Category: Featured

• Who Do You Think YOU Are? Wisconsin Historical Society Releases Genealogy Webinars, Workshops, and Class Schedule

  Posted on Sep 14th

  Do you know how far your family tree extends? Do you know where you REALLY come from and who makes up the […]

• The UW Band Tours the West in the Summer of 1915

  Posted on Aug 5th

  The following is an excerpt from a blog written by University Archivist David Null. To view the full blog, visit the UW-Madison Archives’ blog […]

• MAYRENT INSTITUTE NOW HOME TO OLDEST SURVIVING RECORDINGS OF YIDDISH MUSIC

  Posted on Jul 9th

  The Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture has acquired the twelve earliest known cylinder recordings of Yiddish music, released c.1901 by the one-time […]

• Emilie Songolo, Senior Academic Librarian at Memorial Library, honored as Outstanding Women of Color

  Posted on Jun 23rd

  The 2015 Outstanding Women of Color Selection Committee is pleased to announce the seven Outstanding Women of Color for 2015-16: Earlise Ward, […]

• Undergrads Receive Library Research Awards

  Posted on Jun 17th

  ~ By Pamela O’Donnell Two undergraduate library research awards were presented by Kelli Hughes at the Undergraduate Symposium at Union South on […]

• New Services Platform Offers Greater Access to Materials at UW—Madison’s Verona Shelving Facility

  Posted on Jun 1st

  With the rollout of a new unified library services platform across the University of Wisconsin System libraries, the UW—Madison Library’s Verona Shelving […]

• Gowns with a Message – Catharsis: An Exploration of Art, Disease and Healing

  Posted on Apr 20th

  Catharsis: An Exploration of Art, Disease and Healing will be on the 2nd floor landing of the Health Sciences Learning Center, just […]

• Librarians Encourage You to…Read Your Food? Join the UW Libraries for the Annual Edible Book Festival!

  Posted on Mar 23rd

  Enter the Edible Book Festival by Friday, April 10th! Librarians are encouraging fellow Madisonians to join them in savoring books—edible books, that […]

• UW-Madison Libraries’ Kohler Art Library Welcomes Distinguished Book Artist Maureen Cummins for first annual Bernstein Book Arts Lecture

  Posted on Mar 4th

  Distinguished book artist Maureen Cummins will be welcomed to campus as the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries’ Kohler Art Library hosts the first […]

• Book Madness 2015 – Get Those Brackets Ready!

  Posted on Mar 4th

  Get your game face on – it’s time for the UW-Madison Libraries annual Book Madness bracket tournament. 64 books need our community […]

• University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries and the Chazen Museum of Art to Host Shakespeare’s First Folio Exhibition in 2016

  Posted on Feb 26th

  Folger Shakespeare Library Announces 52 Host Sites Across the Country for Traveling Exhibition to Mark the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death The […]

• Wisconsin Historical Society To Host Program on Milwaukee’s Civil Rights Struggle

  Posted on Feb 4th

  On the evening of February 24th, the Wisconsin Historical Society will feature a program at its Madison headquarters on the civil rights […]