• Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop

    Archives, Golda Meir Library

    A three-day workshop, June 4, 6, and 11. Join a small cohort of instructors to accelerate development for a new class or re-energize an old syllabus. At the end of these workshop sessions, you’ll be confidently working with archivists to …

  • Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop

    Archives, Golda Meir Library

    A three-day workshop, June 4, 6, and 11. Join a small cohort of instructors to accelerate development for a new class or re-energize an old syllabus. At the end of these workshop sessions, you’ll be confidently working with archivists to …

  • Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

    Online

    E.T.A. Hoffmann "The Automata" (1814) "The Sandman" (1817) For the month of June we will be reading two stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), a German Romantic author mainly of fantasy and gothic horror. Hoffmann was also a composer, music critic, …

  • Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion: Ovid’s Metamorphoses

    Online

    Ovid Book 1 and Book 2 from Metamorphoses (8 CE; translated by Ian Johnston, 2011) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be attending the session, please …

  • Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

    Online

    Rachel Carson Selections from Silent Spring (1962) Chapters 1-3 Chapters 16-17 No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be attending the session, please send …

  • Information Literacy Research Assignment Workshop

    W194, Golda Meir Library

    Research assignments serve an important role in college courses. Tasks like selecting and evaluating additional sources of information, summarizing new information and comparing it to core course concepts all have the potential to build learning. However, the goals of a …

  • 51 Libraries To Participate in Doors Open Milwaukee Saturday, Sept. 28

    Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The 51 Libraries will take part in Doors Open Milwaukee on Saturday, September 28, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit three collections located in the 51 Golda Meir Library and view some of our rare and fascinating treasures: …

  • Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

    American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us for a talk at 3 p.m. on Thursday, October 10 by Sergio González, author of Mexicans in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press) and Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin (University of Illinois Press), as …

  • 2024 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    This lecture will be presented simultaneously in person and virtually. The Zoom link is here.  The 2024 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture will be presented by Nan Kim (Associate Professor, 51 Department of History). What can offer resources for hope at a time of escalating …