Faculty & Staff
Explore the Southeast Asian Images & Texts (SEAiT) collection
Southeast Asian Images & Texts (SEAiT) is a digital archive of unique and beautiful historical images accessible through the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (UWDCC). SEAiT’s mission is to put “rare materials into the hands of students” in order to support scholarship in the field of Southeast Asian studies; a partnership with the UWDCC [...]
Getting to Know Ed Van Gemert
Staff meetings and official communications can tell you what Ed Van Gemert has planned for the UW Libraries, but we’d like to share a candid interview with the new Vice Provost for Libraries and University Librarian. In his own words: “I take my work seriously, but I don’t take myself too seriously.” Library News & [...]
Wednesday Nite @ the Lab presents Fallout: The Making of a “Radioactive” Exhibit
Micaela Sullivan Fowler is famous on campus for creating exhibits at Ebling Library that enhance the experience of reading UW’s Go Big Read titles each year. The first, titled “It’s Good for You,” was created in conjunction with Michael Pollen’s In Defense of Food, and the second, “Informing Consent: Unwitting Subjects in Medicine’s Pursuit of [...]
Charity Knitting & Crocheting at Memorial Library
Due to the overwhelming success and popularity of the charity knitting program at Steenbock (which is still going strong on Fridays, 12-1 in room 240) a second location and time has been added to the lunchtime crafternoons for the spring semester starting next week. Organizer and Grants Librarian, Ellen Jacks, encourages anyone who is interested [...]
Call For Submissions: Digital Salon 2013
The UW-Madison Libraries and DesignLab will host the fourth annual Digital Salon, a one-week exhibition of digital media projects by UW undergraduate and graduate students from Sunday, April 14 through Saturday, April 20, 2013. This exhibition of new media projects showcases artistic and research-based projects that take digital form or rely heavily on information technology [...]
The Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture Announces “Feminist Ryan Gosling” Colloquium
The Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture announced the first Spring 2013 Colloquium this week. The event, titled Co-opting Theory: How Feminist Ryan Gosling Saved my Academic Life, will be presented by Danielle Henderson, a PhD candidate in the UW-Madison School of Gender and Women’s Studies and creator of the popular Tumblr, Feminist [...]
DesignLab & Media Studios Open House
DesignLab is hosting an Open House tomorrow, February 8th from 2:30-5pm. Librarians, faculty, staff and students are invited to stop in any time between 2:30 and 5:00pm for tours of the spaces, opportunities to ask questions and talk with instructors and consultants, and to enjoy conversation (and treats). Last November, we shared an in-depth overview [...]
Join the Friends for an Exhibit Tour & Go Big Read Discussion at Ebling Library
UW’s Go Big Read choice for 2012-2013 is the remarkable Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss. One of Ebling Library’s most popular exhibits has been “Fallout: The Mixed Blessing of Radiation and the Public Health,” which was imagined in response to Radioactive. The Friends of the University [...]
Parallel Press authors to read at Winter Festival of Poetry
The Winter Festival of Poetry is a Madison tradition. For more than 25 years, the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, which has about 500 members across the state, has sponsored the series, scheduling local poets to read their work on Sunday afternoons throughout the winter months. This year, a number of Parallel Press authors and advisers [...]
Tracy Honn of Silver Buckle Press featured on Design Envy
Congratulations to Tracy Honn, whose work is featured this week as an example of gorgeous letterform prints on Design Envy, a meticulously curated blog created by designers. Tracy Honn is a master printer and Director of Silver Buckle Press, a working museum of letterpress printing housed on the second floor of Memorial Library. Silver Buckle [...]
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