Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law.

Use Restrictions

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).

Acquisition Information

The collection was transferred to the Archives prior to 1989. Ed Beimborn transferred a few files as part of the files of the Center for Urban Transportation Studies (accession 2007-054) in April 2008. The School of Architecture & Urban Planning transferred some publications in March 2010. The School of Architecture and Urban Planning donated additional material in April 2014 (accession 2013-045).

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 Website 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.

Processing Information

Christel Maass and Leslie Heinrichs processed the collection at the Archives in June 1995. Jeremy Brett added a few files in February 2007. Brad Houston added files separated from accession 2007-054 in November 2008. Bob Jaeger added some transferred publications (boxes 6-7) in May 2010 (Brad Houston supervised). Charles Welborn processed additional material in July 2012. Zac Baldauf added additional material to the collection in September 2014 (Brad Houston supervised).

In December 2011, Bob Jaeger removed 6 safety film negatives and placed them with other safety film negatives.

Hayley Jackson updated the finding aid to include information about accession 2013-045 in May 2014. Brad Houston and Claire Dinkelman updated the finding aid in April and July 2017 to include information on the Web Series.

Ashlie Biddle added records separated from accession 2010-007 (Dept. of Architecture) in June 2016 (Brad Houston supervised). Ashlie Biddle added a record to folder 9 of Box 6 and updated the folder title to include the new date range.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

The records in the Web Archives Series were collected by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and Archive-It Web Harvesting tools.