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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.

As the new semester begins, we are delighted to welcome Muyu Lin (林沐雨), the newest member of the Asia Library staff! Muyu joined us as the Asia Library Services Coordinator, and her first day was Tuesday, September 8, 2026.

3d printed topograpy of bike trail

Get a sneak peak at SCRC's upcoming Fall exhibit through our August “Recipe of the Month.” Drawn from Meals for Small Families by Jean Mowat, “Cocoa Sticks” epitomizes one of the key themes of the 1920s: an unapologetic use of commercially made and packaged foodstuffs in support of simple & speedy meal preparation.

Following the successful pilot of the Asia Library Third Thursday open house series in Fall 2025, we continued the program in Winter 2026. Once again, the series was enthusiastically received, welcoming many visitors to explore the Asia Library’s collections, engage with colleagues, and learn more about the histories and cultures represented in our collections.

In July 2024, Library Information Technology launched Project DOR (Digital Object Repository), a multi-year project dedicated to the development of a new repository. The new repository will be used for digital collections to replace the existing digital collections platform. Project DOR will provide a brand new tailored solution for packaging, ingest, storage, and access to digital collections.

I spent the summer as a Michigan Library Scholar retyping and copy-editing Victor Perera's manuscript "Of Whales and Men: Patagonian Encounters." Working through Perera's archive helped me gain archival research skills, while exploring my Jewish identity, while also providing intersection between publishing, transcription work, and legal research. I aimed to have this manuscript prepared to be published in the near future.