Category: News & Announcements

• Celebrate Woodland Pattern archive acquisition with the Department of Special Collections

  Posted on Feb 11th

  If you have been up to the Department of Special Collections lately, you probably noticed the exhibit devoted to the recent acquisition […]

• UW–Madison Library’s Own Monuments Men

  Posted on Feb 4th

  “Archivists and librarians don’t typically get a lot of publicity. So when Hollywood stars like Matt Damon and George Clooney portray the […]

• A Big Year: 30th Anniversary Celebration for the Grants Information Collection

  Posted on Jan 30th

  This January is a huge year for Memorial Library’s Grants Information Collection! 30 years ago, the Grants Information Collection (GIC) became a […]

• Civil Rights Film Series at the Wisconsin Historical Society

  Posted on Jan 23rd

  The Wisconsin Historical Society will host the first film in a four-part documentary series, Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle, in Madison […]

• The Libraries Mourn the Loss of Edith “Edie” Dixon, Academic Librarian

  Posted on Jan 20th

  Edith “Edie” Dixon, 62, senior academic librarian and an important part of the Library Technology Group at Memorial Library, was hit and […]

• Milestone for UW–Madison Libraries Copyright Review Team

  Posted on Jan 17th

  The Libraries experienced a happy coincidence this week: our HathiTrust copyright team finished reviewing all US works the same week as Copyright […]

• “Life and Limb” exhibit provides rare look into medical history of Civil War

  Posted on Jan 15th

  The latest exhibit at Ebling Library provides a fascinating glimpse into the Civil War, through the lens of battlefield surgeries and amputations. […]

• Bunny Berigan: Still Swingin’ & Jumpin’ at the Mills Music Library

  Posted on Jan 14th

  Mike Zirpolo spent 50 years fascinated with tragic and talented jazz trumpeter of the swing era, Bunny Berigan. In 2011, Zirpolo turned […]

• Go Big Read Seeks Service-Focused Titles for 2014-15 Program

  Posted on Jan 13th

  Go Big Read, UW–Madison’s Common Reading Program, has received lots of deserved attention in the past few years. The magic of the […]

• Doug Way named Associate University Librarian for Collections and Research Services

  Posted on Jan 7th

  UW–Madison Libraries Vice Provost Ed Van Gemert is pleased to announce that Doug Way, currently Head of Collections and Scholarly Communications at […]

• Libraries Create a Guide to Mandela’s Life and Work

  Posted on Dec 20th

  UW—Madison Libraries compile Research Guides full of useful resources in order to help patrons. These can range from guides to newspapers to […]

• Parallel Press book ‘Witness to an Ending’ in the Wisconsin State Journal

  Posted on Dec 18th

  Witness to an Ending, a recent Parallel Press (UW–Madison Libraries, 2013) publication, was featured in a moving article on December 18, 2013 […]