All UW Tacoma faculty members are invited to participate in “Unlocking UW Tacoma Scholarly Work,” a Strategic Impact Fund (SIF) pilot project the Library is launching this fall. The goal of this pilot is to enable faculty members to openly share more of their scholarly articles through Library-supported author profiles and UW Tacoma Digital Commons. Read More…
Author: Justin Wadland
Justin Wadland is the Head, Digital Scholarship. See my campus directory profile for more info:
http://directory.tacoma.uw.edu/employee/jwadland
New Faculty/Staff Publications: Summer 2019
We are pleased to announce that the Library will now be sharing quarterly lists of recent faculty and staff publications and integrating this into our communication with with faculty about openly sharing their scholarly work. This announcement is made in coordination with the quarterly recent research award gathered by the Office of Research. The list Read More…
Reading Circle: The University as Social Infrastructure
By the end of my research, I’d discovered that the key difference … turned out to be what I call social infrastructure: the physical places and organizations that shape the way people interact. — Erik Klinenberg, Palaces for the People During Autumn 2019, the Library will again be hosting the Emerging Practices Reading Circle, a Read More…
New Undergraduate History Theses in Digital Commons
The History Undergraduate Theses in UW Tacoma Digital Commons, administered by Professor Julie Nicoletta, has six new papers that reflect an extensive research project that History majors complete as a part of their educational experience. The topics are both local and international scope, covering relatively recent history to the middle ages. Congrats to all the Read More…
Grad Students: Get Job Experience in Open Access & Digital Scholarship
The UW Tacoma Library is hiring an Open Access and Digital Scholarship Specialist. This position will participate and support the Library’s efforts to key areas: Enabling UW Tacoma faculty and students to openly share their scholarly work. Engaging with emerging forms of scholarship that leverage the affordances of digital technologies. Graduate students on any one Read More…
Join the Conversation: Mindful Tech by David Levy
WHEN: Monday, March 4th, 2019, 12:30-1:30pm WHERE: Tioga Library Building, 307b Please join us for an open and interactive discussion with the author of Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to our Digital Lives, which has been the focus of the Winter 2019 UW Tacoma Emerging Practices Reading Circle. Professor Levy will introduce several practices Read More…
Evaluating Learning Environments in the Library & TLC
If you’ve walked through the Library this week you may have noticed boards posted near the entrances of the Snoqualmie and Tioga Library Buildings. They’re there to assess how the UW Tacoma community uses Library and Teaching and Learning Center. As you pass through, please take a moment to put up a little sticker in Read More…
Attend Campus Space Planning Town Hall: Snoqualmie-Tioga Update Project
As the Chancellor announced last week, planning is underway for to update the Snoqualmie/Tioga building complex. These redesigns will have significant, lasting impact on the infrastructure and services that support student success. For the Library, this is the single most important thing happening at the moment, and we would like to encourage you all to Read More…
Join the Conversation: Being a Scholar in the Digital Era
The Library, in collaboration with the Office of Research, will be hosting a conversation (via Zoom) with Jessie Daniels and Polly Thistlethwaite, authors of Being a Scholar in the Digital Era (University of Chicago Press). All are invited to attend. When: Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Where: Tioga Library Building 307b. This book has been been Read More…
New UW Open Access Policy: Faculty Training
On October 30, 2018, Liz Bedford, Scholarly Publishing Outreach Librarian for the UW Libraries, and Justin Wadland, Associate Director and Head, Digital Scholarship Program, for UW Tacoma Library, presented on the new UW Open Access Policy Both of us serve on the UW Libraries Open Access Policy Implementation Team, a tri-campus group charged with planing Read More…