UW-Madison Libraries

If the menu for your Memorial Day barbecue eludes you, have you considered a jellied salad? Or maybe a dish of faux terrapin, ancient style? (That’s mock turtle, by the way.) What about a transparent pudding for dessert?

These are just a few of the distinctive recipes you’ll find in Steenbock Memorial Library’s 7,000-strong collection of cookbooks. Not just a resource for epicureans among us, these handbooks are also historical documents, providing insights about a time period, a place, a momentous event or movement, or a cultural or social identity.

Swing by Steenbock Library to find your new favorite recipe and explore historical traditions through food.

Photography by Bryce Richter/On Wisconsin

As part of UW–Madison Libraries Staff Appreciation Day, many of our locations will be closed or have reduced hours on Wednesday, May 13. This day of celebration gives our hardworking staff time to reconnect and recognize everything we’ve achieved throughout the year.

Visit library.wisc.edu/locations/ to check location hours.

On campus this summer? So are we! But many Libraries locations have updated hours starting Monday, May 11.

Find the full schedule of our hours at library.wisc.edu/locations/.

UW–Madison Libraries is here to support University of Wisconsin-Madison students who need extra time finishing their work following the nationwide Canvas outage, including evening hours at College Library on Friday, May 8, and open hours at Memorial Library and the Wisconsin Historical Society over the weekend.

Find the full schedule of hours at library.wisc.edu/locations/.