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 …

Introduction to OER Adoption Virtual Workshop 

Online

This virtual workshop on Wednesday, March 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. will introduce faculty to open textbooks — a type of open educational resource (OER) — and the benefits these textbooks offer: affordability, pedagogical practice, student learning, and …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Online

Carson McCullers "Wunderkind" (1936) "The Jockey" (1941) "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland" (1941) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will …

Exhibit — Maps in the News

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

For centuries, newspapers have created a touchpoint between citizens and local and world affairs. Whether considering a war on the other side of the globe or an election with local implications, maps in the news situate an event in its …

Exhibit — Living for the City: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee

Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, Golda Meir Library

A traveling exhibition in conjunction with the “Living for the City: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee" oral history project, which challenges and complicates existing narratives about Black Milwaukee mired in narrow assertions of poverty, segregation, incarceration, and educational underachievement. …

Python for Beginners Workshop

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Presented by Ann Hanlon (UWM Libraries) and Karl Holten (UWM Libraries / Letters & Science IT). This 2-day workshop will cover the basics of learning how to program using Python for data analysis. Based on the curriculum for the Software …

Python for Beginners Workshop

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Presented by Ann Hanlon (UWM Libraries) and Karl Holten (UWM Libraries / Letters & Science IT). This 2-day workshop will cover the basics of learning how to program using Python for data analysis. Based on the curriculum for the Software …