Spruce up your only scholarly identity with Open Scholar Cafe Open Scholar Cafe is back and in a hybrid format for Autumn 2021 The Library again is hosting a drop-in space for faculty and staff authors to get their questions answered about scholarly publishing, open access, and the tools available to share scholarly work. What Read More…
Tag: digital scholarship
DSSI 2021: Join Us this Summer to Jump Start your next Digital Scholarship or Open Pedagogy Project
The University of Washington Libraries offers the Digital Scholarship Summer Immersion program (DSSI) annually as a tri-campus opportunity to explore digital scholarship tools and methods for open scholarship and pedagogy. DSSI 2021 will run Tuesday, August 3 – Thursday, August 5, and will be a series of three discrete workshops that focus on one of Read More…
Black Lives Matter Collective Storytelling Project
“It has been our privilege to see how the power of creative expression can be an opportunity for transformation and liberation.” This is how professors Sonia De La Cruz and Tanya Grace Velasquez end their introductory note to the collaborative, cross-course student project, Black Lives Matter Collective Storytelling Project. This project, a collaboration between Read More…
Transform Your Course with SPLOTs!
Calling all instructors! Are you looking for opportunities to teach digital and public scholarship skills in your classroom? Are you looking for alternatives to the traditional research paper? We’ve got you covered with WordPress site templates (affectionately known as SPLOTs)! SPLOTs are simple to set up and can be as easy for students to Read More…
Digital Scholarship Summer Immersion 2020
Are you interested in using digital tools to share your research with wider audiences? Are you teaching online and would like to explore new platforms for digital pedagogy? Join us for the Digital Scholarship Summer Immersion (DSSI) Program, offered by the UW Libraries. What is the Digital Scholarship Summer Immersion (DSSI) DSSI offers an opportunity 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…
Telling Our Stories: Student Experiences at UW Tacoma
This fall, the library partnered with Dr. Sonia De La Cruz’s Television Criticism class (TCOM 347) to create a digital publication of their short films. Why a digital publication? One reason is the opportunity to give rich context to each digital story and the accompanying reflections, something that video sharing platforms like YouTube or Vimeo 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…