Meet the Personal Archive Assignment: Workshop for Instructors

Archives, Golda Meir Library

Presented by Krista Grensavitch and Abigail Nye. Join us in the new Archives active learning classroom (Golda Meir Library, 3rd floor west wing, Room W315) to learn more about bringing the Personal Archive Assignment (PAA) to your own classroom! We …

Serenity Story Time

Contemplative Space, Golda Meir Library

Join us for a 30 minute mindfulness break in the UWM Golda Meir Library's Contemplative Space (2nd floor east wing) on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023 at 2 p.m. Relax to poetry and stories read by librarians followed by guided meditation. …

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 …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Online

Marcel Proust "Seascape, with Frieze of Girls" Part I, from Within a Budding Grove, volume 2 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) (1919) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. INSTRUCTIONS …

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 …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Online

Mencius The Works of Mencius, Books 1 & 2, translated by James Legge. (ca. 300 BCE) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you …