Welcome to our archive of library news articles.
“UWM Creates,” a retrospective of student/alumni- and faculty-created artwork spanning nearly 65 years from UWM Special Collections and the UWM Union Art Gallery Art Collection, is on view in the Fourth Floor Exhibition Gallery of the Golda Meir Library through… Read More
The UWM Libraries and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have signed a new type of agreement intended to facilitate open access publishing. UWM authors can now publish peer-reviewed scholarly articles in the ACM Digital Library on an open access… Read More
The UWM Libraries recently learned that a number of Wiley e-textbook titles have been pulled from Ebook Central Academic Complete. In all, Wiley removed 1,379 e-textbooks from the platform, some of which UWM faculty and instructors planned to use in… Read More
The UWM Libraries 2021-22 Annual Report is now available. Included are stories about the Archives $2.8 million renovation; two exciting new digital collections, Western Photographs and Harrison Forman; recent loans from the American Geographical Society Library and Special Collections to… Read More
An exhibition at the Villa Terrace Decorative Art Museum celebrating Frederick Law Olmsted on the 200th anniversary of his birth features a number of rare maps and books and a photograph from the UWM Libraries’ American Geographical Society Library (AGSL)…. Read More
The Libraries recently welcomed three new permanent staff to UWM. Christopher Doll has been appointed library associate director for the Collection and Resource Management division. CRM works in partnership with librarians and faculty liaisons to select, acquire, describe, preserve, and… Read More
We asked members of the University Libraries Committee (ULC) to tell us about books they will be reading or have recently read that they would recommend to the UWM community as we head into summer break. Several faculty and staff… Read More
The UWM Libraries have acquired the Alexander Street Press’ Film Platform, a streaming media collection of documentary films by leading filmmakers from around the world, including many Oscar-nominated documentaries and film festival winners, such as Picture a Scientist (2020), Life,… Read More
Aaron Dobbs has been appointed library associate director for Access Services. He had served as interim at this position since August 2021. Aaron joined the UWM Libraries as reserve desk supervisor in 2000 and was head of Circulation from 2011… Read More
In 2018, the UWM Libraries’ Digital Humanities Lab welcomed the inaugural cohort of Teaching Fellows. We are proud of the success of the program and excited to announce the call for the 2022-23 cohort. The DH Lab Teaching Fellows Award… Read More