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 …

Graduate Student Commons Opens Monday, March 24

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 …

Treasured 15th Century World Map to Undergo Multispectral Imaging

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 …

Outstanding Library Staff Honored

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 …

True Librarian — Interviews with UWM Libraries Staff: Stephen Appel

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 …

Navigating the AI Landscape: Resources at the UWM Libraries

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 …

Shorter Loan History Will Protect Privacy

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 …