On behalf of the entire UW Tacoma Library staff, welcome back for the Winter 2023 Quarter. We appreciate your efforts to keep our community safe by following University protocols and all health and safety measures. While optional, the University continues to welcome and encourage mask wearing indoors during the winter quarter. All students and personnel are Read More…
Category: Research Help
Wrap up your Quarter: Sources, Citations and Snacks Drop-In in TLB115
The UW Tacoma Library will offer extra drop-in hours in TLB 115 to work through your last- minute needs for peer-reviewed sources or citations! Whatever your program or major, these extra hours will set you up for success with time-saving tips and time-tested research strategies! Our added BONUS DROP-IN research help hours for the next Read More…
Student FAQs Fall Quarter 2022
On behalf of the entire UW Tacoma Library staff, welcome to the 2022-2023 academic year! Below are a number of FAQs that we hope will guide you through our services. We appreciate your efforts to keep our community safe by following University protocols. While optional, the University continues to welcome and encourages mask wearing during Read More…
Gender and Sexuality Guide for Pride!
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…
June 13 Library Closure
The software vendor for UW Libraries Search has scheduled an upgrade to the catalog on Monday, June 13th, 2022. The catalog will be offline the entire day, and all UW Libraries on all campuses with the exception of the Health Sciences Library, will be closed to implement the upgrade. Some changes will launch with the Read More…
WI22 We’re Listening: Whiteboard Feedback Series
Welcome to the winter quarter “We’re Listening” Whiteboard Feedback series! We wanted to find ways this quarter to continue learning what you — our students, staff, and faculty — need from the Library now that we’ve reopened our physical spaces. We’ve set up a whiteboard on the fourth floor of TLB, and are asking weekly Read More…
TLB 2 Whiteboard Conversations, Fall Quarter 2021
We wanted to find ways this quarter to learn what you — our students, staff, and faculty — need from the Library now that we’ve reopened our physical spaces. We’ve set up a whiteboard on the second floor of TLB, and are asking weekly questions that you can answer when you come and spend time Read More…
Autumn Quarter 2021 Research Help
The UW Tacoma Library is happy to welcome you back to the Tioga Library Building starting on Monday, September 20th! Research Help and the TLC Writing Center are now better together! Now located together on the second floor of the Tioga Library Building (TLB2), we can serve you better with seamless, one-stop support. Research Help Read More…
Research for an Election: Finding Newspaper Articles
Is your mailbox stuffed with shiny advertisements for this election season? This post will show you how to access newspaper articles to evaluate candidates using newspaper articles. If you can support your local news outlet it will help your community, but for occasional information needs, you can access newspaper articles through the UW Libraries. Local Read More…
Meet Our Staff: Christy McDaniel
How do you work with faculty and students in your current role at the UW Tacoma Library? I am working with mostly science and math faculty right now, so they can include a section about finding resources from library databases in their class. I also work with students who want help with the research process Read More…