Category: National Clippings
Posts every Friday that highlight unique materials and interesting stories from beyond the UW-Madison Libraries.
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Posted on December 10, 2018
Leary earns another Grammy nomination
Jim Leary has earned another Grammy nomination in the category of Best Album Notes by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences for Alpine […]
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Posted on June 1, 2018
University Archives to Help Bring 1960s Madison Back to Life
On June 14-16th, 2018, Madison will take a trip back in time, as the Madison Reunion: Bringing the 60’s Back Home festival kicks off. The […]
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Posted on April 26, 2018
New Vice Provost for Libraries Announced!
Lisa R. Carter has been selected as the next vice provost for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Carter has been the associate director of special […]
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Posted on April 20, 2018
A Trip Around the World
In 2014, Dario Salvi, musical director at the Imperial Vienna Orchestra in the United Kingdom, contacted Mills Music Library to say the Johann Strauss Society […]
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Posted on July 27, 2017
American Voices from the Past Live Again
Fifty years after their voices were captured on tape, Americans who were interviewed for the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) are speaking again. “Their […]
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Posted on July 25, 2017
Google + Us!
In 2006 the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries established a partnership with Google to digitize books and make them available online. Now after a brief break, […]
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Posted on July 20, 2017
Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era
On June 29, Jim Leary conducted an interview with WPR, talking about his new publication Pinery Boys. The book draws on material in the Mills Music Library’s Wisconsin Music […]
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Posted on July 17, 2017
Mayrent Collection of Yiddish Recordings receives Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation award
by Scott Carter The Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture and Mills Music Library have received a $5,000 grant from the Marinus and Minna B. Koster […]
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Posted on April 26, 2017
Exploring Special Collections: Libraries Where the Rarest Books Live
by Emma Allmann / BookRiot We’ve all got that one extra special book that’s filled with nostalgia and feelings. You know the one I’m […]
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Posted on November 3, 2016
First Folio’s arrival a Shakespearean thriller
by Gayle Worland, Wisconsin State Journal Get ready for Shakespeare’s dramatic entrance. The First Folio is coming to Madison, one of the last stops in […]