Beyond the Reading Room

Anecdotes and other notes from the U-M Special Collections Research Center.
Detailed illustration from Audubon's Birds of North America of a nest in a tree with birds sitting around it.

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Folders, newspapers, and pictures from the Marcelo Mirisola Papers collection on a cart.
  • Gabriel Mordoch
A second batch of materials for the Marcelo Mirisola Papers archive has arrived at the University of Michigan Library.
view of a closed book with damage to spine visible
  • Evyn Kropf
Join us next Thursday, 19 September between 4-6p for our first Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
lines of stylized text "Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf" framed by swirls and columns
  • Jamie Lausch Vander Broek
  • Juli McLoone
Join the library's Book Arts Studio on the Diag (or in the Shapiro Gallery if it rains!) next Thursday, 12 September at 5p to print your own copy of the first page of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway!
view of a seated woman staring off with head in hand
  • Juli McLoone
Join curators Sigrid Anderson and Juli McLoone this Thursday 5 September 10-11 for an informal conversation about the newly-installed exhibit Mrs. Dalloway and WWI: Home Front and War Front!
view of a seated woman staring off with head in hand
  • Juli McLoone
  • Sigrid Michelle Anderson
The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce a new exhibit featuring Virginia Woolf's most famous novel, Mrs. Dalloway. This display will open next week in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room and will be available from September 3 to December 13.
Hand-colored etching depicting King George IV as a baby in a rose garden surrounded by three ladies.
  • Pablo Alvarez
We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of a nine-volume set containing satirical pamphlets, trial accounts, and legal and political commentaries, on the dramatic 1820 trial of Queen Caroline, the estranged wife of George IV, who faced charges of adultery in the House of Lords.
Small spiral notebook with the title of the draft work on the left: Sli Chora Dhuibhne" Jim Cohn 19 July 1999 and the text of "Purple Mountain: on the right in blue ink
  • Juli McLoone
On this #FindingAidFriday, we are highlighting the recently processed papers of Jim Cohn, poet, writer, recording artist, editor, publisher, and curator of the online Museum of American Poetics. The Jim Cohn Papers (1953-2019) were donated in 2019 and encompass approximately fifteen linear feet of material documenting Cohn’s work across his several vocations through correspondence, research files and drafts, interviews by and of Cohn, published essays and poetry, journals, photographs, and audiovisual materials.
Page of Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo
  • Gabriel Mordoch
It is with pride and excitement that we announce the acquisition of the Marcelo Mirisola Papers – an archival collection that comprises 5 boxes of materials produced in the Portuguese language by renowned Contemporary Brazilian author Marcelo Mirisola during the first 15 years of his writing career (1989–2004).
rectangular page of contrasting paper with lines arabic calligraphy on the diagonal mounted into an album page
  • Evyn Kropf
This post is by Sumeyra Dursun, 2023 Heid Fellow, from her research in the Islamic Manuscripts Collection. Sumeyra is a doctoral candidate in the history of Islamic arts at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul.
  • Juli McLoone
Spotlight on food history features prepared by students enrolled in Much Depends on Dinner in Winter 2024. Students worked in groups to research and write captions for food history materials in the Special Collections Research Center's Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive and in the collections of the William L. Clements Library.