Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop

Archives, Golda Meir Library

Join a small cohort of instructors to accelerate development for a new class or reenergize an old syllabus. At the end of these workshop sessions, you’ll be confidently working with archivists to make your instruction easier, incorporating primary sources into …

New Archives Open House

Archives, Golda Meir Library

The UWM Libraries are celebrating our greatly expanded and renovated Archives with an open house on Wednesday, September 20, 2023 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. The event will include remarks by UWM Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chia …

Information Literacy Research Assignment Workshop   

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Research assignments serve an important role in college courses. Tasks like selecting and evaluating additional sources of information, summarizing new information and comparing it to core course concepts all have the potential to build learning. However, the goals of a research assignment are …

UWM Gallery Night

Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

The UWM Libraries will be participating in UWM Gallery Night, Thursday, September 21, 4 - 7 p.m. In addition to exhibits in our American Geographical Society Library and Special Collections, AGSL Curator Marcy Bidney will lead a star maps discussion …

HOLA Archives: Podcast Launch and Celebration

Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

Join us to celebrate the launch of the HOLA Archives Podcast on Thursday, October 5 at 5 p.m. in the fourth floor Conference Center in the UWM Golda Meir Library. The HOLA Archives Podcast Project is a collaboration between the UWM Libraries and …

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: A Conversation

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Presented by Tomas Lipinski, UWM School of Information Studies. Join us to discuss the problematic area where intellectual property rights and artificial intelligence cross paths: from the mining of data to feed large language models, to issues of attribution and …

Milwaukee Home Movie Day 2023

Mitchell Hall, Room B91

UWM Libraries' Archives, UWM Films Studies Program, and UWM Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres present Home Movie Day on Saturday, October 14, 2023 from noon to 4 p.m. in Room B91 in Mitchell Hall, 3202 N. Downer …

Scholar Sip: Coffee, Tea, and Anger in 18th Century Britain

UWM at Washington County Library 400 S. University Drive, West Bend, WI, United States

Presented by Dr. Anne Widmayer. Scholar Sip is a free community event held on select Thursdays over the lunch hour at the UWM at Washington County Library. Come find out about the incredible research done by UWM staff – and …

Who Bears the Cost? Examining Models of Open Access Publishing

Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

The UWM Libraries invite you to a workshop and discussion in which we will examine the emerging models for open access publishing, and their benefits and shortcomings from viewpoints of authors, editors, librarians, and publishers. REGISTRATION  This year, UWM Libraries …

Workshop: Building Digital Essays Using Juncture and IIIF

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Presented by Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries. Juncture is an open-source framework to build multimedia exhibits that enables authors to build simple or complex narratives, building on other open tools. Tap into existing digital collections and incorporate high resolution images, zooming capabilities, …