The University of Washington Libraries offers the Digital Scholarship Summer Immersion program (DSSI) annually as a tri-campus opportunity to explore digital scholarship tools and methods for open scholarship and pedagogy. DSSI 2021 will run Tuesday, August 3 – Thursday, August 5, and will be a series of three discrete workshops that focus on one of Read More…
Category: Resources for Faculty
Application Open: 2021 Open Educational Resources Workshop
Program Description, Expectations, and Deliverables Applications are now open for a third year of faculty training on Open Educational Resources! Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, openly licensed course materials that can be used to replace costly textbooks and customize learning experiences. This multi-day, summer workshop is designed to help faculty learn about and implement Read More…
Lib2Go Curbside: Books now available!
Launching Lib2Go Curbside Books! We are excited to officially announce the launch of Lib2Go Curbside Books, in addition to our already active UW Tacoma Library Lib2Go Curbside Equipment pickup service for calculators and laptops! What does this mean? You now have access to the tri-campus print collection! This service is the result of an involved Read More…
Lib2Go Curbside Equipment Checkout
Good News! Introducing UW Tacoma Library’s Lib2Go Curbside Program for equipment! Graphing calculators and laptops (MacBook and Surface Pros and Dell Tablets) are now available for checkout at the UW Tacoma Library. They will be checked out to patrons on a first-come, first serve basis, with a quarter long loan term. Appointments are required. To 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…
Transform Your Course with SPLOTs!
Calling all instructors! Are you looking for opportunities to teach digital and public scholarship skills in your classroom? Are you looking for alternatives to the traditional research paper? We’ve got you covered with WordPress site templates (affectionately known as SPLOTs)! SPLOTs are simple to set up and can be as easy for students to Read More…
Updated Faculty Guidance for Fall Quarter at UW Tacoma
This post is intended to help answer the most common questions from faculty and to highlight available resources to help prepare for Fall quarter. When in doubt, Ask Us! Re-opening of buildings: The UW Tacoma Library (SNO and TLB) will not be open to faculty, students, staff or the public in Phase 2. The messages Read More…
When will the Library open?
Over the summer, I have participated in many Zoom discussions and training sessions about how to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as we plan for onsite work and services at the university, but a key moment in all this work came when I went to the Library a few weeks ago On July 20th, I Read More…
Digital Scholarship Summer Immersion 2020
Are you interested in using digital tools to share your research with wider audiences? Are you teaching online and would like to explore new platforms for digital pedagogy? Join us for the Digital Scholarship Summer Immersion (DSSI) Program, offered by the UW Libraries. What is the Digital Scholarship Summer Immersion (DSSI) DSSI offers an opportunity Read More…
Preparing for Summer and Fall Quarter: What Faculty Need to Know Now
Before the Spring Quarter wraps up we wanted to reach out to faculty so you could begin planning. The Library is working in close partnership with UW Tacoma and UW Libraries leadership and community partners to assess and plan for return-to-work and return-to-school following the new UW Safe Start protocols. Our decisions will be guided Read More…