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updated 1/2025 In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day, UW Libraries encourages you to explore resources within our collections and across campus that reflect Dr. King’s work and collective efforts to combat racism, inequality, and injustice in our community and beyond. MLK visit to Seattle – Seattle Labor History Project At the invitation of his friend, Reverend Samuel B McKinney, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Seattle in November 1961. The visit proved to be much more controversial…

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Over 1 Million Files Preserved UW Libraries preservation repository, created in 2016, has just crossed the 100 TB mark, which represents the digital preservation of over one million files!   Behind the numbers, however; this milestone reflects the prioritization and dedication to preserving UW Libraries materials  for generations to come, including books, photographs, newspapers, government papers, audio recordings, films, and videos and more. What is a preservation repository?  The preservation repository is the storage infrastructure in which digital content is preserved. …