This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Wisconsin Library Holdings Reach 1.6 Million Volumes
At Madison Memorial Library and campus collections the University of Wisconsin system now holds about 1.6 million volumes with total campus access over two million through the State Historical Society Library. Director Louis Kaplan notes 80,000 new volumes yearly and plans to double holdings by 1974, with 665,000 dollars to spend in 1965 66 on books and periodicals and 100,000 for the Undergraduate Library opening in 1968. The broader system budget tops 875,000 dollars, as the university emphasizes expanding course reading beyond past limits.
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Madison
Wis
Memorial Library
Wisconsin
State Historical Society Library
Memorial
Louis Kaplan
University of Wisconsin Libraries
University Library Committee
Madison Campus
General Or Memorial
Soiety Library
Shaw
West Virginia
John Shott
John Birch Society
Birch
Connecticut
Thomas Davis
Stamford
Witthoff
Society
Dakotas
Richard R. Murphy
Orange County
Calif
GOP
South Dakota
Karl Mundt