Welcome to our archive of library news articles.
The 2017-2018 UWM Libraries Annual Report is now available. It recounts the Libraries’ many contributions during the past academic year to student success, research excellence, and community engagement at UWM. Access it here.
The UWM Libraries are one of two recipients of the 2018 Rethinking Resource Sharing (RSS) Innovation Award for the automation of resource sharing within the Wisconsin Area Research Center (ARC) Network. The Libraries received the award and a $250 check, courtesy… Read More
The UWM Libraries are substantial contributors to two remarkable exhibitions in Milwaukee museums this summer—Photographing Nature’s Cathedrals: Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, and H.H. Bennett at the Milwaukee Art Museum and Look Here! at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. Look Here!… Read More
The UWM Libraries welcomed six library students from National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) to Milwaukee for a summer internship program at the UWM Libraries, Milwaukee Public Library, and Marquette University Raynor Memorial Libraries. The students – Chen-Chieh (Jesse) Huang, Ning-Chaio… Read More
The Look Here! Project is an experiment initiated by the UWM Libraries and aimed at encouraging artists from the community and the UWM Peck School of the Arts to work with and create art from our digitized cultural heritage holdings – archival materials, photographs,… Read More
Ryan Holifield, associate professor in the UWM Department of Geography, has been awarded the 2018 Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Research Grant and Lectureship for his proposal “When Visions of Justice Collide: Critique, Justification, and the ‘Box Tunnel Controversy’ at Milwaukee’s… Read More
The UWM Libraries Digital Humanities Lab announces a call for applications for a new award intended to encourage faculty and instructors to share their DH-inflected assignments via workshops and documentation. The award encourages both individual applications and linked teaching teams. The application deadline is March… Read More
Aubrey Huff, a graduate student in the UWM School of Information Studies (SOIS), has been awarded the Tyler S. Smith Internship at the UWM Libraries. Funded by SOIS and the UWM Libraries, the internship honors the memory of Tyler Smith, a… Read More
The Friends of the UWM Golda Meir Library, with co-sponsor Boswell Book Company, will host author Lisa See on Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 7 p.m. in the fourth floor Conference Center of the Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave. See… Read More
Linda Kopecky leads the UWM Libraries’ Research Services team, helping to support an exceptional community of scholars and researchers: UWM is ranked as one of the nation’s 115 Research I universities. She and her team members work proactively with faculty… Read More