Friends of the Library Grants to Scholars program helps fund visiting scholars with particular research needs in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. The Friends award several grants annually, bringing scholars to Madison campus libraries to conduct research in the humanities, sciences, and related fields appropriate to the libraries’ collection strengths. The purpose of this program is to foster high-level use of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries’ rich holdings, and to make them better known and more accessible to a wider circle of scholars.