The UW Tacoma Library is in its second year of the Student Library Advocacy Board (SLAB)! **The deadline to submit interest form is Wednesday, October 11th 2023 by 5:00pm!** The UW Tacoma Library facilitates the exploration of academic, personal, and intellectual interests through access to resources, spaces, and research support. In other words, the library Read More…
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Real Lit Reads The Shadow Sister – Register now!
To register for Autumn 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 The Shadow Sister, by Lily Meade, for Autumn Quarter 2023! This is the 19th book we have Read More…
Meet our Staff: Amanda Pirog
Please join the UW Tacoma Library in welcoming Amanda Pirog! We are very excited for Amanda Pirog to join us as our Business and User Experience Librarian. Amanda comes to us from the UW Seattle campus having spent almost a decade there in numerous roles: Business Research and Instruction Librarian, Libraries Advancement Outreach Officer, Interim Read More…
Abortion in Fiction
Events on campus often lead our students to seek out books that mirror real life – even in fiction. Sometimes these topics are avoided in the every day, but with controversy often comes discovery. Abortion is often one of those topics. Inspired by upcoming events, here are reads that span the spectrum of the Read More…
Real Lit Reads Love After the End: An Anthology, edited by Joshua Whitehead!
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…
Free Snacks for Finals in the Library!
The Student Library Advocacy Board (SLAB) is piloting free snacks in Snoqualmie (SNO) and Tioga Library Building (TLB) from May 30th-June 8th. Come for fresh fruit, granola bars, salty snacks — vegetarian and kosher/pareve/halal options will be available on a first come, first served basis. Leftover packed non-perishables will be donated to the UWT Pantry Read More…
Student Library Advocacy Board (SLAB) Report, Spring Quarter 2023
The inaugural members of SLAB — the Student Library Advocacy Group — have created two documents to share with our campus community and beyond of the tremendous work they have been doing since Winter Quarter 2023. We are delighted to share the documents here. SLAB Report 2023 (version 1) SLAB REPORT – Spring 2023 – Read More…
Real Lit Author Talk: Zeyn Joukhadar’s and The Map of Salt and Stars
We are so excited to share our good news! The UW Tacoma Center for Equity and Inclusion (CEI) and UW Tacoma Library’s Real Lit[erature]: Reading for Social Justice will be hosting a author talk with Zeyn Joukhadar on Thursday, June 1st, 2023, via Zoom. Staff, faculty, and students from all three campuses AND community members Read More…
Mental Health for All at the UW Tacoma Library
Mental Health for All is the newest display at the UW Tacoma Library, just in time for Mental Health Awareness Month, which has been celebrated in the U.S. each May since 1949. Created by UW iSchool MLIS students who work as reference specialists at the UW Tacoma Library, the display aims to further awareness of Read More…
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…