April 29, 2022

May Update

This month’s update is packed with events and important news about summer operations.  Undergraduates— there’s still time to apply for the UW Libraries Undergraduate Research Award for a chance to win up to $1,000! Existing or potential grad students— don’t miss the very helpful workshop on Finding Funding For Graduate School! 

Operations

• Hours:  End-of-quarter and summer hours (modified for finals) are posted on the Libraries operations page. 
• June 13th Closure/Catalog and Search System Down: All UW Library locations on all campuses (with the exception of Health Sciences) will be closed to accommodate a system-wide upgrade to the catalog/search software on Monday, June 13th.
  • If you have saved searches or permalinks in your course materials, you will need to take action BEFORE June 13th.  Learn more.
• Westlaw to replace Nexis Uni: UW Libraries is replacing Nexis Uni with Westlaw Campus Research.  Access to Nexis Uni will end on June 30, 2022. Learn more about this change and replacement/alternate resources. 

News and Stories

Treasure Trove: economist Robert Haney Scott gifts his private collection to the Foster Library. Read the story from UW Foster School of Business.

Libraries in the Classroom: From centuries-old French literature to a 1940s copy of Vogue magazine, go inside UW’s Textual Studies Program where students are working with UW Libraries Special Collections to explore how text is shaped by publication processes and technologies, and how it can be reinvented over time.  Read the story from UW Arts and Sciences

 

UW Faculty Senate votes to support the UW Libraries’ Principles in Licensing Scholarly Resources – On April 14, the UW Faculty Senate voted to approve a Class C Resolution expressing its support for UW Libraries’ Principles in Licensing Scholarly Resources aimed at addressing inequitable and unsustainable publishing models. Learn more.

I HEART LIBRARIES Student Video Contest – 2022 winners announced! Congratulations to first place winner, undergraduate Phuong (Jolie) Tran who gave us a very memorable “dawg’s eye view” of UW Libraries’ resources – check out all the winners.

Books, Book Clubs & Book Talks

Charlotte Cote, author of A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, from University Press, chatted with KUOW’s Southside about her new book and indigenizing diets. Listen on KUOW’s website.

Community Reads, hosted by UW Bothell and Cascadia College Campus Library, strives to build community through shared experiences and discussions around social justice, equity, and diversity centered on a quarterly theme and text.  All are welcome to join in on the discussion/reflections/and contribute through the creative gallery. Participate/learn more.

REAL Lit – UW Tacoma Library’s Real Lit[erature]: Reading for Social Justice book club will be reading Jaquira Díaz’s Ordinary Girls. This book club is open to anyone within the  UW Community. The club meets virtually, every Thursday from 12:30-1:20. Sign up and/or learn more.

The recently published Routledge Companion to Korean Literature is the most extensive collection to date of English-language articles on Korean literature, written by Associate Professor Heekyoung Cho with contributions from Asian L&L faculty member Dr. Ungsan Kim,  UW Korean Studies Librarian Hyokyoung Yi, among many others. Learn more.

Special Events

May 3 – Academic Surveillance and the Big Data Economy: Explore the topics of academic surveillance, data politics, and the economics of academia through a keynote talk and panel featuring CUNY Professor of Law Sarah Lamda, followed by a complimentary online session “‘Like Lesbians Walking the Perimeter’: Experiences of U.S. LGBTQ+ Folks with Online Security, Safety, and Privacy Advice”, brought to you by the UW Libraries Open Scholarship Commons.

May 10 – Poetry Storytelling Workshop: a poetry reading and workshop with Jamal Gabobe centered around his new book The Path of Difference.

May 11 – 2022 Stephanie M. Camp Lecture: A Case of Reparations? A True Story of Slavery and Restitution: Hosted by Dr. W. Caleb McDaniel, the 2022 Stephanie M. Camp Lecture focuses on the life of Henrietta Wood, a formerly enslaved woman who, in the twilight of Reconstruction, won the largest known sum ever awarded by a U.S. court in restitution for slavery. 

May 23 – Discovering AI@UW: Join the conversation with AI (Artificial Intelligence) experts from across the University of Washington campus! Offered by the eScience Institute, a partner of the UW Libraries Open Scholarship Commons.

May 25 – 6th Annual GIS Symposium: The GIS Symposium highlights and celebrates the transformational role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and data visualization technologies at the UW and beyond. Submit a lightning talk proposal by 5/20 for a chance to present your research!

Workshops

May 16th – Citation Management Tools Asynchronous Course brought to you by the Research Commons

May 19 – Finding Funding For Graduate School: Join the Graduate Funding Information Service for an overview of funding types, search tools, and search strategies!

For health sciences students: Check out events through TRAIL and REDCap training events and curriculum from the Institute of Translational Health Sciences

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From the  Open Scholarship Commons and our partners

• May 6 –  Fast Fingers & Slow Fashion: Crafting Dissertation Research, researchers demonstrate how they incorporate textile craft practices into dissertation research in the fields of Anthropology/Education and English. Offered by the Simpson Center for the Humanities’ UW Textile Studies Graduate Research Cluster.

• May 12 –Visualization Association, Trust, and the Manifestation of Misinformation Workshop: This online workshop will share knowledge pertaining to the manipulation of visual representation, explain the human interpretation of pictographs, and start a conversation about how to read a picture or visualization.

• May 20 – Python, Your Personal Research Assistant

• TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies
  • May 23– Navigating Digital Scholarship Tools with the Tateuchi East Asia Library: considering the needs of researchers in fields with non-Latin scripts, such as East Asia studies, learn how you can present a capstone or a thesis in a more engaging way through digital scholarship.

• • May 26- Japanese Arts & Culture as Digital Objects: Access, Use, and Preservation: explore how institutions in Japan are using digital collections to increase access to artistic and cultural content and new approaches for combining use with preservation.

• Monthly Pressbooks Workshops:  Pressbooks’ suite of products– offered through #YourUWLibrary– makes it easy to create, adapt, and share educational material. Learn how to create open textbooks, course materials and more.
  • Getting Started with Pressbooks – Wed. May 4th, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
  • Advanced Pressbooks Publishing Webinar – Wed. May 18th, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

• Build Your Accessibility Skills!
  • May 10 – Writing Alternative Text for Data Visualizations Workshop: Adding alternative text is one of the easiest ways that you can make your visualizations accessible! Learn more.
  • May 17 – Accessibility and Colors for Data Visualizations Workshop: Color selection plays a large part in the overall accessibility of data visualizations! Learn more in this hands-on workshop with UW Libraries.
  • May 24 – Data Visualizations Accessibility Audits Workshop: Leave this workshop with a step-by-step guide that affirms the accessibility of your data visualizations.

• UW Learning Technologies classes at Odegaard Undergraduate Library:
  • a variety of Excel workshops
  • Introduction to Photoshop

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Drop-In Help 

Digital Scholarship Drop-In Help Hours (via Zoom) on Thursdays:  Through the Libraries Open Scholarship Commons, we offer consultations for research and course-related projects. Examples include support for digital publishing, building digital exhibits, and more! We can help you find the right tools, resources and instruction whether you’re just getting started or are working on an ongoing project.

GIS Help Drop-In Hours: The GIS Lab, provided by the University Libraries Open Scholarship Commons, assists users with locating geospatial data, integrating data into GIS projects, and basic ArcGIS functionality. Drop by Suzzallo Library on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10 am – 2 pm for assistance.

Open Writing Circles Tuesdays: virtual weekly meetings offering 90 minutes of quiet writing time and community with fellow writers from across campus, every Tuesday! Offered through the Odegaard Writing and Research Center through May 31st.

Featured Resources, Collections

UW Tacoma Libraries Relaunches Campus Meaningful Reads: Share your voice and help build a UW Tacoma collection that highlights the books, articles, or creative writings that have been meaningful to members of our campus community. Learn more. 

 

The Diversity Collection: Is one of the many resources you’ll find in UW Libraries’ American Ethnic Studies Research Guide. Learn about history, society, and politics from the perspective of communities and individuals who lived through it. In the Diversity Collection, you’ll have access to ethnic, minority, and native presses, grassroots newspapers and magazines, and newsletters focusing on gender and sexuality, from 1970 to the present day. This interdisciplinary full-text source is brought to you by UW Libraries.

Exhibits and Displays

“Oars Out, Roll Cameras”  highlights the upcoming filming of Boys in the Boat in conjunction with the opening weekend of boating season/Windermere Cup May 6-7.  On display in Allen North from April 6-May 31!

And Then She Said: Voices of Feminists Past and Present was sown from The Dead Feminists series, a collaboration between local artists in the form of a collection of 31 broadsides elevating voices of women throughout history. Learn more. 

The Pacific Northwest in the ‘70s This quarter’s theme is Workin’ for the Man— a look at the decade’s labor activities and how they shaped how we work today. May 9-August 19, 2022

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