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Stories From The Place of Sports in The University, 2nd Edition

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Students of the Place of Sports In the University

Editor(s): Jennifer Lee Hoffman

Subject(s): Moral and social purpose of education, Sports and Active outdoor recreation, Winter sports / activities, Sports teams and clubs, eSports / Professional video gaming, Higher education, tertiary education

Publisher: University of Washington Libraries

Publication date: 2023-06-14

Last updated: 2024-09-25

What is the place of sports at a university? Students share what they learned about sports of all kinds on campus. From 'built' & 'natural' environment sports, to esports, recreational activities, intramural, club, and spectator sports, students share stories of how sports influence the college going experiences of campus life. Cover Photo Credit:  Dennis Wise/University Photography

Knowledge Kapamilya 2024

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives)   English

Author(s): Gabbie Mangaser, Madison Calma, Charisse Vales, Delano Cordova, Sierra Paine, Jay Lundgren

Subject(s): Museology and heritage studies, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity, Asian history

Last updated: 2024-09-23

This book was created as a final project for the 2024 cohort of Knowledge Kapamilya, a knowledge family for Filipino/a/x American students at the University of Washington. The cohort met on Coast Salish lands at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, using cultural collections from the Philippines to make connections to their personal heritage.

Badass Womxn in the Pacific Northwest

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): UWB Zine Queenz

Publisher: University of Washington Bothell and University of Washington Libraries

Publication date: 2019-06-10

Last updated: 2024-09-03

This zine is a collection of biographies and portraits of badass womxn in the Pacific Northwest. Undergraduate students collaborated to create this resource that fuses multilingual poetry, art, and writing to celebrate and honor some of the strongest people you might not have heard of. It was created in an interdisciplinary gender, women & sexuality studies classroom led by Professor Julie Shayne, librarians Penelope Wood and Denise Hattwig, and peer facilitator Nicole Carter.

Building a Greener Future: A UW Research Report into Seattle's Climate Justice Movement

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): the English 121 Class

Last updated: 2024-09-01

Quick Tips for Accessibility

CC BY (Attribution)  6 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Perry Yee, Deepa Banerjee, Kira Wyld, Artemis L., Jinny S.

Subject(s): Accessibility in web and digital design, Library and information services

Institution(s): University of Washington

Last updated: 2024-08-24

The University of Washington (UW) Libraries is committed to providing equal access to library collections, services, and facilities for all library users. This book is developed as part of the Accessibility Quicktips workshop series hosted by the UW Libraries Accessibility Working Group (AWG). Questions related to this resource can be directed to uwlib-awg-training@uw.edu.

This book provides an overview of accessibility, discusses core elements of digital accessibility, covers accessibility topics you may encounter while working at a public service desk in the UW Libraries, explains the accessibility tools that UW Libraries provide, and gives some guidance on creating video captioning. The Appendix section contains additional resources such as cheat sheets that guide you step by step in the practical application of accessible elements.

Book Clubs in Academic Libraries: A Case Study and Toolkit

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)  5 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Johanna Jacobsen Kiciman, Alaina C. Bull, Kari Whitney

Subject(s): Library and information services

Last updated: 2024-08-23

This toolkit is designed to inform the academic librarian about book clubs hosted in an academic library. The toolkit guides academic librarians through building meaningful and effective book clubs at their institutions through an overview of extant literature, the results of a cross-institutional survey, a case-study, and through a series of best practices. It provides the academic librarian with language about the vision and value of such a program.

Financial Strategy for Public Managers

CC BY (Attribution)   English (United States)

Author(s): Sharon Kioko and Justin Marlowe

Subject(s): Public finance accounting

Institution(s): University of Washington

Publication date: 2023-09-15

Last updated: 2024-08-21

Financial Strategy for Public Managers is a new generation textbook for financial management in the public sector. It offers a thorough, applied, and concise introduction to the essential financial concepts and analytical tools that today’s effective public servants need to know. It starts “at the beginning” and assumes no prior knowledge or experience in financial management. Throughout the text, Kioko and Marlowe emphasize how financial information can and should inform every aspect of public sector strategy, from routine procurement decisions to budget preparation to program design to major new policy initiatives. They draw upon dozens of real-world examples, cases, and applied problems to bring that relationship between information and strategy to life. Unlike other public financial management texts, the authors also integrate foundational principles across the government, non-profit, and “hybrid/for-benefit” sectors. Coverage includes basic principles of accounting and financial reporting, preparing and analyzing financial statements, cost analysis, and the process and politics of budget preparation. The text also includes several large case studies appropriate for class discussion and/or graded assignments.

Critical Filipinx American Histories and their Artifacts

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Rick Bonus and UW AAS 360 2019 Students

Publisher: University of Washington Libraries

Publication date: 2020-04-27

Last updated: 2024-08-18

The contents of this online book were created by Prof. Rick Bonus and his students as a final project for a course on “Critical Filipinx American Histories” in the Fall quarter of 2019 at the University of Washington, Seattle campus. In collaboration with the UW Libraries, the UW Burke Museum, and the UW Department of American Ethnic Studies, this book explores and reflects on the relationships between Filipinx American histories and selected artifacts at the Burke Museum. It is a class project that was made possible by the Allen Open Textbook Grant.

I'm All Ears

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives)  69 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Jorge González Casanova

Subject(s): Language and Linguistics, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation

Last updated: 2024-08-16

La France Sauvée ou le Tyran Détrôné: A Dramaturgical Casebook

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  17 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Olympe de Gouges

Editor(s): Angela Weaver

Subject(s): Theatre studies, Plays, playscripts, drama

Publication date: 2019-06-20

Last updated: 2024-08-15

This digital humanities project is a digital dramaturgical casebook for the play, La France Sauvée, ou le Tyran détrôné (France Preserved, or the Tyrant Dethroned, 1792).  The dramaturgical casebook includes a master copy of the script as well as historical research pertaining to the playwright, cast members, timeline, places, costume and set design, and bibliography.