Category: National Clippings

• Big Ten Academic Alliance News – Big Collection, PLOS Publishing Deal, and Accessibility Alliance Expansion

  Posted on Feb 9th

  BIG Collection and PLOS Publishing Deal As members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), the UW-Madison Libraries benefit greatly from being […]

• University Archives Part of National Awards for Work on Lands We Share Project

  Posted on Jul 30th

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries are thrilled to be a part of a statewide, multi-campus team honored with three awards. The Lands […]

• Celebrating Open Education Resources (OER) Week 2020!

  Posted on Mar 2nd

  Introduction to OER: A Library Brown Bag Tuesday, March 3, 2020 Memorial Library | Mendota 330T | 12pm-1pm Library workers are encouraged […]

• Chazen Museum of Art and UW–Madison Libraries receive major grant from Mellon Foundation

  Posted on Feb 17th

  Funds will support efforts to enhance discovery, digitize and preserve the Chazen’s archives The University of Wisconsin–Madison has been awarded a $500,000 […]

• LGBTQ Archive Receives Governor’s Archives Award for Archival Advocacy

  Posted on Oct 21st

  The LGBTQ Archives is proud to announce it has received the 2018 Governor’s Archives Award for Archival Advocacy – 50 years after […]

• Go Big Read book ‘The Poison Squad’ offers food for thought

  Posted on Oct 11th

  ~ by Käri Knutson, University Communications Would you like a little cinnamon with your brick dust? Wait. You didn’t know you were […]

• 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 […]

• ACRL Member of the Week: Carrie Kruse

  Posted on Jul 8th

  Carrie Kruse is the Director, College Library, User Experience & Library Spaces at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Carrie has been a […]

• UW Project Aims to Digitize Fragile WHA Archives

  Posted on Jun 7th

  In 1917, an experiment from the UW-Madison physics department became the country’s first public radio station. In the mid-1900s, a variety of […]

• UW-Madison Archives Receives CLIR Award to Digitize 250 At-Risk Recordings

  Posted on May 17th

  (2/19/2021) UPDATE** Cat Phan was featured on the Wisconsin Public Radio’s The Morning Show this week (Feb 16th) talking about the CLIR-funded […]

• Doug Way named next Dean of Libraries for University of Kentucky

  Posted on May 9th

  Associate University Librarian for Collections and Research Service Doug Way has been selected as the next Dean of Libraries and W.T. Young […]

• UW–Madison Archives’ Oral History Program Partners with The Lands We Share project to welcome special exhibition to Madison

  Posted on Apr 7th

  For more than a year, the project team for The Lands We Share (LWS) effort has traveled the state meeting, talking to, […]