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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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  • Juli McLoone
Much Depends on Dinner 2024 Showcase
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.
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  • Juli McLoone
Showcasing Student Research | Obesity: The Science, Culture, and Politics of Fatness in America (Fall 2023)
In Fall 2023, students enrolled in Dr. Margot Finn's course on the science, culture, and politics of obesity worked in groups to research and write captions for food history materials in the Special Collections Research Center. These were featured on the Shapiro Library Screens in Bert's Study Lounge and are also presented below:
views of standing men and women
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  • Philip A Hallman
Next week : 1984, 40 Years After: Rediscovering a Pivotal Year in American Independent Cinema
Join us next Thursday, 18 April between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event!
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  • Juli McLoone
Food Literacy for All Showcase
Spotlight on food history posters prepared by students enrolled in the Food Literacy for All (Winter 2024), a community-academic partnership course hosted by the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Systems Initiative.
All About Home Baking Cookbook Cover
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  • Melanie Lowrie
Crisscross Apricot Pi(e) Day
Retrospective about food and pie baking for Pi(e) Day.
a partial ring formed by metal sheeting with landscape paintings and writing
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  • Jamie Lausch Vander Broek
Next week : Susan Goethel Campbell's Artists' Books
Join us next Thursday, 21 March between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event!
mounted calligraphic panel in album page
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  • Evyn Kropf
A découpage piece by Şehrî in Isl. Ms. 438
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.
Elderly smiling couple sitting at a table, in front of a red and green wall
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  • Juli McLoone
Remembering Dan Longone
Daniel T. Longone (1932-2024), University of Michigan Chemistry Professor Emeritus, passed away on January 28th, 2024. Dan and his beloved wife Jan, who predeceased him in 2022, established the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive (JBLCA). Residing in the University of Michigan Library's Special Collections Research Center, the JBLCA offers an incredible resource to students and scholars of food and drink.
black and white drawing with a cat crouched and facing off a fierce looking dog
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  • Juli McLoone
Next week : Cats vs. Dogs in the Archives
Join us next Thursday, 15 February between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event!
Orson Welles and Paola Mori look adoringly at their infant daughter, Beatrice (c. 1955).
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  • Pablo Alvarez
  • Philip A Hallman
Coffee with the Curator: Join us to Celebrate A New Exhibit from Special Collections
The Special Collections Research Center will host a reception on February 12 (10:00am) to celebrate the installation of the exhibit: Orson Welles as Family Man: Son, Husband, Father. Please join the exhibit curator, Phil Hallman, to chat about the making of this extraordinary display in the company of warm coffee and refreshments.