Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Maps!

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In honor of this week's National Geographic Bee , we invite you to visit the current exhibit in Special Collections -- “Mapmaking: Sour...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Celebrating Shakespeare's Birthday

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On this, Shakespeare's birthday, we celebrate as well the depth of the Peter Pauper Press Collection in the Department of Special Collec...
Sunday, March 8, 2015

Aldo Leopold's "Sand County Almanac"

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This weekend's community reading of Aldo Leopold's Sand county almanac at the UW-Madison Arboretum  prompts us to highlight the rich...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Volta and Inflammable Airs

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Today's Google doodle honoring the 270th birthday of Alessandro Volta prompted us to explore works by Volta in two of our outstand...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Snow Supplement

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Since we in Madison are not destined to have much if any snow this week, enjoying instead temperatures in the upper 30s and some downright g...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Secrets Reveal'd

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We are delighted to announce that a digital version of our copy of the intriguingly titled  Secrets reveal'd -- with copious annotation...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Honoring the Sukov Collection

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The history of the Little Magazines Collection  in Special Collections began in the late 1950s, when Memorial Library acquired by purchase a...
Friday, September 19, 2014

In Honor of "Our Funny University"

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In honor of today's event, " Our Funny University ," we have installed a modest exhibit on the first floor of Memorial Li...
Monday, September 8, 2014

Extinct Birds & Rare Books: The Example of the Great Auk

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In conjunction with the first event of the fall semester sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries , we will make available in ou...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

A Matter of Scale: The Flamingo in Audubon's Birds of America

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On display through August 1 (this Friday!) in our exhibit "Books of Nature" is the magnificent illustration of the American flamin...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

1914-2014: Commemorating an Event in Sarajevo

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This past weekend, news outlets noted an important anniversary: the centenary of the assassination in Sarajevo of archduke Franz Ferdinand o...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

The Mendota Seminar, the Works of Shakespeare, and Special Collections

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We are delighted to welcome to Special Collections one session of this summer's Mendota Seminar and to continue our collaboration with ...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Pi Day in Special Collections

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In honor of Pi Day (March 14 = 3/14) we offer two excerpts from 18th-century mathematics books in our holdings. The first, from a work by Da...