Current Hours: Spring (January 23 - May 18, 2012)

Monday-Thursday 8:00am to 9:45pm
Friday 8:00am to 4:45pm
Saturday-Sunday 11:00am to 4:45pm

See special hours for Spring Recess:
March 31-April 8

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  • The library's current exhibit is POP Goes the Artists' Book! Through the art and craft of paper-engineering, pop-up books partake a wide range of shapes and configurations in three-dimensional form. The dynamic works on display are from the Kohler Art Library's Artists' Book Collection. The exhibit runs from January 23 through March 20, 2012.
  • A flower garden designed by Sir Humphry Repton appears in "Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening" (1803), one of the most recent digital facsimiles created for the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture.
  • AP Images is a licensed database available for UW-Madison academic use. It includes almost 8 million Associated Press primary source photographs and images dating from the 1820s to date.
  • If you are searching for images of visual and material culture, make use of the library subscription to ARTstor. This searchable database contains over one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences.
  • The library subscribes to both Designinform (including Design Abstracts Retrospective) and Design and Applied Arts Index. These article citation databases provide coverage of design-related journals important to the development of design from the early 20th century through the present. Designinform (Design Abstracts Retrospective) covers journals dating from 1903-1985. For recent articles, consult Design and Applied Arts Index which covers articles from 1973-current.
  • Approximately 6000 of our books were digitized in the Google Book Project as a way to expand access to these important art-related historical materials.
  • Interested in the book arts?  See the library's Artists’ Book Collection database, an illustrated, descriptive index to over 760 artists’ books located in the Kohler Art Library.  Users can search by artist, title, press, book structure, binding, subject, or contributor roles.