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Stories from and about library student employees and interns.
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Six students standing in a row.
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  • Elizabeth Shalanda Whitmore
Café Shapiro 2025 Reflections
Reflections on Café Shapiro 2025 from the 2024-2025 U-M Library Engagement Ambassador Team.
Students perusing a table full of books wrapped in paper bag material.
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  • Alyssa Simone Wakefield
Blind Date with a Book
Library Student Ambassadors invited students to blindly choose their next read.
Student smiling at the camera with painted artwork on the table in front of her.
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  • Thomas Gala-Garza
Sip ‘N Paint
Students enjoyed (non-alcoholic) beverages as they created masterpieces on mini canvases at this artistic gathering.
Pin-back buttons with the top button saying "Ask me about my pronouns."
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  • Cecilia Valentina Ledezma Herrera
  • Amira Said
Pronoun Pin Day
Student Library Ambassadors celebrated International Pronouns Day by making and giving away pronoun pins.
Two students folding origami at a table in the Hatcher Gallery.
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  • Grace Tai
  • Alyssa Simone Wakefield
Halloween at Hatcher
Library ambassadors recap their Halloween at Hatcher event, which included snacks, crafts, and a Haunted Hatcher tour.
Students writing on postcards at a table outside (with trees in the background).
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  • Grace Tai
  • Leah Juliette Gouin
Postcards from the Library
Students ate snacks, grabbed some swag, and sent postcards to friends and family — thanks to student Library Ambassadors.
Image with the title and basic information for this Michigan Library Scholars project
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  • SJ Shin
Negotiating Place, Memory, and Research: A Look Into “Borderless Seed Stories” by SJ Shin
Reflections by Michigan Library Scholars intern SJ Shin on their work on the "Borderless Seed Stories" 2024 MLS project.
A cut-out image of a wheat kernel, with three portions labeled as the endosperm (the source of durum flour), the bran (used in millfeed), and the wheat germ (the "heart of the wheat").
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  • Julian Lee Creutz
Borderless Seed Stories: Literary and Archival Research
Julian Creutz's contributions to his Michigan Library Scholars internship, called "Borderless Seed Stories," are outlined, along with what he learned through the project and his thoughts on its impact.
Slide from final presentation displaying the title of the blog post: "enhancing library diversity and accessibility for international students"
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  • Paige Bost
Enhancing Library Diversity and Accessibility for International Students: Insights from U-M’s 2023 Survey Data
As a Michigan Library Scholars intern, I worked on a project about how international students experience the libraries, and what needs international students share and don’t share with American students. The aims of this project are to yield concrete findings to specific research questions and produce recommendations for the U-M Library so we can learn how to more effectively serve international students and make the libraries more inclusive, accessible, and useful spaces for all.
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  • Mai Tran
How Do International Undergraduates Use the U-M Library? A Michigan Library Scholar’s Insights
The international undergraduate student population at U-M makes up around 17% of our undergraduate community. To uncover their unique perspectives, U-M library conducted the first campus-wide survey in 2023. As a Michigan Library Scholar and an international student myself, I gained valuable skills and insights into my peers' experiences with the U-M library system, revealing some remarkable findings.