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3D printed hands and connections for an anime Halloween costume.
The current application cycle is now open for fellowships available to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to our special collections!
Reflecting on his long career in academia, Lester J. Bartson was inspired by the crucial role that the library and classroom play at the university. He remembers how the “dusky red piers” of the library were visibly present outside the classroom windows and central to his academic experience. Decades later, this memory and experience inspired him to support the library.
The Library Student Ambassadors hosted Pronoun Pin Day earlier this month in the Shapiro Lobby on Friday, October 10th, otherwise known as National Coming Out Day!
This Halloween, we went deep into the Hatcher Library stacks and the Hatcher Library lore with our Hatcher Haunts tours.
The Library Student Ambassadors hosted an “Instagram Takeover” of the @umichstudents Instagram account last week, sharing past and upcoming library events, what students can use the library for, as well as library resources students have access to.
Miss Parloa was a household name in late 19th century America. As the author of numerous well-known cookbooks, teacher of cooking schools in Boston and New York, and the domestic editor for The Ladies’ Home Journal, Maria Parloa rose far above the obscurity of her origins as an orphan and domestic servant. Her recipe for fried apples is a winner, especially if you can obtain Northern Spy apples!
We are excited to announce the opening of a new exhibit at the Special Collections Research Center: Brothers and Uncles, Kings and Typecutters: Five generations of Estienne printing in Michigan Collections (1512-1625). Curated by SI student Sara Brooks, this extraordinary exhibit explores the evolution of the printed page through the prism of the Estienne dynasty, a remarkable family of scholar-printers who were active in the 16th and 17th centuries.