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As we prepare for a brief Thanksgiving break (please see a calendar of the Libraries’ hours for the holiday weekend and beyond), we […]
One hundred years ago, at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, fighting in the war to end […]
Thanksgiving this year is an apt time for us to show off a plate from volume 1 of American ornithology; or, the […]
While our Thordarson Collection is perhaps best known for its holdings of science and natural history on the one hand and Iceland […]
In celebration of Earth Day, we look back to a memorable acquisition — the 1,000,000th volume in the University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries, […]
The four volumes of the Thordarson Collection copy of Audubon’s masterwork, Birds of America, feature uniform and striking bindings by Riviere & Sons […]
Among the strengths of the Duveen Alchemy and Chemistry Collection are numerous works attributed to one Basil Valentine (Basilius Valentinus), nearly as mysterious […]
We urge you to visit the Kohler Art Library on campus to view the exhibit “Collected Specimens: Gaylord Schanilec and Midnight Paper […]
Although winter weather arrived in Wisconsin rather late this year, we now have our share of ice and snow, prompting a fresh […]
Please visit Special Collections for our latest exhibit, “Shapes in Books: Triangles, Circles, Squares.” It features, not surprisingly, rare books on geometry, […]
The reading room in Special Collections will be open from noon to 4 p.m. on the day after Thanksgiving (Friday, November 27) […]
Recent images of the Eiffel Tower prompted us to explore manuscript and printed sources in Special Collections that help provide historical context for […]