Lisa Carter

Brothers and Uncles, Kings and Typecutters | Happening @ Michigan

The story of one family of scholar-printers and how their work reflected and responded to the changes brought by printing technologies in the 16th century on exhibit at @umichlibrary.bsky.social. Five generations of Estienne printing in Michigan Collections (1512-1625) events.umich.edu/event/139020

Helping Students Find a Study Space through Iterative Research and Design

Always innovating @umichlibrary.bsky.social to improve the student experience! Learning from others and iteratively designing with users in mind. Read more: Helping Students Find a Study Space through Iterative Research and Design blogs.lib.umich.edu/tiny-studies...

Test your library and media knowledge with our trivia game. Participants could win U-M Library swag. Plan until October 26.

You could win library swag! Our #LibraryStudentAmbassadors are hosting a trivia game that tests your library and media knowledge. Will you crush it? https://myumi.ch/jJQWZ

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.

For #BannedBooksWeek, October 5-11, join us in reading and advocating for the freedom to read diverse literature. We'll even share a few book titles to get you started: https://myumi.ch/9pQyg

Reading Beyond the Headlines: Mindsets for Open Inquiry

Thrilled that @umichlibrary.bsky.social is partnering with the Talking Maize and Blue initiative on U-M Open Inquiry Week (next week, which is also #BannedBooksWeek)! We are hosting Reading Beyond the Headlines: Mindsets for Open Inquiry www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Just in time for Climate Week at @umich.edu @umichlibrary.bsky.social librarian Jacob Glenn has published a new Green Research Computing research guide. guides.lib.umich.edu/green-resear... #umcw25

Perennial flower garden in bloom.

Mon, 9-29: U-M alum Phimmasone Kym Owens, director of the Refugee Garden Initiative, speaks on her experience as a refugee and as creator of an interconnected space active in sustaining community, culture, & relationships with the Earth through gardening. https://myumi.ch/4mz5E

Panels Across East Asia: The Art of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Comics

It's almost Third Thursday @umichlibrary.bsky.social! Stop by our Asia Library tomorrow 4-6 pm to explore storytelling and art styles of Chinese manhua, Japanese manga, and Korean manhwa. www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Eighty Years Since the End of World War II

Maps @umichlibrary.bsky.social will have on display include German intelligence maps and photographs, and top secret Allied plans for D-Day. This Third Thursday! Eighty Years Since the End of World War II @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Languages on the Margins: Less Commonly Taught and Vulnerable Languages in U-M Library Collections

Come explore some lesser known but vibrant corners of our @umichlibrary.bsky.social collections, as we highlight languages with smaller speaking communities such as Ladino, Kurdish, and Sorbian, this Thursday, as part of our Third Thursday program. www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Today and Upcoming Events and Exhibits See our upcoming events. All are free and open to public.

Third Thursdays at @umichlibrary.bsky.social start up again this week featuring pochoirs (stencils), top secret plans for D-Day (WWII), less commonly taught languages, and East Asian comics. See what's on deck for this coming Thursday: www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Computer and Video Game Archive The Computer and Video Game Archive (CVGA) acquires, maintains, and makes available an extensive collection of video games, consoles, board games, and more, from the 1970s to today.

We don't have every single gaming system and game ever made, but we sure do try! Make a reservation to play games at our Computer and Video Game Archive (CVGA). Open Monday-Friday, 4th floor Shapiro Library. #NationalVideoGamesDay myumi.ch/pVx6e

Michigan readers love @uofmpress.bsky.social books! The "Read Michigan" Program impacts every county in the state. Launched in collaboration with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social, "Read Michigan" features works of 3 MI university presses, incl. MSU and Wayne State's. ebc.press.umich.edu/stories/2025...

Back(list) to the Future: Making Older University Press Monographs Digitally Available University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection

Check out this impact story and webinar recording about @uofmpress.bsky.social digitally converting its entire backlist of ~3500 monographs! Learn more about how UMP made their older scholarly works digitally available, high-quality, accessible ebooks on Fulcrum:

Student Mini Grants are open to all U-M students (undergraduate and graduate and registered student orgs, up to $1,000, application deadline September 30.

Take your student project to the next level by partnering with the library! Apply for a Student Mini Grant (up to $1,000) to support your innovative & collaborative project that will make a real-life impact. We'll help every step of the way. Apply by 9/30: myumi.ch/dkPp6

Suave Mechanicals: A Celebration of Nine Volumes on the Art and History of Bookbinding (2013–2025)

Explore the art of judging books by their covers! Come check out this @umichlibrary.bsky.social exhibit which highlights binding topics featured in "Suave Mechanicals," the nine-volume series dedicated to the study of the art and history of bookbinding. www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

The Evolution of Campus, 1838-1963: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's History

Maps, maps, maps! If you are in Ann Arbor this fall, stop by and check out this @umichlibrary.bsky.social exhibit which presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the @umich.edu campus throughout its evolution! #annarbor www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Creative Arts Meetup (CAM)

All artists, makers, and community members are welcome join U-M Library for this Creative Arts Meetup next Thursday, September 11, 2025 from 6 - 8 PM. Bring your work, network, collaborate or simply hang out and enjoy food and refreshments. @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color

There's still time to experience the rainbow (now through Sept 4)! @umichlibrary.bsky.social Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room. Coffee with the Curator on Wednesday, September 3 at 10am! www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Linocuts by Meredith Stern

Human rights are top of mind these days. If you have the chance, come by and see these fifteen linocuts, each representing an article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Linocuts by Meredith Stern @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Being Human in the Academy: Celebrating 10 Years of Experiments in Collaborative Humanities

Being Human in the Academy: Celebrating 10 Years of Experiments in Collaborative Humanities @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Highlights from the Dr. Stevo Julius Collection

16th - 18th century maps by some of Europe’s most influential cartographers on display through August 25 in the Clark Maps Library! Highlights from the Dr. Stevo Julius Collection @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Hurt, Baby, Hurt The 1967 Detroit Rebellion was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "Long hot summer of 1967." <I>Hurt, Baby, Hurt </I>takes a personal look at the Rebellion from the persp...

Up for a suggestion for summer reading (or viewing)? This @uofmpress.bsky.social memoir by William Walter Scott, III. has been reissued as an open access ebook (www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...) and you can watch a panel discussion about the book (lib.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/t/1_d0...)

Over the last 50 years, Chicana transformed the way we analyze and write history as well as who is included in U.S. history. @umichlibrary.bsky.social hosts a digital collection of oral histories you can view in The First 100: Chicanas Changing History archival project. quod.lib.umich.edu/f/first100

YouTube video by UMISR Disappearing Federal Data: Implications and Preservation Efforts

If you missed the @umisr.bsky.social panel on Disappearing Federal Data: Implications and Preservation Efforts, back in April (featuring @umichlibrary.bsky.social librarians) you can catch it on youtube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugCi...

Go, Betty!

Go, Betty! A story of family legacy and giving back to a university that shaped a life. I'm so glad to see Betty at such a wide variety of campus events. blogs.lib.umich.edu/journeys-gen...

Celebrate Pride Month with University of Michigan Press and Big Ten Open Books

Making LGBTQ+ stories more visible and sharing them widely is something we feel strongly about, and not just during Pride Month. We've partnered with @bigtenopenbooks to make 24 Gender & Sexuality Studies books available to read for free online here: myumi.ch/Z28p9

Don't miss the Digital Library Federation's summer reading series with the Climate Justice Working Group! From June to August, "After Disruption" by Trevor Owens will be the featured summer read. Register here: msu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Creating Color Wheels

Join @umichlibrary.bsky.social on Friday, June 13, 6 pm at @aadl.org for a hands-on color mixing session with a dash of color theory. Learn some techniques to get better results when combining colors and come away with a few rainbow hued cards. www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Comics in Conversation: Artist, Writer, Reader

So thrilled that @umichlibrary.bsky.social is hosting this great event with @aadl.org during A2Inkubate! Comics in Conversation: Artist, Writer, Reader www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...