Introduction The impasse between President Donald Trump and Congress over the proposed $5.7 billion border wall has evolved into the most extended partial government shutdown in United States history. The partial shutdown has produced numerous adverse effects, including about 380,000 federal employees placed on furlough; 420,000 federal employees working without pay; reduced government services; and Read More…
Category: Research Help
By the Numbers: Sources & Citations
101 students 13 questions about citations 3 pounds of butter cookies 5 large pots of coffee Countless refills of the hot water kettle The UW Tacoma Library and the UW Tacoma Teaching & Learning Center (TLC), together with funding from the Garrol L. Floe Endowed Fund, delighted noon-hour patrons with cookies and hot beverages in Read More…
Good luck on finals!
“I am almost always able to find a quiet study space which really helps me out because my home life is too hectic to be able to concentrate on my studies there. The library is really the only quiet place I can find on campus.” Undergraduate student, 2016 Triennial Survey The UW Tacoma Library Read More…
Sources + Citations Help on Tuesday + Wednesday
Sources + Citations December 4 & 5 Noon – 1:30 SNO Foyer At the end of every quarter, the UW Tacoma Library teams up with the Teaching & Learning Center to make it easier than ever for students to get help in making sure they’ve cited their sources correctly. We’ll be in the SNO foyer Read More…
Teaching for the first time
I had the honor to provide some basic source-seeking instruction for a class two weeks ago. After consulting with our first-year experience librarian, Alaina Bull, I prepared some materials and went to class. It was a writing class in which the students had chosen topics and begun their initial search for information in order to Read More…
Research by Subject: Gender and Sexuality
A significant amount of the work we do in libraries is to help bolster information literacy. Part of this is situating learners so that they understand that many disciplines have acknowledged authorities in the sense of well-known scholars and publications that are widely considered “standard,” and yet, even in those situations, some scholars would challenge Read More…
Demystifying Plagiarism
“The key to avoiding plagiarism is that you show clearly where your own thinking ends and someone else’s begins.” – From Academic Honesty, by the UW Tacoma Office of the Registrar How often have you found yourself sitting in class and your instructor warns you “not to plagiarize” on your paper? They mention “academic honesty”, Read More…
Library Photo of the Week
Even Hendrix sometimes needs a little bit of research help! Come by and see us. We like your questions! #UWTLibraryPics
As Easy as “Raspberry Pi”!
We have a new digital sign at our Research Help desks — and will be installing more at our Circulation desks in SNO and TLB. Using a mini-computer called “Raspberry Pi”, we are able to share with the campus community what our service philosophy is, the type of help we offer, and other up-to-date information Read More…
Open Access Week 2018 at UW Tacoma
Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, free of most copyright and licensing restriction. – from Open Access (MIT Press) by Peter Suber, This year, the UW Tacoma Library is partnering with the UW Libraries Scholarly Communication Outreach Team to host a series of events for Open Access Week. Through these activities, we seek Read More…