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Results for Date: December 2022
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  • Sarah A Weingartz
Santa’s upgrading the gifts with a “little brother” rivalry!
Gifting made easy with the help of the Design Lab
Lab Notes
Photo of several dozen empty white metal bird cages hanging in a cluster.
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  • Scott David Witmer
Archiving Twitter
Turmoil at Twitter is causing concerns about the platform’s long-term stability. Here are a few methods for copying and preserving your Twitter data.
Bits and Pieces
Screen capture of the home page of the new Finding Aids site with call to action text Find Archival Materials above a search box and next to a featured image of a Jell-O dessert advertisement from the Culinary Ephemera collection.
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  • Robyn Ness
New Finding Aids Site Coming in Early 2023
U-M Library is launching a new version of our Finding Aids site in early 2023, replacing a homegrown system that’s been in use for over 20 years with ArcLight, an open-source system widely used by academic libraries and archives. The site is currently available as a public beta for preview and will be available at the same URL going forward.
The Digital Collections Files
An arm labeled "Fig 4" with letter annotations.
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  • Pablo Alvarez
Special Collections After Hours | Treasures from our History of Medicine Collections
Join the Special Collections Research Center in Hatcher next Tuesday (13 December) at 4 pm for our final After Hours open house of the term exploring a selection of artifacts illustrating the early history of western medicine.
Beyond the Reading Room