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wood carved cookie cutters with human figures and a ship with sails
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  • Juli McLoone
Sugar & Spice: Cookies and Cookie Cutters from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
Join us next Thursday, 19 December between 4-6p for our final Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
Beyond the Reading Room
An insect specimen from Notes from Nature from the Zooniverse platform.
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  • Justin Schell
  • Kat Hagedorn
Crowdsourcing digital collection descriptive metadata using Zooniverse
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.
The Digital Collections Files
Arnold Heyman standing next to a University of Michigan banner.
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  • Katrina Klaphake
A Life in Work
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.
Journeys of Generosity
Student smiling at the camera with painted artwork on the table in front of her.
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  • Thomas Gala-Garza
Sip ‘N Paint
Students enjoyed (non-alcoholic) beverages as they created masterpieces on mini canvases at this artistic gathering.
Student Stories
A raspberry Pi computer in a yellow case
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  • Kate Yumin Chung
Raspberry Pi Case
A case printed for a raspberry Pi5 for the Program of Computing for the Arts and Sciences.
Lab Notes