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Abigail Adams biography adds to popular interest in American Revolution

March 14, 2008

"John Adams," a major HBO mini-series debuting this Sunday, is bound to generate renewed public interest in the era of the American Revolution and the founding of the nation. A University of Wisconsin–Madison chapbook series has been mining that rich historical territory for some time. The latest chapbook, a biography of Abigail Adams, fits very closely with the mini-series' focus on John and Abigail's long and storied relationship.

New digital collection ‘Sixty Books, Sixty Libraries’ goes online

July 19, 2007

Ever dream of having your photos, drawings or stories published online? For a few Wisconsinites, that dream was realized through a collaborative art project digitized by the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center, which goes live this week.

UW Digital Collections puts Wisconsin Blue Book online

June 7, 2007

More than 150 years of the Wisconsin Blue Books go online starting today in the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. The digitization project provides worldwide open access on the Internet to facts and figures on the government, people, industry, lifestyle and history of the state of Wisconsin.

Campus libraries receive $1 million bequest for Friends

April 16, 2007

A Madison bibliophile has left a large share of his estate, nearly $1 million, to the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries to benefit its Friends organization.

Lectures, edible books part of National Library Week

April 11, 2007

The Edible Book Festival that kicks off National Library Week, April 15?21.

Exhibit traces 300 years of Wisconsin and Great Lakes maps

March 21, 2007

Original maps of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region from 17th-century drawings concocted from travelers' accounts to 21st-century images captured by satellites are on display through June 29 in the Department of Special Collections in Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Leopold Foundation, UW–Madison to digitize Aldo Leopold archives

February 27, 2007

The entire Aldo Leopold Collection held by the University Archives of the University of Wisconsin–Madison will be digitized in a partnership project with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. More than $100,000 has been awarded to the Foundation, in Baraboo, Wis., to support the project.

UW service helps communities make informed choices on challenged books

February 15, 2007

School librarians have an inherently behind-the-scenes profession, but what happens when they are thrust into a very public controversy over a challenged book?