Category: Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries

• Open House & Lecture: Aldo Leopold & the Making of A Sand County Almanac

  Posted on Mar 19th

  Please join us for ALDO LEOPOLD & THE MAKING OF A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC OPEN HOUSE & LECTURE SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2019 SPECIAL […]

• Event & Book Signing on March 17 Honoring New Book by John Tedeschi

  Posted on Mar 15th

  We hope you will able to attend the event and book signing this Thursday, March 17, for Italian Jews Under Fascism, 1938-1945: A Personal and […]

• The Long S, Now Largely Extinct

  Posted on Oct 4th

  We had the opportunity last week to page through two volumes of our copy of Audubon’s double-elephant folio Birds of America with […]

• Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday

  Posted on Apr 23rd

  On this, Shakespeare’s birthday, we celebrate as well the depth of the Peter Pauper Press Collection in the Department of Special Collections, […]

• Extinct Birds & Rare Books: The Example of the Great Auk

  Posted on Sep 8th

  In conjunction with the first event of the fall semester sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, we will make available […]

• The Mendota Seminar, the Works of Shakespeare, and Special Collections

  Posted on Jun 20th

  We are delighted to welcome to Special Collections one session of this summer’s Mendota Seminar and to continue our collaboration with Prof. […]

• Shawn Sheehy to Speak on Tuesday, May 14, on “Concept to (Political) Action: Pop-Up Artists’ Books”

  Posted on May 13th

  Please join us on Tuesday, May 14, 12:00–1:30 pm, for an artist talk by Shawn Sheehy: “Concept to (Political) Action: Pop-Up Artists’ […]

• Text Support

  Posted on May 2nd

  Congratulations to Tracy Honn, director of the Silver Buckle Press, and Lyn Korenic, director of Kohler Art Library, on their three-venue exhibit, […]