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The UWM Libraries celebrated the 2021 recipients of the Janet and Carl Moebius Outstanding Achievement Awards during a virtual ceremony on January 19, 2022 with Provost Johannes Britz. Those honored for their exceptional service in 2021 were Svetlana Korolev, Jim… Read More
Lynne Jones joined the UWM Libraries staff in 2018 as electronic & continuing resources librarian in the Collection & Resource Management (CRM) division. A member of the Collection Management department, she participates in the acquisition, management, and delivery of continuing… Read More
The UWM Libraries strongly support the decision by the Library of Congress to replace the Library of Congress subject headings “Aliens” and “Illegal aliens” with “Noncitizens” and “Illegal immigration.” The change was announced at the November 12, 2021 meeting of… Read More
The UWM Libraries are excited to announce two recent new hires. Christopher Baxter is the new building assistant in Facilities. His duties at the Golda Meir Library include managing the Conference Center and study carrels, performing and coordinating maintenance inside… Read More
We asked faculty in UWM’s Creative Writing Program to tell us about books they are currently reading or have recently read that they would recommend to the UWM community as we head into winter break. Several faculty generously shared their… Read More
The UWM Libraries’ Archives $2.8 million renovation project gets underway this week on the west wing, third floor of the Golda Meir Library. The transformative project will create public spaces to meet the research and learning needs of our community,… Read More
The 2021 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture will be presented by Anne Bonds, associate professor, UWM Department of Geography, and Derek Handley, assistant professor, UWM Department of English, with Reggie Jackson, journalist and educator/consultant, Nurturing Diversity Partners, LLC, and Lawrence Hoffman, GIS program manager… Read More
The UWM Libraries are deeply grateful to Daniel Soyer, a grandson of Morris Fromkin, who has created an endowment for the research grant and lecture series that bears his grandfather’s name. Morris Fromkin, who practiced law first in Milwaukee and… Read More
The UWM Digital Humanities Teaching Fellows for 2021-22 are Rachel Baum (Foreign Languages & Literature), Lisa Hager (English), and Aragorn Quinn (Foreign Languages & Literature). The Teaching Fellows Award, administered by the UWM Libraries, provides an incentive for faculty, instructors,… Read More
The UWM Libraries are excited to announce that we have recently filled three permanent positions. ___________________ Steve Keltner has been hired as building manager of the Golda Meir Library. Previously, he was the library’s physical operations supervisor, beginning that job… Read More