McIntyre Library

📖 JOIN THE BANNED: A nationwide wave of attempted book bans prompted McIntyre Library to start a club several years ago specifically for titles that people have tried to pull from shelves. The Subversive Book Club continues to encourage UW-Eau Claire students to read and discuss challenging books.

Read about the Subversive Book Club here: bit.ly/3QuPgN0
Off the Shelf, Spring 2026 issue - page 17

📰 Wondering what’s up around the Chippewa Valley?

Find full-text access to the Leader-Telegram, our local newspaper, available for FREE to all Blugolds!

More information about the Leader-Telegram, and all of the free news sources and magazines you get access to through UW-Eau Claire, can be found here: https://libguides.uwec.edu/news

🌏 Happy World Environment Day!

While we chose the winners of our recent Wisconsin State Park Pass giveaway with a random number generator for fairness, we received SO many great photos that we had to share some more!

Thank you to everyone who submitted photos :)

🏖️ Take your books on the go this summer with Libby!

All students and employees of the UW System have FREE access to audiobooks and ebooks via the Libby app, powered by OverDrive.

➡️ Get started here: https://libguides.uwec.edu/overdrive

👩🏻‍🎨 EQUIPPED WITH TALENTS: Erin Kriener-Franz oversees the library’s vast equipment pool and supervises the Main Desk, but that’s only the beginning. Her talents in graphic design, crafting, training, machine-operating and more have also benefited McIntyre.

Off the Shelf, Spring 2026 issue - page 6
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📖 NEW ARRIVALS: New novels, nonfiction, poetry, and more have been added to McIntyre Library’s Popular Reading Collection. Check out a list of our new acquisitions — hardcovers, paperbacks, ebooks, and audiobooks.

Browse the collection here: bit.ly/4tVQM8T

📷 FAKE OUT: Photographic trickery has been around for over a century, but artificial intelligence is making it much easier, faster to produce fake images. Librarian Kate Hinnant offers tips for detecting pictures manipulated by the current wave of AI technology.

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Image Description: George B. Cornish created this image of a giant corn cob on a train car by using trick photography techniques from over a century ago.

⚠️ Special Announcement

Due to planned maintenance work on our building, McIntyre Library will be without elevator access on Wednesday, May 27th. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Please reach out to us at [email protected] with questions or concerns

We will be closed on Monday, May 25th for Memorial Day and reopen with our regular summer hours on Tues, May 26th at 9:00 AM

Students are welcome to access the 24-Hour Study Area and 24-Hour Computer Lab in VLL 1132 with their Blugold card outside of library hours.

Connect with us! Click here to access audiobooks, ebooks, and more: linktr.ee/uweclibrary

⭐ Check out this article about recent library graphic design intern and graduate, Olivia Bishop. She created and assisted with amazing exhibitions hosted at McIntyre Library over the last year, including her solo show, “Textile Testimonials” in spring 2026, and the international collaboration of “Chicāhuac Exhibition: Women’s Stories of Strength and Sacrifice from Rural Mexico to the Midwest” last fall.

Artistry, advocacy, adventure: Olivia Bishop’s global memory Olivia Bishop’s experience with travel, the honors college, social justice and decolonial art