February 22, 2022
Open Education Week: It’s Bigger than Free Textbooks
Open pedagogy elevates student voices with projects that go beyond the classroom. Open Education Week is just around the corner, and the UW Libraries is ready to celebrate all the ways open education promotes affordable access, equity, and the inclusion of more diverse voices in the scholarly conversation. People often think of free textbooks when…
February 18, 2022
Celebrating Fair Use Week 2022
Unpacking the complex rules that govern U.S. copyright. By UW Librarians Maryam Fakouri and Sally Pine What is fair use? This week we celebrate fair use, a doctrine of copyright law that facilitates scholarship, journalism, the arts, and innovation. At its core, the ultimate goal of copyright is to enrich the public by “promot[ing] the…
Libraries in the Classroom: Training Tomorrow’s Library & Information Science Leaders
The UW Information School’s (iSchool) Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program, like many other programs, often integrates active practitioner experiences into learning. UW Libraries are a natural partner on campus, and proximity and local context create many opportunities for collaboration. At the same time, the teaching experience benefits UW Libraries by providing valuable…
February 10, 2022
Entanglements: Mapping the History of Asian Migration onto Coast Salish Lands
UW doctoral candidate Anna Nguyen is an Asian American historian who is passionate about documenting, preserving and sharing the histories of Asian Americans. Through the Simpson Center’s 2021 Mellon Summer Fellowship for Public Projects in the Humanities, Nguyen and fellow UW doctorate candidate Madison Heslop began their collaboration to create Entanglements: Mapping the History of…
February 2, 2022
February Update
Welcome back to campus, Huskies (again)! 🙂 In honor of Black History Month, please check out our featured monthly resource Black Thought & Culture, an incredible digital archive that pays tribute to the nonfiction work of notable African American writers. February marks the return of the popular #IHeartUWLibraries Student Video Contest! Don’t miss the…
February 1, 2022
In the Classroom with UW Libraries: Arts and Humanities
Picture yourself in class (or a Zoom room), being led through an immersive imagination exercise, using sense memory to explore questions related to the history and context of a particular object or place. Your instructor is an expert in history, humanities, information science and archiving. Your instructor is a UW Librarian! While we may typically…
