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Younger Americans’ reading habits and library use
Books on display in College Library’s Open Book Cafe. An interesting study from the PEW Internet & American Life Project (a subset of the Pew Research Center) finds that reading is alive and well...
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All bookshelves, all the time
Today’s National Clipping is one of Time‘s top twenty-five blogs for 2012. Bookshelf Porn is a highly visual blog whose title pretty well sums up its holdings – thousands of photographs of beautiful,...
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BiblioTech: The First Bookless Library
If you take a look at the artist’s rendering below, you might think this library design was dreamed up for The Jetsons. Not so–BiblioTech is slated to open in San Antonio this coming fall, and is the...
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Tracy Honn of Silver Buckle Press featured on Design Envy
Congratulations to Tracy Honn, whose work is featured this week as an example of gorgeous letterform prints on Design Envy, a meticulously curated blog created by designers. This triptych of prints by...
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The Open Access Academic Library Press
Librarian Bryn Geffert. The Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article this week that highlighted new initiatives at academic libraries in terms of scholarly publishing. Over the last five years,...
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High Praise for UW Digital Collections in College and Research Libraries
Postcard Looking Northwest, Showing Part of University Buildings, Picnic Point and Lake Mendota in Distance, Madison, Wisconsin. From the UW-Madison Collection, UWDC. [UW.CLP-S0047.bib]In case you...
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Book Madness at the Libraries
UW-Madison Libraries’ first Book Madness bracket tournament went live this morning! Several librarians worked to created a bracket of 64 books and have pitted them against each other in 32 pairings...
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Book Madness is down to the Sweet 16!
Book Madness is down to the Sweet 16! The Lord of the Rings topped A Game of Thrones in a decisive victory in the last bracket after inching past Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in round one....
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The Final Four in the Libraries’ Book Madness Tournament
The UW-Madison Libraries’ Book Madness Tournament moves on to the Final Four this week, after a cutthroat Elite Eight battle that yielded strong contenders in each match-up. Below is visualization for...
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Historical Society Receives NEH Grant
Earlier this month, The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Wisconsin Historical Society a public programming grant for as part of a special project titled Created Equal: America’s Civil...
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The Libraries’ 75-years Overdue Book on WMTV Channel 15
Last week, we shared the story behind a very overdue library book, which made its way back to UW-Madison Libraries seventy-five years after it had been checked out. Soon after the story was published,...
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Rare book libraries helped Natalie Zemon Davis overcome oppression
Natalie Zemon Davis; drawing by David Levine Earlier this summer, The New York Review of Books featured a post on their blog by historian Natalie Zemon Davis entitled “How the FBI Turned Me On to Rare...
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Campus History in the News
The UW Archives and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Collections (UWDC) have received some well-deserved media attention lately—and timely, too, as October is American Archives Month. The...
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Government Shutdown: Information Guide
Beth Harper, the Government Documents & Reference Librarian in UW–Madison’s Memorial Library, wrote up a guide to help library users during the federal government shutdown. Federal agencies that...
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Libraries Celebrate Open Access Week
Open Access Week is this October 21 through October 27th this year. UW–Madison libraries are committed to celebrating and promoting this important week. Two main events are scheduled: a brown-bag panel...
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Libraries and Shelf Space Solutions
Think your house is running out of storage space? Libraries have a bigger problem: trying to fit thousands of new printed books into their holdings, while more “library real estate” is going to...
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Former UW-Madison Librarian Gretchen Farwell in Jackie O Documentary
Picture credit: Gretchen Farwell, used by Journal Sentinel Former UW–Madison Librarian, Gretchen Farwell, was a 20-year-old student at St. Olaf when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on...
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The Kazakhstan Series: Photo Essay
This is part of a series. The other two articles can be found here: Global Partnerships Consulting and Collaborating (UW–Madison and NU) Victor Gorodinsky, Memorial Library’s Slavic Languages...
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Look Back, Look Ahead: UW–Madison and the Oral History Conference
We’re delighted that Troy Reeves was so willing to write about his recent experience at the Oral History Conference in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Reeves is head of UW–Madison’s oral history program...
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Mills Music Library and a Menagerie of Music
Mills Music Library made an appearance in a recent New York Times article, “A Menagerie of Music Lives in a Box,” about the release of a Paramount Records boxed set, featuring more than 800 newly...
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