Fall 2008
Events
Thursday, September 11
"Animals and Humans in Early Modern Anatomical Illustrations"
4:30 p.m.
984 Memorial Library
Anita Guerrini was recently appointed as Horning Professor of the Humanities at Oregon State in recognition of her scholarship in history of life sciences and medicine and environmental history. The public is invited to this lecture, sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Library. Professor Guerrini will also be a participant in the conference, "The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine," scheduled for September 12-13 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Pyle Center.
The related Special Collections exhibit "Color Enhanced: Use of Color in Scientific Books" draws on strong holdings of illustrated books of science and natural history from the 15th through the 20th century. The exhibit, designed to complement the conference "The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine," is open through September 14 in 976 Memorial Library.
Thursday, September 18
FELIX: A Series of New Writing
4:30 p.m.
126 Memorial Library
The Friends host authors Philip Metres and Mark Nowak.
Philip Metres, poet, translator and scholar, is the author the poetry collection, To See the Earth (2008), the chapbooks, Instants (2006) and Primer for
Non-Native Speakers (2004), the translations, Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein (2004) and A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (2003), as well as the critical study, Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 (2007). He teaches literature and creative writing at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mark Nowak is the author of Revenants, Shut Up Shut Down (afterword by Amiri Baraka), and Coal Mountain Elementary (forthcoming), all from Coffee House Press. His writings on new labor poetics have recently appeared in The Progressive, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan UP), and Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke UP). In addition to facilitating “poetry dialogues” between Ford autoworkers at plants in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Port Elizabeth and Pretoria, South Africa, Nowak is editing a section on late-apartheid worker poets for an anthology forthcoming from Wesleyan as well as a special double issue of the journal he founded in 1996, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, on South African literature and social movements.
Thursday, September 25
"The Art of College Humor"
4:30 p.m.
984 Memorial Library
John Dobbertin
Dobbertin's lecture, sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Library, will explore the checkered history of campus humor magazines from the late 19th century to the 21st.
The related exhibit, on display from September 22 through December 2008, features the extensive and lively collection of campus humor magazines assembled and donated to the Department of Special Collections by John and Barbara Dobbertin. The magazines on exhibit, from the Harvard Lampoon to the UW's own Octopus, are part of what may be the largest collection of campus humor magazines in the United States.
October 15-18
Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries Semiannual Book Sale
Wednesday through Saturday
116 Memorial Library
Come and explore the Friends 26th semiannual book sale, the largest used book sale in Wisconsin. Students, faculty, staff and Madison residents donate materials ranging from literature and philosophy to science and reference texts. Proceeds help support grants for special needs of campus libraries, the Friends grants-in-aid program for visiting scholars, and other programming. Ten percent of the proceeds are transferred to the Friends’ growing endowment.
Wednesday, October 15
Preview sale ($5 entry)
5 – 9 p.m.
Thursday – Friday, October 16-17
(No entry fee)
10:30 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday, October 18
$3-a-Bag Sale
(Bring your own bag, or buy one for $1)
10:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
For more information on the sales, including how to donate books or volunteer for the spring book sale, please call 608-265-2505, e-mail the Friends, or visit the Friends book sale page.
Thursday, November 20
"Obsession: O. Winston Link's Documentation of the Steam Railroad and the Good Life in America"
4:30 p.m.
126 Memorial Library
Tom Garver, who now works in retirement as administrator for the Friends, has had an almost lifelong involvement with the American photographer, O. Winston Link (1914-2001). Link, a commercial industrial photographer living and working in New York City, loved the American steam railroad, and in early 1955 began photographing the last main line railroad to use steam power exclusively--the Norfolk and Western Railway. For the next five years, Link, working for himself alone and as an obsessive labor of love, spent a total of about nine months along the railroad's rights of way in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, documenting both the great steam locomotives and everyday life along the line.
For about a year, from 1957 to 1958, Garver worked as a part time assistant to Link, making three trips with him to help make railroad photographs and tape recordings. Garver, who served as Link's business agent for the last seven years of his life, also wrote the text of The Last Steam Railroad in America, the second book of Link's N&W photos. Following Link's death in 2001, Garver was named organizing curator of the O. Winston Link Museum, located in the historic railroad station of Roanoke, Virginia, the only museum devoted to the work of a single photographer in the United States. Tom Garver will speak on how Winston Link developed a style which is both documentary and so popular that he became one of America's most highly collected photographers.
Thursday, December 4
FELIX: A Series of New Writing
4:30 p.m.
126 Memorial Library
Kimberly Johnson is the author of two collections of poetry, Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God, as well as a translation of Virgil's 
Georgics. Recipient of awards and fellowships from the Utah Arts Council, Sewanee Writers, and the National Endowment for the Arts, she has recent work in Slate, Yale Review, and The New Yorker.
Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the author of the poetry collection Red Summer, winner of the 2004 Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press. A former Wallace E. Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, his poems have appeared in The Cave Canem Anthology, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly, and Poetry Daily. He teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Exhibits
August 1-September 30
"College Humor to Italian Tesserae: Celebrating the Centennial of James S. Watrous"
Offical Grand Opening Thursday, September 25th, 4:30 p.m.
Special Collections Seminar Room, 9th Floor Memorial Library
Marking the centennial of James S. Watrous (1908-1999), the exhibit looks at the many contributions of this artist and art historian to the University of 
Wisconsin-Madison campus. The exhibit was inspired by John Dobbertin, a collector of college humor magazines, and Lynne Watrous Eich, daughter of James Watrous. The exhibit displays photographs, books and regalia from the University Archives, the Kohler Art Library and the Watrous family. As a doctoral candidate, Watrous studied with the noted German art historian Oskar Hagen, earning his Ph.D. in 1939, at which time he joined the Department of Art History, where he taught until his retirement in 1976. His interest in art flourished in the 1950s when he travelled to Italy to study mosaic techniques. Using small tesserae of colored Venetian glass, he created memorable mosaics for buildings on campus (Vilas Hall, Memorial Union, Ingraham Hall, and the Social Sciences building). The exhibit is curated by Lyn Korenic and David Null.
September 22-mid-December 2008
The Art of College Humor: Campus Humor Magazines from the Dobbertin Collection
Department of Special Collections
976 Memorial Library
This exhibit will feature the extensive and lively collection of campus humor magazines assembled and donated to the Department of Special Collections by John and Barbara Dobbertin. The magazines on display, from the Harvard Lampoon to the UW’s own Octopus, are part of what may be the largest collection of college humor magazines in the United States. The collection ranges from the late 19th century to the 21st, and addresses topics both light-hearted and controversial. Some of the humor stands well the test of time, while other jokes and cartoons make today’s readers cringe.
On September 25 John Dobbertin will introduce the exhibit with a lecture sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries. A complementary exhibit at Kohler Art Library, “College Humor to Italian Tesserae: Celebrating the Centennial of James S. Watrous,” runs through September 30.
For more information about the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, contact:
Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries
990 Memorial Library
728 State St.
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 265-2505
or
e-mail the Friends
Fall Events
Thursday, September 11
"Animals and Humans in Early Modern Anatomical Illustrations"
4:30 p.m.
984 Memorial Library
Anita Guerrini was recently appointed as Horning Professor of the Humanities at Oregon State in recognition of her scholarship in history of life sciences and medicine and environmental history. The public is invited to this lecture, sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Library. Professor Guerrini will also be a participant in the conference, "The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine," scheduled for September 12-13 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Pyle Center.
The related Special Collections exhibit "Color Enhanced: Use of Color in Scientific Books" draws on strong holdings of illustrated books of science and natural history from the 15th through the 20th century. The exhibit, designed to complement the conference "The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine," is open through September 14 in 976 Memorial Library.
Thursday, September 18
FELIX: A Series of New Writing
4:30 p.m.
126 Memorial Library
The Friends host authors Philip Metres and Mark Nowak.
Philip Metres, poet, translator and scholar, is the author the poetry collection, To See the Earth (2008), the chapbooks, Instants (2006) and Primer for Non-Native Speakers (2004), the translations, Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein (2004) and A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (2003), as well as the critical study, Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 (2007). He teaches literature and creative writing at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mark Nowak is the author of Revenants, Shut Up Shut Down (afterword by Amiri Baraka), and Coal Mountain Elementary (forthcoming), all from Coffee House Press. His writings on new labor poetics have recently appeared in The Progressive, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan UP), and Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke UP). In addition to facilitating “poetry dialogues” between Ford autoworkers at plants in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Port Elizabeth and Pretoria, South Africa, Nowak is editing a section on late-apartheid worker poets for an anthology forthcoming from Wesleyan as well as a special double issue of the journal he founded in 1996, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, on South African literature and social movements.
Thursday, September 25
"The Art of College Humor"
4:30 p.m.
984 Memorial Library
John Dobbertin
Dobbertin's lecture, sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Library, will explore the checkered history of campus humor magazines from the late 19th century to the 21st.
The related exhibit, on display from September 22 through December 2008, features the extensive and lively collection of campus humor magazines assembled and donated to the Department of Special Collections by John and Barbara Dobbertin. The magazines on exhibit, from the Harvard Lampoon to the UW's own Octopus, are part of what may be the largest collection of campus humor magazines in the United States.
October 15-18
Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries Semiannual Book Sale
Wednesday through Saturday
116 Memorial Library
Come and explore the Friends 26th semiannual book sale, the largest used book sale in Wisconsin. Students, faculty, staff and Madison residents donate materials ranging from literature and philosophy to science and reference texts. Proceeds help support grants for special needs of campus libraries, the Friends grants-in-aid program for visiting scholars, and other programming. Ten percent of the proceeds are transferred to the Friends’ growing endowment.
Wednesday, October 15
Preview sale ($5 entry)
5 – 9 p.m.
Thursday – Friday, October 16-17
(No entry fee)
10:30 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday, October 18
$3-a-Bag Sale
(Bring your own bag, or buy one for $1)
10:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
For more information on the sales, including how to donate books or volunteer for the spring book sale, please call 608-265-2505, e-mail the Friends, or visit the Friends book sale page.
Thursday, November 20
"Obsession: O. Winston Link's Documentation of the Steam Railroad and the Good Life in America"
4:30 p.m.
126 Memorial Library
Tom Garver, who now works in retirement as administrator for the Friends, has had an almost lifelong involvement with the American photographer, O. Winston Link (1914-2001). Link, a commercial industrial photographer living and working in New York City, loved the American steam railroad, and in early 1955 began photographing the last main line railroad to use steam power exclusively--the Norfolk and Western Railway. For the next five years, Link, working for himself alone and as an obsessive labor of love, spent a total of about nine months along the railroad's rights of way in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, documenting both the great steam locomotives and everyday life along the line.
For about a year, from 1957 to 1958, Garver worked as a part time assistant to Link, making three trips with him to help make railroad photographs and tape recordings. Garver, who served as Link's business agent for the last seven years of his life, also wrote the text of The Last Steam Railroad in America, the second book of Link's N&W photos. Following Link's death in 2001, Garver was named organizing curator of the O. Winston Link Museum, located in the historic railroad station of Roanoke, Virginia, the only museum devoted to the work of a single photographer in the United States. Tom Garver will speak on how Winston Link developed a style which is both documentary and so popular that he became one of America's most highly collected photographers.
Thursday, December 4
FELIX: A Series of New Writing
4:30 p.m.
126 Memorial Library
Kimberly Johnson is the author of two collections of poetry, Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God, as well as a translation of Virgil's Georgics. Recipient of awards and fellowships from the Utah Arts Council, Sewanee Writers, and the National Endowment for the Arts, she has recent work in Slate, Yale Review, and The New Yorker.
Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the author of the poetry collection Red Summer, winner of the 2004 Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press. A former Wallace E. Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, his poems have appeared in The Cave Canem Anthology, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly, and Poetry Daily. He teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For more information about the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, contact:
Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries
990 Memorial Library
728 State St.
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 265-2505
or
e-mail the Friends
Friends Semiannual Book Sale
October 15-18
Friends of the UW-Madison Library Semiannual Book Sale
Wednesday through Saturday
116 Memorial Library
Come and explore the Friends 26th semiannual book sale, the largest used book sale in Wisconsin. Students, faculty, staff and Madison residents donate materials ranging from literature and philosophy to science and reference texts. Proceeds help support grants for special needs of campus libraries, the Friends grants-in-aid program for visiting scholars, and other programming. Ten percent of the proceeds are transferred to the Friends’ growing endowment.
Wednesday, October 15
Preview sale ($5 entry)
5 – 9 p.m.
Thursday – Friday, October 16-17
(No entry fee)
10:30 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday, October 18
$3-a-Bag Sale
(Bring your own bag, or buy one for $1)
10:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
For more information on the sales, including how to donate books or volunteer for the spring book sale, please call 608-265-2505, e-mail the Friends, or visit the Friends book sale page.
For more information about the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, contact:
Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries
990 Memorial Library
728 State St.
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 265-2505
or
e-mail the Friends
Exhibits
August 1-September 30
"College Humor to Italian Tesserae: Celebrating the Centennial of James S. Watrous"
Thursday, September 25th, 4:30 p.m.
Special Collections Seminar Room, 9th Floor Memorial Library
Marking the centennial of James S. Watrous (1908-1999), the exhibit looks at the many contributions of this artist and art historian to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The exhibit was inspired by John Dobbertin, a collector of college humor magazines, and Lynne Watrous Eich, daughter of James Watrous. The exhibit displays photographs, books and regalia from the University Archives, the Kohler Art Library and the Watrous family. As a doctoral candidate, Watrous studied with the noted German art historian Oskar Hagen, earning his Ph.D. in 1939, at which time he joined the Department of Art History, where he taught until his retirement in 1976. His interest in art flourished in the 1950s when he travelled to Italy to study mosaic techniques. Using small tesserae of colored Venetian glass, he created memorable mosaics for buildings on campus (Vilas Hall, Memorial Union, Ingraham Hall, and the Social Sciences building). The exhibit is curated by Lyn Korenic and David Null.
September 22-mid-December 2008
The Art of College Humor: Campus Humor Magazines from the Dobbertin Collection
Department of Special Collections
976 Memorial Library
This exhibit will feature the extensive and lively collection of campus humor magazines assembled and donated to the Department of Special Collections by John and Barbara Dobbertin. The magazines on display, from the Harvard Lampoon to the UW’s own Octopus, are part of what may be the largest collection of college humor magazines in the United States. The collection ranges from the late 19th century to the 21st, and addresses topics both light-hearted and controversial. Some of the humor stands well the test of time, while other jokes and cartoons make today’s readers cringe.
On September 25 John Dobbertin will introduce the exhibit with a lecture sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries. A complementary exhibit at Kohler Art Library, “College Humor to Italian Tesserae: Celebrating the Centennial of James S. Watrous,” runs through September 30.
For more information about the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, contact:
Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries
990 Memorial Library
728 State St.
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 265-2505
or
e-mail the Friends