The UWM Libraries’ American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) has awarded fellowships to three visiting scholars for 2020: Lauren Beck, professor of Hispanic Studies and Visual & Material Culture Studies at Mount Allison University; Lindsay Frederick Braun, associate professor of African …
The UWM Libraries announce the new Division of Distinctive Collections, which brings together the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL), Archives, and Special Collections. Marcy Bidney, curator of AGSL, has been named Assistant Director of the division. The reorganization follows a …
The UWM Libraries have completed the digitization of over 50,000 color slides from the American Geographical Society Library’s Harrison Forman collection, and, as of this July, more than 33,500 of those slides have been added to the Libraries’ Digital Collections. …
The Friends of the UWM Golda Meir Library present a discussion with former Alliance Française de Milwaukee president Mary Emory and UWM Professor of History Neal Pease. In 2018, the Van Alyea family donated 35 French World War I posters to the American Geographical …
The UWM Libraries are substantial contributors to two remarkable exhibitions in Milwaukee museums this summer—Photographing Nature’s Cathedrals: Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, and H.H. Bennett at the Milwaukee Art Museum and Look Here! at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. Look Here! …
The Look Here! Project is an experiment initiated by the UWM Libraries and aimed at encouraging artists from the community and the UWM Peck School of the Arts to work with and create art from our digitized cultural heritage holdings – archival materials, photographs, …
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 …