Category: News & Announcements

• Libraries Spring 2021 Magazine is now Available!

  Posted on Jun 2nd

  In the spring 2021 Libraries Magazine, we look at the extraordinary accomplishments of our staff, students, and organization during an incredibly challenging […]

• 2021 ARLies Award

  Posted on May 18th

  We are so thrilled to announce we received an Association of Research Libraries (ARLie) award for our “We Can Help!” video! Developed […]

• “Federated Repositories of Accessible Materials for Higher Education II” awarded a $1,175,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

  Posted on May 13th

  The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded a $1,175,000 grant to support the second phase of a collaborative project to reduce the […]

• Humanities Education for Anti-racism Literacy (HEAL) project receives a $5 million dollar grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative 

  Posted on May 4th

  The UW-Madison Libraries is pleased to share the interdisciplinary Humanities Education for Anti-racism Literacy (HEAL) in the Sciences and Medicine project recently […]

• “Sifting and Winnowing and Film Burning”: The Film UW Restricted

  Posted on Apr 9th

  Listen to the recording of the event here. By: Kacie Lucchini Butcher – Public History Project Director In April of 1962, a box […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• Want to improve the library website AND get a $10 Amazon gift card?

  Posted on Nov 25th

  Are you a UW-Madison Student? Have 20 minutes to spare? Want a $10 Amazon gift card? Help the UW-Madison Libraries improve their […]

• Web of Science – A Dataset for Academic Research and Data Science

  Posted on Nov 16th

  **Updated January 2022** (Original publication November 2020) The UW-Madison Libraries have long had a subscription to the Web of Science database that […]

• Celebrating the Kohler Art Library: Early Days to 50th Anniversary

  Posted on Nov 2nd

  By Lyn Korenic, Director Kohler Art Library From the first conception, we have been intertwined with the library, and with the art […]

• Emma Babler – An Encyclopedia of Knowledge

  Posted on Sep 24th

  We are thrilled to hear that Emma Babler, Reference & Technology Librarian at the Law Library, has been named an Up and […]

• Update to Library Operations Following Campus Returning to Remote Instruction

  Posted on Sep 9th

  ~Updated September 23, 2020~ **PLEASE VISIT OUR UPDATED PIECE ON RETURNING TO IN-PERSON INSTRUCTION  Original publish date: September 9, 2020 Following the […]