New Archives Open House

The UWM Libraries are celebrating our greatly expanded and renovated Archives with an open house on Wednesday, September 20, 2023 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. The event will include remarks by UWM Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chia …

Libraries Welcome Campus to New Archives Open House Sept. 20

The UWM Libraries’ greatly expanded and renovated Archives Department is now open, providing the UWM community and others with modern and inviting spaces in which to pursue research and learning. An open house will be held on Wednesday, September 20 from …

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: A Conversation

Presented by Tomas Lipinski, UWM School of Information Studies. Join us to discuss the problematic area where intellectual property rights and artificial intelligence cross paths: from the mining of data to feed large language models, to issues of attribution and …

Information Literacy Research Assignment Workshop   

Research assignments serve an important role in college courses. Tasks like selecting and evaluating additional sources of information, summarizing new information and comparing it to core course concepts all have the potential to build learning. However, the goals of a research assignment are …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part 1  (ca. 1591) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be attending the session, please send Max …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

T. S. Eliot The Waste Land (1922) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be attending the session, please send Max Yela …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

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 …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl, 12 June – 22 December 1942, translated by Susan Massotty, 1997. (1947) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

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 …