Library Blogs

Julian Creutz reflects on his second year as a Michigan Library Scholar for the Borderless Seed Stories project.

In 2020, the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship in Atlanta, Georgia reached out to the University of Michigan to contribute to the Sounding Spirit Digital Library (SSDL). They asked the Bentley Historical Library, the U-M Library, and the William L. Clements Library to contribute titles in our collections that would expand their digital collection. This post looks at the range of titles contributed, discusses the equipment used to digitize the titles, and analyses the ways that SSDL and U-M Library align and vary in their digitization efforts.

Reflections by Michigan Library Scholars intern Najmul Ritu on her 2025 project, which explored the experiences of first-generation international students and their engagement with U-M Library spaces, services, and resources.

Betty Bishop is the granddaughter of William Warner Bishop (AB 1892, MA 1893), who was university librarian at the Graduate Library in 1915 and helped create the Library Science Program (currently the School of Information) in 1926. Her love for the University of Michigan runs deep, with a three-generation history that she considers family. Her support of many programs and projects, including the U-M Library, is generous and vast. They represent her appreciation of the education and experiences she's had at the university.

In this video, Dr. Cathleen A. Baker (U-M Conservation Librarian Emerita) takes us through her years-long research into the earliest Western-made wove paper, including papermaking experiments to replicate the paper that first appeared in John Baskerville’s Virgil, published in Birmingham, England, in 1757.

July is disability pride month, honoring the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This month we'll learn a little bit about what disability is, what disability pride means, and the historical and contemporary importance of the ADA--plus recommendations for further reading!

From Hello Kitty figurines to mechanical keyboard keycaps and even a Harry Potter Book Nook, the Design Lab has been the heart of my hands-on learning journey. Along the way, the staff’s guidance, patience, and problem-solving support turned every glitch into a reason to keep exploring.

After years of ordering lithopanes online to memorialize pets, I decided to make one myself using the library’s 3D printers. With help from the design lab, I learned to prepare files, choose materials, and ultimately printed a mint-green suncatcher of Snapdragon that turned out beautifully.

I printed a pan holder to fasten itself onto a pan

"where violence flows" was a collaborative zine project during Okyoung Noh's thesis exhibition "In Flow". With the help of two other artists, Kyunghee Kim and Matt Dhillon, "where violence flows" reflects on family, grief, and U.S. imperialism.