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UWM Libraries are celebrating 2018 International Open Access Week, October 22-28. This year’s theme is “designing equitable foundations for open knowledge,” underscoring the value of making scholarship more open and inclusive. Open Access refers to the free, immediate, online availability of… Read More
Ewa Barczyk, Emerita Director of the UWM Libraries and Associate Provost, has been named a 2018 Ernest Spaights Plaza Honoree, in acknowledgement of her significant, enduring and campus-wide contributions to the growth and development of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Barczyk,… Read More
Benjamin Ruedinger, a graduate student in the UWM School of Information Studies (SOIS), has been awarded the second annual Tyler S. Smith Internship at the UWM Libraries. Funded by SOIS and the UWM Libraries, the internship honors the memory of Tyler… Read More
Michael Doylen, Associate Vice Provost and Director of the UWM Libraries, has been appointed 2019 Chair-Elect of the Wisconsin Association of Academic Libraries (WAAL), serving as Chair in 2020. WAAL, a division of the Wisconsin Library Association, works to improve… Read More
An exhibition of photographs of the Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, on loan from the Consulado de México en Milwaukee, will be on view in the Fourth Floor Exhibition Gallery of the UWM Golda Meir Library, 2311 E…. Read More
The Wisconsin Historical Society, the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries are pleased to welcome Dr. Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy as the presenter of the 2018 James Madison Lecture… Read More
The 2017-2018 UWM Libraries Annual Report is now available. It recounts the Libraries’ many contributions during the past academic year to student success, research excellence, and community engagement at UWM. Access it here.
The UWM Libraries are one of two recipients of the 2018 Rethinking Resource Sharing (RSS) Innovation Award for the automation of resource sharing within the Wisconsin Area Research Center (ARC) Network. The Libraries received the award and a $250 check, courtesy… Read More
The UWM Libraries are substantial contributors to two remarkable exhibitions in Milwaukee museums this summer—Photographing Nature’s Cathedrals: Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, and H.H. Bennett at the Milwaukee Art Museum and Look Here! at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. Look Here!… Read More
The UWM Libraries welcomed six library students from National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) to Milwaukee for a summer internship program at the UWM Libraries, Milwaukee Public Library, and Marquette University Raynor Memorial Libraries. The students – Chen-Chieh (Jesse) Huang, Ning-Chaio… Read More