| University of Washington Libraries | |
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| 47°39′21″N 122°18′36″W / 47.6557702°N 122.3100314°W | |
| Location | Seattle, WA |
| Type | Academic library system of the University of Washington |
| Established | 1861 |
| Branches | 16 |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | more than 9 million items, including 1 million e-books, 180,000 ejournals and 923,000 maps, videos and other multimedia materials. |
| Size | 9 million (2018) |
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| Employees | 70 subject librarians |
| Website | lib.washington.edu |
The University of Washington Libraries (UW Libraries) is the academic library system of the University of Washington.
The Libraries serves the Seattle, Tacoma, and Bothell campuses of the University of Washington and the university's Friday Harbor Laboratories. The library system is the largest collection in the Pacific Northwest, closely followed by the University of British Columbia Library, and is among the largest academic research libraries in North America. UW Libraries won the 2004 ACRL "Excellence in Academic Libraries Award".[1]
The University of Washington Libraries have a collection of more than 9 million books, journals, millions of microforms, thousands of maps, rare books, film, audio and video recordings. The Libraries' website provides the connection to a wide range of print and electronic resources available in the Libraries and on the World Wide Web.
The UW Libraries special collections holds over three-thousand audio recordings of Pacific Northwest indigenous languages. They document over fifty native dialects.
Services and resources are provided primarily for University of Washington students, faculty, and staff as part of the Libraries' mission to support teaching, learning, research, and service at the University of Washington. Visitors who come to the Libraries are welcome to use most resources and many of the services. Researchers throughout the world have access to a broad range of materials and various interlibrary loan and document delivery services.
The Libraries system is composed of the Suzzallo and Allen Libraries, the primary location for information and services in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences; the Odegaard Undergraduate Library (OUGL) which houses the Odegaard Learning Commons and is open 24 hours weekdays during school days; the Health Sciences Library and Information Center (HSLIC); the East Asia Library; fifteen specialized branch libraries; the Bothell/CCC Library; and the Tacoma Library. The Marian G. Gallagher Law Library and Elisabeth C. Miller Library are administered separately from the UW Libraries system.
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Chances are you’ll need to find a scholarly journal article for a research paper or project in the near future. But, wait, what is a “scholarly journal article?” How is it different from a popular source like a newspaper or magazine article? Let’s reduce the confusion on scholarly journal articles. Scholarly journals enable scholars -- experts in a particular academic field -- to communicate their research with other experts in that field through publishing articles and to stay current by reading about other scholars’ work. Consequently, scholarly journals create a community of scholars who are all participating in a kind of “conversation” in that academic field. Rather than a face-to-face conversation, this is a formal conversation, which takes place over months and years through written documents. The most important part of this long term written conversation - what makes it a “scholarly” conversation, as opposed to popular - is what’s called the “peer review process.” The peer review process works like this: in order for a scholar to get published in a scholarly journal, his or her expert peers must read their work and critique it. These “peer reviewers” make sure that the scholar has cited the appropriate experts in the discipline, made valid and well-supported arguments, and has written the article on a topic that is appropriate for that particular journal. This rigorous evaluation process ensures that scholarly work meets a higher standard than popular publications. So, why is this important for you? First, the information in a scholarly text has been rigorously evaluated, so it is more reliable and credible than information in popular sources. Second, reading scholarly journal articles for your papers or projects can give you insight into the ways of thinking of experts in that field. Finally, every scholarly text has extensive bibliographies that introduce you to important texts in the field, which can help you extend your research in that area. When you read the articles and books the scholar cited in her article, you are taking part in the scholarly conversation. Okay, so, brass tacks: let’s say you are in a research database and you only want scholarly articles. How do you do it? In EBSCO’s Academic Search Complete, a common research database, you check the box for “Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals” before clicking the search button. That’s it. Now, all of your results will be scholarly articles. For more information, check out the “How Do I...?” section of the Libraries Web site or contact a UW librarian by clicking the "ask us!" link on any Libraries webpage.
Library services
Library services include the library catalog, circulation services and interlibrary loan, computing and copying/printing facilities, a grants and funding information service, instructional services, and ADA access for persons with disabilities.
Libraries and units
- Art Library
- Built Environments Library
- University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia College Library
- Drama Library
- Elisabeth C. Miller Library (University of Washington Botanic Gardens)
- Engineering Library. The library is a designated Patent and Trademark Depository Library and maintains a national depository for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Special resources include industry standards, technical reports, and U.S. patent specifications from 1966 to the present.
- Foster Business Library
- Friday Harbor Library
- Government Publications, Maps, Microforms & Newspapers Collections
- Health Sciences Library
- International Studies
- Near East
- Slavic and East European
- Southeast Asia
- Marian G. Gallagher Law Library
- Mathematics Research Library
- Media Arcade
- Music Library
- Music Listening Center. Among the special resources are the Eric Offenbacher Collection of pre-LP vocal recordings of the music of Mozart, the Hazel B. Kinsella Collection of American hymnals and tune books, the Melville Harris Collection of early disc and cylinder recordings of woodwind solos, and a collection of 17th and 18th century opera scores.
- Odegaard Undergraduate Library (OUGL)
- Reference and Research Services
- Special Collections
- Suzzallo and Allen Libraries
- Tateuchi East Asia Library
- University of Washington Tacoma Library
References
- ^ "Excellence in Academic Libraries Award". ACRL. January 28, 2009. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
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