The UWM Libraries and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have signed a new type of agreement intended to facilitate open access publishing. UWM authors can now publish peer-reviewed scholarly articles in the ACM Digital Library on an open access …
An exhibition at the Villa Terrace Decorative Art Museum celebrating Frederick Law Olmsted on the 200th anniversary of his birth features a number of rare maps and books and a photograph from the UWM Libraries’ American Geographical Society Library (AGSL). …
Shevaun Watson, associate professor in UWM’s English department, has been selected to receive the 2022 Morris Fromkin Memorial Grant and Lecture, sponsored by the UWM Libraries. Watson will present the 53rd annual Fromkin lecture on “The Comforts of Heritage: Tourism, …
The UWM Libraries are deeply grateful to Daniel Soyer, a grandson of Morris Fromkin, who has created an endowment for the research grant and lecture series that bears his grandfather’s name. Morris Fromkin, who practiced law first in Milwaukee and …
The UWM Digital Humanities Teaching Fellows for 2021-22 are Rachel Baum (Foreign Languages & Literature), Lisa Hager (English), and Aragorn Quinn (Foreign Languages & Literature). The Teaching Fellows Award, administered by the UWM Libraries, provides an incentive for faculty, instructors, …
The UWM Libraries are excited to announce that we have recently filled three permanent positions. Steve Keltner has been hired as building manager of the Golda Meir Library. Previously, he was the library’s physical operations supervisor, beginning that job in …
As part of campus efforts to create a more student-centric university, and, in particular, to provide spaces to allow healing as we emerge from a uniquely traumatic moment, the UWM Libraries have created a Contemplative Space, located in Room E275 …
Beginning this fall semester, students at the UWM at Waukesha Library will have access to dedicated group study rooms with shareable technology. With a capacity for 4-6 students, each of the six new group study rooms has seating and worktables, …
We are thrilled to welcome students back to our three locations — the Golda Meir Library, Waukesha Library, and Washington County Library — as we begin the Fall 2021 semester. The Libraries are fully open, and all library services are …
The UWM Libraries have invested in a new series of tools to support teaching, learning, and research in an online environment where faculty, staff, and students are increasingly working and learning off-campus. Third Iron’s LibKey Suite and BrowZine tools will …
