National Clippings
Posts every Friday that highlight unique materials and interesting stories from beyond the UW-Madison Libraries.
11 surprising things you can check out from a library
We came across this post about interesting or unexpected things you can check out from a library – somewhere. The list includes everything from therapy dogs to toys! Do libraries at UW-Madison check out any of this stuff? Unfortunately therapy dogs aren’t in our collection (although they hang out on campus during finals and #studystrong…). [...]
UW-Madison Libraries earn spot in The Princeton Review’s top twenty college libraries
The Libraries at the University of Wisconsin-Madison earned a spot in the nation’s top twenty college libraries, according to a student survey conducted by The Princeton Review. The Princeton Review released its 2013 college rankings in 62 categories, including ‘Best College Library’ and its counterpart, ‘This is a Library?’ Both lists are based solely on [...]
Books & American National Identity: NPR story
National Public Radio’s Lynn Neary spoke with Mark Dimunation, chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress, and curatorial committee member for The Library of Congress exhibit “Books That Shaped America.” The exhibit includes over eighty titles – everything from Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe to The [...]
A pinch of history: the Carson Gulley Cookbook Collection
Fans of beautiful books, libraries, and bookstores will be smitten with this website, A Pretty Book. A post from July 25th, “Cooking the Books,” inspired us to explore our own digital collections to find out what we have in the way of cookbooks. From the introduction to the School of Human Ecology’s Carson Gulley Cookbook [...]
New perfume captures the scent of “freshly printed books”
Designer Karl Lagerfeld, Wallpaper magazine, and perfumer Geza Schoen joined forces to produce “Paper Passion,” a perfume intended to capture the scent of “freshly printed books.” According to the New York Daily News, Schoen created the perfume with just four or five ingredients, including ethyl linoleate and a selection of woody components to add dryness. [...]
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