A passion for maps ignited more than a half-century ago and fueled by decades of collecting and study, led Arthur and Janet Holzheimer to establish–with geographers Brian Harley and David Woodward—the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) “Maps & America” lecture …
The Look Here! Initiative is calling for poster designs by UWM academic staff or instructors and UWM students. Three poster designs will be selected to promote the Look Here! Initiative–a collaboration between the UWM Libraries and local artists–and related events. Artists submitting …
The Look Here! initiative is a pilot project initiated by the UWM Libraries that asks artists to create projects that reimagine, transform, and engage with the objects in our collections, especially our Digital Collections, in ways that were unimagined before the digital turn. …
The UWM Libraries’ American Geographical Society Library will host the 2017 annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries (SHD), September 22-23. Registration is required to attend the conference. SHD was founded in 1960 to stimulate interest in …
Christopher Lane, PBS “Antiques Roadshow” appraiser and owner of the Philadelphia Print Shop West (located in Denver, Colorado) will give the 2017 Holzheimer “Maps & America” Lecture on Thursday, April 13 at 6 p.m. in the American Geographical Society Library, …
Marcy Bidney, Curator of the UWM Libraries’ American Geographical Society Library, has been selected to receive the 2017 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Western European Studies Section (WESS) / Slavic and East European Section (SEES) De Gruyter European Librarianship …
The UWM Libraries are excited to join Doors Open Milwaukee for the first time Saturday, September 17, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.As part of Open Archives Milwaukee, three collections located in the Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford …