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University Communications Library Collection
Since 1948 the University Communications Library has served the research needs of University Communications staff by maintaining a collection of university-related newspaper and magazine clippings, collecting university publications, providing information to answer queries about the university’s history, and preserving materials to be transferred to the UW-Madison Archives and Records Management Service.
Located in the basement of Bascom Hall, the library’s main collection consists of nearly 30,000 files of news clippings about people, departments, buildings, and subjects related to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. University Communications publications and press releases comprise a large part of the collection. Older, inactive files are moved to UW-Madison Archives and Records Management Service for permanent storage.
According to a history written by Jack Burke, managing editor of UW’s news service from 1965-1977, two UW professors created the first UW-Madison monthly news periodical back in 1870. Further efforts by professors at the turn of the 20th century led Helen Patterson Hyde, a UW journalism professor from 1923-1958, to propose that Wisconsin was the first state university to establish a news service. During the 1930s and 1940s the office was called by turns "Press Bureau," "Information Service," and "News Service," before it settled on "University of Wisconsin News Service" in 1945. By 1973 its official title was “University of Wisconsin-Madison News and Publications Service,” and as the office’s scope expanded further, became the “Office of News and Public Affairs” in 1984. Since 2000 the office has been known as University Communications.
Please note that full-text searching for the electronic-facsimile texts in our collections is based on uncorrected OCR (Optical Character Recognition) results. While such text is often highly accurate, it will contain errors that may affect your search results. In particular, texts with the following characteristics are particularly prone to error (in some cases, accuracy for such texts is so low that we have decided not to attempt to provide full-text searching):
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