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White House releases Gun Violence Prevention Plan
The Obama administration posted the outline of his recent gun control proposals read more...
Kent State Gives Old Photographs
The University Archives recently received a small, but wonderful, gift from Kent State University: three board mounted photographs of Oshkosh Normal School basketball and football teams from 1910 and 1911. While the Kent State Archives did not have records on the provenance of the histor... read more...
RefWorks is Here
Never the favorite part of any student’s research project, creating accurate and correctly formatted citations is still a critical part of scholarly communications and ethics. Fortunately, to make the process less painful, Polk Library, with funds from the Student Technology Fee program, pur... read more...
Winter 2012 Newsletter
The latest edition of the Polk Library newsletter is here. An introduction to Search@UW, Polk Library's new "discovery layer" The Area Research Center turns 50 years old RefWorks Citation Tool is Here Polk's Golden Birthday Party Photos or more... . read more...
All Night Study - December 2012
New Display Cases
Polk Library has two new exhibit cases for promotion of student organizations and University programs. The inside of the lit cases measure 4’ 8’’ wide x 21’’ deep x 3’ high. They are backed in cork for easy pinning of paper and light o... read more...
Historical Advance Titans now Online
Polk Library has partnered with NewspaperArchive to make historical campus news available online. Now, more than 110 years of content from the Advance and Advance-Titan newspapers can be easily searched with keywords and dates. University Archivist, Joshua Ranger, sees plenty of academic... read more...
New War History DB
Polk Library has added a new trial to its database collection: The First World War - Personal Experiences. It consists largely of primary source material (letters, diaries, etc) of men and women who experienced the "Great War" firsthand. The trial will last until 12/28/12. Con... read more...
DTIC releases "Nuclear Weapons Strike on the Moon Study."
The Department of Defense has received a lot of media attention lately for a report that has been dubbed “A Nuclear Weapons Strike on the Moon Study.” read more...
New Archives Exhibits
Over the last week, UW Oshkosh has been host to a number of events focusing on the lives of veterans. As part of that series, the University Archives is happy to announce the release of two new UW Oshkosh history exhibits that highlight UW Oshkosh’s role with veterans and the... read more...
