Collaboration and Partnerships
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 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…
