University of Wisconsin Archives

The University of Wisconsin Archives at Steenbock Library, contains several collections related to the Center for Limnology.

Where are the archives?

The University of Wisconsin Archives at Steenbock Library, 550 Babcock Dr. For more in-depth directions to the UW Archives please visit their accessibility page.  

What is in the archives?

Summary of the Limnology Collection in the UW Archives include

• Documentation of the history of limnology in Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the late 1800s to the present.
• Materials on the limnologists from Edward. A. Birge and Chancey Juday, to A. D. Hasler, and to John J. Magnuson, James F. Kitchell, Stepehn R. Carpenter, and present faculty and staff.
• Materials and data from graduate students over the years.
• Major research programs such as the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research Program and Network, the Trophic Cascade, Little Rock Lake Experimental Acidification, and research on Lake Mendota and the Madison Lakes.
• The formation of the Center for Limnology, and facilities at the Center’s field laboratories on Lake Mendota in Madison and Trout Lake in Northern Wisconsin.
• Additional materials, including (not a comprehensive list):
  • Original data.
  • Written documentation in correspondence.
  • Meeting minutes.
  • Project proposals.
  • Academic activities by faculty/staff/students.
• Early files of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) that began with C. Juday in Madison.

How to Access

Visitors to the University Archives must register for an Archives and Special Collections Account. Anyone can register for a free account and this system will allow you to request non-circulating materials from the University Archives, Special Collections and the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives. Sign up for an Archives and Special Collections account to request materials via the library catalog, schedule a visit, order reproductions, track the status of your requests and access your research history.

Contact the UW-Madison Archives for more information at uwarchives@library.wisc.edu or 608-262-5629.

The Limnology Archives are organized by two different organizational structures the first being materials under series 39 and the second being various accession numbers. To see the scans of the finding aids and an inventory of the Limnology materials in the UW Archives request by email to limlib@mailplus.wisc.edu.

Under series 59 finding aids include 

• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.pdf
• aslo gen. subject file box 9 folder 52
• ASLO General Files, Annual and other Meetings
• ASLO General Files, Committee Activities
• ASLO General Financial Records
• ASLO- Membership Materials
• Bibliography for John J. Magnuson and Associates L…oratory of Limnology, University of Wisconsin
• Departmental Files Hasler
• General Files, Fifteenth International Congress of Limnology
• lakes and streams collection
• Limnology General Files, A.D. Hasler .pdf
• Limnology General Files, Fifteenth International Conference of Limnology
• Secretary’s files (memb. cards)

Each of the Finding aids have a separate spreadsheet connected to each 

Collections organized by Accession number 

• 85/87
• 90/524
• 90/525
• 90/528
• 05/155
• 90/522
• 90/86
• 90/86
• 85/84
• 85/15
• 02-64
• 90/6
• 08/105
• 08/119
• 08/493
• 08/575
• 09-58
• 2009/169
• 2009-176
• 08/105
• 2009-176
• 08/119

Request the master spreadsheet of the archives at limlib@mailplus.wisc.edu that included items of every item within the collections