Category: Events & Exhibits

• 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: […]

• 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 […]

• “Sifting and Winnowing and Film Burning”: The Film UW Restricted

  Posted on Apr 9th

  Listen to the recording of the event here. By: Kacie Lucchini Butcher – Public History Project Director In April of 1962, a box […]

• UW-Madison Friends of the Libraries Present: “Black Woman Professor – White University” Nellie Y. McKay at UW-Madison

  Posted on Mar 18th

  The Friends of UW-Madison Libraries will bring Dr. Benjamin to campus virtually on April 8 at 4PM CDT. She and Dr. Monica […]

• Libraries host virtual study jams in time for midterms

  Posted on Mar 10th

  *update March 31, 2021: The April 1 will not take place. We will provide updated opportunities for finals soon. Do you miss […]

• The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries Presents: The Campus Color Line

  Posted on Feb 16th

  For Dr. Eddie R. Cole, the past can contribute to conversations in the present. In his new book, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents […]

• Library Lovers Month 2021

  Posted on Feb 8th

  The entire month of February is dedicated to the people who love whole buildings devoted to reading, housing, organizing, categorizing, finding, studying […]

• Data Science Research Bazaar, February 2021

  Posted on Jan 15th

  UW-Madison’s Data Science Hub is hosting its second annual Data Science Research Bazaar “Data Science for the Social Good” this February, 2021. The virtual […]