AGS Library Bucket List

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Your AGS Library experience can be an adventure. Come in and explore all that the AGS Library has to offer, from fabulous collections to tours for visitors. Finish the list? Receive a free set of map reproductions. What will you check off first?

 

  1. Follow one or more of our social media sites:
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  2. Discover a favorite globe (view some of our globes at Flickr  — view a list of the over 200 globes held at the AGS Library).
  3. Attend an Academic Adventures lecture on a Friday afternoon and hear about a UWM faculty or staff’s adventures abroad and afield.
  4. Discover genealogical map resources such as plat atlases, historic topographic maps and gazetteers.
  5. View stereo photos through a stereo viewer.
  6. Show off this Milwaukee treasure to your visiting family and friends.
  7. Celebrate your bachelor party or honeymoon with a visit.
  8. Attend the annual Maps & America lecture in April featuring leading international speakers in the field of the history of cartography of the Americas.
  9. View the oldest map in Milwaukee in person, the 1452 Leardo Mappamundi.
  10. Attend the annual Geographic Information Science (GIS) Day in November for vendor presentations, guest speakers, free workshops, a map gallery, tours of the AGS Library, and more.
  11. Find your home town on a unique map (old, in a foreign language, etc.).
  12. Discover cartographic oddities.
  13. See maps about imaginary places and people — Atlantis, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Santa Claus, etc.
  14. Discover AGS Library resources through the UWM Libraries Digital Collections
  15. See and use a real library card catalog.

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