Robert Karels is the new head of collection development. He started his career in libraries as a student employee at Northern Illinois University in technical services nearly 20 years ago. Since then, he has worked in many different roles ranging …
Famous for its world-class collection of more than half a million maps and atlases, the American Geographical Society Library also boasts an extensive photograph collection, now nearing one million items, that is less well known. However, as more of the …
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, …
In a distinguished career that spans five decades, Barry Moser (b. 1940) has established himself as a premier book designer, a renowned children’s book illustrator, and one of the finest wood engravers of the 20th and 21st centuries. A retrospective …
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 …
Five national and international scholars have been named American Geographical Society Library Fellows for 2023. Each will receive a stipend to travel to Milwaukee and conduct research at AGSL. Entirely funded by generous donors, the fellowship program was created to …
The UWM Libraries have joined an agreement between Cambridge University Press and the Big Ten Academic Alliance which provides access to more than 400 Cambridge University Press journals. The arrangement supports long-term goals of making research articles immediately available online …
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, …
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 …
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 …
