The UWM Libraries have acquired the Alexander Street Press’ Film Platform, a streaming media collection of documentary films by leading filmmakers from around the world, including many Oscar-nominated documentaries and film festival winners, such as Picture a Scientist (2020), Life, …
Aaron Dobbs has been appointed library associate director for Access Services. He had served as interim at this position since August 2021. Aaron joined the UWM Libraries as reserve desk supervisor in 2000 and was head of Circulation from 2011 …
In 2018, the UWM Libraries’ Digital Humanities Lab welcomed the inaugural cohort of Teaching Fellows. We are proud of the success of the program and excited to announce the call for the 2022-23 cohort. The DH Lab Teaching Fellows Award …
Sebastian Diaz Angel, a PhD student in history at Cornell University, and Anita Carrasco, associate professor of anthropology at Luther College, have been selected as 2022 Fellows at the American Geographical Society Library. Both scholars plan to focus on Latin …
Published last fall, Hello, Pounce is a children’s book written by UWM authors Hope Longwell-Grice and Donna L. Pasternak that chronicles a day in the life of the beloved UWM mascot and undergraduate, Pounce. This was the authors’ first children’s …
An extensive selection from the American Geographical Society Library’s collection of western images by Timothy H. O’Sullivan–one of the most important landscape photographers of the 19th century–has now been made available online to a worldwide audience. The Western Photograph Collection …
A partnership that began in 1993 between the UWM Libraries and UWM’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) has resulted in a comprehensive and still growing collection of Américas Award books available in the Golda Meir Library’s Curriculum Collection. …
Shevaun Watson, associate professor in UWM’s English department, has been selected to receive the 2022 Morris Fromkin Memorial Grant and Lecture, sponsored by the UWM Libraries. Watson will present the 53rd annual Fromkin lecture on “The Comforts of Heritage: Tourism, …
Mordecai Lee, UWM professor emeritus, has made a generous donation to the UWM Libraries to create a named fund to acquire books on the subjects of US history, American government, public administration, and Jewish studies. Lee made the gift not …
The UWM Libraries celebrated the 2021 recipients of the Janet and Carl Moebius Outstanding Achievement Awards during a virtual ceremony on January 19, 2022 with Provost Johannes Britz. Those honored for their exceptional service in 2021 were Svetlana Korolev, Jim …