Library Blogs

This month’s recipe is out of a WWII food conservation pamphlet, A Guide to Wartime Cooking, by Meredith Moulton Redhead and Edith Elliott Swank, part of a box of war-related culinary ephemera.

Welcome to our blog! We will take you into the stacks, behind the scenes, and well "Beyond the Reading Room" with stories about the collections, services, programs, and activities of the Special Collections Library.

The library recently completed a successful, six-month pilot program for a new model of web content oversight. Each division appointed a web content coordinator to represent them, and together the coordinators work in library-wide issues.

Guest author Amanda Cote joins us again to share her thoughts on a popular topic at the recent ALA Conference: Video Games in Library Collections.

Happy July, everyone. Here is our list of popular games played in the archive for the month of June.

During the Winter 2014 term, 60 M-STEM Academy students used a Learning Technologies Incubation Group (LTIG)-developed digital badging application to earn awards for competencies acquired outside of the traditional classroom setting.

Guest author Amanda Cote joins us from the UM Communication Studies department, and is a student working on her Ph.D. in the area of games studies. Feel free to leave comments for her here on the blog.

The University Library has a new blogging platform to which most U-M Library blogs will gradually move over the coming months. The new blogging platform (on which this post was published!) is built in Drupal with an accessible, responsive design. It is designed to bring together the library’s many blogs into one convenient location.

The month of May proved to be quite a hit for soccer games as well as Smash, which is playable anytime we're open, but only during the Spring and Summer terms.

Looking to pick up a few extra work hours during the Spring and Summer? Take a look at our student job opening below.