Category: Featured

• New Archive Preserves and Honors Work of Esteemed Eye Researcher Alice McPherson

  Posted on Dec 16th

  Dr. Alice McPherson with a group of all-male ophthalmologists at a conference in the 1960s or 1970s.

• Lewis Named Associate Dean of Libraries for IT & Administration

  Posted on Dec 12th

  Libraries is proud to announce that Anna Lewis has begun her role as Associate Dean of Libraries for Information Technology & Administration, […]

• Libraries Offer Extra Hours and Activities for Finals

  Posted on Dec 3rd

  Finals are stressful, but the UW-Madison Libraries know how to help you study, relax, and keep you studying strong. Extended Hours Some of our extra […]

• UW–Madison Libraries Opens the Michael A. West Graduate Room

  Posted on Oct 14th

  When Michael West reflects back on his childhood, he recalls hearing of the University of Wisconsin–Madison during visits to his grandparents and […]

• Libraries Featured in the Capital City Hues

  Posted on Sep 22nd

  In case you missed it, Dean Erla Heyns and Southeast Asian & Hmong Studies Librarian, Larry Ashmun, were featured in the Capital […]

• 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 […]

• Announcing HADES: Health Advertisements Database from Ebling Resources

  Posted on Jan 13th

  From Micaela D. Sullivan-Fowler, It has been a bit of a soft roll out, but for those who have discovered it, it’s been […]

• Carrie Kruse named as new Associate Dean of Libraries for Public Services

  Posted on Sep 17th

  UW-Madison Libraries announce the appointment of Carrie Kruse as the new Associate Dean of Libraries for Public Services. The Associate Dean for Public […]

• Welcome, Emma Bekele, Science and Engineering Librarian 

  Posted on Dec 6th

  Emma Bekele has joined the UW-Madison Libraries as a Science and Engineering Librarian at Steenbock Library. Emma is excited to join the […]

• It’s Finals Time Again! And the Libraries Have What You Need to Succeed

  Posted on May 1st

  You’ve made it to the end of the academic year, so now it’s time to finish strong! Let the UW-Madison Libraries be […]

• By Chance

  Posted on Jan 31st

  It’s not everyday we stumble upon a brochure that changes the course of our career. Was it by chance? Or possibly being […]

• Open Access Week reminds us to thank a librarian and get up to speed on changes to policy impacting public access to research data

  Posted on Oct 25th

  International Open Access Week, which runs Oct. 24 to 30, is an opportunity for the research community at UW­–Madison and its peer institutions […]