CFL Archives and Library Services

CFL ARCHIVES SERVICES

CFL Archives at Hasler Lab

The CFL also maintains an archive at the Hasler Laboratory for Limnology, 680 N Park St. The CFL archive at the Hasler Lab includes photographs and some audio/visual items of various formats which have largely been organized and described, as well as 35mm slides and some written materials, which largely have not been. The A/V items and some of the photographs are digitized as well, though not currently hosted publicly. A/V items primarily concern field research or radio/TV presentations and interviews. Photographs showcase lab and field research, CFL facilities, and CFL academic and social events. Materials are non-circulating and may not leave the Hasler Lab library.

The University of Wisconsin Archives

The University of Wisconsin Archives at Steenbock Library, 550 Babcock Dr. contains several collections related to the Center for Limnology. These collections can be searched for in the CFL Archives Collections or the UW Library catalog, or you can request to look through collections by emailing the reference desk at uwarchiv@library.wisc.edu. You may also create a request online to UW Archives by following the instructions here.

The Archives contain:

• Documentation of the history of limnology in Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the late 1800s to the present.
• Materials on UW-Madison limnologists including Edward. A. Birge, Chancey Juday, Arthur D. Hasler, John J. Magnuson, James F. Kitchell, Stephen R. Carpenter, and present faculty and staff.
• Materials and data from graduate students over the years.
• Major research programs such as the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research Program and Network, the Trophic Cascade, Little Rock Lake Experimental Acidification, and research on Lake Mendota and the Madison Lakes.
• The formation of the Center for Limnology, and facilities at the Center’s field laboratories on Lake Mendota in Madison and Trout Lake in Northern Wisconsin.
• Additional materials, including (not a comprehensive list):
  • Original data.
  • Written documentation in correspondence.
  • Meeting minutes.
  • Project proposals.
  • Academic activities by faculty/staff/students.
• Early files of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) that began with C. Juday in Madison.

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center

The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (UWDCC) includes a collection called the History of Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which is composed of photographs from the history of the study of limnology at UW-Madison and the CFL. The collection is focused on research and important limnological figures with ties to UW-Madison.

CFL LIBRARY SERVICES

Materials from the CFL Libraries are non-circulating

• Hasler Lab: Materials may not leave the Hasler Lab. Use “Title in Use” shelf markers available in the Hasler Lab library to indicate that a book is being used and take away once you have reshelved materials when finished. Shelf Markers are hanging in holder at end of each stack.
• TLS: Materials may not leave station but materials may be taken to the cabins if you are staying on station. Sign out materials on the yellow pad in the library and returned to the shelves when finished.

CFL Digital Collections

• Our digital collections include more than 3500 journal articles, book sections, theses and dissertations.  Many are authored by Center for Limnology faculty, staff, students, and affiliates; others report research conducted on southwestern or northern WI waters, or significant developments in the field of limnology.
  • CFL Theses and dissertations
    • When it’s time to submit thesis/dissertation for printing/binding, you will receive an email from Kelly O’Ferrell OR, please contact her first.
      • Guide to Preparing Your Master’s Thesis
      • Guide to Preparing Your Doctoral Dissertation
  • Zotero Digital Collection 
    • Search box top right corner using year, author, or title
    • Bottom left corner tags, when selected, will limit the articles to TLS and LTER-NTL

If the title you are lookng for is not available in the Hasler Lab or TLS library:

• Check the UW Library Catalog
• UW Interlibrary loans
• Check with your PI/advisor about options to purchase the item.