A search and screen committee has been appointed to assist the administration in the identification and selection of candidates for the next University Librarian of the General Library System at UW-Madison.
With its long-established reputation as the place to see and be seen on the UW-Madison campus, College Library likes to play on its strengths as a social library.
The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries will celebrate the Mayrent Collection at a special event at the University Club, 803 State St., on Thursday, March 1 at 4:30 p.m.
They are mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore. That describes an emerging response from more than 6,000 scientists to Elsevier, publisher of more than 2,500 scientific journals, including Cell and The Lancet.
Do you love campus? Do you love history? There are many ways you can help the UW-Madison Archives collect and preserve campus history.
Two senior University of Wisconsin–Madison staff members will step into interim director positions in their respective campus units.
It will be the end of an era when the public card catalog is removed from its home in room 224 of Memorial Library on the UW–Madison campus.
Merging organizational savvy and community outreach, three students in the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) have created a resource to connect artists, libraries and the people who love them.
A popular website that draws from tens of thousands of rare aerial photographs of Wisconsin will receive the 2011 Governor’s Award for Archival Innovation from the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board.
Pamela O’Donnell has transformed what could have been an out-of-the-way bulletin board on the first floor of College Library into an essential stop for many of the library’s thousands of visitors each year.
Testing on fire alarms will close the Memorial Library on Wednesday, Sept. 7 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
When a young Ken Frazier attempted to discern his future career, he found that his interests lay in “introductory everything and advanced nothing.”
Physicist William F. “Jack” Fry, who served on the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty from 1952 to 1998, died earlier this week at the age of 89. Fry, of Madison, was an avid historian and collector of Italian manuscripts. He was also an important contributor to the UW-Madison Libraries, donating more than 40,000 books and documents …
Maureen Grant, a 26-year employee of UW Libraries, is being remembered as a talented colleague and conversationalist. Grant was identified Thursday afternoon as the victim of Wednesday’s fatal University Avenue accident involving a Madison Metro bus.
The UW–Madison Libraries, like other departments on the UW campus, are planning for additional efficiencies in library services, resources, and operations in the face of fiscal pressures. To respond to the situation, the libraries are re-aligning priorities, reorganizing staff and services, merging print collections, consolidating duplicate service points and assessing user needs, according to director …
The fall book sale, organized by the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, takes place Wednesday, Sept. 29-Saturday, Oct. 2, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Book Festival. The sale is open to the public and is held in 116 Memorial Library, 728 State St. The preview sale ($5 entry) is Wednesday, Sept. 29, 5-9 …
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has selected “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot as the book for the second year of Go Big Read, the university’s common reading program.
The largest used book sale in Wisconsin will be held Wednesday–Saturday, April 7–10, in Room 116 of the Memorial Library.
“Science Circa 1859: On the Eve of Darwin’s Origin of Species,” opening Monday, Nov. 23, in the Department of Special Collections at Memorial Library, explores the state of science before Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking book arrived on the scene 150 years ago.