Library Blogs

We'd like to welcome new and returning students to campus this week by holding a Super Smash Bros. tournament! We'll also have other casual gaming opportunities, including Splatoon for the Wii U. We'll be partnering with Ann Arbor District Library as we share information about local gaming on and off campus at your local libraries.

The event is free, and we're offering prizes for the winners of the tournament. Hope you can join us!

The Turner House is a novel about 13 siblings growing up and growing older on Detroit’s East Side.

The Special Collections Library opens a new exhibit this week, "Curiouser and Curiouser!": Exploring Wonderland with Alice. Please join the exhibit curators, Juli McLoone and Angie Oehrli for cookies and coffee to celebrate 150 years of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland today (Wednesday, August 26th) from 4:00-5:00pm in the exhibit gallery on the 7th floor of Hatcher Graduate Library.

The famous suitcase belonging to the anarchist Emma Goldman has found its final resting place in the Labadie Collection, 75 years after its last journey.

This Wednesday's watermark feature: three hats motifs in watermarked papers from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection. Hats off to a year of monthly Watermark Wednesdays!

This month has been the month of tours, families, and people of all ages coming to check out what the archive has to offer and playing games. As such, we see a lot more Nintendo games on the list than usual, including a Super Nintendo game. Way to go, Mario.
We have one more month of unrestricted Smash, so get your games in before the Fall semester begins!

In Shroud for a Nightingale, by the late P.D. James, one of the greatest mystery authors of all time, detective Adam Dalgliesh investigates the murders of two student nurses.