Welcome to our archive of library news articles.
Where is the best place to initiate a teaching collaboration that you hadn’t envisioned, with someone you’ve never met, that crosses disciplines and links first year students and seniors? For UWM instructors Jennifer Dworschack-Kinter and J. Dietenberger, the answer is… Read More
Scott Silet supervises the libraries at UWM at Waukesha and UWM at Washington County, the two new branches added to UWM in 2018 as a result of UW System restructuring. Silet has a deep understanding of the needs of students… Read More
The 2018-19 UWM Libraries Annual Report is now available. It tells the story of the Libraries’ many contributions during the past academic year to student success, research excellence, and community engagement at UWM. You may access it here.
After thoroughly considering the extensive feedback offered by the campus community this past spring, the UWM Libraries have finalized the list of cancelled subscriptions to journals and databases, based on their low use, high cost per use, and/or lack of… Read More
Richard Wagner, author of the recently published We’ve Been Here All Along: Wisconsin’s Early Gay History (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2019), will give a presentation about his book at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 in the fourth floor… Read More
The UWM Libraries have completed the digitization of over 50,000 color slides from the American Geographical Society Library’s Harrison Forman collection, and, as of this July, more than 33,500 of those slides have been added to the Libraries’ Digital Collections…. Read More
The UWM Libraries are soliciting input from our users on their use of citation managers. Citation managers are online tools used to save, organize, and share your bibliographies. The UWM Libraries have been subscribing to RefWorks since 2008. The bibliographic management landscape has grown and matured since 2008. There… Read More
Beginning July 1, the UWM Libraries are no longer charging overdue fines for general materials (books, DVDs, CDs, etc.). The Libraries are making this change primarily to lessen financial hardships for students and to support their success at UWM. Patrons… Read More
The UWM Libraries have recently acquired access to three streaming resources, available via the Libraries website: Docuseek2, LGBT Studies in Video, and the PBS Video Collection. The Docuseek2 Complete Collection (Second Edition) will contain 1800 exclusive documentaries, upon completion in… Read More
The UWM Libraries are pleased to announce the 2019-20 Digital Humanities (DH) Lab Teaching Fellows: Dylan Barth (CETL/Women’s and Gender Studies) Peter Blewett (English) Aims McGuinness (History) Whitney Moon (Architecture) The Teaching Fellows will be incorporating DH methods and tools in one of their fall 2019… Read More