To register for Summer Quarter 2023: Sign Up Here! 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 be reading Love After the End: An Anthology, edited by Joshua Whitehead, for Summer Quarter 2023! “This exciting and groundbreaking Read More…
Category: From the Library Director
When will the Library and the Learning Commons open?
Views and Updates from the Library on the Learning Commons Project When we reopen, we’ll be able to welcome you back to renovated facilities, but our reopening plans must now align with the construction schedule. In this post, we provide an updated timeline of the construction in the Tioga Library and the Snoqualmie Buildings and how 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…
The wall comes down and other good things about the Learning Commons
Views and Updates from the Library on the Learning Commons Project With construction for the Learning Commons slated to begin in mid-February and run through October 2021, the Library looks back at the design process and shares some of the exciting outcomes of this project that will directly benefit students when we can return to 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…
Library Happenings: April 2020
All campus buildings may be closed but the Library continues to serve the UW Tacoma community. Over the past month and more, Library staff have rapidly adjusted library services to help faculty and students transition to fully remote learning. We’ve done this while learning ourselves how to better use digital tools for telework. I am Read More…
Library Happenings: March 2020
This week the Library is recognizing and celebrating both Open Education Week and UW Libraries Student Employee Appreciation Week. I’m not sure if these two honorary weeks have occurred in the same week in years past, but for me, the coincidence seems apt. Thanks to these “two weeks in one,” I have an excuse to Read More…
Library Happenings: February 2020
In December 2019, I stepped into the role of Interim Director of the UW Tacoma Library and Interim Associate Dean of the UW Libraries. One of the perks of my new job is that I get to learn about amazing work happening across the Library and see the ways that Library staff, spaces, events, Read More…
Thank you.
Today is my last day on the UW Tacoma campus as your Library Director, so I wanted to take a moment to reflect on my past four years as a member of this community and share these thoughts with readers of this blog. Moving across the country to serve as your Library Director was a Read More…
Reflections and Thoughts on National Leadership
As many colleagues know, I had the honor and privilege of serving as the President of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) over the past academic year. ACRL represents more than 10,000 individuals and libraries and develops programs, products, and services to help those working in academic and research libraries learn, innovate, and Read More…