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Please join us at an event sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries: Printing Audubon’s The Birds of America Presentation by Emily […]
November 17, 2021 The Department of Special Collections reading room and exhibit area will be closed November 23-25, 2022. We will resume […]
We welcome you to our new exhibit, Plants Plantations Labor Trade: An Exhibit of Holdings of the UW-Madison Libraries and Wisconsin Historical Society […]
The lovely exhibit Pollinators curated by Carly Sentieri has been extended through August 13 – we encourage you to come see the riches […]
Today, which marks the summer solstice, would be a good day to experiment with what’s called a solar microscope – in fact, […]
The calendar says May, which has made us think about maypoles and mayflies, though the weather here has been falling somewhat short […]
In honor of this weekend’s symposium “On Human Nature: Machiavelli’s Mandrake at 500,” we offer a look at the account and depiction of the […]
In light of recent news re ports and striking video of an eruption from Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island, we revisit here […]
Thanksgiving this year is an apt time for us to show off a plate from volume 1 of American ornithology; or, the […]
We hope you will join us on Monday, October 30, at 3 PM in Special Collections for an informal gallery talk about our exhibit “Iceland.” […]
Though we enjoyed summer-like weather this October weekend, the leaves are beginning to pile up around Madison, calling attention to differential patterns […]
An image of the “sea monk” or “monkish fish” in an announcement for this week’s Great Lakes Great Libraries conference in Madison caught […]