Stories indexed under: Libraries

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• Online library searching just got better May 21, 2012 Searching the UW Libraries’ online catalog just got better and easier.
• Go Big Read goes “Radioactive” for 2012-2013 book selection April 23, 2012 University of Wisconsin-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward has selected "Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout" by Pulitzer Prize-nominated New York Times illustrator Lauren Redniss as the book for the fourth year of Go Big Read, the university's common reading program.
• Wisconsin Geological Survey maps find new home April 11, 2012 The Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey is donating more than 1,200 topographic maps to the UW-Madison Robinson Map Library, where they will be available for loan to the public.
• Committee to help identify, select next University Librarian March 9, 2012 A search and screen committee has been appointed to assist the administration in the identification and selection of candidates for the next University Librarian of the General Library System at UW-Madison.
• Student services enhance College Library Feb. 28, 2012 With its long-established reputation as the place to see and be seen on the UW-Madison campus, College Library likes to play on its strengths as a social library.
• Bringing the Yiddish past to life: A tour through the Mayrent Collection Feb. 24, 2012 The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries will celebrate the Mayrent Collection at a special event at the University Club, 803 State St., on Thursday, March 1 at 4:30 p.m.
• Journal boycott gaining steam at UW-Madison Feb. 21, 2012 They are mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore. That describes an emerging response from more than 6,000 scientists to Elsevier, publisher of more than 2,500 scientific journals, including Cell and The Lancet.
• Volunteer with the UW-Madison Archives and help preserve campus history Jan. 31, 2012 Do you love campus? Do you love history? There are many ways you can help the UW-Madison Archives collect and preserve campus history.
• Van Gemert, Steele appointed to interim director posts Dec. 20, 2011 Two senior University of Wisconsin–Madison staff members will step into interim director positions in their respective campus units.
• A farewell to the card catalog Nov. 29, 2011 It will be the end of an era when the public card catalog is removed from its home in room 224 of Memorial Library on the UW–Madison campus.
• Artists and libraries unite in innovative student project Nov. 3, 2011 Merging organizational savvy and community outreach, three students in the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) have created a resource to connect artists, libraries and the people who love them.
• "Ask a Librarian" service now available through text messaging Oct. 27, 2011
• Birdseye view of Wisconsin's past wins governor's award Oct. 11, 2011 A popular website that draws from tens of thousands of rare aerial photographs of Wisconsin will receive the 2011 Governor’s Award for Archival Innovation from the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board.
• Before social media, there was Pamela O’Donnell Sept. 13, 2011 Pamela O’Donnell has transformed what could have been an out-of-the-way bulletin board on the first floor of College Library into an essential stop for many of the library’s thousands of visitors each year.
• Alarm test to close Memorial Library on Sept. 7 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sept. 1, 2011 Testing on fire alarms will close the Memorial Library on Wednesday, Sept. 7 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Longtime library director reflects on a career at the crossroads Sept. 1, 2011 When a young Ken Frazier attempted to discern his future career, he found that his interests lay in “introductory everything and advanced nothing.”
• Physicist, library donor William "Jack" Fry dies July 22, 2011
• Update: Maureen Grant remembered by campus community June 23, 2011 Maureen Grant, a 26-year employee of UW Libraries, is being remembered as a talented colleague and conversationalist. Grant was identified Thursday afternoon as the victim of Wednesday’s fatal University Avenue accident involving a Madison Metro bus.
• Changes coming to UW-Madison libraries May 3, 2011
• Friends book sale to be held Sept. 29-Oct. 2 Sept. 22, 2010