In collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, the UW Tacoma Library is ecstatic to announce that our award-winning social justice book club, Real Lit[erature], will be reading Water Moon by Samatha Sotto Yambao for Spring Quarter 2025! On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will Read More…
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Sensory-Friendly Space Moving to Husky Hour for Spring Quarter
Last 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 come chill Read More…
The Sensory Friendly Space is Expanding!
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…
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…
2023 Open Educational Resources Workshop
Applications are now open for a fifth year of faculty training on Open Educational Resources! Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, openly licensed course materials that can be used to replace costly textbooks and customize learning experiences. This summer workshop is designed to help faculty learn about OERs and implement them in a UW Tacoma 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…
Art and library values: Taking down The Record Keeper blanket.
In March 2020, I began a project for my Master of Library and Information Science degree to inventory, research, and evaluate the artwork displayed in the UW Tacoma Library. I received support for this work from the Library because we knew that the Learning Commons building project would significantly change our spaces. One goal Read More…
You can still be counted!
The library wants to remind you to fill out your census form before September 30, 2020! The UW Tacoma Center for Applied Urban Research and the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation determined that a 10% undercount in Pierce county would result in $750,000 less in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding. It also informs transportation and Read More…
Going Public: Opening Scholarship to All
Join us for Going Public: Opening Scholarship to All on March 26th from 9am – 12pm, a fully-online symposium about equity in the production of and access to scholarship. Being public is one of the core tenets of the University of Washington. Open scholarship and going public with our research means engaging the broader community Read More…
Five ways to celebrate Open Education Week at UW Tacoma
Happy Open Education Week, friends! Open Education Week (March 2 – 6, 2020) is an annual, global event focused on raising awareness about open education. The open education movement works toward a world where all people can access, share, and contribute to human knowledge regardless of their income, geographic location, or other potential barriers. According Read More…