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A white 3D printed model airplane sitting on a wooden table.
  • Jade McKenzie Griffin
A 3d printed Model airplane for an English class presentation.
A blue 3d printed eye mask sitting on a granite counter.
  • Lauren A Dertien
3d printed mask for a Halloween costume.
A child kneeling on a leaf covered patio. They are wearing black pants, a black hoodie, and red shoes. Along their arms are 4 gray hands with gold wrists, and their face is covered by one big hand.
  • Kathleen Wroblewski
3D printed hands and connections for an anime Halloween costume.
array of square and rectangular images of collection material with handwritten text, photographs, and illustrations of various kinds
  • Martha O'Hara Conway
The current application cycle is now open for fellowships available to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to our special collections!
One man with green hat and one man with red hat standing on each side of light brown steer
  • Katrina Klaphake
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.
Students in the Shapiro lobby creating pronoun pins.
  • Penelope Rose Tennant McGovern
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!
The hands of students folding Halloween-themed origami.
  • Cecilia Valentina Ledezma Herrera
This Halloween, we went deep into the Hatcher Library stacks and the Hatcher Library lore with our Hatcher Haunts tours.
A photo depicting the library student ambassadors posing by Shapiro Library with a caption that reads: "Meet the library student ambassadors! We're a team of students who promote the library and its resources. We'll be running this account all week!"
  • Shereen Annmarie Vernon
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.
Two bowls of sliced, cooked apples. The apples on the left are bright yellow; the ones on the right are a paler color.
  • Juli McLoone
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!

Detail of Estienne's pronter
  • Pablo Alvarez
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.