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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility at Central

Learn legal research strategies at Milwaukee Public Library.

The End of Hispanic Heritage Month, But Not The End of Hispanic Heritage Resources At Your Library!

Today wraps up another Hispanic Heritage Month, and we’d like to wrap up our annual set of special Hispanic Heritage Month posts by sharing some of the library resources we’ve been using to come up with all this content.

Richard Flanagan wins the Man Booker Prize for Fiction

A novel of love and war that traces the life of an Australian surgeon from a prisoner-of-war camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway during World War II, up to the present.

Teen Read Week @ Tippecanoe

Celebrate Teen Read Week Oct. 12 - 18th.

Watch Ballet Folklorico Perform @ Central Library This Saturday!

Stone Mattresses: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood

The stories are intricate but not pristine. They are glimpses into the worlds of individuals: beautiful, cryptic, and finite.

Milwaukee Organizations Serving the Hispanic Community

As we wind down National Hispanic Heritage Month, we should note the many Milwaukee organizations that serve the Hispanic Community.

The Migrant Farm Worker Labor Movement in Wisconsin

Everyone has heard of labor leader Cesar Chavez, who battled for migrant farm worker's rights in California and nationally in the 1960s. Milwaukee even has a street named for him. But did you realize that Wisconsin was also home to a migrant farm workers' labor movement during the same period?