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image of an open pop-up book with view of koala bear leaping into pond surrounded by cattails and frogs
  • Amy Crist
Third in a series of guest posts from Shaoyi Qian, summer 2021 Baker Fellow at the U-M Library's conservation lab, describing her work on several pop-up and moveable books.
Picture of bookplate showing donation
  • Dawn Lawson
Dr. Mary M. Cutler, one of the early shaper's of Seoul's Ewha University, graduated from the U-M Medical School.
face of an older man in profile with white hair visible and hand raised
  • Philip A Hallman
Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (8 March) at 4 pm EST for our next After Hours virtual open house of the term celebrating the launch of ReFocus: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman, which draws on materials from the Robert Altman Collection.
Poster for the film Beethoven in Beijing
  • Dawn Lawson
The 90-minute documentary Beethoven in Beijing will be screened at the Michigan Theater on Monday, February 21, at 7:00 PM, followed by a discussion with the co-director and producer.
Book cover of Virginia Woolf's Orlando featuring light blue background and Renaissance era portrait painting of figure with long brown hair, brown eyes, and a high white lace collar.
  • Autumn Wetli-Staneluis
Check out the new book display in the lobby of the Shapiro Lobby–Relationship Reads!
Woman in traditional dress, inscription in French
  • Gabriel Mordoch
Enjoy a recently cataloged Jewish Salonica postcard housed at the Jewish Heritage Collection.
Cover of Half Life by Jillian Cantor
  • Vicki J Kondelik
Half Life is a beautifully written historical novel with two parallel stories. One is about the famous scientist Marie Curie, and follows the events of her life: her marriage to Pierre Curie, her scientific discoveries, and her Nobel Prizes. The other is completely fictional and is about the woman Marie Curie might have become if she had stayed in Poland and married her first love. Both stories feature an admirable, brilliant woman as the protagonist. The real story and the fictional story are equally compelling.
printed text reading "in contempt defending free speech, defeating HUAC june 21 1961"
  • Julie Herrada
Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (8 February) at 4 pm EST for our next After Hours virtual open house of the term celebrating the launch of Ed Yellin and Jean Fagan Yellin’s book, In Contempt: Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC. In writing this book, the authors drew heavily upon materials that are now part of the Labadie Collection.
Image of a computer playing a series of five videos.
  • Joanna Thielen
Have you ever done a one-shot instruction session and thought, “I’m overwhelmed with the amount of information I talked about and I’m a librarian. I wonder how the students feel?” I felt that after teaching several capstone engineering courses. So I decided to create a series of videos instead. This blog post describes what I learned about students’ library learning preferences.
view of a tre lune (three crescents) watermark in a paper folio with arabic manuscript text and illumination
  • Evyn Kropf
Newly featured on the Islamic Manuscript Studies research guide --- a selection of resources for the study of watermarks, especially useful for Islamic manuscript cultural contexts. A selection of these resources was first published 5 September 2012 on a retired blog platform and subsequently enhanced and updated.