Research
2013 Teaching and Learning Symposium this week
UW-Madison Libraries are among the sponsors for this year’s Teaching and Learning Symposium, to be held Wednesday May 22nd and Thursday May 23rd at Union South. This year’s theme is educational innovation, an idea that reflects the spirit and philosophy of the Year of Innovation, a campus wide initiative to highlight, promote, and celebrate UW-Madison’s [...]
The Statistical Abstract of the United States now available through ProQuest
When the U.S. Census Bureau announced in March 2011 it would no longer produce the Statistical Abstract of the United States, after publishing it annually for 134 years, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth among library workers and journalists. Library associations issued statements and urged their members to contact members of Congress about [...]
UW Gardening Day at Steenbock Library
Librarians at Steenbock Memorial Library are participating in this year’s UW Family Gardening Day on May 11 on the UW-Madison campus. The annual showcase of gardening ideas runs from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the university’s D.C. Smith Instructional Greenhouses and Allen Centennial Gardens. Steenbock Library, which is located between the two gardens, invites [...]
Undergraduate Research Award Winners Announced
Each year, College Library invites students to apply for its annual Undergraduate Library Research Awards as part of the Undergraduate Symposium. The awards celebrate excellence and creativity in using the library to complete an undergraduate research project, and winners receive cash prizes for their work. The submission process included meeting with librarians Kelli Keclik at [...]
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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 [...]
Undergraduate Research Awards Deadline is April 5th!
College Library, in conjunction with the Undergraduate Symposium, invites students to apply for its annual Undergraduate Library Research Awards. The awards celebrate excellence and creativity in using the library to complete an undergraduate research project. (Examples may include a literature review for a lab study, the use of primary sources in a historical research paper, [...]
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 [...]
High Praise for UW Digital Collections in College and Research Libraries
In case you missed it: the Internet Reviews section of College & Research Libraries ran a review of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections in their February 2013 issue. Sarah Goodwin Thiel, of the University of Kansas Libraries, reviewed the UWDC websitein glowing terms, noting that the UWDCC has digitized over 1 million books, objects, [...]
Data Day, March 21st
Data Day is a one day symposium is intended to cover topics surrounding the use of data in humanities and social sciences research. The event is organized by Research Data Services and the Humanities Research Bridge and sponsored by the UW CIO and Vice Provost for IT and the General Library System. Spread the word and [...]
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., [...]
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