspects of food justice and how it relates to their work. Open to all!  Learn more.
  • QUAL Atlas.TI Qualitative Data Analysis: If you have some basic knowledge of Atlas.TI, this free, one-day, hands-on tutorial is for you! Workshops are open to all UW students interested in deepening their qualitative multi-method data analysis skills. Learn more.
  • Your Article, Your Contracts, Your Future: Understanding Your Rights in Publishing Agreements. May 12th Learn what key provisions of journal publishing contracts really mean and how they affect your rights as an author. We’ll also discuss negotiation and how to use your article content beyond its publication, for example in your dissertation. Learn more.

 

 

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