We always LOVE putting up new displays in the UW Tacoma Library buildings, and are especially excited by the new display in the Snoqualmie Building! Entitled Graphic Novels: Identities, Translation, & Intersectionality, this display kicks off our Allen Opportunity Grant purchasing of graphic novels for the UW Tacoma Library. In particular, our collection development efforts for Read More…
Category: Events & Displays
Library Photo of the Week
On 3/13, over a dozen UW Tacoma students, faculty and staff — as well as a City of Tacoma employee! — showed up to skype with author Dashka Slater. The event was well attended! Read more about why we think it is important to have social justice based conversation through the lens of literature. If Read More…
Real Lit[erature] Spring 2019
Real Lit[erature] — UW Tacoma’s fiction based book club co-created by the UW Tacoma Library and the Center for Equity and Inclusion — is back for Spring 2019, and you won’t want to miss it. The book we’re going to be reading is about clinical depression, being the child of immigrants, finding a sense of Read More…
Save the Date and Submit a Presentation: TAC Talks are Coming!
For the sixth year in a row, the UW Tacoma Library will be hosting TAC Talks, an event that offers our students a forum to publicly share their work. In partnership with the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, and UW Tacoma graduate programs, TAC Talks is modeled after Read More…
Save the Date: Real Lit[erature] Author Talk!
Save the Date! The UW Tacoma Library and the Center for Equity and Inclusion are delighted to announce that we are bringing another Real Lit[erature] Author Talk to our campus! Last quarter we skyped with Angie Thomas. This quarter, all are welcome for a thirty minute Q&A conversation with Dashka Slater, author of The 57 Bus. The Read More…
Join the Conversation: Mindful Tech by David Levy
WHEN: Monday, March 4th, 2019, 12:30-1:30pm WHERE: Tioga Library Building, 307b Please join us for an open and interactive discussion with the author of Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to our Digital Lives, which has been the focus of the Winter 2019 UW Tacoma Emerging Practices Reading Circle. Professor Levy will introduce several practices Read More…
A New Exhibit on Climate Change: Every Action, A Reaction
The UW Tacoma Library is excited to announce that we have a new exhibit up in the Tioga Library Building. Conceived by UW Tacoma alumn Erika Wigren, who is currently completing her MLIS at the University of Washington Information School, this exhibit offers our community some resources, ideas, and best practices surrounding climate change, sustainability, consumerism, Read More…
Impressions from the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting (2019)
So.Many.Books. So.Many.People. From January 25th-January 29th, 2019, the American Library Association (ALA) held its annual Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. Across multiple hotels and conference centers, downtown Seattle saw an influx of library workers from public, school, and academic libraries and of vendors promoting books, services, mobile apps, and products, and authors: so.many.authors! There is no Read More…
Coming soon to UW Tacoma: Unlocked scholarship and low-cost textbooks
If equitable access to knowledge makes the world a better place (spoiler: it does), life at UW Tacoma is looking up. The Library recently won two out of ten UW Tacoma Strategic Initiative Fund grants, providing funding to help openly share research by UW Tacoma faculty and lower textbook costs for students. Check out the Read More…
Discourses on Civil Rights: A New Exhibit in SNO
In honor of Black History Month (also called African American History Month), the UW Tacoma Library has a new exhibit up in the Snoqualmie Building. We wanted to highlight literature written by contemporary African American authors (such as Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming), as well as scholarship about the Civil Rights movement. To enhance the relevance Read More…