Library Blogs

This is a wonderful historical mystery and thrilling courtroom drama, inspired by actual events, about Martha Ballard, a midwife in 18th century Maine. When a dead body is found in a frozen river, Martha identifies the dead man as a prominent resident of the town, who was accused of rape. She defies the court system to find justice for the rape victim.

In response to the rise in book challenges in Michigan and across the country, a new web archive has been created to preserve, to the best of our ability, information regarding attempts to change collection development policies in public schools and public libraries.

In this interview, Anja Sheppard, Ph.D. Candidate in Robotics, describes her research with the Field Robotics Group and why she decided to share his data set entitled "Machine Learning for Shipwreck Segmentation from Side Scan Sonar Imagery: Dataset and Benchmark" in Deep Blue Data.

In this interview, Dr. Brandon Ponder, Ph.D., describes his research as a graduate student in the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department and why he decided to share his data set entitled "The Venus Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model (V-GITM): A Coupled Thermosphere and Ionosphere Formulation" in Deep Blue Data.

This Love Data Week, Deep Blue Data celebrates 1,000 curated and published datasets!

Early in 2024, the U-M Library said farewell to Dawn Lawson, who retired from her role as Director, Asia Library, following nearly 9 years of service, leadership, and collaboration.

Daniel T. Longone (1932-2024), University of Michigan Chemistry Professor Emeritus, passed away on January 28th, 2024. Dan and his beloved wife Jan, who predeceased him in 2022, established the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive (JBLCA). Residing in the University of Michigan Library's Special Collections Research Center, the JBLCA offers an incredible resource to students and scholars of food and drink.

Join us next Thursday, 15 February between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event!

The Special Collections Research Center will host a reception on February 12 (10:00am) to celebrate the installation of the exhibit: Orson Welles as Family Man: Son, Husband, Father. Please join the exhibit curator, Phil Hallman, to chat about the making of this extraordinary display in the company of warm coffee and refreshments.

We know very little about how authors and readers experience the impact of open-access (OA) books. Usage metrics and citations obscure their humanity. In Fall 2023, we interviewed authors and readers of monographs published as OA by the University of Michigan Press. Our qualitative research project documented their experiences, used AI to discover patterns in their responses, and provided evidence-based recommendations for improving OA book publishing.