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As we approach five years since the drastic shutdown and isolation techniques due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems appropriate to reflect on an assessment project conducted during 2020-2021. As librarians and students attempted to pivot to an all online learning and teaching experience, research service providers quickly needed to know more about our research consultation service. Struggling with a crisis, we also learned how to conduct assessment work in sensitive and empathetic ways.

Join us next Thursday, 19 December between 4-6p for our final Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!

We often look for mechanisms to create better and more robust metadata about our materials in our digital collections. The Digital Collections Service partnered with Shapiro Design Lab at U-M Library to use Zooniverse, a crowdsourcing platform that allows us to post existing materials for anyone to view and add descriptive information to. We improved two digital collections using improved metadata from Zooniverse crowdsourcing.

Acting on his belief that the right kind of jobs could make a big difference in a young person's life, Arnold Heyman established a fund that supports the library's student employees.

Students enjoyed (non-alcoholic) beverages as they created masterpieces on mini canvases at this artistic gathering.

A case printed for a raspberry Pi5 for the Program of Computing for the Arts and Sciences.