Library Blogs

With the start of the school year just under 4 weeks away, it’s a great time to sneak in those last summer reads before recreational reading takes the back burner to school-related reading this fall. What better way to find your next summer book than this list of books that U of M Librarians, UMSI students, and famous authors love to read?

The Shadow and Light project seeks to memorialize Iraqi academics who were assassinated between 2003 and 2011. This summer we worked on curating the Shadow and Light materials to be displayed in Hatcher Graduate Library and creating an accompanying online exhibit.

My journey with learning about and applying web content and video game accessibility standards to Hatcher Haunts, a visual wayfinding mobile game prototype.

Did you know July is National Parks & Recreation Month? To celebrate, we recommend the books below to help you reconnect with the natural world around you. The Ann Arbor area is full of beautiful parks to read in on a sunny afternoon,and you can access any of these books easily electronically while you lounge outside! Not on campus? Since these books are online, you can read any of them from your favorite park wherever you are. Happy summer reading!

This blog post documents a student's journey through a Michigan Library Scholars project. Her research focuses on the identification, watching, evaluation, and selection of documentaries in the University of Michigan's library that are related to art and resistance. The selected documentaries are presented as an annotated bibliography to instructors for course teaching purposes during the Fall 23 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

I was a Michigan Library Scholar during the summer of 2023 in the "Gamified Directions to the Library" project. Our aim was to create an aid for students to learn to navigate the library, so we made a prototype for a video game. In this blog post, I detail my journey as the Art and Story lead for the game "Hatcher Haunts."

I was a Summer 2023 Michigan Library Scholar in the project “Gamified Directions to the Library: Developing a Training Module.” We developed an educational video game that taught users about navigating Hatcher and different library services. In this project I mainly worked on a mini game where users were asked to interact with the physical space, and a pamphlet that had all important navigation and service information and could turn into a 3D paper model. I gained a lot of new perspectives on how to interact with the physical and how to present it through media like video games and papers.

This post highlights one of the new members to the DBRRDS team! Peter Cerda is Data Curation Specialist for Workflows and Big Data.

This post highlights one of the new members to the DBRRDS team! Daniel Alexander is Data Curation and Research Reproducibility Specialist. He'll be working jointly with MIDAS and the DBRRDS team.

As July begins, it feels as though the summer continues to speed by at an alarming rate – but there’s always time to pause to recognize Disability Pride Month! To mark Disability Pride Month at the library, you can find a display of books by disabled authors and/or featuring disabled characters on the first floor of Shapiro throughout July. Not on campus? This mix of fiction and nonfiction titles in the display are also available online now.