Category: Featured

• Uncovering the Hoopes Sisters’ Collection

  Posted on Jul 25th

  When University of Wisconsin–Madison English Language and Humanities Librarian Susan Barribeau acquired 25 sketchbooks of Florence and Margaret Hoopes in 2008, she […]

• Mayrent Collection of Yiddish Recordings receives Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation award

  Posted on Jul 17th

  by Scott Carter The Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture and Mills Music Library have received a $5,000 grant from the Marinus and […]

• Spring / Summer 2017 Magazine Now Available

  Posted on Jun 28th

  In the Summer 2017 issue, you can read about the treasured Hoopes Sisters’ Collection. Learn about the unique path that brought a UW-Madison […]

• Transforming Space, Transforming Learning: The WSB Learning Commons

  Posted on Jun 26th

  ~By Clare Becker (Wisconsin School of Business) During construction of the Learning Commons, the Business Library’s service points will be displaced throughout […]

• Q&A: Carrie Kruse taps student experiences to lead UW-Madison’s College Library

  Posted on Jun 5th

  By Pat Schneider, featured in the June 4, 2017 Capital Times When hundreds of students entered College Library in December 2014 for […]

• Go Big Read selects ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ for 2017-18

  Posted on May 2nd

  ~ by Käri Knutson / University Communications J.D. Vance didn’t write a book because he accomplished something extraordinary, he tells readers in […]

• SOAR Advising’s Move to College Library Brings Summer Changes to Current Learning Spaces, WisCEL

  Posted on May 1st

  The start of summer orientation for new University of Wisconsin-Madison students is just around the corner. This year, each new student will […]

• The Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian Celebrates 40 years of feminist librarianship

  Posted on Apr 26th

  In 1977, as faculty, staff, librarians, and administrators across the University of Wisconsin System recognized the need to identify and organize resources […]

• Cartonera Collection Open House, April 24

  Posted on Apr 21st

  The Ibero-American Studies Collection, Special Collections, and Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies (LACIS) invites you this Monday April 24th for an […]

• Libraries Announce Long-Term Master Plan Process Updates, Prepare for Campus Town Halls

  Posted on Apr 19th

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries are prepared to embark on the next phase of the campus libraries facilities master plan process. Once […]

• The Great Libraries of UW-Madison – A History of Transformation

  Posted on Apr 7th

  Join distinguished University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty member William Cronon ’76, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental […]

• Local farm family to compile oral histories

  Posted on Mar 28th

  ~  via The Charlotte News (Lydia Clemmons) The University of Vermont and the University of Wisconsin are partnering with the Clemmons Family Farm […]