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 again Winter Quarter 2022! We would like to invite UW students, faculty, Read More…
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Student FAQs Winter Quarter 2022
On behalf of the entire UW Tacoma Library staff, welcome, and welcome back, for the Winter 2022 Quarter. Below are a number of FAQs that we hope will guide you through our services. We appreciate your efforts to keep our community safe by following University protocols. The University requires masks indoors for all individuals, and Read More…
UW Tacoma Library Interim Closure
All UW Libraries will be closed from Saturday, December 18, 2021 until Sunday, January 2, 2022 Why is the UWT Library going to be closed? We’ve been looking at data from before the pandemic and found that these weeks have been consistently among the lowest in terms of visits to the library and circulation of Read More…
Join Us: De-stress with Dogs at TLB/SNO!
Need a breather from finals, projects, and everything else going in with the end of the quarter? Join NAMI On Campus and Cascade Service Dogs in partnership with the UW Tacoma Library to de-stress from finals on Wednesday, December 8th from 11 AM to 1 PM with some sweet emotional support dogs! Service dogs will Read More…
TLB 2 Whiteboard Conversations, Fall Quarter 2021
We wanted to find ways this quarter to learn what you — our students, staff, and faculty — need from the Library now that we’ve reopened our physical spaces. We’ve set up a whiteboard on the second floor of TLB, and are asking weekly questions that you can answer when you come and spend time Read More…
Student FAQ’s Fall Quarter 2021
On behalf of the entire UW Tacoma Library staff, welcome, and welcome back, for the Fall 2021 Quarter. Below are a number of FAQ’s that we hope will guide you through our services. We appreciate your efforts to keep our community safe by following University protocols. The University requires requires masks indoors for all individuals, Read More…
Meet our Director: Annie Downey
Meet Annie Downey, our new UW Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries! Annie recently joined us in May and brings her vast knowledge of academic libraries and her expertise in supporting student success to our community. We recently had a conversation with Annie and learned about her interests, her passions, and what Read More…
Updates to Campus on the UW Tacoma Library’s Antiracism Efforts
In June of 2020, the UW Tacoma Library made a public commitment to equity, social justice, and antiracist action. To honor this commitment, the Library has contracted with Archway Consulting Group to facilitate a formal antiracism assessment of the Library’s policies, practices, work culture, and internal bias. The goal of this assessment is to gain Read More…
Library Research Award for Undergraduates
The UW Tacoma Library would like to share a great opportunity with our UW Tacoma students! Are you currently an undergraduate student at UW Tacoma? Do you have a project that you are passionate about that you want to share? Did you use library resources to complete this project? Then you should apply for the Read More…
Packing up the Library for Learning Commons construction
Views and Updates from the Library on the Learning Commons Project We are packing up the UW Tacoma Library. Yes, we are. In the hands of library workers, the books are journeying from their shelves, first to book carts, then to sometimes temporary and other times permanent locations for the duration of the Learning Commons construction. Read More…