Privacy & Surveillance In honor of Data Privacy Week, we have a new display of books, films, novels, zines, and other media that explore privacy and surveillance, particularly in our digital age. From government video surveillance to corporate use of social media user data, to AI’s unquenchable thirst to record and reuse its user’s data–we Read More…
Category: Events & Displays
Fall 2025 Food for Finals at the UWT Library
Finals are stressful enough–hit the books and grab some snacks at the UWT Library! Join us Monday, 12/1 – Friday 12/5 (and the following week as supplies last) on the 1st floors of SNO & TLB for our Food For Finals (FFF) event. All students are welcome! This quarter, we are co-sponsored by the UWT Read More…
Food for Finals – Spring 2025
Join us Monday, 6/2 – Friday 6/6 (and the following week, while supplies last) on the 1st floor of SNO & TLB for our Food For Finals (FFF) event. Finals are stressful enough–hit the books and grab some snacks. All students are welcome! This quarter, we are co-sponsored by the UWT YMCA, ASUWT, and supported Read More…
UWT is Getting a Seed Library!
The UWT Library, in partnership with the UWT Giving Garden, is introducing a brand new seed library open to all UW students, staff, and faculty. Join us at the Seed Library Kick-off Event, where you can learn about using this resource to grow food and flowers, plant some seeds together, and take home supplies to Read More…
Real Lit Reads Water Moon – Register now!
In collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, the UW Tacoma Library is ecstatic to announce that our award-winning social justice book club, Real Lit[erature], will be reading Water Moon by Samatha Sotto Yambao for Spring Quarter 2025! On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will Read More…
Food for Finals Winter Quarter 2025
Join us Monday, 3/10 – Friday 3/14 (and the following week, while supplies last) on the 1st floor of SNO & TLB for our Food For Finals (FFF) event. Finals are stressful enough–hit the books and grab some snacks. All students are welcome! This quarter, we are co-sponsored by the UWT YMCA, ASUWT, and supported Read More…
Stop by the UWT Library Lab Today!
First launched in autumn 2023, the UWT Library Lab is still going strong into 2025! Every Tuesday in January, February and the first half of March, UWT Library workers will be in the lobby of BHS from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm and TPS (AKA Husky Commons) from 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm. For a Read More…
Real Lit Reads Ander & Santi Were Here – Register now!
In collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, the UW Tacoma Library is ecstatic to announce that our award-winning social justice book club, Real Lit[erature], will be reading Ander & Santi Were Here by award-winning author Jonny Garza Villa for Winter Quarter 2025! …a YA contemporary love story from Jonny Garza Villa, Ander & Read More…
The Sensory Friendly Space is Expanding!
This past summer, UW Tacoma Library opened its first ever Sensory Friendly Space to better address the barriers faced by our neurodivergent students and promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in our library spaces! Although the room has been created with our neurodivergent community in mind, it is a space where everyone is welcome to Read More…
A look back at 2024
Our work is hardly all about the numbers, but let’s be honest — we do count things to help us keep track of how our services and resources are doing. Here’s a look at some library stats from the last year, mostly collected in early December 2024.