collaboration

August 8, 2024

UW Libraries in the Classroom: Co-Creating and Publishing Books in Class

What is a knowledge family? How could architects redefine the #Hatch-Mark? What is the place of sports at a university?  These questions reflect some of the insights revealed in three new online books created by students, in partnership with UW Libraries, utilizing Pressbooks. In Spring 2024, Open Education Librarian, Lauren Ray, worked with faculty and instructors…

June 27, 2024

Tracing Authoritarianism: Linking Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian America Through Archives, Language, and Pedagogy

Influenced by social justice movements, critical archival studies seek to question power differentials assumed in frameworks of archival collecting and access, and center curatorial responsibilities in communities who may re-interpret, re-define and use materials for community-based public memory projects. For example, when official colonial archival collections are made more accessible via online or other methods,…

March 7, 2023

Student-centered design is key to successful undergraduate library programs

UW Libraries tutorial featured as a best practice in new ACRL book  Authors: UW Libraries Student Success Team – Amanda Hornby, Emilie Vrbancic, Linda Whang As librarians, we are always looking for ways to improve services and resources for our users. One of the ways we do this is by partnering with others to get…

January 31, 2023

February Update

It’s only February, and yet spring and summer planning is in full swing! Don’t miss upcoming information sessions for an amazing (and FREE) summer study program.  Start thinking about your I HEART UW Libraries Student Video Contest entries (and the chance to win some serious cash prizes!!) and get ahead of that winter quarter final…

December 19, 2022

Faculty Feature: Katy Pearce

Katy Pearce, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington (UW), is dedicated to advancing research in the field of social and political uses of technology, while also supporting students and colleagues. With a focus on digital divides and inequalities and the use of information and communication technologies for marginalized…

December 1, 2022

December Update

Introducing….#LibraryDubs! Take a study break or celebrate the end of your finals  — grab a selfie with our new friend, Library Dubs! You’ll usually find him near the main staircase in Suzzallo and in Odegaard Library. Tag your photo @uwlibraries #LibraryDubs for a chance to win a winter break prize pack!  Finals, winter break and…

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…

November 23, 2021

What is a data management plan, why is it important, and how do I make one?

Last year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would be instituting a new Data Management and Sharing Policy, effective 2023. The new policy establishes the requirement that research projects funded by the NIH must submit a Data Management and Sharing Plan. This announcement follows a wider trend of many other funding agencies…

November 19, 2021

Sustainable Scholarship: Libraries Collection as a Service

Authors: This is a collaborative post by Simon Neame, Dean of University Libraries; Denise Pan, Associate Dean for Collections & Content; and Corey Murata, Director, Collection Analysis & Strategy Collections as a service in academic libraries represents the “shift to the incorporation and integration of more continuous, ongoing, flexible, and sustainable review of collections, and…

May 11, 2021

Get Inspired at the Open Scholarship Commons

What is the Open Scholarship Commons? In fall of 2020, the Libraries launched a new virtual space–the Open Scholarship Commons (OSC) a hub for cross-disciplinary knowledge creation and dissemination– supporting students and faculty in the use of digital tools to openly share research and safely integrate new digital pedagogy techniques into the classroom. From data…