Current Exhibit
“Parts and Wholes” exhibit in Special Collections
“Parts and Wholes” is the current exhibit on display in Special Collections. The exhibit runs until March 2013. From the Special Collections website: What is a part? What is a whole? How are issues of hierarchy, time, and relationship conveyed or at issue in print? This exhibit — presented in conjunction with the workshop, “What [...]
Silver Buckle Press exhibit: “End of Times”
Text provided by Tracy Honn, Silver Buckle Press Silver Buckle Press has a timely exhibit up in the hall cases on the second floor of Memorial Library. Titled “End of Times: 2012 Broadside Exchange,” the exhibit is a display of themed letterpress prints about the predicted 2012 apocalypse. The invitational portfolio was organized by artist [...]
Haunted Folklore & Tales of the Supernatural
A beautiful exhibit of large-scale images haunts the lobby of Memorial Library until November 9. “Haunted Folklore and Tales of the Supernatural,” curated by social science librarian Tom Durkin, displays striking visuals that accompany academic texts in the Libraries’ substantial collection of folklore and ghost story literature. Do the images here pique your interest? Tom [...]
“Fallout” exhibition relates a complex narrative
“Fallout: the Mixed Blessing of Radiation and the Public Health” is the exhibition that opened on November 1 at Ebling Library for the Health Sciences. Researched and assembled by Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, “Fallout” includes artifacts, journals, books, and other ephemera from Ebling Library’s Rare Books & Special Collections and materials from other campus libraries and UW’s [...]
Happy Halloween from the Libraries!
There’s a lot of Halloween happenings around the UW-Madison Libraries this week! Memorial Library “Haunted Folklore and Tales of the Supernatural” Exhibit You can’t miss the large-as-life exhibit that is up on the first floor of Memorial Library, in the book checkout desk area. Snap a photo next to one of the beautiful historic images [...]
Exhibit in Memorial Library showcases the Curies
Spotted in the lobby of Memorial Library: an exhibit of historic publications related to public perceptions and examinations of Pierre and Marie Curie and their work, from the holdings of the Department of Special Collections. The Curies are the subject of the Go Big Read title for 2012, Radioactive by Lauren Redniss.
“The Engineered Image” exhibition at Wendt Commons
by Laura Schmidli, Information Services Librarian, Wendt Commons Much of our knowledge of the biological world is the result of images collected with microscopes. Advances in microscope engineering over the past thirty years have given biologists the ability to monitor biological phenomena with unprecedented resolution. Many of these innovations have happened here at UW Madison. [...]
“In Our Spare Time” exhibition at Ebling Library
We love highlighting the creative work of faculty and staff (including staff from the libraries!), so we’re very pleased to announce this upcoming exhibition at Ebling Library. “In Our Spare Time” opens with a reception Thursday, September 27th from 4:00-6:00 in the Reading Room and 3rd Floor Galleries of Ebling Library. The exhibit runs until [...]
“Diversions in the Victorian Age” in Special Collections
An Exhibit Honoring “Victorian Networks,” the 2012 conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association Department of Special Collections 976 Memorial Library September 24 – November 30, 2012 Open Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Although Queen Victoria is famously credited with the arch comment “We are not amused,” her subjects found diversion [...]
“Bookscapes: Lands Observed and Imagined” at Kohler Art Library
The fall exhibit at the Kohler Art Library showcases the theme of landscape in artists’ books. Bookscapes: Lands Observed and Imagined includes depictions of place in Native American legend to an inverted atlas of the earth. A symbol of discovery, landscape is revealed through naturalistic observations and imaginary inventions of mountains, prairie, fields, and shore. [...]
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