Events Calendar
Fall Events
Thursday, September 11
"Animals and Humans in Early Modern Anatomical Illustrations"
4:30 p.m.
984 Memorial Library
Anita Guerrini was recently appointed as Horning Professor of the Humanities at Oregon State in recognition of her scholarship in history of life sciences and medicine and environmental history. The public is invited to this lecture, sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Library. Professor Guerrini will also be a participant in the conference, "The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine," scheduled for September 12-13 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Pyle Center.
The related Special Collections exhibit "Color Enhanced: Use of Color in Scientific Books" draws on strong holdings of illustrated books of science and natural history from the 15th through the 20th century. The exhibit, designed to complement the conference "The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine," is open through September 14 in 976 Memorial Library.
Thursday, November 20
"Obsession: O. Winston Link's Documentation of the Steam Railroad and the Good Life in America"
4:30 p.m.
126 Memorial Library
Tom Garver, who now works in retirement as administrator for the Friends, has had an almost lifelong involvement with the American photographer, O. Winston Link (1914-2001). Link, a commercial industrial photographer living and working in New York City, loved the American steam railroad, and in early 1955 began photographing the last main line railroad to use steam power exclusively--the Norfolk and Western Railway. For the next five years, Link, working for himself alone and as an obsessive labor of love, spent a total of about nine months along the railroad's rights of way in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, documenting both the great steam locomotives and everyday life along the line.
For about a year, from 1957 to 1958, Garver worked as a part time assistant to Link, making three trips with him to help make railroad photographs and tape recordings. Garver, who served as Link's business agent for the last seven years of his life, also wrote the text of The Last Steam Railroad in America, the second book of Link's N&W photos. Following Link's death in 2001, Garver was named organizing curator of the O. Winston Link Museum, located in the historic railroad station of Roanoke, Virginia, the only museum devoted to the work of a single photographer in the United States. Tom Garver will speak on how Winston Link developed a style which is both documentary and so popular that he became one of America's most highly collected photographers.
Exhibits
August 1-September 30
"College Humor to Italian Tesserae: Celebrating the Centennial of James S. Watrous"
Thursday, September 25th, 4:30 p.m.
Special Collections Seminar Room, 9th Floor Memorial Library
Marking the centennial of James S. Watrous (1908-1999), the exhibit looks at the many contributions of this artist and art historian to the University of 
Wisconsin-Madison campus. The exhibit was inspired by John Dobbertin, a collector of college humor magazines, and Lynne Watrous Eich, daughter of James Watrous. The exhibit displays photographs, books and regalia from the University Archives, the Kohler Art Library and the Watrous family. As a doctoral candidate, Watrous studied with the noted German art historian Oskar Hagen, earning his Ph.D. in 1939, at which time he joined the Department of Art History, where he taught until his retirement in 1976. His interest in art flourished in the 1950s when he travelled to Italy to study mosaic techniques. Using small tesserae of colored Venetian glass, he created memorable mosaics for buildings on campus (Vilas Hall, Memorial Union, Ingraham Hall, and the Social Sciences building). The exhibit is curated by Lyn Korenic and David Null.
September 3-October 5
Silver Buckle Press at the Sunroom Cafe
The Silver Buckle Press currently has an exhibit of prints and broadsides at the Sunroom Café which is located at 638 State Street. The exhibit will be on display until October 5th of this year.
On display are letterpress posters and broadsides from the Silver Buckle Press. The majority of the pieces on exhibit are from an annual in-house broadside series begun in 1997 that features student/staff designers. These Summer posters are informal specimens of type from the Silver Buckle Press’s collection.
The Silver Buckle Press is a working museum of letterpress printing dedicated to preserving the craft of fine printing through educational programming, publications, exhibitions and tours. The Silver Buckle Press collection of books, wood and metal type, presses, and printing equipment are part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries.
Please contact Tracy Honn for more information on Silver Buckle Press.
September 15-December 12
Pareidolia: Inkspill Drawings by Vesna JovanovicVesna Jovanovic, a contemporary visual artist from Chicago, Illinois, will be displaying her Pareidolia series at Ebling Library from September 15 to December 12, 2008. Come explore the surreal dualities of Jovanovic’s meticulously enhanced inkspill drawings; revealing hidden images in abstract forms. Meet the artist Saturday, September 27, 3-5:30 p.m. Third Floor, Ebling Library.
September 22-mid-December 2008
The Art of College Humor: Campus Humor Magazines from the Dobbertin Collection
Department of Special Collections
976 Memorial Library
This exhibit will feature the extensive and lively collection of campus humor magazines assembled and donated to the Department of Special Collections by John and Barbara Dobbertin. The magazines on display, from the Harvard Lampoon to the UW’s own Octopus, are part of what may be the largest collection of college humor magazines in the United States. The collection ranges from the late 19th century to the 21st, and addresses topics both light-hearted and controversial. Some of the humor stands well the test of time, while other jokes and cartoons make today’s readers cringe.
On September 25 John Dobbertin will introduce the exhibit with a lecture sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries. A complementary exhibit at Kohler Art Library, “College Humor to Italian Tesserae: Celebrating the Centennial of James S. Watrous,” runs through September 30.
October 8-December 10, 2008
Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945
Memorial Library
The General Library System and Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools are co-sponsoring the exhibition Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945. This traveling exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is making its first appearance in Wisconsin.
The exhibition is made up of more than 200 reproductions of photographs, documents, and artwork that examine the Nazi regime’s efforts to eradicate homosexuality and the devastating effects the regime had on the gay community. The exhibition includes the Nazi racial and social ideals that were the basis for the persecution.
The exhibition is on display through December 10 in the lobby of Memorial Library, 728 State Street. There will be an opening reception on October 18 in the Pyle Center.
The exhibition is free to the public during library hours (bring driver’s license or other photo ID).
For more information see: http://www.gsaforsafeschools.org/exhibition.html
Ongoing Workshops
Library Workshops
Library staff members conduct workshops throughout the year at no charge for
UW-Madison faculty, staff and students. Program topics range from using the
library catalog and conducting research in specialized databases to finding
grant information and creating simple Web pages. Contact Library & Information Literacy
Instruction at 262-4308 for more information or visit the Web site.
"If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of its futures."
Harry A. Overstreet (1875-1970), American social psychologist
For more information about events in the UW-Madison Libraries, contact:
Library Communications
372K Memorial Library
728 State St.
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-2566
or
e-mail Library Communications
Exhibits
August 1-September 30
"College Humor to Italian Tesserae: Celebrating the Centennial of James S. Watrous"
Thursday, September 25th, 4:30 p.m.
Special Collections Seminar Room, 9th Floor Memorial Library
Marking the centennial of James S. Watrous (1908-1999), the exhibit looks at the many contributions of this artist and art historian to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The exhibit was inspired by John Dobbertin, a collector of college humor magazines, and Lynne Watrous Eich, daughter of James Watrous. The exhibit displays photographs, books and regalia from the University Archives, the Kohler Art Library and the Watrous family. As a doctoral candidate, Watrous studied with the noted German art historian Oskar Hagen, earning his Ph.D. in 1939, at which time he joined the Department of Art History, where he taught until his retirement in 1976. His interest in art flourished in the 1950s when he travelled to Italy to study mosaic techniques. Using small tesserae of colored Venetian glass, he created memorable mosaics for buildings on campus (Vilas Hall, Memorial Union, Ingraham Hall, and the Social Sciences building). The exhibit is curated by Lyn Korenic and David Null.
September 3-October 5
Silver Buckle Press at the Sunroom
Café
The Silver Buckle Press currently has an exhibit of prints and broadsides at the Sunroom Café which is located at 638 State Street. The exhibit will be on display until October 5th of this year.
On display are letterpress posters and broadsides from the Silver Buckle Press. The majority of the pieces on exhibit are from an annual in-house broadside series begun in 1997 that features student/staff designers. These Summer posters are informal specimens of type from the Silver Buckle Press’s collection.
The Silver Buckle Press is a working museum of letterpress printing dedicated to preserving the craft of fine printing through educational programming, publications, exhibitions and tours. The Silver Buckle Press collection of books, wood and metal type, presses, and printing equipment are part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries.
Please contact Tracy Honn for more information on Silver Buckle Press.
September 15-December 12
Pareidolia: Inkspill Drawings by Vesna JovanovicVesna Jovanovic, a contemporary visual artist from Chicago, Illinois, will be displaying her Pareidolia series at Ebling Library from September 15 to December 12, 2008. Come explore the surreal dualities of Jovanovic’s meticulously enhanced inkspill drawings; revealing hidden images in abstract forms. Meet the artist Saturday, September 27, 3-5:30 p.m. Third Floor, Ebling Library.
September 22-mid-December 2008
The Art of College Humor: Campus Humor Magazines from the Dobbertin Collection
Department of Special Collections
976 Memorial Library
This exhibit will feature the extensive and lively collection of campus humor magazines assembled and donated to the Department of Special Collections by John and Barbara Dobbertin. The magazines on display, from the Harvard Lampoon to the UW’s own Octopus, are part of what may be the largest collection of college humor magazines in the United States. The collection ranges from the late 19th century to the 21st, and addresses topics both light-hearted and controversial. Some of the humor stands well the test of time, while other jokes and cartoons make today’s readers cringe.
On September 25 John Dobbertin will introduce the exhibit with a lecture sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries. A complementary exhibit at Kohler Art Library, “College Humor to Italian Tesserae: Celebrating the Centennial of James S. Watrous,” runs through September 30.
October 8-December 10, 2008
Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945
Memorial Library
The General Library System and Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools are co-sponsoring the exhibition Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945. This traveling exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is making its first appearance in Wisconsin.
The exhibition is made up of more than 200 reproductions of photographs, documents, and artwork that examine the Nazi regime’s efforts to eradicate homosexuality and the devastating effects the regime had on the gay community. The exhibition includes the Nazi racial and social ideals that were the basis for the persecution.
The exhibition is on display through December 10 in the lobby of Memorial Library, 728 State Street. There will be an opening reception on October 18 in the Pyle Center.
The exhibition is free to the public during library hours (bring driver’s license or other photo ID).
For more information see: http://www.gsaforsafeschools.org/exhibition.html
Events
Thursday, September 11
"Animals and Humans in Early Modern Anatomical Illustrations"
4:30 p.m.
984 Memorial Library
Anita Guerrini was recently appointed as Horning Professor of the Humanities at Oregon State in recognition of her scholarship in history of life sciences and medicine and environmental history. The public is invited to this lecture, sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Library. Professor Guerrini will also be a participant in the conference, "The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine," scheduled for September 12-13 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Pyle Center.
The related Special Collections exhibit "Color Enhanced: Use of Color in Scientific Books" draws on strong holdings of illustrated books of science and natural history from the 15th through the 20th century. The exhibit, designed to complement the conference "The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine," is open through September 14 in 976 Memorial Library.
Thursday, November 20
"Obsession: O. Winston Link's Documentation of the Steam Railroad and the Good Life in America"
4:30 p.m.
126 Memorial Library
Tom Garver, who now works in retirement as administrator for the Friends, has had an almost lifelong involvement with the American photographer, O. Winston Link (1914-2001). Link, a commercial industrial photographer living and working in New York City, loved the American steam railroad, and in early 1955 began photographing the last main line railroad to use steam power exclusively--the Norfolk and Western Railway. For the next five years, Link, working for himself alone and as an obsessive labor of love, spent a total of about nine months along the railroad's rights of way in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, documenting both the great steam locomotives and everyday life along the line.
For about a year, from 1957 to 1958, Garver worked as a part time assistant to Link, making three trips with him to help make railroad photographs and tape recordings. Garver, who served as Link's business agent for the last seven years of his life, also wrote the text of The Last Steam Railroad in America, the second book of Link's N&W photos. Following Link's death in 2001, Garver was named organizing curator of the O. Winston Link Museum, located in the historic railroad station of Roanoke, Virginia, the only museum devoted to the work of a single photographer in the United States. Tom Garver will speak on how Winston Link developed a style which is both documentary and so popular that he became one of America's most highly collected photographers.
"If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of its futures."
Harry A. Overstreet (1875-1970), American social psychologist
For more information about events in the UW-Madison Libraries, contact:
Library Communications
372K Memorial Library
728 State St.
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-2566
or
e-mail Library Communications
Ongoing Workshops
Library Workshops
Library staff members conduct workshops throughout the year at no charge for
UW-Madison faculty, staff and students. Program topics range from using the
library catalog and conducting research in specialized databases to finding
grant information and creating simple Web pages. Contact Library & Information Literacy
Instruction at 262-4308 for more information or visit the Web site.
Friends Book Sale
The largest used book sale in Wisconsin, the next one to be held Wednesday through Saturday, October 15-18 in Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, includes more than 15,000 books covering almost any subject.
The semiannual sales, organized by the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library, offer books on almost every subject.
Fall 2008 Book Sale Hours
Preview Sale ($5 entry)
Wednesday, October 15, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Regular Sale (No entry fee)
Thursday, October 16, 10:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday, October 17, 10:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.
$3-a-Bag Sale (Bring Your Own Bag)
Saturday, October 18, 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
All sales are held in 116 Memorial Library.