Category: People & Libraries
Feature stories on individual libraries and library staff members to highlight the work that these groups and individuals do within the Libraries and for the university.
Announcements about internal and external library awards.
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Posted on November 15, 2018
Celebrating UW Women at 150
May 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the first bachelor’s degrees awarded to women at UW-Madison. In 2018 and 2019, the campus is celebrating the […]
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Posted on August 29, 2018
First Day First Aid – September 5 & 6
Once again, the UW-Madison Libraries are hitting the streets for First Day First Aid! Weather permitting, on September 5 & 6 from 7:30am to 3:30pm, we’ll have […]
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Posted on August 16, 2018
Mark Your Calendars for September 24 as the Friends Welcome Die Tanzgeiger
Kick up your heels to Die Tanzgeiger, a traditional Austrian dance band with Upper Midwestern connections, including performances drawn from such UW Library holdings and […]
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Posted on August 14, 2018
Caroline Fraser, author of Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Friends’ annual Schewe Lecture is pleased to announce Caroline Fraser— editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series. Fraser will […]
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Posted on June 25, 2018
University Archives Welcomes New University Archivist Katie Nash
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries are pleased to welcome new University Archivist, Katie Nash. After starting in April 2018, Nash quickly settled into her new […]
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Posted on June 19, 2018
Through a Magnum Lens: Photographing the 1960s
Through a Magnum Lens: Photographing the 1960s The turbulence of the 1960s was made powerfully visible through the medium of documentary photography. Members of Magnum, […]
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Posted on May 10, 2018
Final Thoughts with the Retiring Vice Provost for Libraries
After working in library services for 47 years, Vice Provost Ed Van Gemert is drawing his long, rewarding professional career to a close with his […]
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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
Uncovering the Hoopes Sisters’ Collection
When University of Wisconsin–Madison English Language and Humanities Librarian Susan Barribeau acquired 25 sketchbooks of Florence and Margaret Hoopes in 2008, she didn’t know they […]
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Posted on July 13, 2017
Honoring Professor Biruté Ciplijauskaité
~ by Luís Madureira Biruté Ciplijauskaité, John Bascom Professor from 1973 to 1997 and a lifetime senior fellow at UW-Madison’s Institute for Research in […]