Tateuchi Project Updates
August 31, 2020
An Enlightening Look at TEAL Spaces
No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people’s eyes, to reveal the marvels around. –Paulo Coelho. The Witch of Portobello. While many details are still up in the air, planning for the upcoming renovation of the Tateuchi East…
April 17, 2020
Envisioning the TEAL of Tomorrow
The team responsible for steering the Tateuchi East Asia Library’s upcoming renovation has been hard at work drafting a design for the library. Here are five principles that are guiding the renovation planning process: Enhance user space: Our number one priority is meeting the needs of our users. We want the allocation of space within…
February 25, 2020
Renovation Plans Coming Soon
A committee made up of representatives from UW Libraries, UW Facilities, and an architecture firm have been meeting regularly to discuss plans for our upcoming renovation. The development of these plans has been driven by data that we have collected, feedback solicited from users and staff, and a desire to preserve the classic feel of the…
February 4, 2020
February 3, 2020: Text Analysis
Text analysis and text mining are increasing in popularity in social scientific and humanities scholarship, including in East Asian studies fields. Some workshop participants were already incorporating such methods in their research, either personally or through collaboration with others, while others were interested in learning more. UW eScience Institute Natural Language Processing Specialist Varun Panicker…
January 6, 2020: Data Visualization
Digital scholarship enthusiasts from East Asian studies fields gathered on the first day of the Winter quarter to explore data visualization. UW Libraries’ Data Visualization Librarian Negeen Aghassibake provided a stimulating overview of the purposes, uses, types, production cycle, and best practices of data viz, all rich with examples related to East Asia. She also…
January 8, 2020
Data Collection Supports Renovation Planning
Libraries staff have been hard at work collecting data to support planning for our upcoming renovation. One of the questions that is guiding our data collection is this: Where are our users currently spending the most time in the library? In order to figure this out, library staff have been performing periodic walkthroughs during which…
November 25, 2019
November 4, 2019: Open Education and Open Access
The second of our Autumn quarter workshops explored two forms of “open” publishing, both aimed at broadening access to scholarly literature: Open Access and Open Educational Resources. Open Access is an emergent form of scholarly publishing that aims to make cutting edge research literature—today often locked behind expensive pay walls—freely available to readers. UW Libraries…
October 31, 2019
Focus Group Feedback to Help Steer Renovation Planning
As a part of assessment and planning in support of the library’s upcoming renovation, Libraries staff held a series of focus groups in late October 2019. Two of the focus groups targeted students and faculty, while the third involved Libraries staff. Participants were invited to articulate their needs and expectations for Libraries space and to…
October 26, 2019
October 7, 2019: Digital Scholarship Resources at the UW Libraries and Beyond
To launch the Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies workshop series, we held an introductory session surveying different facets of digital scholarship and the resources available for each at the University of Washington. To this end, we invited librarians from across the Seattle campus to give short presentations on their fields of expertise. These included…
