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…
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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…
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…
Call for Participation: UWT Library Student Advisory Board
The UW Tacoma Library is launching a new Student Advisory Board! **The deadline to submit interest form extended to Monday, November 28th by 5:00pm!** The UW Tacoma Library facilitates the exploration of academic, personal, and intellectual interests through access to resources, spaces, and research support. In other words, the library exists for YOU, the students Read More…
Now Open: The Learning Commons’ Makerspace!
Visit the Makerspace 10am – 5pm, Monday through Friday Snoqualmie Building, First Floor https://tacomamakes.ds.lib.uw.edu/ Managed by UW Tacoma Library Information Technology, the Makerspace is an entirely new service for the UW Tacoma campus that provides students, faculty, and staff creative opportunities through reciprocal teaching and learning. It is intended to break down traditional power structures Read More…
WI22 We’re Listening: Whiteboard Feedback Series
Welcome to the winter quarter “We’re Listening” Whiteboard Feedback series! We wanted to find ways this quarter to continue learning what you — our students, staff, and faculty — need from the Library now that we’ve reopened our physical spaces. We’ve set up a whiteboard on the fourth floor of TLB, and are asking weekly Read More…
WI22 Real Lit: Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
Build community, reduce isolation, and enhance campus education by joining a peer-based book club! The UW Tacoma Library, in collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, is pleased to announce that its award-winning social justice book club, Real Lit[erature], will meet remotely again Winter Quarter 2022! We would like to invite UW students, faculty, Read More…
UW Tacoma Library Interim Closure
All UW Libraries will be closed from Saturday, December 18, 2021 until Sunday, January 2, 2022 Why is the UWT Library going to be closed? We’ve been looking at data from before the pandemic and found that these weeks have been consistently among the lowest in terms of visits to the library and circulation of Read More…