News & Events

• Library to Host Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

  Posted on January 29, 2014

  Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented: a 2010 survey revealed that less than 13% of Wikipedia contributors identify as female. The practical […]

• Staff Spotlight: The creative and passionate storyteller, Micaela Sullivan-Fowler

  Posted on January 28, 2014

  Our staff spotlight this month is Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, Curator and History of Health Sciences Librarian and Head of Marketing and Communications at […]

• Civil Rights Film Series at the Wisconsin Historical Society

  Posted on January 23, 2014

  The Wisconsin Historical Society will host the first film in a four-part documentary series, Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle, in Madison […]

• The Libraries Mourn the Loss of Edith “Edie” Dixon, Academic Librarian

  Posted on January 20, 2014

  Edith “Edie” Dixon, 62, senior academic librarian and an important part of the Library Technology Group at Memorial Library, was hit and […]

• Milestone for UW–Madison Libraries Copyright Review Team

  Posted on January 17, 2014

  The Libraries experienced a happy coincidence this week: our HathiTrust copyright team finished reviewing all US works the same week as Copyright […]

• “Life and Limb” exhibit provides rare look into medical history of Civil War

  Posted on January 15, 2014

  The latest exhibit at Ebling Library provides a fascinating glimpse into the Civil War, through the lens of battlefield surgeries and amputations. […]

• Bunny Berigan: Still Swingin’ & Jumpin’ at the Mills Music Library

  Posted on January 14, 2014

  Mike Zirpolo spent 50 years fascinated with tragic and talented jazz trumpeter of the swing era, Bunny Berigan. In 2011, Zirpolo turned […]

• Go Big Read Seeks Service-Focused Titles for 2014-15 Program

  Posted on January 13, 2014

  Go Big Read, UW–Madison’s Common Reading Program, has received lots of deserved attention in the past few years. The magic of the […]

• UW—Madison art exhibition “Victorian Eyes” featured in Boston Globe

  Posted on January 8, 2014

  “Victorian Eyes” is an art exhibition created through a collaboration between Carrie Roy (coordinator for the Humanities Research Bridge), Catherine DeRose (PhD […]

• Doug Way named Associate University Librarian for Collections and Research Services

  Posted on January 7, 2014

  UW–Madison Libraries Vice Provost Ed Van Gemert is pleased to announce that Doug Way, currently Head of Collections and Scholarly Communications at […]

• Warm up with the Libraries’ Charity Knitting & Crocheting group

  Posted on January 2, 2014

  The holiday season may be over, but the weather outside is still frightful—what better way to warm up than by catching up […]

• Latin Dictionary Completed after 100 Years

  Posted on December 27, 2013

  Memorial Library carries the result of a 100-year project, the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, that finally culminated in its […]