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Headshot of Katherine Jeong
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  • Katherine Hyeyoon Jeong
“Exploring Anime” - Understanding Collection Analysis, Research, and Outreach within Media Libraries
As someone currently in the MSI (Master of Science in Information) program, I was on the hunt for any opportunity to work within an information space. I didn’t have much experience in said field, and so I was set on a mission to find a chance to work somewhere in the U-M Library throughout the academic year. And so when I discovered this position as an engagement fellow, I was immediately excited to both widen my scope and hone my skills as an information professional and work on a project with a subject matter that interests me personally.

The project, “Exploring Anime: Collections Research and Outreach Programming”, was focused on research, collection analysis, and outreach/programming with the AskWith Media library’s anime collection. Within the scope of our project, my project teammate Alina Murata and I defined “anime” as an audiovisual medium consisting of animated works of Japanese origin. Thus the overarching theme and question of our project was of the significance and relevance of anime within the library collection, as well as how that can be incorporated into programming.
Student Stories
A series of 3D printed multi-colored arrows on a white background. There are long blue, pink, and red arrows, medium length black, gray, and purple arrows, and short light orange, lime green, and purple arrows.
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  • Havi E Ellers
3D Printed Colorful Pointer Arrows
3D printed pointer arrows for a museum activity.
Lab Notes
A picture of a library student employee, Paris Heard
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  • Dennison Dorsey
Graduating Student Employees - Winter 2026
As the Winter 2026 semester draws to a close, the Student Employee Engagement Committee (SEEC) would like to acknowledge the hardworking student employees that are vital to the daily operations and success of the University of Michigan Library. The support they provide to students, faculty, staff, and guests is immense and we truly appreciate all of their efforts!
Student Stories
A blue 3D printed 8-channel aspirator adapter on a wooden table. The print is vertical, with one tube going into the base and eight tubes coming out of the bottom.
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  • Samuel Austyn Copper
3D printed 8 Channel Aspirator Adapter
8 Channel aspirator adapter for culture cell experiments.
Lab Notes
A large patchwork quilt draped on brick pavement - the top of the quilt is placed on a taller concrete level. Each corner of the quilt is a different color: dark blues in the bottom left, grayish-greens in the bottom right, dark reds in the top left, and white/yellow in the top right. each section moves towards the middle and disperses in the center.
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  • Alice Colatrella
Patchwork Quilt
Patchwork quilt made using the sewing machine.
Lab Notes
An image of a white hand holding a collection of four flat, white 3D printed flowers. Each flower has seven holes in the middle, shaped in a hexagonal pattern with one in the center. The flowers overlap each other, fanning down the hand (inward towards, towards the photographers body)
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  • Hudson Michael Cooper
3D Printed Flower Frog
3D printed flower frog to help support flower stems in arrangements.
Lab Notes
A black 3D printed holder for a servomotor. The holder has a squarish base to the right of the figure, with holes on the sides for the servomotor wires and white circular connectors and gears to go through. The holder also has a long finger-like piece extending out to the left.
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  • Rowan Volate Cleland-Host
3D Printed Ocarina Servomotor Holder
A 3d printed test part to hold a servomotor for a class project to automate a song on an ocarina.
Lab Notes
Two light blue 3D printed models on a gray desk in front of a computer keyboard. The model on the left is a phone holder shaped like a cat bending down or stretching. On the cat's back a phone is balanced sideways, where you can see the black screen. The model on the right is a hexagonal model of a mountain slope with lines detailing snowboard trails. There is writing on the base, but it is not legible in this photo.
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  • Martin Tan
3D Printed Cat Stand & Snowboard Trail Model
A 3D printed cat phone holder & a mountain slope model with outlined snowboard trails.
Lab Notes
A puppet of a silkie chick sitting on black fabric in front of a wooden floor. The puppet is covered in tan "feathers", and it is positioned so the face is looking at the camera; there is a little hole in the feathers where the beak is somewhat visible.
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  • Theo Spitler
3D Printed Puppet Skeleton
3D printed puppet skeleton for a silkie chicken puppet.
Lab Notes
The full five-step process from Special Collections to archival upload, with the access format conversion workflow embedded at Step 2–4.
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  • Luciana Si-Wei Qu
How We Chose PDF/A-2u (And What We Found When We Actually Tested It)
In the second post in our series on normalizing Word documents, we get into the nitty-gritty of how we chose PDF/A-2u and the results of our migration and accessibility testing.
Bits and Pieces