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Go Big Read Seeks Nominations for Sophomore Year
Book nominations for the program's second year can be made on the Go Big Read website.

Writer and Poet Eileen Myles to Speak at Memorial Library
The author of The Importance of Being Iceland will give a talk entitled "Vernacular Scholarship: New Poetry and Readings from The Importance of Being Iceland Essays on Art, Queerness, Discomfort and Landscape."

Nothing to Hide Bequeathal Reception
Hosted by WYOU Community Television and Memorial Library, the event marks the transfer of ownership of the David Runyon Collection to Memorial Library.

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"Cartonera"

"Akademia Cartonera: A Primer of Latin American Cartonera Publishers" edited by Ksenija Bilbija and Paloma Celis Carbajal is now available to order from Parallel Press.

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"Webster"

The UW Digital Collections introduces its most recent digitized collection: Joseph Philbrick Webster Music Manuscripts (ca. 1840s-1874). Webster is best known as an American songwriter and composer during the Civil War and the years after. His most popular work was “The Sweet By and By," which he composed to words written by Dr. Sanford Fillmore Bennett.  Webster was born near Manchester, New Hampshire, but by the 1850s, had moved west to Racine, Wisconsin in 1856 and finally settled in Elkhorn, Wisconsin in 1859. The house that Webster purchased is now home to the Walworth County Historical Society. This collection contains published materials and manuscripts from the Mills Music Library Collection. This digital project was funded, in part, by the UW-Madison Friends of the Libraries.