• Cleaning up Spreadsheets: Tidy Data

    Online

    Do you have data that you are collecting in a spreadsheet? Probably! Do you need to clean it up and make it work better? Almost certainly. Join us for a Tidy Data workshop to learn how to work with your …

  • Scholarly Publishing With Springer Nature

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    The 51 Libraries invite you to a workshop in which you will learn about the best practices for scholarly article publishing in Springer Nature journals. This year, the 51 Libraries and Springer Nature signed a new “read and publish” agreement …

  • Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776)

    Online
    Virtual Event

    Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1976) For the month of October, we will discuss Thomas Paine's wildly influential American revolutionary tract Common Sense, radically advocating full independence from the British crown. Common Sense has been called "the most incendiary and …

  • 2025 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    Register for Event Gabriela Nagy, 51 assistant professor of psychology, will present the 2025 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture. The title of her talk is “Resilience, Resistance, and Rhetoric:  What Latino/a Immigrants Teach Us About Health and Humanity.” This talk challenges …

  • Mothers of Milwaukee Modernism: Building the Layton School of Art

    Archives, Golda Meir Library

    The traveling exhibit "Mothers of Milwaukee Modernism: Building the Layton School of Art" by Seth Ter Haar with Docomomo is now on display in the Archives Gallery through December 1. The exhibit details the roles of Charlotte Russell Partridge and …

  • Artificial Intelligence: The History of a Brand

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

    The history of AI is the history of an overhyped intellectual brand that has only very recently come to signify a set of deployable technologies with broad application and clear, if somewhat horrifying, purposes. Since its debut in 1955 the …

  • Fact, Fiction, and Storytelling in the Archive

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

    “Partridge and Frink haven’t been entirely forgotten nor erased like so many others, but there is still a lack of visibility and understanding about their personal dynamics and professional impact... While doing my research, I found nearly every component in …

  • GIS Day at 51

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

      The 51 GIS Council invites students, faculty/staff, alumni, and the larger community to join us at GIS Day at 51 on Friday, November 21st!  This year’s theme, “Geo-Generalist Era: Where Spatial Meets Everything,” celebrates the expanding influence of GIS across …

  • Slow AI: A Human Training Workshop

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    Led by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (English), Ann Hanlon (51 Libraries), and Anne Pycha (Linguistics). Prompting isn’t just for ChatGPT. In this workshop, we’ll return our attention to older ways of writing and thinking that get hijacked by – but are also …

  • Records Management Basics, Fall 2025

    Online

    In this virtual presentation, Derek Webb (51 Records Officer) and Shiraz Bhathena (Digital Archivist) will walk campus employees through some fundamentals of records management such as: How does records management benefit campus offices and employees? Who is responsible for managing …