This past summer, UW Tacoma Library opened its first ever Sensory Friendly Space to better address the barriers faced by our neurodivergent students and promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in our library spaces! Although the room has been created with our neurodivergent community in mind, it is a space where everyone is welcome to Read More…
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Short Days, Short Reads
As we near the winter solstice, we notice the days getting shorter and shorter. One way that we can embrace the darkness is through coziness: tea, baked goods, a (virtual) fire, and a good book. However, we know it can be hard or intimidating to pick up a book for pleasure when the pressures of Read More…
Fall Watches and Reads at UW Libraries
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 few weeks writing, on our We’re Listening whiteboard at the SNO 1 entrance, answers to the question: What’s your favorite Fall movie? Your answers would Read More…
Introducing UWT Library’s Sensory Friendly Space
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…
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 the whiteboard at the entrance to SNO where anyone is free to grab a dry-erase marker and write their answer. Whiteboard Conversations will be a fun way to learn more Read More…
UWT Library Displays Winter Quarter 2024
Celebrating Black Women & Black Joy display text and photo by Catherine Jensen Our most recent display at the UW Tacoma Library, Celebrating Black Women & Black Joy, has arrived! With Black History Month right around the corner, and Women’s History Month immediately after that, what better way to celebrate than to stop by 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…
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…
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…
Packing up the Library for Learning Commons construction
Views and Updates from the Library on the Learning Commons Project We are packing up the UW Tacoma Library. Yes, we are. In the hands of library workers, the books are journeying from their shelves, first to book carts, then to sometimes temporary and other times permanent locations for the duration of the Learning Commons construction. Read More…