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January 30, 2024

February Update

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While there are many free learning workshops and drop-in help sessions as always (including Podcasting as Research and our LOVE DATA WEEK events!), don’t forget to make room for the fun and fascinating this February — from the launch of the 2024 Student Video Contest, our new board game collection, a unique Valentine’s Day event…


UW Research: A Year of Open Data with Dryad

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UW Libraries is happy to announce the one-year anniversary of its membership with the data repository Dryad! Our initial year saw both many deposits (see charts below) from UW researchers, as well as downloads from the research community at UW and beyond. We thought it would be fun to share some stats from this first…


January 23, 2024

New Wheelchair Charging Stations Are Here!

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The UW Libraries have added four wheelchair charging stations, located in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, the Open Scholarship Commons in Suzzallo Library, the Research Commons in the Allen Library, and the Foster Business Library. These charging stations were able to be purchased thanks to the UW’s Student Technology Fee (STF). The charging stations are from…


January 22, 2024

The Secret Life of UW Libraries Catalogers and Metadata Specialists

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Student Spotlight: Zhuo Pan You may be surprised to hear that before you can access a library resource when you need it, a lot of work must be done to get that resource into the UW Libraries catalog. A whole department of librarians, staff, and students are quietly working away behind the scenes to get…


January 11, 2024

Celebrating MLK

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updated 1/2024 In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day, UW Libraries encourages you to explore resources within our collections and across campus that reflect Dr. King’s work and collective efforts to combat racism, inequality, and injustice in our community and beyond. UW Libraries Racial Justice Resource Guide, for recommended readings, podcasts, videos, and articles…


January 3, 2024

January Update 2024

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Happy New Year, Huskies! Here’s wishing you a great start to winter quarter and 2024!  This month’s update features some incredible new stories including an insightful essay by The Boys in the Boat author, Daniel James Brown as well as features on our work to preserve Seattle’s music history, and student-centered scholarship documenting UW student…