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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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image of three cuffed and chained Black hands grasping, reaching, and gripping the chain
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  • Julie Herrada
Special Collections After Hours: Open the Prison Doors
Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (14 December) at 4 pm EST for our final After Hours virtual open house of the term exploring materials from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection relating to prison abolition, prisoner support, and political prisoners.
a young woman leans against a striped textile, resting her chin against her hand
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
Portrait of a young woman (Algeria, circa 1910)
Enjoy a portrait from a recently acquired photograph album with albumen print photographs featuring portraits of people and landscapes of Algeria and Tunisia.
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  • Juli McLoone
This Thursday: Artists' Books Among the Shelves
Join us online this Thursday 18 November at 7 pm EST for a virtual walk through a selection of artists' books preserved in the Special Collections Research Center!
face in profile, man with beard, inscription in latin and hebrew characters
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
Jew from Salonica, by Moses Muro (1888-1957)
Explore a recently acquired item from our new Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection.
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  • Evyn Kropf
Special Collections After Hours: Sacred Hands
Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (9 November) at 4 pm EDT for our third After Hours virtual open house of the term exploring a selection of manuscripts containing the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam!
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  • Juli McLoone
Nineteenth Century Fashion in Print | Virtual Encounters in Book History
Join us online next Thursday, 14 October at 11 am EDT for the next event in the series Virtual Encounters in Book History -- "Nineteenth Century Fashion in Print: Masculine Intimacy, Feminine Historical Consciousness, and Ephemerality in Commodity Culture"
profile headshot of an older person with light skin, grey and white facial hair, and curly grey hair wearing headphones and a white collared shirt
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  • Evyn Kropf
Special Collections After Hours: Altman at 50
Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (12 October) at 4 pm EDT for our second After Hours virtual open house of the term exploring the films of Robert Altman!
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.
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  • Evyn Kropf
Special Collections After Hours: Fall 2021
We are excited to continue our online After Hours open houses this semester! Join us on the second Tuesday of each month 4-5 pm for a virtual encounter with our collections.
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  • Philip A Hallman
Nancy Savoca's Dogfight (1991) in the 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in conjunction with HBO Max will present Dogfight (1991), directed by Nancy Savoca, as part of its annual film festival this month. Savoca, whose papers were donated to the University of Michigan, is part of the library's Screen Arts Maverick & Makers collection.