Student Stories

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 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!"
  • Shereen Annmarie Vernon
The Library Student Ambassadors hosted an “Instagram Takeover” of the UMich Students 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.
  • Rory Halbert
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.
  • Grace Tai
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.
  • Andrew Smith
The project that I created was for my dissertation recital series called Footprints.
A Black person's hand holding a plant.
  • Lywana Dorzilor
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.
  • Dindamilenia Choirunnisa Hardiyasanti
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.
Four Michigan students standing next to a yellow block 'M', two on each side.
  • Paige J Lemmon
On Monday, August 26th, the first day of fall classes, the University of Michigan campus buzzed with excitement.
A headshot photo of Yixin Zhang
  • Yixin Zhang
"Where do I belong?" This question lingered in my mind long after my conversations with Sisi, a 21-year-old Chinese-Spanish student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF).
A headshot photo of Manvinder Gill.
  • Manvinder Kaur Gill
My research addresses barriers to accessing treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) among women in Punjab, India.
Poster at National Chengchi University recruiting xueban (學伴; study buddies) for short-term Mainland exchange students, semester 114.1 in the ROC calendar. Taiwanese study buddies are often the first local friends Mainland students make; some are also roommates.
  • Qihao Liang
My name is Qihao Liang, and I’m a rising senior in Sociology in the Honors Program. I am deeply grateful for the U-M Library Student Mini Grant, which supported my May 8 to 23, 2025 fieldwork in Taiwan for my honors thesis on investment and education migration between Mainland China and Taiwan since 2008. I also want to thank Dr. Liangyu Fu, Director of the Asia Library, whose research guidance, fieldwork planning, and safety check-ins made this work possible. Writing in mid-August, I see how being on the ground in Taiwan reshaped my project; embodiment became tangible (what Ruth Behar calls “the vulnerable observer”), bringing emotional resonance and my own researcher subjectivity into view. Stepping onto the island as a citizen of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with relatives separated across the Strait, I learned that self-exposure, the experience of being scrutinized and scrutinizing, and the slow time of fieldwork with participants—walking, eating, talking, getting lost—led me and, I hope, my readers to places that Zoom calls, archives, and scraping Instagram, Xiaohongshu, or Threads cannot reach.