Category: Events & Exhibits

• Libraries offer extra hours, activities for a reduced-stress finals week

  Posted on Apr 23rd

  Don’t let the stress of semester’s end get you down! While libraries help you study or complete research year-round, we also offer […]

• Attend Libraries’ first-ever Study Crawl on May 1

  Posted on Apr 22nd

  Buckle up, bookworms: Soon you can end your semester with an adventure! UW-Madison Libraries are hosting the first-ever Study Crawl on Friday, […]

• 6 unexpected ways to celebrate National Library Week at UW–Madison

  Posted on Apr 20th

  There’s always something to learn at UW–Madison Libraries, and that includes details about the supportive services, subscriptions and spaces we offer to […]

• Papermaking on Library Mall

  Posted on Sep 23rd

  Join us on Tuesday, September 23, from 1:00 – 4:00 PM for a FREE, hands-on papermaking session with master papermaker Robert Possehl […]

• Saving Hearts and Killing Rats: Karl Paul Link and the Discovery of Warfarin

  Posted on Sep 4th

  Friends of the Libraries 2025 Annual Schewe Lecture Thursday, September 25, 2025 | 5:00 – 7:00 P.M. Steenbock Library, 550 Babcock Drive […]

• UW Libraries Blood Drive on June 16th

  Posted on May 16th

  The annual UW Libraries Blood Drive will take place on Monday, June 16, 2025 from noon until 5 p.m. in 116 Memorial […]

• 11th Annual Maureen Grant Memorial Blood Drive

  Posted on Jun 5th

  UW–Madison Librarians have honored the memory of longtime colleague, Maureen Grant, who passed away in 2011, by holding a blood drive with the […]

• Mark Your Calendars for Press Play: Recorded Sound from Groove to Stream

  Posted on Sep 15th

  Mark your calendars for Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 3:00-4:00 p.m., to stop by Special Collections to see (and hear) the exhibit Press Play: […]

• Celebrating Libraries – Day of the Badger 2022

  Posted on Mar 16th

  Day of the Badger returns April 5–6. Mark your calendars now to celebrate what makes UW–Madison great. When you give to the […]

• Friends Book Sales in the Pandemic Era: October 20-23

  Posted on Oct 12th

  Friends Book Sales in the Pandemic Era: October 20-23 Like many other community events, the Friends of UW-Madison Libraries’ biannual used book […]

• Treaty Day 2021

  Posted on Sep 20th

  On Wednesday, September 29 at 6 pm: Join us for a live, virtual event to learn from the Ho-Chunk Nation’s leading legal […]

• Special Collections Fall 2021 Exhibit – Science at UW-Madison: Sources for its History

  Posted on Sep 16th

  Exploring the history of any scientific field at UW-Madison would be a daunting prospect, much more so teaching and research across the […]