What's held
Rare and fragile books, regional manuscript collections, the papers of people connected to Porter Falls, and the university archives — the founding manual-training records from 1893 onward, student publications, photographs, and the minutes that document how the place actually changed.
Using it
Request items ahead through the finding aids; a staff member pages them to the reading room, where they're used one at a time at a supervised table. It's a working research space, not a display — undergraduates use it for local-history projects as often as visiting scholars do.
In and around Porter Falls
University Communications sits in Millwright Hall and handles the parts of Porter that outlast any one semester. The founding manual-training mission from 1893 is still the reference point for most of what this office says publicly.
The practical details
Location: Halvorsen Library, Level 4. Access: Open to anyone; materials are paged and used in the room under supervision. Rules: No pens, no bags at the table, gloves only when asked, photos usually fine. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is University Communications (Millwright Hall, Room 210). Call (715) 555–0250 or email news@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.