Although most scholars must ‘publish or perish,’ graduate students and junior faculty members often receive minimal guidance on the publication process beyond ad hoc support from advisors. To provide a formal channel through which researchers can gain confidence in approaching scholarly publishing, we developed a workshop series to provide guidance around publication of an article in an academic journal. Two complementary workshops, one focused on journal selection and the other on publishing agreements, introduce open access and authors’ rights concepts while addressing common concerns and offering practical advice for navigating the publishing process from start to finish.

The University of Washington’s Odegaard Undergraduate Library houses several collections of non-academic books, including Life Skills and Good Reads. The librarian responsible for managing these collections wanted to update them in accordance with feedback from underrepresented student groups. We developed a survey to assess the reading interests of two populations: international students and student veterans. The survey was deployed via Google Forms and disseminated through email lists and Facebook groups. We used this feedback to suggest 75 titles. We also created a workflow to document our process so that this effort could be replicated in the future.

Organizing the Anne Focke Archives has been a project consisting of conducting a folder-level inventory on the remaining 70 boxes that had not been inventoried. These folders contained 40 to 50 years’ worth of documents pertaining to the work Anne has done in the art world, from both founding and working with various organizations such as ArtsWire, and/or, and Grantmakers in the Arts. By doing this inventory, Anne is able to have a better understanding of which files are where, and stakeholders will be able to access documents related to the history of organizations that they otherwise would not have.

Pinion is a mobile application that gives people a place where they can share their beliefs on civic issues, learn more about them, and see how their elected officials vote. Users can voice their opinions on local topics like the Seattle Jobs Tax or federal ones like gun control. They can also see how their community and elected officials voted to make sure they're acting in the best interests of the people. Pinion will clearly show if there's a gap between the people and their elected officials.

Imagine the inability to compete in the modern retail market place. It can be prohibitively expensive for small businesses to keep up with large companies like Amazon. Placer levels the playing field. We provide the augmented reality technology to independent furniture manufacturers, so they can give their customers an immersive shopping experience similar to that found in store. By providing a universal accessible platform, we will help a diverse segment of the industry thrive, that would otherwise get left behind. We plan to compliment the independent manufacturers’ business model and allow their creativity to lead to new innovations.

Postcards is a zero-clutter social media site that closes the generation gap. It connects users of vastly different ages through the use of age-proof postcards—online cards that family and friends can post to update loved ones on their whereabouts. Postcards allows users to request assistance from others within the group, helping families and friends support one another.

Jean Walkinshaw is a Seattle native and Emmy award winning documentary film producer. She has worked for local outlets like KING-TV and KCTS, as well as national channels including The History Channel. She has produced more than 45 documentaries on topics such as Mt. Rainier, the Columbia River, Northwest artists, homelessness, and more. She donated more than 400 of her films and tapes to the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. The moving image material was processed during this project and will shortly be available to researchers across the globe.