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A photo depicting the library student ambassadors posing by Shapiro Library with a caption that reads: "Meet the library student ambassadors! We're a team of students who promote the library and its resources. We'll be running this account all week!"
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  • Shereen Annmarie Vernon
Instagram Takeover
The Library Student Ambassadors hosted an “Instagram Takeover” of the UMich Students Instagram account last week, sharing past and upcoming library events, what students can use the library for, as well as library resources students have access to.
Student Stories
Two bowls of sliced, cooked apples. The apples on the left are bright yellow; the ones on the right are a paler color.
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  • Juli McLoone
Recipe of the Month: Fried Apples from Miss Parloa (1897)
Miss Parloa was a household name in late 19th century America. As the author of numerous well-known cookbooks, teacher of cooking schools in Boston and New York, and the domestic editor for The Ladies’ Home Journal, Maria Parloa rose far above the obscurity of her origins as an orphan and domestic servant. Her recipe for fried apples is a winner, especially if you can obtain Northern Spy apples!

Beyond the Reading Room
Detail of Estienne's pronter
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  • Pablo Alvarez
New Exhibit: Brothers and Uncles, Kings and Typecutters: Five generations of Estienne printing in Michigan Collections (1512-1625)
We are excited to announce the opening of a new exhibit at the Special Collections Research Center: Brothers and Uncles, Kings and Typecutters: Five generations of Estienne printing in Michigan Collections (1512-1625). Curated by SI student Sara Brooks, this extraordinary exhibit explores the evolution of the printed page through the prism of the Estienne dynasty, a remarkable family of scholar-printers who were active in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Beyond the Reading Room
Book cover of Miss Parloa's Young House Keeper (left) and title page of The American Cottage Cookery-Book (right), with the latter illustrated by a handsome goose
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  • Juli McLoone
Next Week | Fried Apples and Apple Fritters: Print Your Own 19th Century Recipe Cards
Join the Book Arts Studio and the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive for a pop-up printing event in the Shapiro Gallery on Tuesday, Oct. 28th, from 4-5pm.
Beyond the Reading Room
A hand showing off a wooden ring on the ring finger. The hand is white, palm facing up, and the ring has a V design to articulate the wood.
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  • Dakota Allen Schwark
Plywood Lattice Flexure Ring
Made a latticed plywood ring.
Lab Notes
undyed canvas straitjacket on a half body mannequin
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  • Katie Marie Jones
Rare BOO👻ks and other Spooky Selections from Special Collections
Join us this Thursday, October 16th, between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
Beyond the Reading Room
Cover of Excavations by Kate Myers
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  • Vicki J Kondelik
Excavations by Kate Myers
Excavations is a novel by Kate Myers about four women working at an archaeological site in Greece, which was supposed to have been the home of the ancient Olympic Games before they moved to Olympia. The women all have very different personalities, and at first, they don’t get along, with two of them actively disliking each other, but when they find an artifact that might change history, they must work together against the egotistical, male chauvinist professor who oversees the dig. It is a highly entertaining novel which, according to rumor, is being made into a TV series.
Lost in the Stacks
A set of gray 3D printed parts on a white napkin standing on a gray table. On the napkin are two tall cylinders, and one has a small piping end on the top. Additionally, there are four small tubes laying sideways on the end of the napkin.
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  • Alexander Thompson
Resin Flow Chamber for Research Project
A flow-through chamber for a research project. The chamber stores resin and has additional connections for tubing.
Lab Notes
Library Student Ambassadors Roe Halbert and Grace Tai smiling and holding squirrel postcards.
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  • Rory Halbert
Postcard Writing
The library Student Ambassadors hosted the annual Postcard Writing event right outside the Shapiro Undergraduate Library on Friday, September 26th from 2-5 PM.
Student Stories
A yellow 3d printed prototype of a transducer unit holder supported by silver metal rods. The prototype has a square stand, which connects to a tall U shape, with a horizontal circle on top with 6 sleeves for the metal rods. Throughout the yellow plastic is one row of small holes to place transducer units.
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  • Jose Eduardo Freire
3d Printed Prototype to CNC Assembly
A 3D printed prototype for a radiation-monitoring CNC assembled project.
Lab Notes