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Dick Wagner, author of the recently published We’ve Been Here All Along: Wisconsin’s Early Gay History (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2019), will give a presentation about his book at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 in the fourth floor Conference… Read More
The UWM Libraries are soliciting input from our users on their use of citation managers. Citation managers are online tools used to save, organize, and share your bibliographies. The UWM Libraries have been subscribing to RefWorks since 2008. The bibliographic management landscape has grown and matured since 2008. There… Read More
The UWM Libraries have completed the digitization of over 50,000 color slides from the American Geographical Society Library’s Harrison Forman collection, and, as of this July, more than 33,500 of those slides have been added to the Libraries’ Digital Collections…. Read More
Beginning July 1, the UWM Libraries are no longer charging overdue fines for general materials (books, DVDs, CDs, etc.). The Libraries are making this change primarily to lessen financial hardships for students and to support their success at UWM. Patrons… Read More
The UWM Libraries have recently acquired access to three streaming resources, available via the Libraries website: Docuseek2, LGBT Studies in Video, and the PBS Video Collection. The Docuseek2 Complete Collection (Second Edition) will contain 1800 exclusive documentaries, upon completion in… Read More
The UWM Libraries are pleased to announce the 2019-20 Digital Humanities (DH) Lab Teaching Fellows: Dylan Barth (CETL/Women’s and Gender Studies) Peter Blewett (English) Aims McGuinness (History) Whitney Moon (Architecture) The Teaching Fellows will be incorporating DH methods and tools in one of their fall 2019… Read More
Dr. Michael Doylen has accepted the permanent position of Associate Vice Provost and Director of Libraries. He will assume the position on July 1, 2019. Since 2016, Doylen has served as Director on an interim basis, steering efforts to integrate library… Read More
The Friends of the Golda Meir Library, for the third consecutive year, have funded the library internship of a UWM School of Information Studies graduate student. This past spring semester, the internship was awarded to Stephanie Surach, who served in… Read More
By Heidi Anoszko 1968 was a year of widespread upheaval, and the sphere of higher education was no different. Marginalized students and allies across the country began organizing coalitions and demonstrating for better representation on campus, culturally relevant courses, improved… Read More
Beginning May 2019 the UWM at Waukesha Library and UWM at Washington County Library will merge resources with the UWM Libraries. After the merger, some library resources will no longer be available to College of General Studies faculty and staff,… Read More