News Library

Books and Periodicals

Quick Location Guide

Item Location
Almanac (current) Available online here
Budget (current and previous year) bookshelf
Clipsheets (current year plus past 2 years) cabinet under dictionary
Data Digest Available online here
Directories: Faculty and Staff and Student (past years) bookshelf
Enrollment Report Available online here
Experts Lists Available online here
Fact Book, UW Madison SEE: University Periodicals (filed under University Communications)
General Interest on top of bookshelf
General Reference bookshelf
Higher Education bookshelf
UW System bookshelf
Maps bookshelf
Media Resources bookshelf
University Periodical Publications bookshelf adjacent to copier
Newspapers bookshelf
University History bookshelf
Wisconsin Blue Book on top of bookshelf

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Experts List

The most current UW-Madison Experts List is available online as the Experts database.

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General Interest

Location: On top of bookshelf

  • By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1994.
  • State of the Union: America in the 1990s (Vol. 1: Economic Trends, Vol. 2: Social Trends), 1995.
  • A Sand County Almanac

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General Reference

Location: Bookshelf

  • Who's Who in America Vol. I & II, 1992-1993.
  • Random House Dictionary, 1987. (on stand)
  • Random House Encyclopedia, 1990.
  • The Viking Book of Aphorisms, 1981.
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1992.
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 1979.
  • National E-Mail and Fax Directory, 2005 (located on windowsill)
  • The Quotable Woman, 1978.
  • The Speaker's Sourcebook: Quotes, Stories and Anecdotes for Every Occasion, 1988.
  • Webster's New World Dictionary of Synonyms, 1984.
  • American Heritage Dictionary, 1994.
  • Roget's II The New Thesaurus, 1988.
  • Webster's New World Thesaurus, 1985.
  • Webster's Guide to Abbreviations, 1985.
  • State of Wisconsin Blue Book (located on top of bookshelf)
  • Random House Webster's College Dictionary, 1991.
  • Webster's American Biographies, 1975.
  • The Chicago Manual of Style, 1993.
  • The Associated Press Stylebook & Briefing on Media Law, 2000.
  • Strunk & White, The Elements of Style, 1979.
  • The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists, 1982.
  • The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, 1988.
  • Who He? Goodman's Dictionary of the Unknown Famous, 1984.
  • World Almanac, 2004.

SEE ALSO General Reference links on the library's Web Resources page.

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Higher Education

Location: Bookshelf

  • The American College President, 1993.
  • CSREES Celebrating a Decade of Discovery 1994-2004
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education Annual Almanac (located below stack of The Chronicle of Higher Education weekly issues)
  • College Facts, 1997-1998.
  • TheCenter: The Top American Research Universities, 2002.
  • The Fiske Guide To Colleges, 2005.
  • Higher Education Directory, 2004.
  • The Innovative University, 2004.
  • The Princeton Review: The 331 Best Colleges, 2000.
  • The Top American Research Universities, 2005.
  • US News and World Report: America'a Best Colleges, 2004.
  • US News and World Report: America'a Best Graduate Schools, 2007.
  • Academe

SEE ALSO Higher Education links on the library's Web Resources page.

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UW System

Location: Bookshelf

  • Administrative Directory
  • UW System Budget
  • Fact Book
  • Wisconsin Ideas available online here

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Maps

Location: Bookshelf

  • CIVC Visitor Map and Guide, 2005.
  • Map and Guide: Discover Downtown Madison.
  • Metro System Map, Aug 2004.
  • Rand McNally Easy-to-Read Travel Atlas, 1998.
  • Rand McNally Road Atlas, 1999.
  • Rand McNally Universal World Atlas, 1987.

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Media

Location: Bookshelf

  • 1999 CASE Membership Directory.
  • Gebbie Press All-In-One Directory 2000 (current edition is in Room 102).
  • Guide to Non-sexist Language and Visuals, 1985.
  • Institutional Advancement Professional Area Guide, 1992.
  • Making Your News Service More Effective, 1981.
  • Media Guide for Academics, 1994.
  • The New Guide to Effective Media Relations, 1988.
  • News Media Yellow Book, current edition.

    SEE ALSO Media links on the library's Web Resources page

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Newspapers

Location: Bookshelf

Dailies Other Newspapers
Badger Herald Chronicle of Higher Education
Capital Times Isthmus
Daily Cardinal Madison Times
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Wisconsin Week
The New York Times Madison Observer
Wisconsin State Journal Mendota Beacon

The library keeps the current month's and previous month's papers. Wisconsin Week is kept indefinitely.

SEE ALSO News links on the library's Web Resources page.

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