To register for Summer Quarter 2023: Sign Up Here! 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 be reading Love After the End: An Anthology, edited by Joshua Whitehead, for Summer Quarter 2023! “This exciting and groundbreaking Read More…
Category: Space Planning
Children Belong Here
If you’ve wandered into the Children’s Area in the Tioga Library Building hopefully you’ve seen shelves stuffed with books. This is mainly because of the Professor Belinda Y. Louie Children’s and Young Adult Literature Library Endowed Collection. This Endowment has also increased our collection of diverse books for the School of Education Students – Read More…
When will the Library and the Learning Commons open?
Views and Updates from the Library on the Learning Commons Project When we reopen, we’ll be able to welcome you back to renovated facilities, but our reopening plans must now align with the construction schedule. In this post, we provide an updated timeline of the construction in the Tioga Library and the Snoqualmie Buildings and how Read More…
Packing up the Library for Learning Commons construction
Views and Updates from the Library on the Learning Commons Project We are packing up the UW Tacoma Library. Yes, we are. In the hands of library workers, the books are journeying from their shelves, first to book carts, then to sometimes temporary and other times permanent locations for the duration of the Learning Commons construction. Read More…
Learning Commons Construction Snapshots
Welcome! The construction of the Learning Commons is kicking off in February. Every other week, we’re going to post here recent photos of what’s happening in the Tioga Library Building and the Snoqualmie Building throughout the project. April 1st, 2021 Adding a new silent work space in the Tioga Library Building. This week on the Read More…
The wall comes down and other good things about the Learning Commons
Views and Updates from the Library on the Learning Commons Project With construction for the Learning Commons slated to begin in mid-February and run through October 2021, the Library looks back at the design process and shares some of the exciting outcomes of this project that will directly benefit students when we can return to Read More…
Library Happenings: April 2020
All campus buildings may be closed but the Library continues to serve the UW Tacoma community. Over the past month and more, Library staff have rapidly adjusted library services to help faculty and students transition to fully remote learning. We’ve done this while learning ourselves how to better use digital tools for telework. I am 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…
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…
Evaluating Learning Environments in the Library & TLC
If you’ve walked through the Library this week you may have noticed boards posted near the entrances of the Snoqualmie and Tioga Library Buildings. They’re there to assess how the UW Tacoma community uses Library and Teaching and Learning Center. As you pass through, please take a moment to put up a little sticker in Read More…