This past fall, the UWM Archives acquired a box of letters and documents belonging to Herman Weil (1905-1995), a former UWM professor and founder of the Honors College. Weil was a Holocaust survivor and many of the letters in this …
Max Yela has led UWM Libraries’ Special Collections–the premier public collection of rare books and special printed materials in southeastern Wisconsin–since 1994. The collection consists of over 100,000 printed items from the 15th century to the present, covering a wide …
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and the UWM Libraries now offer UWM instructors self-paced, online training for open textbooks, open educational resources, and affordable content in for their courses. This training explains the benefits of affordable course …
The UWM Libraries celebrated the 2022 recipients of the Janet and Carl Moebius Outstanding Staff Achievement Awards at a reception with Provost Scott Gronert on January 18, 2023 in the Golda Meir Library. Those honored for their exceptional service in …
The UWM Libraries will offer extended hours over the Final Exams period. At the Golda Meir Library, the Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons will remain open until 11:00 p.m. on Friday, December 16. On Saturday, December 17 and Sunday, December …
The Libraries welcome the following new permanent staff to our three UWM locations. Lyndsey Agar is the new library assistant at UWM at Washington County Library, providing a variety of public services to users. She holds a BA from the …
The UWM Libraries invite proposals for the 2023 Fromkin Research Grant and Lecture. The grant encourages and assists UWM scholars in all fields of study to conduct research on individuals, groups, movements, and ideas, in the Americas and elsewhere, which …
The UWM Libraries have entered into a Read and Publish Agreement with The Company of Biologists. Beginning in January 2023, UWM authors will be able to publish in all five Company of Biologists journals without paying any article processing charges …
Two departments in the UWM Libraries received grants this fall to extend community engagement efforts. Digital Collections & Initiatives, in collaboration with the UWM Roberto Hernandez Center, was awarded a major grant from Wisconsin Humanities for a podcast based on …
In November 2021, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a U.S. cabinet Secretary, ordered a task force to find replacement names for valleys, lakes, creeks and other sites on federal lands that included …
