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GOVERNMENT INFORMATION DAY

Friday, June 8, 2020

UW-Madison Memorial Library
728 State Street
Madison, WI 53706

REGISTER TODAY 
(Pre-registration deadline is Wednesday, June 6, 5:00 p.m.; onsites are welcome!)

Schedule

9:00-9:30 a.m.

Registration and continental breakfast

9:30-9:35 a.m.

Welcome and introductions

9:35-10:30 a.m.

Basic Legal Resources, Jaime Healy-Plotkin, State Law Library

10:30-10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45-11:45 a.m.

Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and Wisconsin Department of Health Services

11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

Lunch on your own

1:15-2:15 p.m.

Wisconsin Document Depository Program and Federal Depository Library Program updates

2:15-2:30 p.m.

Break

2:30-3:00 p.m.

Lightning Talks

  • Hathi Trust, by Nancy Mulhern, Wisconsin Historical Society

  • FRASER—Economic history from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, by Beth Harper, Memorial Library, UW-Madison

3:10-4:00 p.m.

What’s happening at your library

4:00-4:45 p.m.

Government Information Special Interest Group meeting


Logistics

Memorial Library is located at 728 State Street, Madison. 

Driving directions, parking information, and parking maps are available at: https://go.wisc.edu/fdz02y or https://www.library.wisc.edu/memorial/about-memorial/directions-parking/ 
The conference will be held in Room 126 (aka Parents' Enrichment Fund Lecture Hall). To get to Room 126…

  • Enter the building from the State St entrance
  • Take a left
  • Go through the two doorways
  • Take a right
  • Go through the doors
  • Room 126 is the second room on the left (quite a ways down the hall).  There's a clock sticking out over the door to the room. 

Map of Memorial Library’s first floor: https://go.wisc.edu/9261y4 

You do NOT need an ID or pass to access this room. However, to get into the library part of the building, you will need a day pass, which can be obtained at the library entrance desk by showing valid identification with current address information and a photo.