Month: January 2014
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Posted on January 30, 2014
A Big Year: 30th Anniversary Celebration for the Grants Information Collection
This January is a huge year for Memorial Library’s Grants Information Collection! 30 years ago, the Grants Information Collection (GIC) became a partner of the […]
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Posted on January 29, 2014
Library to Host Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented: a 2010 survey revealed that less than 13% of Wikipedia contributors identify as female. The practical effect of this […]
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Posted on January 28, 2014
Staff Spotlight: The creative and passionate storyteller, Micaela Sullivan-Fowler
Our staff spotlight this month is Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, Curator and History of Health Sciences Librarian and Head of Marketing and Communications at Ebling Library. Micaela’s […]
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Posted on January 23, 2014
Civil Rights Film Series at the Wisconsin Historical Society
The Wisconsin Historical Society will host the first film in a four-part documentary series, Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle, in Madison on Wednesday, February […]
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Posted on January 20, 2014
The Libraries Mourn the Loss of Edith “Edie” Dixon, Academic Librarian
Edith “Edie” Dixon, 62, senior academic librarian and an important part of the Library Technology Group at Memorial Library, was hit and killed by a […]
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Posted on January 17, 2014
Milestone for UW–Madison Libraries Copyright Review Team
The Libraries experienced a happy coincidence this week: our HathiTrust copyright team finished reviewing all US works the same week as Copyright Week. It wasn’t […]
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Posted on January 15, 2014
“Life and Limb” exhibit provides rare look into medical history of Civil War
The latest exhibit at Ebling Library provides a fascinating glimpse into the Civil War, through the lens of battlefield surgeries and amputations. More than three […]
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Posted on January 14, 2014
Bunny Berigan: Still Swingin’ & Jumpin’ at the Mills Music Library
Mike Zirpolo spent 50 years fascinated with tragic and talented jazz trumpeter of the swing era, Bunny Berigan. In 2011, Zirpolo turned the fascination into […]
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Posted on January 13, 2014
Go Big Read Seeks Service-Focused Titles for 2014-15 Program
Go Big Read, UW–Madison’s Common Reading Program, has received lots of deserved attention in the past few years. The magic of the program is the […]
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Posted on January 8, 2014
UW—Madison art exhibition “Victorian Eyes” featured in Boston Globe
“Victorian Eyes” is an art exhibition created through a collaboration between Carrie Roy (coordinator for the Humanities Research Bridge), Catherine DeRose (PhD Candidate in English […]