Scholar Sip: From Old Manuscripts to New Performance — A Musical Rediscovery

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

Presented by Dr. Peter Gibeau. 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 …

UWM’s Academic Adventurers Talk — “From Quakes to Wines: My Unusual Path in Academia”

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

Presented by Brett Ketter, UWM Geosciences. Life hands you different choices and those choices can lead you to either flounder and fail or to adapt and flourish. According to Brett Ketter, that is his career path in a nutshell. With …

Workshop: Maps and IIIF/Juncture

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Presented by Ann Hanlon and Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries. Using the Juncture open-source framework as well as other open tools, including IIIF, we will introduce some basic techniques to use maps and geographic coordinates in a web-based environment. Expand your mapping capabilities! Registration …

Silent Books: Sharing Wordless Picture Books across Cultures and Languages

Online

In recognition of Human Rights Day, please join us for a virtual talk by Deborah Soria (Silent Books Project Director, Biblioteca IBBY lampedusa) on "Silent Books:  Sharing Wordless Picture Books across Cultures and Languages" on Monday, December 11, 2023 at …

Chancellor’s Study Break

Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, Golda Meir Library

You are invited to visit with Chancellor Mone and enjoy free donut holes, coffee, tea, and hot chocolate for as long as supplies last, on Monday, December 18 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Daniel M. Soref Learning …

Writing for the Underground: A Talk by Neil Horsky

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

Neil Horsky -- an artist and an adjunct instructor at UWM and at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design -- will talk about his work as an arts journalist at an independent newspaper, The Boston Compass, and how audience demographics …

Geek Week at the Library, March 4-8

Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, Golda Meir Library

If You Build It . . . You’ll Have Fun. Create structures, tap into your inner builder, and be an architect of your own amusement. All week long in the Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons you can get creative with …

UWM’s Academic Adventurers Talk — Pedestrian Safety at Night: Illuminating the Problem and Strategies for Safer Streets

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

Presented by Robert J. Schneider, Ph.D., Professor and Co-Chair, Department of Urban Planning, UWM. US pedestrian fatalities increased by 51% between 2010 and 2020 (4,302 to 6,516 fatalities per year), and nearly all of the additional pedestrian fatalities that occurred …

Visual Essays Using Digital Archives: Juncture and IIF

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Presented by Ann Hanlon and Jie Chen, 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 …