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As anticipation builds for the opening later this week of the First Folio exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art on campus, […]
We call your attention to tomorrow’s regional meeting of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society, at which Prof. Catherine Jackson of the UW-Madison Department […]
The recent devastating earthquake and aftershocks in Italy reminded us of the attention paid to earthquakes at the Royal Society of London […]
As we await the opening ceremony for the Rio Olympics, we are reminded of a 17th-century map of Brazil atop the card catalog […]
We in Special Collections were delighted last Friday to engage in an international collaborative project to sample DNA from medieval manuscript volumes […]
Katharine Van Arsdale’s recent “Internet review” in the June 2016 issue of College & research library news of the web-based project “Romantic Circles” (itself celebrating its […]
Special Collections, like other units of the Libraries, will be closed on Monday, May 30, 2016. We point here to three examples […]
For the next 120 days or so, the elevator to the 9th floor marked “Special Collections | South Stacks” will be undergoing major […]
Our colleague Jim Lattis (of UW-Madison’s Space Place) has alerted the campus to a rare transit of Mercury, and to a special […]
We celebrate this week’s campus kickoff of Shakespeare in Wisconsin 2016 with a page from a travel narrative by Anna Birge, part […]
In concert with the celebration of Shakespeare in Wisconsin 2016, we are pleased to announce that our copy of Shakespeare’s Second Folio is now available […]
Though not included in our current exhibit “Shapes in Books: Triangles, Squares, Circles,” The limits by Anita Barrows, as published by Black […]