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We honor Friday the 13th with thirteen works from Special Collections, replete with examples of horror, mystery, spirits, and luck (bad or […]
We had the opportunity last week to page through two volumes of our copy of Audubon’s double-elephant folio Birds of America with […]
Tonight’s lunar eclipse, which coincides with what is known as a harvest moon, prompts us to offer several examples of depictions of lunar eclipses […]
The process of digitizing our copy of Shakespeare’s Second Folio is underway, in anticipation of all the events, on campus and further […]
We were delighted to welcome the July 21 kickoff Holding History event, which brought together campus and community partners and library donors with […]
On this, Shakespeare’s birthday, we celebrate as well the depth of the Peter Pauper Press Collection in the Department of Special Collections, […]
This weekend’s community reading of Aldo Leopold’s Sand county almanac at the UW-Madison Arboretum prompts us to highlight the rich resources related to […]
Today’s Google doodle honoring the 270th birthday of Alessandro Volta prompted us to explore works by Volta in two of our outstanding […]
The history of the Little Magazines Collection in Special Collections began in the late 1950s, when Memorial Library acquired by purchase and donation […]
In honor of today’s event, “Our Funny University,” we have installed a modest exhibit on the first floor of Memorial Library entitled […]
This past weekend, news outlets noted an important anniversary: the centenary of the assassination in Sarajevo of archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, […]
Woodland Pattern Book Center Poetry for 30 Years and Beyond Please join us for a discussion with Woodland Pattern Book Center founders […]