In collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, the UW Tacoma Library is ecstatic to announce that our award-winning social justice book club, Real Lit[erature], will be reading These Fleeting Shadows by local author Kate Alice Marshall for Fall Quarter 2024! The Haunting of Hill House meets Knives Out in a bid for an Read More…
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Check out the Sensory Friendly Study Space in TLB!
Come check out the Sensory Friendly Room in the Tioga Library Building! Open during Fall Term Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-4pm on the first floor in room 115. During this window, you can find and use: headphones weighted lap blankets dimmable desk lamps fidget manipulatives/toys floor cushions a wobble chair a yoga ball chair a Read More…
Winter 2024 UW Tacoma Publications
The library is excited to share the scholarly work of our community with campus through Digital Commons, author profiles, and the Library blog. The list below includes all known books, book chapters, edited volumes, and peer-reviewed articles that were first published (including online) between January 1st – March 20th, 2024. An unlocked symbolappears beside all Read More…
Introducing UWT Library’s Sensory Friendly Space
As a library one of the main values engrained in our work is accessibility; specifically accessibility to the information and resources needed by the communities we serve. This includes ensuring our spaces are accessible to our communities and, as an academic library, making accessible and welcoming study spaces. At UW Tacoma Library we are excited Read More…
UWT Community’s Summer Movies and Beach Reads Favs
Click here to learn more about We’re Listening: Whiteboard Conversations and find out how you can participate! We want to hear from YOU! The UWT community has spent the last two weeks writing, on our We’re Listening whiteboard at the TLB1 entrance, answers to the question: What’s your favorite summer movie or beach read? We loved reading Read More…
Mythical Creature Inspired Book Recommendations!
Click here to learn more about We’re Listening: Whiteboard Conversations and find out how you can participate! We want to hear from YOU! The UWT community has spent the last two weeks writing, on our We’re Listening whiteboard at the TLB4 entrance, answers to the question: What mythical creature do you most identify with? To Read More…
Icarus: RealLit Spring 2024 in Review
Real Lit is a book club put on by the University of Washington, Tacoma once a quarter and focuses on Young Adult fiction centering diverse perspectives, protagonists, and stories. During Spring term, the group read Icarus by K. Ancrum. If your heart sped up and images of smoke and wings and unforgiving ocean waves flashed Read More…
What Books Would the UWT Community Bring to a Deserted Island?
Click here to learn more about We’re Listening: Whiteboard Conversations and find out how you can participate! We want to hear from YOU! The UWT community has spent the last two weeks writing, on our We’re Listening whiteboard at the SNO entrance, answers to the question: What book would you bring to a deserted island? Read More…
We’re Listening: Whiteboard Conversations
Welcome to We’re Listening: Whiteboard Conversations, our new series where we want to hear from YOU! We will be writing a fun biweekly question on a whiteboard where anyone is free to grab a dry erase marker and write their answer. Whiteboard Conversations will be a fun way to learn more about the UWT community, Read More…
Autumn 2023 UW Tacoma Publications
The library is excited to share the scholarly work of our community with campus through Digital Commons, author profiles, and the Library blog. The list below includes all known books, book chapters, edited volumes, and peer-reviewed articles that were first published (including online) between September 28th – January 1st, 2023. An unlocked symbol appears beside Read More…