Spotlight on Special Collections

  • Authors’ Portraits, Sixties Style

    Posted on June 30, 2018

    Our current exhibit, “The Sixties: Remembering Who Was T/here,” pays tribute to, among other, eleven influential novels of the era. Though the […]

  • “A Boiling, Surging, Roaring Ocean of Fire!”

    Posted on May 20, 2018

    In light of recent news re ports and striking video of an eruption from Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island, we revisit here […]

  • More about World Religions

    Posted on April 17, 2018

    In the current exhibit in Special Collections, Preserving the Word: World Religions in our Libraries, our colleagues Thomas Durkin, Todd Michelson-Ambelang, and Lisa Wettleson […]

  • Hofmann’s Violet and Perkin’s Mauveine

    Posted on March 12, 2018

    Today’s Google Doodle honors Sir William Henry Perkin’s 180th birthday and the organic dye mauveine for which he is best known. We […]

  • The Cairns Collection and Art History Curatorial Studies 2018

    Posted on February 12, 2018

    Images from our holdings of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin figure in the exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art curated by […]

  • Closed December 23 through January 1

    Posted on December 20, 2017

    The Department of Special Collections will be For more information about other campus libraries, see Library Hours. Please contact us at 608-262-3243 […]

  • Stains in Special Collections

    Posted on December 12, 2017

    The presentation about the Library of Stains project on December 13 prompts us to look at different sorts of stains in Special Collections […]

  • Charles Lucian Bonaparte’s Wild Turkey

    Posted on November 22, 2017

    Thanksgiving this year is an apt time for us to show off a plate from volume 1 of American ornithology; or, the […]

  • Gallery Talk for Iceland Exhibit, Oct. 30, 3 p.m.

    Posted on October 25, 2017

    We hope you will join us on Monday, October 30, at 3 PM in Special Collections for an informal gallery talk about our exhibit “Iceland.” […]

  • Falling Leaves

    Posted on October 8, 2017

    Though we enjoyed summer-like weather this October weekend, the leaves are beginning to pile up around Madison, calling attention to differential patterns […]

  • On Working and Labor Day 2017

    Posted on September 1, 2017

    Although the campus is buzzing with the excitement of football — first home game tonight — and the beginning of classes next […]

  • Darkness at Noon (More or Less)

    Posted on August 20, 2017

    Like other special collections libraries prompted by tomorrow’s solar eclipse to post images from their holdings, we weigh in with examples from, […]