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Stories from and about library student employees and interns.
The Library Student Ambassador team for the 2025-2026 academic year standing in front of the Shapiro Library sign.

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A collage of students holding their artwork made at the Sip and Paint event.
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  • Alyssa Simone Wakefield
Sip and Paint
On Friday, November 21st, the library Student Ambassadors hosted a Sip and Paint in the third floor Shapiro Gallery!
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!
Students in the Shapiro lobby creating pronoun pins.
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  • Penelope Rose Tennant McGovern
Pronoun Pin Day
The Library Student Ambassadors hosted Pronoun Pin Day earlier this month in the Shapiro Lobby on Friday, October 10th, otherwise known as National Coming Out Day!
The hands of students folding Halloween-themed origami.
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  • Cecilia Valentina Ledezma Herrera
Shapiro Creepy Crafts Party / Hatcher Haunts Tours
This Halloween, we went deep into the Hatcher Library stacks and the Hatcher Library lore with our Hatcher Haunts tours.
A photo depicting the library student ambassadors posing by Shapiro Library with a caption that reads: "Meet the library student ambassadors! We're a team of students who promote the library and its resources. We'll be running this account all week!"
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  • Shereen Annmarie Vernon
Instagram Takeover
The Library Student Ambassadors hosted an “Instagram Takeover” of the @umichstudents Instagram account last week, sharing past and upcoming library events, what students can use the library for, as well as library resources students have access to.
Library Student Ambassadors Roe Halbert and Grace Tai smiling and holding squirrel postcards.
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  • Rory Halbert
Postcard Writing
The library Student Ambassadors hosted the annual Postcard Writing event right outside the Shapiro Undergraduate Library on Friday, September 26th from 2-5 PM.
Library Student Ambassadors Alyssa Wakefield and Grace Tai sitting at an information table.
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  • Grace Tai
Library Info Tabling
The Library Ambassadors held Info Tabling sessions for all students to learn more about the services the library has to offer.
A blue poster image showcasing details of the "Footprints Recital Series". Important persons mentioned are Andrew Smith (bass-baritone) and Amanda Raymond (collaborative pianist). Sunday, May 4, 2025 @ 6PM was the given date of the event, and the First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor was the given address.
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  • Andrew Smith
The Footprints Recital Series
The project that I created was for my dissertation recital series called Footprints.
A Black person's hand holding a plant.
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  • Lywana Dorzilor
A BIPOC-Centered Foraging Group in Ann Arbor
We partnered with the U-M Library to help us find accessible foraging books and guides, as well as guides for facilitating inherently non-hierarchical spaces. 
Shows the Indonesian Cultural Night Committee members in the Michigan Union.
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  • Dindamilenia Choirunnisa Hardiyasanti
Indonesian Cultural Night: A U-M Library Student Mini Grant Project
The Indonesian Cultural Night (ICN) 2025, hosted by the Indonesian Students Association at the University of Michigan (ISA-UM) was truly a night to remember.