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A collage of some of the book covers for titles recommended by incoming Wolverines.
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  • Pam MacKintosh
Explorations into Undergraduate Use of Collections
The U-M Shapiro Undergraduate Library (UGL) collection serves the course-related and extracurricular information needs of U-M undergraduate students. This collection encourages students to explore new ideas, gain research skills, and become lifelong learners. How can we tailor this small collection (approximately 175,000 volumes) to meet their current needs?
Tiny Studies
Pen and ink drawing of a figure sprawled on a couch in a dirty living room.
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  • Ben Howell
5 Ways to Improve Your Living Situation with Bias, the Unruly Roommate of Qualitative Research
Maybe you’ve heard of or lived with a roommate who never washed the dishes, who talked loudly on the phone late into the night or who stiffed you on rent. Not fun. Bias in our research isn’t fun either. It distorts the nature of the data we collect, analyze and share.

Tiny Studies
black and white photo of a chicken and her chicks crossing a dirt road
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  • Katherine Marie Kosinski
The Joy of Insights: How to harness qualitative data in your work
Quantitative data gives you the hard numbers: what, how many times, when, generally who, and where. Quantitative data also leaves out the biggest and possibly most important factor: why.
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