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Every two years, the UWM Libraries join with the Graduate School to honor recent UWM authors at a special event. The next UWM Authors Recognition Ceremony will be held on March 14, 2019 at 4 p.m. in the fourth floor Conference… Read More
The UWM Archives will officially launch the Oral History Interviews of the Wisconsin HIV/AIDS History Project Digital Collection on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2018. The Wisconsin HIV/AIDS History Project brings to light significant stories from the state’s history of HIV/AIDS… Read More
The UWM Libraries recently started mediating all new purchases through the Kanopy request form. We took this step in response to dramatically escalating costs, which have risen at an unsustainable rate since we started providing access to Kanopy titles in… Read More
New databases available via the UWM Libraries website include HistoryMakers, Europa World, US Newsstream, Advanced Placement Source, and more. HistoryMakers is an extensive video oral history collection of prominent African Americans. Upon completion, it will include 5,000 interviews. Each interview is divided… Read More
During open access week, the UWM Libraries are highlighting ways we can remove barriers to information. Open access provides an opportunity to eliminate obstacles to learning and student success, such as prohibitive textbook costs. Communication 103 faculty took the open… Read More
UWM Libraries are celebrating 2018 International Open Access Week, October 22-28. This year’s theme is “designing equitable foundations for open knowledge,” underscoring the value of making scholarship more open and inclusive. Open Access refers to the free, immediate, online availability of… Read More
Ewa Barczyk, Emerita Director of the UWM Libraries and Associate Provost, has been named a 2018 Ernest Spaights Plaza Honoree, in acknowledgement of her significant, enduring and campus-wide contributions to the growth and development of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Barczyk,… Read More
Benjamin Ruedinger, a graduate student in the UWM School of Information Studies (SOIS), has been awarded the second annual Tyler S. Smith Internship at the UWM Libraries. Funded by SOIS and the UWM Libraries, the internship honors the memory of Tyler… Read More
Michael Doylen, Associate Vice Provost and Director of the UWM Libraries, has been appointed 2019 Chair-Elect of the Wisconsin Association of Academic Libraries (WAAL), serving as Chair in 2020. WAAL, a division of the Wisconsin Library Association, works to improve… Read More
An exhibition of photographs of the Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, on loan from the Consulado de México en Milwaukee, will be on view in the Fourth Floor Exhibition Gallery of the UWM Golda Meir Library, 2311 E…. Read More