Memorial Library
Text Support: A Library Exhibit About Paper
This spring, UW-Madison Libraries will host an exciting exhibit and event series focusing on the history and artistry of paper. Text Support: A Library Exhibit About Paper is a multi-library exhibit co-curated by Tracy Honn of Silver Buckle Press and Lyn Korenic of the Kohler Art Library. The exhibit will run from April 15 through [...]
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Memorial Library is big. Really big. And sometimes it’s hard to find stuff. Memorial librarians need your help understanding the challenges students and staff experience while searching for stuff in the library building. Resource Discovery Librarian Casey Schacher and Grants Librarian Ellen Jacks are currently soliciting volunteers to participate in a fun, interactive wayfinding study [...]
Entries for the 2013 Edible Book Fest Due April 15!
The 2013 Edible Book Festival takes place 4:00-6:00 pm on Tuesday, April 16 and promises to combine literary and culinary talents in the Madison community. A Hunger Games pie? Fifty Shades of Gravy? Vegetarian depictions of The Jungle? These could possibly be just a few of the entries at the annual University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial [...]
Susan Barribeau presents the Little Magazine Collection at Grolier Club
UW-Madison Libraries’ Susan Barribeau was recently invited to participate on a panel of private and institutional collectors at the Grolier Club in New York City to speak about the Little Magazines collection. Susan, who is the collection manager for the Little Magazine Collection at UW-Madison, traveled to New York last week and spoke alongside private collectors [...]
Staff Spotlight: Memorial Library’s resident expert in all things Irish, Dineen Grow
Dineen Grow, Head of Access Services, is our staff spotlight this month! We chose Dineen not only because of her excellent service in the libraries, but also because of her love of the Irish language. Read on to learn more about her classes in Irish language and culture and how you can celebrate St. Patrick’s [...]
On Wisconsin, On Film event a huge success
Despite the Snow Emergency in Madison this week, the Treasures of the Libraries event, On Wisconsin, On Film: Historic Films from the University Archives, was a rousing success. According to Images and Media Archivist and co-host, Vicki Tobias, the event was standing room only. Over 100 people from campus and the greater Madison community packed [...]
Gallery Talk for “Parts & Wholes” Exhibit in Special Collections
Judith Kaplan, Ph.D., History of Science, and guest co-curator for the exhibit “Parts and Wholes,” will offer a gallery talk in Special Collections (976 Memorial Library) this Friday. Her talk will address the process of selecting books, periodicals, and museum specimens from Special Collections, Silver Buckle Press, the Ebling Library Historical Collections, the Zoological Museum, [...]
Evolving Directions Lecture on Senses & the Arts
The intersection of the senses and the arts is the theme for the next Evolving Directions lecture, scheduled for this Friday, March 8, from 1:30-3:00pm in Memorial, Rm. 126. Please mark your calendars to attend this very special presentation by Prof. Henry Drewal and Faisal Abdu’allah on their teaching and research on the senses and [...]
2nd Annual Maureen Grant Memorial Blood Drive
In 2011, longtime UW Libraries employee Maureen Grant was struck by a bus while walking across University Avenue and was killed. Grant was a lifelong Red Cross blood donor who frequently donated at the UW Libraries blood drives and in her hometown of New Glarus, Wisconsin. Last March, the UW Libraries sponsored a blood drive [...]
On Wisconsin, On Film: Historic Films from the University Archives
As part of their “Treasures of the UW-Libraries” series, the Friends of the Libraries will present an evening of campus film clips on Wednesday, March 6 from 5:30 – 7:00 pm at Memorial Library, Room 460. “On Wisconsin, On Film” will delight you with a selection of historic films providing glimpses of campus life from [...]
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