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The UWM Libraries celebrated the 2025 recipients of the Janet and Carl Moebius Outstanding Staff Achievement Awards at a reception on Jan. 12 in the Golda Meir Library. Two members of the UWM Libraries staff were selected for awards: Chris Baxter (university staff) and Elizabeth Rhinehart (student employee).  Since joining the UWM Libraries in 2021, Building …

If you stop by the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, you'll likely catch yourself tipping your head to one side. At first, it might seem difficult to orient yourself while viewing many of the maps currently on display. But that’s the intention behind AGSL’s latest exhibit “Whose North Is It Anyway?”  Interim Head of AGSL and Public Services Librarian Georgia Brown …

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries have entered into a new transformative agreement with American Chemical Society Publications, allowing UWM authors to publish ACS journal content. This agreement adds to an initial contract authorizing UWM students, faculty, and staff to read paywalled articles in over 80 ACS journals.   Through this arrangement, also called a “read and publish agreement,” UWM Libraries cover article processing charges associated with publishing ACS journal content. UWM …

An online library satisfaction survey will be underway October 28 – November 11, 2025. Faculty, instructional staff, and graduate student input will help improve services, collections, and spaces in the library. If you receive an invitation to take the survey in your UWM email, please do! What is the Library Satisfaction Survey?  In spring 2024 …