Welcome to our archive of library news articles.
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
Sebastian Diaz Angel, a PhD student in history at Cornell University, and Anita Carrasco, associate professor of anthropology at Luther College, have been selected as 2022 Fellows at the American Geographical Society Library. Both scholars plan to focus on Latin… Read More
Published last fall, Hello, Pounce is a children’s book written by UWM authors Hope Longwell-Grice and Donna L. Pasternak that chronicles a day in the life of the beloved UWM mascot and undergraduate, Pounce. This was the authors’ first children’s… Read More
An extensive selection from the American Geographical Society Library’s collection of western images by Timothy H. O’Sullivan–one of the most important landscape photographers of the 19th century–has now been made available online to a worldwide audience. The Western Photograph Collection… Read More
A partnership that began in 1993 between the UWM Libraries and UWM’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) has resulted in a comprehensive and still growing collection of Américas Award books available in the Golda Meir Library’s Curriculum Collection…. Read More
Shevaun Watson, associate professor in UWM’s English department, has been selected to receive the 2022 Morris Fromkin Memorial Grant and Lecture, sponsored by the UWM Libraries. Watson will present the 53rd annual Fromkin lecture on “The Comforts of Heritage: Tourism,… Read More
Mordecai Lee, UWM professor emeritus, has made a generous donation to the UWM Libraries to create a named fund to acquire books on the subjects of US history, American government, public administration, and Jewish studies. Lee made the gift not… Read More