UWM's library given a rare gift

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | February 25, 2001| | Copyright

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UWM's library given a rare gift

By GEETA SHARMA-JENSEN

of the Journal Sentinel staff

Sunday, February 25, 2001

It had never happened before -- not in the 30 years Peter Watson- Boone had worked in academic libraries. Then, in January, a woman walked into the UWM's Golda Meir Library, which he directs, and left a cardboard box that -- well, as he said, these things happen once in a blue moon.

The box looked like a pizza delivery carton. The woman, elderly, in street clothes, put the box on the circulation counter, and said, "I don't know what to do with these . . . so I'm giving them ...

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