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Results for Date: August 2016
  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
A summary of a risk assessment model as applied to a born-digital archival collection at M Library.
Cover image of Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness, by Cat Cora. The cover features a little girl sifting flour into a mixing bowl, with title text overlaid.
  • Elizabeth Nicole Settoducato
Cat Cora is known for being the first female Iron Chef, but this memoir (written with Karen Karbo) offers a heartfelt and compelling account of her whole life and the hardships she faced on her path to Michelin-starred success and culinary fame.
Photo of Post-It notes covering a wall in the Shapiro Design Lab by Bethany Hayden
  • Justin Schell
The Design Lab Residency at the Shapiro Design Lab is a new program that offers students project support and mentorship while giving them the opportunity to help shape the learning communities of the Design Lab.
An image of the cover of a book titled "Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster: Traveling Through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson" depicting a man with a suitcase on the top of a mossy hill.
  • Deirdre Hirschtritt
I’ve always taken my brothers’ advice very seriously, and my college years were no exception. When they said visit your professors during office hours, I wrote up my questions and visited most of my professors at least once. When they said to live in a coop, I donned by Birkenstocks and joined an 11-member house, always cleaning the bathrooms when it was my turn. And when they said to study abroad, I moved to Spain for 4 months...
Pseudo-Aristotle. Secretum secretorum. Tr. Philip of Tripoli (fl. 2nd half of 13th c.) Italy, 14th c. Manuscript codex on vellum, 190 x 131mm.Latin. Mich. Ms. 202
  • Pablo Alvarez
Our featured book today is a fourteenth-century Latin manuscript of a medieval bestseller: the Secret of Secrets (Secretum secretorum). Wrongly attributed to Aristotle, and originally composed in Arabic in the eighth century, the content of this work has been gradually shaped, and changed, by scribes and translators throughout the centuries. From being conceived as a manual about kingship, it eventually became one of the most popular medical treatises in the Middle Ages.
  • Justin Schell
Welcome to Lab Notes, the new blog from the Library’s Design Labs!
  • Ken Varnum
The University of Michigan Library pledges to update its major websites to use secure (HTTPS) connections between the servers and web browsers by December 2016.
Cover image of The Quick and Easy College Cookbook
  • Pam MacKintosh
Are you living in an apartment for the first time and wondering what to fix for dinner? Come to the library for cookbooks geared to college students or novice chefs.
Cover of Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart
  • Vicki J Kondelik
Jade Dragon Mountain is a beautifully-written mystery set in 18th century China. Exiled imperial librarian Li Du investigates the murder of a Jesuit astronomer in a city on the border between China and Tibet.
View of upper leather cover of book under discussion with ruler
  • Shannon Zachary
Guest post from Allison Donnelly, a 2016 U-M graduate and student intern at the library's conservation lab, describing her work on a recently acquired seventeenth-century Latin phrasebook!