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Handmade Paper with Wisconsin Roots
As part of the multi-part exhibition Text Support: A Library Exhibit About Paper, the Kohler Art Library is currently featuring the exhibit Handmade Paper with Wisconsin Roots. For almost 50 years, Wisconsin has been a remarkable leader in the field of book arts and has played a vital role in the resurgence of handmade paper. [...]
Parallel Press poets’ work featured on “Poetic Bikes”
Last week, Madison B-cycle unveiled 30 new “Poetic Bikes” into their bicycle lending system as part of a city-wide partnership with Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf, a local organization run by Parallel Press poet Shoshauna Shy. In the past, Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf has partnered with Community Car in a similar effort to integrate [...]
7th Annual Health Sciences Students Art Exhibit at Ebling Library
Ebling library is currently hosting the 7th annual Health Sciences Student Art exhibit in the Historical Reading Room and 3rd Floor Gallery. The show spotlights the artistic talent of Health Sciences students, who are also pursuing degrees in the School of Occupational Therapy, the School of Nursing, Veterinary Medicine, the School of Pharmacy, and School [...]
Upcoming reading of Parallel Press play, “If the Whole Body Dies” by Bob Skloot
On Thursday, April 11 at 7:00 p.m., Bob Skloot, UW-Madison Professor emeritus of Theatre and Drama and Jewish Studies, will present his play “If the Whole Body Dies: Raphael Lemkin and the Treaty Against Genocide” (Parallel Press, 2006). The play tells the story of Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the word “genocide” and devoted [...]
Explore Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Described as “the most ambitious single scholarly digitization project ever undertaken,” Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), is an online database containing records for every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the UK during the 18th century. It also includes thousands of works from the Americas. ECCO II, the second part of the original ECCO [...]
Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series now available as e-books
The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series has recently been digitized, making the process of accessing historical government documents much simpler. Thanks to a collaborative digitization project between the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries and the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries, as well as contributions from academic and public libraries across the U.S., [...]
New Library Service: UBorrow
Need a book fast? All UW copies unavailable? Can’t decide whether to recall it or try interlibrary loan? Then it’s time to try Uw-Madison Libraries’ new service, Uborrow. In January, the Library launched a new service called Uborrow, which offers rapid access to books from 13 major research libraries, with combined collections of more than [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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