Library Blogs

Two friends bring their silly childhood humor to reality through “manhood”

This is a fantasy novel about Addie, a young woman in 1714 who makes a deal with a devil-like figure for eternal life, only to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Three hundred years later, in 2014, she finally meets someone who remembers her. Why does Henry, the bookseller, remember her when no one else does? You will find out in this poignant, beautifully-written novel.

You are all cordially invited to attend the public lecture, "The Place of Greek Paleography in the Cultural and Literary History of Byzantium." Professor Elena Velkovska (University of Siena, Italy) will help us understand the international significance of the many treasured and valuable Byzantine Greek liturgical manuscripts held in the U-M Library's Special Collections Research Center.

Join us this Wednesday, 8 March, at 4 pm for refreshments, viewing, and casual conversation with the student curators of "Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books"!

In this exciting, suspenseful mystery, Detective Inspector Harbinder Kaur investigates two murders that are tied to another murder that took place over twenty years ago, when a group of friends at a London school killed a classmate. The story takes many twists and turns, and several of the leading characters are suspects.

Join the Special Collections Research Center in Hatcher next Tuesday (14 March) at 4 pm for our third After Hours open house of the Winter term, exploring a selection of early rare books and prints containing images printed with the technique of relief (woodcuts) and intaglio (copperplate engravings).

As students, we all know the struggle of trying to find the perfect study space on campus. The Library Environments UX Research Team and the Library Information Technology Design and Discovery (D&D) Team worked together to improve the user experience of the Library’s study spaces booking website. Author: Marjunique Louis, Master of Science in Information 2024

The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce a new exhibit featuring the title page. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce the installation of new labels contextualizing John James Audubon’s The Birds of America, which is on display in the newly-renamed Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room. the new labels acknowledge Audubon's role as an enslaver and vocal opponent of abolition, and further contextualize both The Birds and its author within the social and scientific landscape of the 19th century.

In this interview, Yingxiao Zhang (PhD candidate in the Climate and Space Sciences department) describes why she decided to share the data set entitled "Simulated historical (1995-2014) and future (2081-2100) pollen emission using PECM2.0" in Deep Blue Data.