Build community, reduce isolation and enhance campus education by joining a peer-based book club! The UW Tacoma Library, in collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, is pleased to announce that its award-winning social justice book club, Real Lit[erature], will meet remotely in Fall Quarter 2022! The goals of Real Lit have always been Read More…
Author: Alaina C. Bull
Real Lit Reads Ophelia After All! Register Now for Summer 2022!
Real Lit[erature] reads books about social justice and is open to anyone affiliated with UW: students, faculty, and staff! SIGN UP HERE! Build community, reduce isolation and enhance campus education by joining a peer-based book club! The UW Tacoma Library, in collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, is pleased to announce that its Read More…
Librarian Research: Project Information Literacy’s study on the news coverage of Covid-19
Project Information Literacy (a nonprofit research institute that I work with) just released a two part report on the way the Covid news story grew and changed in the first 100 days of 2020. For this report, an author team of 5 researchers, myself included, looked at a data set that drew from more Read More…
Tacoma Reads Youth Event at UW Tacoma
The afternoon of Friday September 20th, prior to the city wide event, the UW Tacoma Library and the UW Tacoma School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, helped host a high school event for students from Tacoma Public Schools and Chief Leschi Schools. Roughly 90 students attended, along with their teachers and librarians.The high school students Read More…
Library Research Award
Did you write a great paper, create a cool final project? Did that project use information that you found through the library and other resources available to you? The University Libraries want to reward you for your work. Every spring, the University Libraries hosts an annual Library Research Award for Undergraduates. This tri-campus award recognizes Read More…
UW Tacoma Library and Tacoma Public Schools
It is no secret that students can struggle to make the transition from high school to college. As the First Year Experience Librarian here at UW Tacoma Library, one of my main focuses is to look at this issue from the perspective of the library and work on addressing issues systematically. As part of this Read More…
Study on College Students’ use of News
Project Information Literacy (a nonprofit research institute that I work with) just released a large-scale study of how college students seek, interact with, and understand news. For this study, we surveyed just under 6,000 college students about how they encounter, evaluate, process, and share news in their daily lives. One of the major findings is Read More…