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printed page of latin text with large initial A and border of vines and leaves in black with green and gold accents
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  • Pablo Alvarez
  • Shannon Zachary
Coffee with the Curators | Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books
Join us this Wednesday, 8 March, at 4 pm for refreshments, viewing, and casual conversation with the student curators of "Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books"!
printed page of latin text with large initial A and border of vines and leaves in black with green and gold accents
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  • Pablo Alvarez
  • Shannon Zachary
New Exhibit | Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books
The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce a new exhibit featuring the title page. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.
The engraving on the gem shows a man in a loincloth bent over, cutting stalks of wheat with a hooked tool
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  • Shannon Zachary
Courtesy University of Michigan Library Special Collections Research Center
Have you been traveling? Visiting exhibits at museums and libraries? Check out materials from our collections currently out on loan for exhibition!
man dressed in a blue shirt and loose yellow pants will yellow hat, crouched over a lathe turning a piece of wood with cabinets in the background
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  • Shannon Zachary
Special Collections After Hours: Digitizing the Harry A. Franck Negatives
The university fire marshal was polite but firm. We really could not continue to store highly flammable film in the Special Collections stacks. What to do? In 2019 we had a solution to these problems that wasn’t available in 1988, when the collection came to us: digitization! Hear more at our virtual After Hours event tomorrow, Tuesday 14 September 4-5 pm.
View of upper leather cover of book under discussion with ruler
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  • Shannon Zachary
Conservation of a Seventeenth-century Latin Phrasebook
Guest post from Allison Donnelly, a 2016 U-M graduate and student intern at the library's conservation lab, describing her work on a recently acquired seventeenth-century Latin phrasebook!
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  • Shannon Zachary
Where in the Org Chart is Digital Preservation?
When a research library creates a position with responsibility for the preservation of digital stuff, where on the organizational hierarchy should that position hang? Is digital preservation an IT job, collections management, or preservation?