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Sunlight shining on red wheelbarrow parked in snow (which will be used for Winter Sowing Event)
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  • Ariel Ojibway
Spring 2026 Updates
Tl;dr

Come make art for the Seed Library tomorrow night 2/19/26 from 5:30-8pm or Monday 2/23/26, Monday 3/9/26, Thursday 3/18/26 or come plant seeds with us on Tuesday 3/10/26 12-2pm (drop-in). Happy Almost Spring!
Seed Library Stories
Slide depicting three books on rum, Coffee, and Taverns, with small inset headshots of authors, and a series title "Drinking the Revolution" along the bottom
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  • Juli McLoone
Drinking the Revolution: A Lecture Series
The William L. Clements Library; the University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center; and the U.S. at 250 program invite you to join a three-part series titled "Drinking the Revolution," exploring the role of beverages in Revolutionary America and the Early Republic. The first lecture will take place on Thursday, Jan. 22nd, 4-5:30pm in the Hatcher Gallery. Join us in person or via zoom.
Beyond the Reading Room
Rectangular covers and pentagonal flap with bands of colorful floral vegetal designs surrounded by brown leather frame boarders
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  • Juli McLoone
Book Cloth: From Textile Bindings to Fashionable Fabric Samples
Join us this Thursday, January 15th, between 4-6p for our first Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
Beyond the Reading Room
colorful painted landscape scene with beach, boats and cargo at water's edge, boats, and rainbow over the sea
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  • Juli McLoone
A Few of Our Favorite Things
Join us this Thursday, December 18th, between 4-6p for our final Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
Beyond the Reading Room
A student playing Jenga at the Board Game Night.
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  • Shereen Annmarie Vernon
Board Game Night
On Thursday, November 6th, the library student ambassadors hosted a spectacular Board Game Night on the 4th floor of the Shapiro Library!
Student Stories
woman sitting on a man's back on a set with cameras and director's chair
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  • Katie Marie Jones
Ezra Stone: The Busiest Man in Hollywood
Join us this Thursday, November 20th, between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
Beyond the Reading Room
undyed canvas straitjacket on a half body mannequin
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  • Katie Marie Jones
Rare BOO👻ks and other Spooky Selections from Special Collections
Join us this Thursday, October 16th, between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
Beyond the Reading Room
A gravel path to the left of a lush garden of perennial plants.
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  • Ariel Ojibway
Seed Library - What've you got growing on?
Come see us at Harvest Fest and Earthfest, and visit us in the library for a catered talk by former student Phimmasone Owens of Refugee Garden Initiatives!
Seed Library Stories
floral vegetal designs in bold layered colors arranged in geometric borders
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  • Jamie Lausch Vander Broek
Spectacular Stencils: Gorgeous Examples from our Pochoir Collection
Join us this Thursday, September 18th, between 4-6p for our first Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
Beyond the Reading Room
Title page of John Baskerville's Virgil (1757)
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  • Martha O'Hara Conway
John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757) and the Development of the Earliest Western-Made Wove Papers
In this video, Dr. Cathleen A. Baker (U-M Conservation Librarian Emerita) takes us through her years-long research into the earliest Western-made wove paper, including papermaking experiments to replicate the paper that first appeared in John Baskerville’s Virgil, published in Birmingham, England, in 1757.
Beyond the Reading Room