Library News & Events

• A pinch of history: the Carson Gulley Cookbook Collection

  Posted on Jul 27th

  Fans of beautiful books, libraries, and bookstores will be smitten with this website, A Pretty Book. A post from July 25th, “Cooking […]

• “Expanding the Home Circle” exhibition in Special Collections

  Posted on Jul 23rd

  A new exhibit, “Expanding the Home Circle: An Exhibit of Artists’ Books Paired with Illustrated Books 
from the Cairns Collection of American […]

• Parallel Press titles earn Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards

  Posted on Jul 23rd

  Poetry chapbooks by three Parallel Press authors were included in the Wisconsin Library Association’s Outstanding Achievement for Poetry list for 2012. The […]

• New perfume captures the scent of “freshly printed books”

  Posted on Jul 20th

  Designer Karl Lagerfeld, Wallpaper magazine, and perfumer Geza Schoen joined forces to produce “Paper Passion,” a perfume intended to capture the scent […]

• Exhibition in Memorial Library lobby explores Polish “phenomenon of solidarity”

  Posted on Jul 18th

  A unique exhibition of historical images documenting the Solidarity movement in Poland is on display in the main lobby of Memorial Library […]

• The Parents Fund: Supporting UW Libraries

  Posted on Jun 1st

  The Parents Program is an ongoing campaign of the UW Foundation that raises money to support student projects that are beyond the […]

• UW Digital Collections Center announces new digital collections

  Posted on Mar 7th

  These collections have recently been added to the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections by the UWDCC. Art Thesis Image Collection In lieu […]