The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee celebrated the 96th birthday of renowned businessman and philanthropist Sheldon Lubar with the dedication on May 21 of the Sheldon B. Lubar Study & Conference Room in the Golda Meir Library. The room is home to …
With the rise of ChatGPT and other AI tools, UWM librarians in the User Services Department have been working to create a standard for the technology’s use by students and faculty, pointing to digital resources, and offering training sessions and …
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. …
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 …
The Graduate Student Commons, a collaboration between the UWM Libraries and the Graduate School, will open on Monday, March 24. Located on the second floor, east wing of the Golda Meir Library, this fully renovated 2,700-square-foot area provides UWM graduate students with …
The oldest and rarest manuscript map in the American Geographical Society Library’s collection–Venetian cartographer Giovanni Leardo’s 1452 mappamundi–will be scanned using multispectral technology in March this year. A team from the Lazarus Project, based at the University of Rochester, is …
The UWM Libraries celebrated the 2024 recipients of the Janet and Carl Moebius Outstanding Staff Achievement Awards at a reception with Provost Andrew Daire today, January 7, in the Golda Meir Library. Those honored for their exceptional service in 2024 …
Stephen Appel joined the UWM Libraries’ staff in 2016 as geospatial information librarian in the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL), one of the foremost cartographic libraries in North America. But he was already well-acquainted with campus and the library, having …
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve, its influence on higher education is becoming increasingly profound. The UWM Libraries are staying abreast of its potential to support academic success, as well as its risks, and offer many resources to …
As the result of a privacy policy developed by the the Council of UW Libraries, beginning January 2025 the UWM Libraries will anonymize loan circulation data six months after an item’s return. This process will de-identify the individual associated with …
