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The University of Michigan Library welcomed a new distinctive collection: the Korean-language radio broadcasts of Radio Free Asia (RFA; 자유아시아방송), a news outlet focused on reaching listeners in North Korea. For any scholars interested in the studies of the Korean Peninsula, this collection offers crucial insights into North Korea’s society, politics, and culture.

Please join the Special Collections Research Center and the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative at 5:00pm on Thursday, March 12th for a screening of episode 4 of the documentary series The Price of Milk: The Kids Are Not Alright, followed by a panel discussion with Oatly Global VP of Sustainability Erin Augustine and Food Studies scholar Margot Finn.

In 1978, Anna Thomas published a sequel to her first book entitled The Vegetarian Epicure. Book Two. This book went through numerous printings (JBLCA holds the 8th printing, issued in 1981). For this month’s recipe of the month, I decided to try Thomas' “baba ghanouj,” which she describes to those unfamiliar with it as “a salad of eggplant and sesame paste.” 

3D printed game tray for board game pieces.

As part of the process to launch a new library application that helps U-M researchers and authors at our three campuses locate publications covered under institutional open access agreements, usability testing was critical to the successful development of a usable, sustainable tool.

University of Michigan Library recently launched a new application to help U-M researchers and authors at our three campuses locate publications covered under institutional open access agreements. This tool aggregates nearly 13,000 titles across publishers, streamlining the process of locating eligible journals. The project involved data-wrangling, application design and development, and usability testing to produce a usable, sustainable tool.

Celebrate Black History Month with some books by African-American authors in the library’s OverDrive collection.

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Come make art for the Seed Library tomorrow night 2/19/26 from 5:30-8pm or Monday 2/23/26, Monday 3/9/26, Thursday 3/18/26 or come plant seeds with us on Tuesday 3/10/26 12-2pm (drop-in). Happy Almost Spring!

It’s writer Toni Morrison’s birthday (1931-2019). An author, editor, and professor, Morrison was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature. In her writing, Morrison explored the lived realities of Black Americans with lyrical prose, psychological depth, and unflinching honesty. As an editor at Random House, she championed Black writers and thinkers. Here are just a few of Morrison's works we have in our collection, showcasing the breadth of her work.

A hand-sewn New England Patriots sweatshirt for the Super Bowl.