At the UW Tacoma Library, we try to bring issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion to the foreground through our displays, and we were working on a display for the U.S. Census right before campus closed under the “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” mandate. In order to continue to bring this information to you, we have Read More…
Category: Events & Displays
Real Lit Remote: Taking our Book Club Online
Drumroll: meet Real Lit Remote! The UW Tacoma Library, in collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, is taking its social justice book club, Real Lit[erature], online! The goals of Real Lit have always been to create a greater awareness and discussion of the experiences that are being had by our students, staff, and Read More…
Going Public: Opening Scholarship to All
Join us for Going Public: Opening Scholarship to All on March 26th from 9am – 12pm, a fully-online symposium about equity in the production of and access to scholarship. Being public is one of the core tenets of the University of Washington. Open scholarship and going public with our research means engaging the broader community Read More…
Filipino-American novel for Real Lit[erature] Book Club, Spring Quarter 2020
Real Lit[erature] 2020 is reading Patron Saints of Nothing! Get a free book! Discuss with peers, faculty, and staff! Real Lit[erature] — UW Tacoma’s fiction based book club co-created by the UW Tacoma Library and the Center for Equity and Inclusion — will have its next sessions Spring Quarter 2020, and you won’t want to 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…
Calling all Student Filmmakers: Win $$$ and Show Your Love for the Library!
Do you heart UW Libraries? In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we wanted to let you know that the UW Libraries annual video contest launched this week. The contest is open to students from ** Tacoma**, Bothell and Cascadia College, and Seattle! Videos celebrate the storytelling creativity of students and their expression of why Libraries 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…
New Library Display: Mental Health and UWT
In an effort to destigmatize mental illness and spark conversations, the UWT library has partnered with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)’s student chapter to create the display Let’s Talk About It: Mental Health and UWT. NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization. They are dedicated to building better lives for the Read More…
Skyping with Award-Winning author Elizabeth Acevedo
In the literature and library worlds, we so often speak about representation: that seeing something that reflects your own, lived, intersectional experiences matters. Books are described as mirrors or windows to understand and learn and feel seen. We were able to see the genuine value and beauty of representation during our most recent Real Lit[erature] Read More…
Shop Talk: Oral History Methods for Research & Education
Join us on Wednesday, January 29, for the next installment of the UW Tacoma Library Shop Talks series! In this workshop, faculty will learn about the basics of practicing oral history with the aim to get started on an oral history research project and/or to incorporate oral history into student research assignments. Oral history offers Read More…