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- 2024 AGSL Fellows to Study Wide Variety of Geographic and Cartographic ResourcesThe 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 …
- Libraries’ E-Textbook Pilot Program a SuccessA 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 …
- 2024 Fromkin Awardee to Examine Environmental Justice and the “New Nuclear Age”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) …
- UWM Libraries Diversify Collections with Small Press TitlesThis past summer the UWM Libraries made great strides in fulfilling an important goal of our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategic plan by acquiring a number of books from independent publishers who focus on historically underrepresented communities. The Libraries' purchase plans with large publishers have always included books by and about traditionally marginalized voices …