Category: Friends of the Libraries

• 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 […]

• Libraries Fall 2021 Magazine is Now Available!

  Posted on Oct 27th

  The Fall 2021 Libraries Magazine is full of great stories of how libraries make a difference every day. In this issue, you can read […]

• Fast Fun Facts with the UW-Madison Libraries

  Posted on Oct 13th

  **Updated on August, 2025** (page originally published in 2021) The UW-Madison Libraries presents our Fast Fun Facts episodes! On this post, you’re […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• Jim Dast, the Friends “Million Dollar Man,” Receives Jefferson Award for His Years of Dedication to the Libraries

  Posted on Oct 1st

  Jim Dast was recently recognized for achieving $1 million in total sales through the Friends used book sales by being chosen for […]