Maura Lucking, assistant professor of the history of architecture in the UWM School of Architecture & Urban Planning, is the recipient of the 2026 Morris Fromkin Memorial Grant. Lucking’s project is titled “Contested Sovereignties: Visions of Land and Housing Reform by Wisconsin Oneida Activist Laura Cornelius Kellogg.” Lucking will investigate Oneida …
A UWM Libraries task force is working through the results of the fall 2025 survey of faculty, instructional and research staff, and graduate students. Over 550 people completed the survey, providing insight into how they use the Libraries’ collections, services, and spaces. Overall, faculty, staff, and graduate-student respondents are satisfied with the services and spaces provided. In particular, interlibrary loan and general support for teaching and research are viewed as …
The American Geographical Society Library will conserve rare atlases from its Rare Materials Room thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. The grant will facilitate the repair of five maritime navigational atlases dating from 1693, and other rare atlases with the balance of funding. Part of a more than 20,000-item rare …
The American Geographical Society Library named three national scholars as AGSL Research Fellows for 2026. Each will receive a stipend to travel to Milwaukee and conduct research at the AGSL. Cy Abbott, University of Oregon PhD candidate in geography, will examine the …
The UWM Libraries celebrated the 2025 recipients of the Janet and Carl Moebius Outstanding Staff Achievement Awards at a reception on Jan. 12 in the Golda Meir Library. Two members of the UWM Libraries staff were selected for awards: Chris Baxter …
If you stop by the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, you’ll likely catch yourself tipping your head to one side. At first, it might seem difficult to orient yourself while viewing many of the maps currently on display. But that’s the intention behind AGSL’s latest exhibit …
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries have entered into a new transformative agreement with American Chemical Society Publications, allowing UWM authors to publish ACS journal content. This agreement adds to an initial contract authorizing UWM students, faculty, and staff to read paywalled articles in over 80 ACS journals. Through this arrangement, also called a “read …
An online library satisfaction survey will be underway October 28 – November 11, 2025. Faculty, instructional staff, and graduate student input will help improve services, collections, and spaces in the library. If you receive an invitation to take the survey …
The UWM Libraries invite proposals for the 2026 Morris Fromkin Memorial Research Grant and Lecture. The $6,000 grant encourages and assists UWM scholars in all fields of study to conduct research on individuals, movements, and ideas which have influenced the …
The library is piloting an after-hour chat bot in Fall 2025. LibChat is a pre-programmed, logic-based assistant, not a Generative AI tool. It provides the user with a selection of common questions and answers from our Frequently Asked Questions knowledge …
