The UW Tacoma Library has new Children’s books! You can find them on display in the Children’s section of the Tioga Library Building this summer. This growing collection of selected and curated titles funded by the Belinda Louie Endowment speak to the way we exist in bodies. These books build a foundation for understanding Read More…
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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…
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…
On Display Now at the UW Tacoma Library!
We are excited to celebrate the work of author and illustrator Eric Carle through a new multilingual UW Tacoma Library Display. You can explore Carle’s works on the first floor of the Tioga Library Building in the children’s section of the Belinda Y. Louie Children’s and Young Adult Literature Library Endowed Collection. Eric Carle’s career Read More…
#OwnVoices and #IndigenousReads
The hashtag #OwnVoices was coined on September 6, 2015, by Sci-Fi and Fantasy Young Adult and Middle Grade author Corinne Duyvis, to “recommend kidlit about diverse characters written by authors from that same diverse group”. Since then, the concept of collecting #OwnVoices in children’s and young adult literature has taken off. As we’ve written about before, Read More…
Children’s Literature Open House
Over 100 people attended the UW Libraries Children’s Literature Open House in Suzzallo Library last Friday, October 26. This special event showcasing a range of youth literature across our university’s three campuses preceded the annual Spencer G. Shaw Lecture Series featuring award-winning teacher-author Sharon Draper. The UW Tacoma Library has the only stand-alone children’s and Read More…
New Children and Young Adult Books
We are excited to announce a UW Libraries Children’s Literature Open House, on October 25th, 2018, a tri-campus collaboration. Go check out some of the amazing books our three campuses have collected! How do we get these books? Librarians are selectors in certain areas, and use their expertise (and conversations with faculty, book reviews, and more) Read More…