Spotlight on Special Collections

  • “Double, Double Toil and Trouble” — A Few of Shakespeare’s Witches

    Posted on October 31, 2016

    As anticipation builds for the opening later this week of the First Folio exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art on campus, […]

  • Glassblowing and our Chemistry Collections

    Posted on September 23, 2016

    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 […]

  • Earthquakes as Explored in the Early Philosophical Transactions (& Elsewhere)

    Posted on August 31, 2016

    The recent devastating earthquake and aftershocks in Italy reminded us of the attention paid to earthquakes at the Royal Society of London […]

  • Brazil in 1630

    Posted on August 5, 2016

    As we await the opening ceremony for the Rio Olympics, we are reminded of a 17th-century map of Brazil atop the card catalog […]

  • DNA Sampling from Medieval Manuscripts

    Posted on July 11, 2016

    We in Special Collections were delighted last Friday to engage in an international collaborative project to sample DNA from medieval manuscript volumes […]

  • Romantic Circles — Newly Reviewed

    Posted on June 19, 2016

    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 […]

  • In Observance of Memorial Day

    Posted on May 27, 2016

    Special Collections, like other units of the Libraries, will be closed on Monday, May 30, 2016. We point here to three examples […]

  • What Goes Up …

    Posted on May 18, 2016

    For the next 120 days or so, the elevator to the 9th floor marked “Special Collections | South Stacks” will be undergoing major […]

  • Mercury Observed

    Posted on May 8, 2016

    Our colleague Jim Lattis (of UW-Madison’s Space Place) has alerted the campus to a rare transit of Mercury, and to a special […]

  • Shakespeare’s Global Reach

    Posted on April 20, 2016

    We celebrate this week’s campus kickoff of Shakespeare in Wisconsin 2016 with a page from a travel narrative by Anna Birge, part […]

  • Shakespeare in Wisconsin 2016

    Posted on April 8, 2016

    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 […]

  • More of Triangles & Squares: From the Black Mesa Press

    Posted on March 27, 2016

    Though not included in our current exhibit “Shapes in Books: Triangles, Squares, Circles,” The limits by Anita Barrows, as published by Black […]