The UWM Libraries recognizes staff members celebrating a significant length of service by adding a book to the libraries in their name. The following individuals have selected a book from our collections on the occasion of a milestone in their employment. A bookplate is included in these items with following dedication:
“In recognition and appreciation of continuing service to the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the UWM Libraries”.
For more information on these works, click on the title.
2024
Psychiatric Casualties: How and Why the Military Ignores the Full Cost of War
Mark C. Russel and Charles Figley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.
Selected by Giulia Caspari upon her 20 years of service.
Shifting Worlds, Shaping Fieldwork: A Memoir of Anthropology and Art
Susan Ossman. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Selected by Susan Foran upon her 25 years of service.
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Anne Fadiman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
Selected by Abigail Nye upon her 10 years of service
2023
Ezra Jack Keats. New York: Viking Press, 1962.
Selected by Tiffany Thornton upon her 10 years of service.
Sarah S. Brannen. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Penguin Group, 2008.
Selected by Timothy Galligan upon his 20 years of service.
Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes
Phillip Herring. New York: Viking, 1995.
Selected by Kristin Woodward upon her 20 years of service.
2022
By Maggie Nelson. Seattle: Wave Books, 2009.
Selected by Ann Hanlon upon her 10 years of service.
By Lisa Wheeler with illustrations by R. Gregory Christie. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007.
Selected by Kate Ganski upon her 15 years of service.
By Frank Herbert. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1965.
Selected by Chris Baxter upon his 10 years of service.
2021
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By Caitlin Doughty. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company; 2018.
Selected by John Hubbard upon his 20 years of service.
By Alice Notley. New York, NY: Penguin Books; 2011.
Selected by Alice Ladrick upon her 20 years of service.
The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
Edited by Daniel Imhoff. Healdsburg, Calif: Watershed Media (Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press, distributor); 2010.
Selected by Steve Keltner upon his 10 years of service.
Blood, Bones, & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
by Gabrielle Hamilton. New York, NY: Random House, 2011.
Selected by Katrina Kozar upon her 10 years of service.
2020
By Robert Jones, Jr. London: Riverrun, an imprint of Quercus Editions Ltd, 2021.
Selected by Aaron Dobbs upon his 20 years of service.
2017
Jean-Baptiste Charcot: Explorateur des Pôles
By Serge Kahn. Grenoble: Éditions Glénat, 2015.
Selected by Angie Cope upon her 15 years of service.
Sacred Stacks: The Higher Purpose of Libraries and Librarianship
By Nancy Kalikow Maxwell. Chicago: American Library Association, 2006.
Selected by Kate Ganski upon her 10 years of service.
2016
Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
By Marie Kondo. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2016.
Selected by John Hubbard upon his 15 years of service.
By “Bob” Hoover with Mark Shaw. New York: Pocket Books, 1996.
Selected by Suzanne Kashinski upon her 15 years of service.
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
By N. T. Wright. New York: HarperOne, 2009.
Selected by Steve Keltner upon his 5 years of service.
The Architecture of John Lautner
By Alan Weintraub (photographs) and Alan Hess (text). New York: Rizzoli, 1999.
Selected by Holly Klemmer upon her 35 years of service.
By Ashley Baynton-Williams. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Selected by Jovanka Ristic upon her 35 years of service.
By Michael Tambini. New York: DK Publishing, 1996.
Selected by Kim Silbersack upon her 20 years of service.
2015
By Michael Raeburn. London: Thames and Hudson, 1999.
Selected by Ann Barnish upon her 25 years of service.
Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made
By Richard Rhodes. New York: Simon & Schuster: 2015.
Selected by Mary Boulanger upon her 35 years of service.
By Jitka Hanzlová. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2005.
Selected by Tina DeSpears upon her 15 years of service.
Keeping America Informed: The U.S. Government Printing Office: 150 Years of Service to the Nation
By the United States Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C.: U.S.G.P.O., 2011.
Selected by Linda Kopecky upon her 15 years of service.
2014
Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind
By Jill Cook. London: The British Museum Press, 2013.
Selected by Susan Foran upon her 15 years of service.
By Aaron Becker. Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2013.
Selected by Molly Mathias upon her 10 years of service.
Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photography 1839-1925
By Ken Jacobson. London: Quaritch, 2007.
Selected by Susan Peschel upon her 35 years of service.
Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design
By Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2011.
Selected by Andy Ritter upon his 15 years of service.
Million Dollar Les Paul: In Search of the Most Valuable Guitar in the World
By Tony Bacon. London: Jawbone Press, 2008.
Selected by Joe Tomich upon his 10 years of service.
2013
By Seymour Simon. New York: Collins/HarperCollins, 2011.
Selected by Joanne Kolodzik upon her retirement.
Victorian Conversion Narratives and Reading Communities
By Emily Walker Heady. Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013.
Selected by Roger Lange upon his retirement.
Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life
By Suzanne Karr Schmidt. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago/New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011.
Selected by Lisa Baule upon her 35 thirty-five years of service.
The Illustrated Book of the Dog
By Vero Shaw. London, Paris, New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881.
Selected by Michael Doylen upon his 10 years of service.
By Gregory Doran. London: Hutchinson, 2009.
Selected by Rebecca Littman upon her 15 years of service.
Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles
By Emily Stamey. Wichita, Kansas: University of Washington Press, 2013.
Selected by Katherine Bowes upon her 15 years of service.
Moderniser of Russia: Andrei Vinius, 1641-1716
By Kees Boterbloem. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Selected by Joanne Kolodzik upon her 30 years of service.
The Eclipse of Equality: Arguing America on Meet the Press
By Solon Simmons. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2013.
Selected by Janet Padway upon her 35 years of service.
2012
People Unclassified, Volume 2 (MKE edition)
By C.M. DeSpears. San Francisco: Blurb, 2012.
Selected by Bonnie Forrest upon her 35 years of service.
Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century
By Ann R. Hawkins and Maura Ives (eds). Farnham, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2012.
Selected by Diane Passafaro upon her 30 years of service.
Cut From Plain Cloth: The 2011 Wisconsin Workers Protests
By Dennis Weidemann. Fitchburg, Wis.: Berens House, 2012.
Selected by Debra Anders upon 10 her years of service.
By Theresa Williams. San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2002.
Selected by Angie Cope upon her 10 years of service.
By Paula Scher. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011.
Selected by Mary Boulanger upon her 30 years of service.
2011
Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art
By Peter Barber and Tom Harper. London: The British Library, 2010.[inside image]
Selected by Jovanka Ristic upon her 30 years of service.
By Demi. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007.
Selected by John Hubbard upon his 10 years of service.
2010
Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box
By Madeleine Albright. Harper: Melcher Media: New York, 2009.
Selected by Margaret Cushinery upon her 10 years of service.
By Frank Hurley. G. P. Putnam’s Sons: New York, 1925.[Frontispiece]
Selected by Christina DeSpears upon her 10 years of service.
George Barbier: The Birth of Art Deco
By Barbara Martorelli (ed.). Marsilio: Venezia, 2008.
Selected by Elizabeth Devine upon her 20 years of service.
The Iowa Caucuses: First Tests of Presidential Aspiration, 1972-2008
By John C. Skipper. McFarland & Co. Inc.: Jefferson, North Carolina, 2010.
Selected by Kris Midthun upon her 10 years of service.
2009
2008
By Thomas Pakenham. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2002.
Selected by Lisa Baule upon her 30 years of service.
By Robert Selbie. New York: Crescent Books, 1982.
Selected by Priscilla Kucik upon her 20 years of service.
Achieving Diversity: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians
By Barbara I. Dewey and Loretta Parham (editors). New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2006.
Selected by Michelle Washington. In honor of Michelle’s service to the Libraries, as she leaves for a new job.
By Mary Oliver. Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
Selected by Liz Miller. In honor of Liz’s service to the Libraries, as she leaves for a new job.
Is Arsenic an Aphrodisiac? The Sociochemistry of an Element
By William R. Cullen. Cambridge, UK: RSC Publishing, 2008.
Selected by Diane Osborne Passafaro upon her 25 years of service.
By Andrew Casey. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2008.
Selected for Renate Gitzel by her colleagues. In honor and in memory of Renate’s service to the Libraries.
By Jeffrey Weinstock, London: Wallflower Press, 2007.
The Libraries have purchased a book for our collections in memory of Renate Gitzel.
The Tudor House and Garden: Architecture and Landscape in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
By Paula Henderson, New Haven: Yale, 2005.
Selected by Katherine Bowes upon her 10 years of service.
Venus and Mars: The World of the Medieval Housebook
By Christoph Graf zu Waldburg Wolfegg, Munich: Prestel, 1998.
Selected by Bonnie Forrest upon her 30 years of service.
The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership
By John Wooden and Steve Jamison,. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
Selected by Tim Galligan upon his 5 years of service.
Ramses II: An Illustrated Biography
By Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, Paris: Flammarion, 2007.
Selected by Joanne Kolodzik upon her 25 years of service.
XS: Small Structure, Green Architecture
By Phyllis Richardson, New York: Universe, 2007.
Selected by Janet Padway upon her 30 years of service.
2007
What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America
By Tavis Smiley. New York: Doubleday, 2006.
Michelle Washington
By Anja Llorella. New York: Collins Design, 2006.
Selected by Kim Silbersack upon her 10 years of service.
Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
By Joan Acocella. New York: Pantheon Books, 2007.
Selected by Liz Miller upon her 10 years of service.
A lingua galega na cidade no século XX: Uhna aproximación sociolingüística
By Gabriel Rei-Doval. Vigo, Spain: Edició́ns Xerais de Galicia, 2007.
In honor of Carolynne Rosenberger‘s dedicated years of service to the UWM Libraries, 1999-2007.
Witch Hunts: From Salem to Guantanamo Bay
By Robert Rapley. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.
Selected by Catherine Loomis upon her 5 years of service.
2006
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays
By Robert Kolker (editor). New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Debbie Anders
Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography
By Ralph E. Ehrenberg (editor). Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006.[inside image]
Jovanka Ristic
2005
By Murray Pomerance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Selected by Margaret Cushinery upon her 5 years of service.
Fossil Legends of the First Americans
By Adrienne Mayor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.[inside image]
Selected by Leigh Dorsey upon her 10 years of service.
The Aesthetics of Everyday Life
By Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Smith (editors). New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Selected by Carrie Leatherman upon her 5 years of service.
The Luminous Years: Portraits at Mid-Century
By Karl Bissinger. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.[inside image]
Selected by Elizabeth Devine upon her 15 years of service.
San Antonio in Color: Paintings
By W.B. Thompson. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2004.
Selected by Mary Boulanger upon her 25 years of service.
The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History
By Joseph M. Marshall, III. New York: Viking, 2004.
Selected by Maureen Powless upon her 10 years of service.
By Peter Culley and John Pascoe (editors). London: Thomas Telford, 2005.
Selected by Vince Ciatti upon his 5 years of service.
2003
England: The Photographic Atlas
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.
Selected by Patti Day upon her 10 years of service.
Geologic Applications of Gravity and Magnetics: Case Histories
By Richard I. Gibson and Patrick S.Millegan (editors). Tulsa, OK : The Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1998.
Selected by Joanne Kolodzik upon her 20 years of service.
Are You Experienced? Baby Boom Poets at Midlife
By Pamela Gemin (editor). Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003.
Selected by Janet Padway upon her 25 years of service.
By Angheli Zalapì. Cologne: Könemann, 2000.[inside image]
Selected by Kathi Paly upon her 20 years of service.
By J.F. Parcher and T.L. Chester (editors). Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 2000.
Selected by Lynnette Ponton upon her 15 years of service (in honor of her daughter).
Frank Lloyd Wright, Inside and Out
By Diane Maddex. London: Pavilion Books, 2001.
Selected by Jim Tobin upon his 15 years of service.
Rethinking the Renaissance: Burgundian Arts Across Europe
By Marina Belozerskaya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Selected by Bonnie Forrest upon her 25 years of service.
Stages and Playgoers: From Guild Plays to Shakespeare
By Janet Hill. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2002.
Selected by Beth Traylor upon her 10 years of service.
A Directory of Composers for Organ (Second Revised and Enlarged Edition)
By John Henderson. Swindon, UK: John Henderson, 1999.[inside image]
Selected by Liz Walloch upon her 20 years of service.
Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l’Oeil Painting
By Sybille Ebert-Schifferer. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2002.[inside image]
Selected by Renate Gitzel her upon 25 years of service.
2002
Censored Books II: Critical Viewpoints, 1985-2000
By Nicholas J. Karolides (editor). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002.
Selected by Charles Brunk upon his 30 years of service.
1998
The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings
By Richard Brautigan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Selected by Maureen Burke upon her 10 years of service.
Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records
By Nadine Cohodas. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Selected by Mike Benter upon his 20 years of service.
When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth-Century America
By Kevin J. Crisman and Arthur B. Cohn. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
Selected by Lynne Privatt upon her 25 years of service.
Prairie Style: Houses and Gardens by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School
By Dixie Legle and Christian Korab. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1999.
Selected by Holly Klemmer upon her 20 years of service.
EAA Oshkosh: The World’s Biggest Aviation Event
By Nigel Moll. London: Osprey Publishing, 1985.
Selected by Sue Kashinski upon her 10 years of service.