Last year, Dr. Christopher Baggott, a neurosurgeon at UW Hospital’s Department of Neurological Surgery discovered Ebling’s Rare Books & Special Collections when working with another neurosurgeon, Amgad Hanna, on early neurological sketches in Vesalius and …
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Rare Book Opportunities Abound
This semester in Ebling’s Rare Books & Special Collections we’ve had a handful of show and tell sessions with “old stuff.” Usually referred to as “fleeting exhibits,” these are books and artifacts brought out of …
Welcome to Ebling Library
Throughout the year Ebling’s routine visitors are professors, faculty, clinicians, researchers, postdocs, and patients…but we get rather excited when the health sciences students return. For our regular and returning users as well as our newbies, …
Liaison Librarians At Your Service
Ebling Library pairs UW-Madison departments, institutes and student groups with librarians who have familiarity with and expertise in their assigned departments and specialties. Our directory of liaisons provides contact information for the individuals and teams …
Back by Popular Demand
Some have suggested that the Civil War is the most written about war in history. Ebling’s own contribution to that is the exhibition “Costly Progress: Medical Advances in the American Civil War” which has been …
All is Forgiven
The image speaks volumes. One of the books belonging in Ebling’s Rare Books & Special Collections (books & journals published between 1492 and 1923) has been in a faculty member’s office for over 40 years. …
Final Weeks for “Bump…”
The “Bump on a Line” show will be extended through Tuesday, December 17th. This collection of nearly 200 small photos have been a popular destination for Ebling patrons and visitors. A recent visitor wrote in …
There’s Still Time
Students Sara McPherson and Hanwen Dong were intrigued (as so many visitors have been) with the actual fallout case contents in the Fallout: The Mixed Blessing of Radiation & the Public Health exhibit. The exhibit …
Join Us for Hands on Health Science!
Here’s the exciting line-up! This year’s UW-Madison’s Science Expeditions 2013, runs on campus from Friday, April 5 through Sunday, April 7. The majority of the Exploration Stations on the east side of campus will be …
Join the Friends for an Exhibit Tour & Go Big Read Discussion
UW’s Go Big Read choice for 2012-1013 is the remarkable Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss. One of Ebling Library’s most popular exhibits has been “Fallout: The …