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In response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, many publishers are temporarily providing free access to their content. The UWM Libraries maintain a list of these resources on its website, and we encourage faculty to check back regularly for updates. Among… Read More
This page summarizes UWM Libraries COVID-19 news and outlines the many online services and resources available to students, faculty and staff via our website (posted 3/27/2020; updated 4/3/2020). In response to the public health emergency in southeastern Wisconsin, the UWM… Read More
Dear UWM Community: In response to the rapidly evolving public health emergency in southeastern Wisconsin, the UWM Libraries will close until further notice our three physical locations–UWM Golda Meir Library, UWM at Washington County Library, and UWM at Waukesha Library–effective… Read More
For students currently without internet access at home, both Charter-Spectrum and Comcast have said they will provide free service for two months with no installation fee for new customers with students in the household. The internet speeds may be limited…. Read More
Beth Kucera heads the UWM Libraries’ Interlibrary Loan (ILL) department, the Access Services unit that lends books and delivers articles to other libraries around the world and, at the same time, borrows research materials for UWM scholars. In 2018-2019, the… Read More
The UWM Libraries are pleased to announce that the 2020 Morris Fromkin Memorial Research Grant and Lectureship has been awarded to a collaborative team of five UWM faculty–Julie Ellis (Nursing), Paru Shah (Political Science), Sandra Millon-Underwood (Nursing), Renee Walker (Public… Read More
In celebration of Women’s History Month, we highlight three notable photography collections held in our American Geographical Society Library and the women who created them, Mary Light Meader, Louise Arner Boyd, and Mary Jo Read. Above, from left: woman and… Read More
The UWM Libraries are excited to announce that Derek Webb has joined the staff as the head of Archives. In his new role, Webb is responsible for providing leadership and vision for a wide array of programs, including the university’s… Read More
The UWM Archives has loaned four rare photographs by pioneer modernist László Moholy-Nagy to the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) for inclusion in the exhibit “The Bauhaus, László Moholy-Nagy, and Milwaukee.” The photographs are part of The Little Review collection, an… Read More
The UWM Libraries have digitized a large number of issues of Invictus, a publication launched by the Black Student Union in 1977. One of UWM’s longest-running student newspapers, Invictus gave voice to the University’s African American student body with news… Read More