Library Blogs

Join us at the Special Collections Research Center on Friday, October 23, to celebrate the culmination of a fifteen-year project to catalog the University of Michigan Library’s extraordinary collection of Greek manuscripts.

Join us on Thursday, October 22nd from 4:00-5:30pm in the Hatcher Gallery Event Space for the first Longone Lecture, a biennial lecture series exploring the history of food and drink in the United States. We are delighted to welcome our first speaker, Rebecca Sharpless, Professor of History at Texas Christian University. Dr. Sharpless writes on the intersections of food, women, and work in the American South. This event is hybrid and a zoom link is also available.

Join us this Thursday, October 15th, between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!

Join Curator Juli McLoone on Tuesday, Oct. 13th from 2:00-3:00pm for coffee and conversation on about the exhibit Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s. Learn more about the books and artifacts featured in the exhibit, the titles that didn’t quite fit into the exhibit cases, and the story of how this exhibit’s narrative took shape. Coffee and tea will be served.

In 2025, the University of Michigan Library underwent a nine-month strategic planning process. This blog post details early efforts to design and plan for assessment activities in support of the library’s new strategic plan.

The Library’s Digital Collections Service team stewards over 200 collections. Our current technical infrastructure is old enough that it doesn’t allow us to provide new features or functionality easily, and sometimes not at all. A total replacement with a new repository will allow us to deliver critical upgrades to provide better access to and preservation of these collections. This blog post details the improvements we expect the upcoming new platform to provide over time.

Having dug up an older watch face missing its band, I wondered what else I could do with it. I found a design for an adapter to let a watch hang from a belt loop, and thought it was a great idea to try out.

A user 3D printed model plane used as a fun desk decoration!

User created magic wand for payments (credit card not included!)

The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce a new exhibit opening next week on Monday, September 21st -- "Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920's." Join us at 4pm that day for an opening panel discussion featuring three scholars of food history.