Our students inspire us daily, and keep the operations of the UW Tacoma Library running smoothly. Please meet Sarina, who is awesome! What did you major in/are you majoring in at UWT? I am majoring in Arts, Media and Culture with a focus on film. This is actually my last quarter! What drew you to working Read More…
Tag: staff stories
Meet our Staff: Kim Contreras
It takes a team of dedicated staff to make a library run. We are fortunate to work with amazing UW Tacoma undergraduates! Their energy, dedication, and attention to detail makes the UW Tacoma Library the place that it is! We are thus excited to share another “Meet our Staff” post! Kim Contreras is a Read More…
Meet Our Staff: Christy McDaniel
What’s your relationship to the UWT? I am an online student at the UW iSchool on the Seattle campus. I will earn my Master of Library and Information Science in June 2020. Until then, I take all of my classes online, work at the UWT library, and spend the time I would have been commuting with Read More…
Meet our Staff: Erika Wigren
We’ve been enjoying learning more about each other as colleagues, and are excited to share another “Meet our Staff” post! Erika Wigren is an MLIS student at the University of Washington, and Digital Projects Specialist who does awesome work for UW Tacoma Library’s Digital Commons site and with the Tacoma Community History Project. What did Read More…
Meet our Staff: Kari Whitney
As promised, here is another “Meet our Staff” post! We are lucky to have amazing and talented co-workers, and think it is nice for our community to get to know them. Kari Whitney is a Graduate Reference Specialist who runs the Sources, Citations and Coffee Program. She is often at the Research Help Desk! What Read More…
Extended Hours & Meet our Staff: D’Andre Williams
We are super excited to announce that the UWT Library has hired UW Tacoma alumnus (and former library student worker!) D’Andre Williams as our Late Evening Services Technician. Because of D’Andre and our amazing student workers, we are thrilled to announce that we have extended our hours starting Winter Quarter 2019! Students have been asking Read More…
Teaching for the first time
I had the honor to provide some basic source-seeking instruction for a class two weeks ago. After consulting with our first-year experience librarian, Alaina Bull, I prepared some materials and went to class. It was a writing class in which the students had chosen topics and begun their initial search for information in order to Read More…
Library Staff Stories: What Working at the Library Means to Us
We are thrilled to bring you another “Library Staff Stories” blog post! From helping students to campus engagement, from enjoying the space to future library career plans, we all have different reasons for working here at the UW Tacoma Library. Two themes emerge, however: student success and being inclusive. These are values that are built Read More…
Library Staff Stories: From and To First Gen Students
Hey, UW Tacoma First Generation College Students! The library staff wants you to know that we’re proud of you — and at one time, some of us *were* you. For this year’s National First-Generation College Celebration, we collected some messages of support from our staff and words of wisdom from members who have been right Read More…