The Center for Equity and Inclusion and the UW Tacoma Library — co-founders of Real Lit[erature]: Reading for Social Justice — are thrilled to announce an author talk NEXT TUESDAY with award-winning author Brittney Morris. Please register to attend the author talk with Brittney Morris. Tuesday, 10/27, 12:30-1:20 PM PST via Zoom. Ms. Morris will Read More…
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Staff Reads: Fall Quarter 2020!
Normally, we meet summer and winter quarters. But we’d love to spend more time with you. Join us this fall quarter for Staff Reads! We will be focusing on several texts and TedTalks around the theme of Critical Race Theory. We will spend some time reading Richard Delgado’s book of the same title, and watching Read More…
Library Happenings: A Summer 2020 Overview
This (distanced and strange and smoky) summer has been busy at the UW Tacoma Library. We’ve published regularly and frequently on our blog about all our work, but want to collate all our activities here, in case you missed a post! Most of all: we remain committed to working with students, faculty and staff, during Read More…
You can still be counted!
The library wants to remind you to fill out your census form before September 30, 2020! The UW Tacoma Center for Applied Urban Research and the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation determined that a 10% undercount in Pierce county would result in $750,000 less in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding. It also informs transportation and Read More…
Real Lit: Sign up for Slay!
Real Lit Remote, Fall Quarter 2020! Build community, reduce isolation and enhance campus education by joinging 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 this Fall! The goals of Read More…
Team of the Year Award!
Congratulations to The Real Lit[erature] Team for winning the UW Tacoma Staff Association Team of the Year Award! And many, many thanks to the UW Tacoma Staff Association for recognizing this Team. We are honored, humbled, and delighted. Created by a collaboration between the UWT Library and the Center for Equity and Inclusion, RealLit was Read More…
Author Talk with Dra. Chang about Hyperdocumentation
Staff Reads, UW Tacoma’s non-fiction staff book club funded by the Staff Association, has been reading and discussing Dra. Aurora Chang’s book, The Struggles of Identity, Education and Agency in Undocumented Students’ Lives: The Burden of Hyperdocumentation (2018) during Summer Quarter 2020. We are thrilled to announce that the Center for Student Involvement, the Center Read More…
Digital Scholarship Summer Immersion 2020
Are you interested in using digital tools to share your research with wider audiences? Are you teaching online and would like to explore new platforms for digital pedagogy? Join us for the Digital Scholarship Summer Immersion (DSSI) Program, offered by the UW Libraries. What is the Digital Scholarship Summer Immersion (DSSI) DSSI offers an opportunity Read More…
Real Lit Remote, Summer Edition: Fresh Ink
Real Lit Remote, Summer Session! The UW Tacoma Library, in collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, is pleased to announce that its social justice book club, Real Lit[erature], will meet remotely this summer for the very first time! Now, more than ever, we understand the importance of the community building function of the Read More…
Pride, Online!
Happy Pride, UW Tacoma!! The UWT Library tries to mark important months of the year with displays in the SNO and TLB buildings. We’ve had displays on Civil Rights during Black History Month, and displays on Gender and Sexuality for Pride Month in June, to name a few. It is also our standing belief that Read More…