Library Blogs

Join us next Thursday, 19 December between 4-6p for our final Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!

We often look for mechanisms to create better and more robust metadata about our materials in our digital collections. The Digital Collections Service partnered with Shapiro Design Lab at U-M Library to use Zooniverse, a crowdsourcing platform that allows us to post existing materials for anyone to view and add descriptive information to. We improved two digital collections using improved metadata from Zooniverse crowdsourcing.

Acting on his belief that the right kind of jobs could make a big difference in a young person's life, Arnold Heyman established a fund that supports the library's student employees.

Students enjoyed (non-alcoholic) beverages as they created masterpieces on mini canvases at this artistic gathering.

A case printed for a raspberry Pi5 for the Program of Computing for the Arts and Sciences.

Student Library Ambassadors celebrated International Pronouns Day by making and giving away pronoun pins.

Pinback buttons for Dia De Los Muertos.

A vinyl cut and heat press to make an "Band Groupie" t-shirt.

Blood Sisters is a thrilling mystery novel featuring Syd Walker, a Cherokee archaeologist, who returns to her hometown to investigate the disappearance of a woman whose skull was found with Syd's ID badge in its jaws, at the site of a horrific crime Syd and her sister witnessed as teenagers. Then she finds out that her sister has also disappeared. Syd searches for her sister, as well as the truth behind the traumatic events of her past.

Forty-six years after graduating, an appreciation for library spaces inspires Steve Clark to create new library spaces for students today.