Category Archives: collections

Making Buttons
College Library now circulates two button-makers, one which makes 1-inch buttons, while the other produces 2¼-inch versions. Purchased for finals events, the button-makers proved to be very popular and the […]

New Titles for Gaus
In October of this year the bookshelves holding the Gaus Collection in Room 2191 unexpectedly collapsed. Since all of the items had to be moved while the shelving was repaired, […]

New Books in Gender & Women’s Studies Collection
The Gender & Women’s Studies Collection at College Library will soon feature over a dozen new titles. These books’ topics range from studies of gender identities to memoirs of LGBT […]

Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the right to read and the value of free and open access to literature and information. As this year’s graphic emphasizes, “Words have […]

The Long Journey Home
On a day when most of the country is looking to the skies in anticipation of a solar eclipse, it’s appropriate to recount the adventures of a sci-fi novel that […]

SOAR at College Library
Starting Monday, June 5, the advising component of SOAR has arrived at College Library. As was announced in January 2017, the undergraduate library at UW-Madison is now the permanent home to […]

Graphic Novels Added
The Open Book Collection at College Library has a number of new graphic novels coming soon! Among the titles being added are Books 1-10 of Dave Sim’s Cerebus the Aardvark. Cerebus, which began […]

New Collaborative Space
College Library strives to be an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. We’ve recently reviewed our space use policies and have made the decision to transform 1193, which houses our Ethnic Studies […]

Video Games at College Library
With the advent of PS4 and Xbox One systems, the video game shelving at College Library runneth over. In order to alleviate some congestion, all of the Wii, WiiU, PS4 and […]

New SciFi Titles
A recent blog post at HuffingtonPost.com encourages everyone to read more science fiction novels. According to the authors, “science fiction asks questions of us—of humanity, of Earth, of individuals—that we wouldn’t ordinarily ask […]