Libraries Collection Is Focus of New CLACS Book Fellows Program

The UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) has awarded stipends to eleven Milwaukee Public School teachers and librarians to spend one week this summer exploring children’s and young adult book collections in the UWM Libraries Curriculum Collection, …

2023-24 Digital Humanities Teaching Fellows Applications Open

The UWM Libraries are excited to announce the call for applications for 2023-24 Digital Humanities Teaching Fellows, our sixth year of the program. The DH Teaching Fellows Award provides an incentive for faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants to share innovative …

UWM Authors Honored at Library Ceremony

The UWM Libraries hosted a celebration on March 9 recognizing UWM faculty and staff who have published books or recordings within the last two years. Chancellor Mark Mone praised the efforts of the 67 authors and their cumulative 84 works, …

New Databases on Water Rights and Labor Issues Now Available

The UWM Libraries have purchased perpetual access to two new HeinOnline Collections: Water Rights and Resources and Labor and Employment: The American Worker. HeinOnline’s Water Rights and Resources is dedicated to understanding the complex interplay of state and federal laws …

Celebrate Open Education Week 2023 and Textbook Heroes

This week (March 6-10) in the Golda Meir Library’s Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, we are celebrating Open Education Week by recognizing UWM classes with $0 textbook costs. Stop by to snap a selfie with Pounce and tell us about your textbook heroes!  Use #textbookheroes on Instagram and Twitter …

2023 Fromkin Grant Recipients to Study the Black Middle Class in Milwaukee

A project that “examines how middle class and affluent African Americans in the Milwaukee metropolitan area manage the major social and economic problems confronting the region and the strategies they employ to overcome them” has been awarded the UWM Libraries’ …

Libraries Celebrate Black History Month with Exhibits

The UWM Libraries have created exhibits at all three of our locations to celebrate Black History Month, and have collaborated with other campus units on displays and events. Golda Meir Library In the Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, an exhibit–“Celebrate …