It’s hard to imagine UW Tacoma without the cozy presence of Metro Coffee but once upon a time there was just one coffee shop on campus. Then, in October 2004, The Ledger (now the Tacoma Ledger) had a hot scoop. “For a significant period of time Starbucks has been the exclusive coffee shop on campus,” Read More…
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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…
Library Happenings: A Summer 2020 Overview
This (distanced and strange and smoky) summer has been busy at the UW Tacoma Library. We’ve published regularly and frequently on our blog about all our work, but want to collate all our activities here, in case you missed a post! Most of all: we remain committed to working with students, faculty and staff, during Read More…
Explore UW Tacoma Legacy in New Founding Stories Oral History Interviews and Website
Written by Joan Hua and Justin Wadland The UW Tacoma Library is pleased to announce the release of the UW Tacoma Oral History: Founding Stories digital collection. The collection currently comprises 37 oral history interviews with full transcripts and audio recordings. Browse the collection on this new website and explore the multiple pathways to interact with Read More…
Oral History Highlight: Maru as a Glimpse of the Past and a Peek into the Future
“I think things evolve and change out of what was before. And then we also need to know that maybe what we think is good today is not going to be so good tomorrow. And that’s what the university reminds me of.” —Greg Tanbara For the Library’s UW Tacoma Oral History: Founding Stories project, Read More…
Teaching with Digital Oral History Collections
The 2020 Preservation Week from April 26 to May 2 celebrates “Preserving Oral History.” Why do we preserve oral history? What uses do we have of these recordings and qualitative data? If you are a faculty member teaching a class that involves research, writing, or the examination of narratives and dominant discourse, you might consider Read More…
Special Audio Story from the UW Tacoma Oral History: Founding Stories Project
The UW Tacoma Oral History: Founding Stories project has already created close to 50 hours of audio on oral histories related to our campus history. To offer some highlights, I produced a special audio story about the Black Student Union at UW Tacoma. Take a listen, and happy Black History Month! What we were trying 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…
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…
Sneak Peek of the Founding Stories Oral History Collection
UW Tacoma Oral History: Founding Stories is a project that inquires into the founding history of UW Tacoma and how its establishment has impacted the individuals who helped to build and shape it. Each oral history in this collection includes full descriptions and transcripts and will be archived by UW Libraries. We’re pleased to make Read More…