We are really excited to talk about this quarter’s Staff Reads! What is Staff Reads? Inspired by the UW Tacoma Strategic Plan and Real Lit[erature], Staff Reads is a collaboration between the Center for Equity and Inclusion, The Center for Student Involvement, and the UW Tacoma Library. The reading group seeks to create greater awareness Read More…
Tag: real lit
Winter 2020: Join us for Real Lit[erature], the UWT Library’s social justice book club!
Get a free book! Discuss with peers, faculty, and staff! Real Lit[erature] — UW Tacoma’s fiction based book club co-created by the UW Tacoma Library and the Center for Equity and Inclusion — is back for Winter 2020, and you won’t want to miss it. The book we’re going to be reading, Elizabeth Acevedo‘s The Read More…
Tacoma Reads Youth Event at UW Tacoma
The afternoon of Friday September 20th, prior to the city wide event, the UW Tacoma Library and the UW Tacoma School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, helped host a high school event for students from Tacoma Public Schools and Chief Leschi Schools. Roughly 90 students attended, along with their teachers and librarians.The high school students Read More…
New Exhibit: Contemporary Indigenous Authorship
North America has been inhabited since long before Leif Erikson and Christopher Columbus. This land’s Indigenous Peoples continue to exist today, asserting their sovereignty and working to maintain their civil rights. Among the ways they express their existence is through written and oral stories; artistic renderings; and historical accounts, present examination, and future portrayals. Tommy Read More…
Skype with the author: Adib Khorram, author of Darius the Great is Not Okay
The UW Tacoma Library and the Center for Equity and Inclusion are delighted to announce that we are bringing another Real Lit[erature] Author Talk to our campus! Last quarter we skyped with Dashka Slater, author of The 57 Bus. In the autumn we skyped with Angie Thomas. This quarter, all are welcome for a one hour Q&A Read More…
Happy Spring Quarter, Huskies!
Happy Spring Quarter, Huskies! The library staff has been hard at work over the interim, and we want to remind you of some information that makes the library even easier for new and returning students to use as they wrap up this awesome academic year. Need to know info If you’re new to campus or Read More…
Library Photo of the Week
On 3/13, over a dozen UW Tacoma students, faculty and staff — as well as a City of Tacoma employee! — showed up to skype with author Dashka Slater. The event was well attended! Read more about why we think it is important to have social justice based conversation through the lens of literature. If Read More…
Real Lit[erature] Spring 2019
Real Lit[erature] — UW Tacoma’s fiction based book club co-created by the UW Tacoma Library and the Center for Equity and Inclusion — is back for Spring 2019, and you won’t want to miss it. The book we’re going to be reading is about clinical depression, being the child of immigrants, finding a sense of Read More…
Save the Date: Real Lit[erature] Author Talk!
Save the Date! The UW Tacoma Library and the Center for Equity and Inclusion are delighted to announce that we are bringing another Real Lit[erature] Author Talk to our campus! Last quarter we skyped with Angie Thomas. This quarter, all are welcome for a thirty minute Q&A conversation with Dashka Slater, author of The 57 Bus. The Read More…
Libraries as sites of conversation: skyping with Angie Thomas
Members of the UW Tacoma community — students, staff, and faculty — had the tremendous opportunity this past Wednesday to speak with renowned author Angie Thomas, author of the New York Times #1 bestselling novel The Hate U Give. Part of the Real Lit[erature] Book Club, a joint program between the UW Tacoma Library and the Read More…