The UW Tacoma Library staff have a long history of openness to new ways of working if it means serving our students, faculty, staff, and community better. Over the past few years we have been experimenting with tools to enable better collaboration and communication. Several have been particularly beneficial for us, and we thought that Read More…
Category: Technology
Hack@UWT – UW Tacoma’s first annual hackathon
Eyhab Al-Masri from the School of Engineering and Technology and the UW Tacoma Library are proud to announce the first ever UW Tacoma Hackathon, Hack@UWT set to take place on June 7th, 2019. Here’s the best part: You don’t need specialized equipment or a coding background to participate. Hackathon kits and training materials will be Read More…
Library STFC Update: Winter 2019
This is Tim Bostelle, Head of IT for the UW Tacoma Library, and I’d like to take a second to talk about equipment funded by the UW Tacoma Student Technology Fee Committee, the STFC. The STFC is a student-run organization which meets every year to decide how to use your Student Technology Fee to fund Read More…
Library Photo of the Week
3D Printing in the Library? Yes! Just ask us! And check out the Thingiverse website if you want some design ideas! (Photos courtesy Johanna Jacobsen Kiciman) #UWTLibraryPics
Printing Changes in the Library
Major upgrades to mobile printing and the printing infrastructure in the Library arrived over the Winter break, courtesy of the Library, UW Tacoma Student Technology Fee Committee, and UW Seattle’s Creative Communications. Simplified Mobile Printing The first change is that students no longer need to download a driver for their laptop and instead simply visit Read More…
Finding and Using Open Resources
Finding openly licensed resources is not difficult, and with the help of Washington’s Open Attribution Builder it is very easy to correctly attribute the work to its’ author. In Google Images, use the “Tools” button after you run a simple search to limit your results to openly licensed images. Choose a license from the drop Read More…
As Easy as “Raspberry Pi”!
We have a new digital sign at our Research Help desks — and will be installing more at our Circulation desks in SNO and TLB. Using a mini-computer called “Raspberry Pi”, we are able to share with the campus community what our service philosophy is, the type of help we offer, and other up-to-date information Read More…
3D Printing is Back!
Fall quarter is here and it is a good time to remind folks that the Library has a 3D printer you can use. You can read more about the 3D printer, the materials we use to print, and the rules governing the printer over on the Learning and Research Commons web site. For students, prints Read More…
Welcome back!
Happy Fall Quarter, huskies! The library staff has been hard at work over the summer, and we’ve got some updates that will make the library even easier for new and returning students to use as they dive into the academic year. Textbook program here to stay Our textbook pilot program is now a permanent (and Read More…
Launching the UW Tacoma Library blog
Over the Summer of 2018, the Library decided to launch a new platform so that we can better share all of the amazing ways we connect with our communities in support of the missions of UW Tacoma and the UW Libraries. Our goals with this blog are simple: Tell stories about the Library and its Read More…