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Founded in 1962, the UW Ethnomusicology Archives is home to more than 80,000 rare and unique films, videos, and sound recordings. One of the largest archives of its kind in North America, its collections represent a kaleidoscopic of array of sounds and styles from around the world, and around the block. A part of Libraries Special Collections since 2022, its curator, John Vallier, has been working on a variety of projects, a selection of which are described here. “Silences enter…
In this role, she will be responsible for administration of the Distinctive Collections (DC) portfolio, a team of more than twenty staff consisting of the Special Collections department and the International Studies units.
UW Libraries is excited to re-launch Recommended Reads for Equity – a crowd-sourced book recommendation forum that directly influences a dedicated book collection in Odegaard Library for books about equity, diversity, and inclusion. This collection brings together over 170 unique voices and perspectives — students, staff, faculty and alumni have joined together to share what they think is important about equity. Anyone can submit a recommendation, and every recommendation creates an opportunity for connection through shared conversation and reflection. We…
About the 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…
We are nearly to the end of winter quarter! Cherry blossoms are right around the corner and our Libraries are “blooming” with valuable opportunities for students, including the Libraries’ annual video contest! We are celebrating new exhibits (including first-ever “pop up” events with rare music and art collections), our amazing student employees and the grand-reopening of the Tateuchi East Asia Library. Good luck on finals, and don’t forget to bookmark our Top Ten Tips, always a helpful reminder of all…
Re-opening celebration of the Tateuchi East Asia Library brings campus and community partners together On Wednesday Feb 21, 2024, over 175 students, faculty, staff, community members and distinguished guests came together to celebrate the official grand re-opening and renovation of the Tateuchi East Asia Library. The program was officiated by Simon Neame, Dean of UW Libraries, and guest speakers included Daniel Asher of the Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation; Consul General Seo of the Republic of Korea; Consul General…
Celebrating 2024 Student Scholarship Recipients UW Libraries recognizes the achievements of our outstanding student employees through our Student Employee Appreciation Week, and an annual scholarship award, generously sponsored by UW Libraries donors. On February 29, we celebrated this year’s 50 new scholarship recipients in person with a reception honoring their amazing contributions. Library student workers represent undergraduates and graduate students from all areas of study working across all three UW campuses, including UW Press! As one of the largest employers…
While there are many free learning workshops and drop-in help sessions as always (including Podcasting as Research and our LOVE DATA WEEK events!), don’t forget to make room for the fun and fascinating this February — from the launch of the 2024 Student Video Contest, our new board game collection, a unique Valentine’s Day event in Special Collections, Tateuchi East Asia Library’s grand re-opening celebration and Karaoke Fridays, book events, and Scholar’s Studio, there’s plenty of opportunity to take a…
UW Libraries is happy to announce the one-year anniversary of its membership with the data repository Dryad! Our initial year saw both many deposits (see charts below) from UW researchers, as well as downloads from the research community at UW and beyond. We thought it would be fun to share some stats from this first year. UW data deposits in Dryad had more than 8,064 downloads and 15,980 views! The charts below show the top 10 data sets by view,…
The UW Libraries have added four wheelchair charging stations, located in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, the Open Scholarship Commons in Suzzallo Library, the Research Commons in the Allen Library, and the Foster Business Library. These charging stations were able to be purchased thanks to the UW’s Student Technology Fee (STF). The charging stations are from the Clearview Disability Resource Center and have 24 volt five-amp chargers, as well as a dual USB charging port. They are available to all library…