Researchers wishing to view games recorded on 16 mm film reels and U-matic videocassettes
must make an appointment in advance of their visit. Film must be cleaned, repaired, and
transferred to film cores before viewing is possible. Additionally, films and tapes must
be digitized before they are played and a digital access file will be provided to the
researcher.
There are no other access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to
all members of the public in accordance with state law.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel,
privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin
Statutes 19.21-19.39).
An unknown individual transferred most of the collection to the Archives prior to 1989.
Athletics transferred accession 1993-005 in 1993, accession 1995-007 in July 1995, and
accession 2000-026 in November 2000. George Bezold donated accession 2008-015 to the
Archives in August 2008. Athletics transferred additional materials in June 2012
(accession 2011-048) and in June 2017 (accession 2016-051).
Web crawling is managed through the Internet Archive's Archive-It services. This series
includes links to both the university's collection and the Internet Archive's public
collection. Web records from UWM are collected on a semi-annual basis. Crawls of the UWM
Web Site may be performed at more frequent intervals in cases of major events, significant
additions or changes to the UWM Website or the websites of schools and colleges, etc.
Social Media feeds are crawled on an as-requested basis.
Lee Fosburgh processed parts of the collection in 1991. Theresa Larson, Jill Bambenek,
and Mark A. Vargas processed the complete collection between June and September 1993. In
August 1994, Meredith Curtis added a 1993 accession of videocassettes to the collection.
In November 2000, Chan Harries added accession 1995-007 and 2000-026 to the collection.
Brad Houston added accession 2008-015 and some media guides and programs to the collection
in October 2009.
In July 2011, Bob Jaeger removed the 16mm films and videocassettes from boxes 6-39 and
placed them with other like materials. The remaining boxes (originally numbered 1-5 and
40-43) were then renumbered as 1-9. The videocassettes (originally numbered 313-334) were
renumbered as 1-22. Christel Maass updated the finding aid to include information about
accession 2011-048 in September 2013. Brad Houston added some material in November 2014.
Christel Maass minimally processed the scrapbooks in accession 2016-051 in June 2017. Brad
Houston and Claire Dinkelman updated the finding aid in April and July 2017 to include
information on the Web Series.
The records in the Web Archives Series were collected by the Internet Archive’s Wayback
Machine and Archive-It Web Harvesting tools.
