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Memorial Library serves as the principal research facility on campus for the humanities and social sciences. It houses the largest single library collection in the state of Wisconsin—more than 3.5 million volumes. Patrons from all over the world total more than one million visits to the library each year. The library also houses an extensive periodical collection, a large selection of domestic and foreign newspapers, the University Archives, Special Collections, study halls, an InfoLab with more than 100 computers and a copy center.
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Bibliography of Historical Flambeau Mine Technical Reports, Environmental Monitoring Data, Correspondence, Diagrams, Legal Briefs and Photos (1969 - 2020+), Second Edition
(Deer Tail Scientific, Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.A., 2021-07) -
Dominy watch repair watchmaker data set
(2017-02-15)This dataset describes a number of watchmakers researched by Charles Hummel over the course of 14 years. These watchmakers were active between the years 1767 and 1841-42. This data was derived from the repair logs from ... -
The Cry of Merlin the Wise
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Retooling libraries for the data challenge
(2010-08)Eager to prove their relevance among scholars leaving print behind, libraries have participated vocally in the last half-decade's conversation about digital research data. On the surface, libraries would seem to have much ... -
Cartonera Conference 2009
(2009-10)Sarita Cartonera founder, Jaime Vargas Luna interviewed by Ksenija Bilbija and David Sheinin during the October, 2009 Cartonera Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. -
Who owns our work?
(2010-07)Much turmoil in the scholarly-communication ecosystem appears to revolve around simple ownership of intellectual property. Unpacking that notion, however, produces a fascinating tangle of stakeholders, desires, products ... -
Vernacular Scholarship: Eileen Myles reads from The Importance of Being Iceland
(2009-11-13)Eileen Myles reads from THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ICELAND, her new collection of essays on art, queerness, discomfort & landscape as well as reading some new poems. -
Perpetual Access to Electronic Journals: A Survey of One Academic Research Library's Licenses
(2006-04)A perpetual access right to an electronic journal, defined as the right to permanently access licensed materials paid for during the period of a license agreement (not to be confused with the right to copy journal content ... -
Metadata for Catalogers
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Using a Web Services Architecture with Me, Myself and I
(2009-06-22)The UW-Madison Libraries Library Course Page system is used to deliver electronic reserves materials and course-focused library instruction webpages to students. As part of a rewrite of our system we broke the application ... -
Name authority control in institutional repositories
(Taylor and Francis, 2009-04)Neither the standards nor the software underlying institutional repositories anticipated performing name authority control on widely disparate metadata from highly unreliable sources. Without it, though, both machines and ... -
The Memorial Union Terrace: A Landscape History
(Wisconsin Union, 2008-01) -
Academic Libraries: "Social" or "Communal?" The Nature and Future of Academic Libraries
(Elsevier, 2008-01)The apparent death of academic libraries, as measured by declining circulation of print materials, reduced use of reference services, and falling gate counts, has led to calls for a more “social” approach to academic ... -
Innkeeper at the Roach Motel
(2007-12-11)Library-run institutional repositories face a crossroads: adapt or die. The "build it and they will come" proposition has been decisively proven wrong. Citation advantages and preservation have not attracted faculty ... -
What You're Up Against
(2007-12-06) -
From Here to Extraterritoriality: The United States Within and Beyond Borders
(International Studies Association Conference, 1997-03-18)Beginning in the late eighteenth century and running well into the twentieth, the United States claimed at least partial extraterritorial jurisdiction over American citizens in countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, ... -
From Personalism to Territoriality: State Authority and Foreign Policy in Medieval and Modern Europe
(International Studies Association Conference, 1996-04-16)This paper has two primary purposes – to develop a more sophisticated conceptualization of state authority relations and to demonstrate the utility of this conceptualization in explaining state behavior. It attempts to ...
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