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The Golda Meir Library, located in
The library's largest collection is the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL), the "foremost geography and map collections" in the US, which houses a vast number of historical and detailed Overview of Collections
, Golda Meir Library The University Archives consists of the Milwaukee Area Research Center, the UW–Milwaukee Manuscript Collection, and records of the university. The archives contains historical resources from
Golda Meir Library website
American Geographical Society Library at UW-Milwaukee
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The Golda Meir Library, located in Milwaukee
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, in the U.S. state
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of Wisconsin
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, is the main library of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
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. The library has more than 4.5 million catalogued items, many of which are available electronically through Electronic Reserve, web-based online catalog, searchable database
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s and indices.
The building was first constructed in 1967 and then expanded with the addition of the East Wing in 1974 and conference center in 1987. The library was named for Golda Meir
Golda Meir (; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was the prime minister of Israel, serving from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and only female head of government.
Born into a Jewish family in Kyiv, Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) ...
, the fourth prime minister of Israel
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, who graduated in 1917 from the Milwaukee State Normal School, an institution to which UWM traces its lineage.
Collections
The library's largest collection is the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL), the "foremost geography and map collections" in the US, which houses a vast number of historical and detailed map
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s, many rare and valuable books, research and technical reports, photograph
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s, satellite images
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, digital data
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, and relevant serials.
Other special collections of the library include the Morris Fromkin Memorial Collection, Hebraica and Judaica Collection, the Slichter and Hohlweck Civil War Collections, the Frank and Mary Ermenc Slovenian music collection, the Harry and Dorothy Jagodzinski Franklin Delano Roosevelt Collection, the George Hardie Aerospace Collection, the Gerald Meyers classical music collection, the John Otis Collection on Wisconsin churches, the Seventeenth Century Research Collection, the Layton Art Library., Golda Meir Library The University Archives consists of the Milwaukee Area Research Center, the UW–Milwaukee Manuscript Collection, and records of the university. The archives contains historical resources from
Milwaukee
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and southeastern Wisconsin
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, including private papers from individuals, records from businesses and organizations as well as records from UW–Milwaukee.
See also
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References
External links
Golda Meir Library website
American Geographical Society Library at UW-Milwaukee
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