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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.
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.
As the User Experience and User Interface Designer embedded in Project DOR, it’s my responsibility to develop and test new interface designs that carry over all our insights and recommendations from the previous five years of research on Digital Collections. Our recent study on discovery in Digital Collections informed design and development plans for Project DOR, guiding us in decision making related to Generative AI integration in our soon-to-be built search system.
Join us this Thursday, September 17th, between 4-6p for our first Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
This blog post chronicles the Asia Library's major events and highlights of Academic Year 2026 while celebrating achievements, retirements, and new hires.