UWM Libraries Honor Outstanding Staff 

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 …

American Geographical Society Library Exhibit Subverts Visitors’ Expectations

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 …

UWM Libraries Enter Transformative Agreement with ACS Publications 

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 …

Library Satisfaction Survey 

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 …

Library Pilots an After-Hours Chat Bot

The library is piloting an after-hour chat bot in Fall 2025. LibChat is a  pre-programmed, logic-based assistant, not a Generative AI tool. It provides the user with a selection of common questions and answers from our Frequently Asked Questions knowledge …

New Open Publishing Agreement

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries are now participating in the transformative agreement between Springer Nature and the Big Ten Academic Alliance. This agreement permits UWM corresponding authors to publish articles in more than 2,000 Springer Nature hybrid journals without article processing charges. …

2025 Fromkin Awardee Will Examine Latino/a Immigrants’ Resilience

Gabriela Nagy, UWM assistant professor of psychology and principal investigator, EQUITY Research Group, has been chosen for the 2025 Morris Fromkin Memorial Grant and Lecture. Her proposal is titled “Resilience, Resistance, and Rhetoric: What Latino/a Immigrants Teach Us About Health …