Next available on Thursday 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

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Special Collections Hours in Late December

December 21, 2016

In the last week of December and in early January, the Special Collections reading room and exhibit area will be open reduced hours:

STATE HOLIDAY: DECEMBER 26

  • December 26 (Monday) — Closed 

EARLY WINTER INTERIM: DECEMBER 27 – DECEMBER 30

  • December 27 (Tuesday) — Open noon – 4:00 pm
  • December 28 (Wednesday) — Open noon – 4:00 pm
  • December 29 (Thursday) — Open noon – 4:00 pm
  • December 30 (Friday) — Open noon – 4:00 pm

NEW YEAR’S STATE HOLIDAY: JANUARY 02

  • January 2 (Monday) — Closed

We will resume normal hours on January 3 (Tuesday). Please let us know (at 608-262-3243 or askspecial@library.wisc.edu) if you have questions.

Cloud crystals: A snow-flake album collected and edited by a lady (1865). From Special Collections, cover digitized and available through the UW-Madison Libraries Digital Collections as part of Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The art of books, a joint undertaking of the University of Wisconsin-Madison  Libraries and the University of Alabama Libraries.
Cloud crystals: A snow-flake album collected and edited by a lady (1865). From Special Collections, its cover digitized and available through the UW-Madison Libraries Digital Collections as part of Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The art of books, a joint undertaking of the University of Wisconsin-Madison  Libraries and the University of Alabama Libraries.