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Tiffany Thornton. Photo by Christina DeSpears. Tiffany Thornton is the outreach and community engagement librarian at the UWM Libraries, a position she has held since 2014. In this role, Tiffany supervises the Libraries’ diversity services for UWM students, coordinates the Libraries' K-12 programming and onsite visits, and serves as subject contact for the School of …

The American Geographical Society Library has awarded research fellowships to three international scholars for 2024. All three are exploring a “view from the outside“ — as one of the fellows, Jitka Močičková, characterizes her research topic — during their time in AGSL. Jitka Močičková Jitka Močičková is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Modern …

A UWM Libraries' initiative to provide e-textbooks for almost 15% of the courses offered at UWM during the 2023-24 year ensured that all students taking those classes had access to their textbooks on the first day. The initiative's success has engendered a strategic change in how the Libraries use a portion of their budget to …

Nan Kim Nan Kim, UWM associate professor of history and co-chair of the public history program, has been selected for the 2024 Morris Fromkin Memorial Grant and Lecture. Her proposal is titled "Environmental Crisis and Social Justice in the New Nuclear Age: Reappraising the Legacies of Rachel Carson and Jonathon Schell." Carson's Silent Spring (1962) …