Category: reading

  • Badger Book Club

    Posted on Nov 16th

    Since 2015, the student org “Badgers for Special Olympics Book Club” has been meeting weekly at College Library, albeit with a hiatus […]

  • Go Big Read Author To Speak

    Posted on Oct 25th

    “We are all a million things at once,” Yaa Gyasi has said about Transcendent Kingdom. Her book uses fiction to explore the […]

  • National Craft Month

    Posted on Mar 17th

    In 1994, the Craft & Hobby Association designated March as National Craft Month to help people rediscover and learn about the benefits […]

  • Obama’s Favorite Books of 2020

    Posted on Dec 17th

    In a December 17th tweet, former president Barack Obama announced his list of favorite books of the year, He notes, “As 2020 […]

  • Fun Reads!

    Posted on Jul 8th

    College Library’s physical books are once again available for check-out, albeit at Memorial Library. Since patrons can’t browse our physical stacks, Eliot […]

  • #UWBookMadness Time!

    Posted on Mar 16th

    For the 6th year in a row, the UW-Madison Libraries are hosting a 64 book bracket to mimic the NCAA basketball tournament. […]

  • April Blowtorch Reading

    Posted on Apr 7th

    College Library will host the final Blowtorch Reading of the semester on Saturday, April 8, in the Ethnic Studies Room at College […]

  • March Blowtorch Reading

    Posted on Mar 3rd

    Please join us on Wednesday, March 8, for 24-hours of poems, essays, stories, and legislation in the second of our series of Blowtorch […]

  • The Blowtorch Readings

    Posted on Feb 7th

    Please join us on Wednesday, February 8, from 6 to 9pm for the first in a series of Blowtorch Readings in the […]

  • New SciFi Titles

    Posted on Jun 2nd

    A recent blog post at HuffingtonPost.com encourages everyone to read more science fiction novels. According to the authors, “science fiction asks questions of us—of humanity, […]

  • BFSO Book Club

    Posted on Apr 30th

    Beginning in February of 2015, a unique group of readers began meeting at College Library every Monday evening. Modeled after Ohio State’s […]

  • #UWBookMadness

    Posted on Mar 11th

    The UW-Madison Libraries annual Book Madness bracket tournament is now underway with 64 books vying to see who will be crowned champion. Check […]