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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!
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!
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!
text block with large initial D and vines and flowers on the margin
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  • Pablo Alvarez
Next week | Incunables in Special Collections: Five Decades of Printing History
Join us for our next Third Thursdays at the Library open house, exploring early printed books!
three writers standing holding Ardis printed copy of a text
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  • Evyn Kropf
Next week | Soviet Contraband : Publishing free thinkers in the Soviet Union
Join us next week for another Third Thursdays at the Library open house, exploring material from the Ardis Press Records!
drawing of workers in coats and hats holding signs saying on strike and other messages
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  • Evyn Kropf
Next week : Arts and Resistance in the Labadie Collection
Join us next week for our first Third Thursdays at the Library open house, exploring material from the Labadie Collection!
Image from The Birds of America with announcement of The Clements Bookworm lecture taking place on October 20 at 10am.
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  • Marieka Kaye
The Clements Bookworm: A Library Looks at Audubon, Both His Birds and His Background
The Clements Bookworm: A Library Looks at Audubon, Both His Birds and His Background, Gregory Nobles, October 20, 2023, 10-11am

Moderated by Marieka Kaye and Caitlin Pollock of the U-M Library, Gregory Nobles will discuss the legacy of John James Audubon (1785-1851) as both a brilliant artist/naturalist and unrepentant slaveholder, inviting us to explore the connection between the personal background of this flawed figure and the continuing impact of his remarkable art.
Historiated initial letter from Valerius Maximus' Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX. Italy. 15th c. Parchment, 126 fols. Fol. 5r
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  • Pablo Alvarez
Upcoming Exhibit and Lecture: Illustrating the Renaissance Book: From Illumination to Woodcut
You are all cordially invited to the upcoming exhibit of a selection of manuscripts and early printed books from the 15th to the 17th centuries that were illustrated with illuminations and woodcuts. The display will open in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (Hatcher Library North) on September 6, 2023.
Head and shoulders photograph of a smiling white woman with short gray hair.
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  • Juli McLoone
A Legacy to Savor: The Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
Join us on Thursday, 11 May 3-5 pm for a panel honoring the impact of collector, donor, and adjunct curator Janice B. Longone (1933-2022) through her work building the renowned Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive (JBLCA). The JBLCA encompasses more than 25,000 items including 19th and early 20th century cookbooks, charity cookbooks, immigrant cookbooks, food-related advertising ephemera, and restaurant menus.
caucasian presenting man with tan shirt and headphones in profile with stone wall visible behind
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  • Philip A Hallman
Next week : John Sayles on Welles and Altman
Join us next Friday 14 April 3-5 pm in the Hatcher Gallery for an event with writer and director John Sayles! Sayles will kick off the Bilmes Visiting Filmmaker series by sharing items of interest he discovered while looking through the archives of fellow maverick directors Orson Welles and Robert Altman.