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 …
The UWM Libraries are retiring our institutional repository, UWM Digital Commons, and moving its content to MINDS@UW (Multidisciplinary Institutional Network for Data and Scholarship), a Universities of Wisconsin community-hosted repository. “MINDS@UW Milwaukee” will support open access to research and scholarship …
The UWM Libraries are excited to announce that we have reached our campaign goal of $150,000 to endow the Morris Fromkin Memorial Research Grant and Lecture, thanks in large measure to a major gift and a multi-year pledge totaling $135,000, …
The UWM Libraries invite proposals for the 2025 Morris Fromkin Memorial Research Grant and Lecture. The $5,000 grant encourages and assists UWM scholars in all fields of study to conduct research on individuals, groups, movements, and ideas which have influenced …
The American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) and Digital Collections & Initiatives (DC&I) department have launched GeoDiscovery, an online geoportal that provides discovery and access to geospatial data in AGSL collections as well as data and maps held by other institutions, …
