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Student Spotlight: Zhuo Pan You may be surprised to hear that before you can access a library resource when you need it, a lot of work must be done to get that resource into the UW Libraries catalog. A whole department of librarians, staff, and students are quietly working away behind the scenes to get new resources into the catalog and to find innovative ways to enhance the Libraries’ metadata. This series of blog posts will highlight our brilliant student…
Happy New Year, Huskies! Here’s wishing you a great start to winter quarter and 2024! This month’s update features some incredible new stories including an insightful essay by The Boys in the Boat author, Daniel James Brown as well as features on our work to preserve Seattle’s music history, and student-centered scholarship documenting UW student sports experiences (Go Dawgs!) . Speaking of articles, all UW users now have faster, more direct access to journal articles (read our story on LibKey…
The following is a version of a keynote speech given by author Daniel James Brown at the 2014 UW Libraries’ Literary Voices fundraising event that has been edited for length in this context. PREFACE: Daniel Brown’s love of libraries began decades ago when, as a struggling high school student, he was instructed to complete correspondence courses while working out of Doe Memorial Library at Cal Berkeley—to earn his high school diploma. The experience was foundational. Speaking at a UW Libraries…
Here’s wishing everyone a successful finals week, holiday season and relaxing winter break ahead. When you are done with finals, or need a study break, stop by our current exhibits, take advantage of our wide selection of streaming media or browse University Press’ amazing catalog for a gift that is uniquely “UW”! Resource Reminders Finals Week Tips from UW Libraries Winter Break Boredom Buster: UW Libraries Streaming Media! From popular recent movies to artistic performances, cult classics, documentaries, foreign films,…
Holiday Meals: Vintage Inspiration Even if you’re not on turkey and/or Tofurkey “duty”, you’ll be amused by the variety of holiday offerings (and prices!) from different eras in the UW Libraries Special Collections Historical Menu Collection! Molded cranberries anyone?? See more menus image: Ciro’s Grill Thanksgiving dinner menu, November 26, 1959. University of Washington Libraries Special Collections It is hard to believe that we are about halfway through the first quarter! Finals may seem far off, but it’s never too…
By UW Libraries Accessibility Working Group It is important to provide equitable environments that allow all students to feel comfortable studying at the Libraries. To that end, in the last few years we have improved accessibility in several ways around the Libraries: audited our physical spaces and electronic resources for accessibility; posted accessibility information on our website to aid in trip planning; created accessibility kits available for check out; and most recently, opened an accessible study room for use by…
Student Spotlight Series You may be surprised to hear that before you can access a library resource when you need it, a lot of work must be done to get that resource into the UW Libraries catalog. A whole department of librarians, staff, and students are quietly working away behind the scenes to get new resources into the catalog and to find innovative ways to enhance the Libraries’ metadata. This series of blog posts will highlight our brilliant student employees…
See all UW Libraries Open Access Week Events International Open Access Week, observed each October since 2008, is an opportunity to learn about and celebrate our collective momentum in building a more open and equitable system for sharing knowledge. The theme for this year’s Open Access Week (October 23–27) is “Community over Commercialization.” Rooted in ongoing professional and public concerns about consolidation within the scholarly publishing industry and publishers’ continued efforts to monetize scholarly outputs by extending their control of…
UW Libraries Welcomes New Senior Conservator Did you know? Each year, Conservation staff repair, bind or make enclosures for an estimated 10,000 items in the UW Libraries. This care helps to preserve, stabilize or restore the usability of book, paper, and photograph materials. See also: How the UW Libraries bring damaged, rare books back to life The Paper Protector VIDEO: UW Libraries New Conservation Center Are you interested in art, history, science and working in a library or museum? You…
Benjamin Narkmon (‘2024) During my junior year at UW, I had the privilege of working at Tateuchi East Asia Library as the Japanese Collection Student Specialist. A good deal of my time there was spent working on the Gaihozu collection. Gaihozu are essentially World War II maps created or stolen by the Japanese military. As my time here comes to a close, I wanted to reflect on my experience working with the Gaihozu. The Gaihozu maps at UW Libraries were…