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Graphic promoting our Holiday Sale, which is 50% off all UMP titles with code HOLIDAY25

Our winter sale has begun! Get 50% off all UMP titles with code HOLIDAY25, so start browsing here: buff.ly/6Q2tz4J

Students studying amid clouds and cookies.

Students, head to the Shapiro Library this Friday, 12/5, for a Night Against Procrastination! We'll have light refreshments on the first floor, and additional study rooms open on floors 2-4. https://myumi.ch/R3XjX

Two book covers, from Pride and Prejudice and Un Marriageable, both featuring peacocks.

TODAY in the Hatcher Gallery at 4: Celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday with tea, coffee, and conversation. Join us for Jane Austen Retellings: A Literary Salon. https://myumi.ch/rAPwn

Giving Tuesday, thank you for your gift, go blue forever.

To those who donated to help us fund student activities leading up to midterms and finals — thank you! We always say library friends are the best, and it’s so true. Your support is greatly appreciated. #GivingTuesday #GoBlue

Students petting two Golden Retrievers, Giving Tuesday, Today we give forever we go blue.

It’s not too late! It’s still #GivingTuesday, with plenty of time to show your support for U-M students! Help us help them…with stress-busting activities to help survive midterms and finals. #GoBlue https://myumi.ch/8qnbj

Students petting a chill dog, Giving Tuesday, Today we give, Forever we go blue.

It’s #GivingTuesday. Will you contribute funds to help us support students in the lead-up to midterms and final exams? We’re talking therapy dogs, snacks, sensory kits, and relaxation stations. Help fellow Wolverines survive and succeed! #GoBlue https://myumi.ch/8qnbj

Giving Tuesday, Wellness Unleashed, and an adorable dog being petted by students.

Therapy dogs offer students comfort, connection and support in the lead-up to midterms and finals. On this #GivingTuesday, help us expand our student wellbeing events, making the library a welcoming gathering place for students. #GoBlue https://myumi.ch/8qnbj

Students petting a friendly dog, Giving Tuesday, Wellness Unleashed.

TODAY, #GivingTuesday, help support U-M students’ comfort, connection, and overall well-being by helping us expand our popular therapy dog events to offer more stress-busting activities during mid-terms and finals. #GoBlue https://myumi.ch/8qnbj

Black and white drawn double hemispheric map entitled "Orbis Terrarum Typus De Integro Multis In Locis Emendatus". It has allegorical drawings of animals from each continent on its borders.

Put your puzzle skills to the test! Try assembling this 1594 world map by Petrus Plancius, one of the first to feature decorative allegorical borders. Stop by the Clark Library to piece it together, or learn more here: https://myumi.ch/E8eWp #MapMonday

Most library locations are closed today (Saturday). Shapiro is currently open, but will close at 3pm.

Book covers from Pride and Prjudice and Un Marriageable, both decorated with peacocks.

12/3: Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with tea, coffee & conversation. Share your fav Austen retelling(s), learn about titles to read, browse items from the library, and view 19th-century editions of Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, & more. https://myumi.ch/rAPwn

Giving Tuesday, 12-02-2025, and a friendly dog being petted by three students.

Save the date: #GivingTuesday is one week away! We hope you'll help support U-M students’ comfort, connection, and overall well-being by helping us expand our popular therapy dog events to offer more stress-busting activities during mid-terms and finals. https://myumi.ch/8qnbj

Portion of world map depicting the Atlantic Ocean and coasts of Europe, Africa, and South America with illustrations of ships on the water and a variety of creatures on the coasts.

Have you ever heard of Piri Reis' World Map? Created by the Ottoman cartographer Piri Reis in 1513, this map is one of the oldest known geographical depictions of the Americas. On this #MapMonday, learn more about other examples of Islamic mapping: https://myumi.ch/3RX8D

Design Contest: create your own U-M Library design and you could see it on library swag!

Students! Create and share a design that sums up your experience with the U-M Library. Three designs will be selected to print on pencil cases in the Shapiro Design Lab during a future event. Submissions are open until January 6, 2026. Get the details: https://myumi.ch/bV37y

Third Thursdays at the Library starts at 4pm. Visit each of the four locations in the Hatcher Library and win a prize.

Exhibiting Fun, comics museums in France, with Gala Patenkovic, PhD candidate, Romance Languages & Literatures.

11/21: Comics, in France, are serious business. Learn about the museification of comics, and rethink what a museum space "should" be. Join us in person or on Zoom for this talk by Gala Patenkovic, PhD candidate in Romance Languages & Literatures. https://myumi.ch/P3Z4g

In International Studies, view items documenting grassroots movements for social and political transformation around the world. In the photo, women in Buenos Aires demonstrate for legal abortion. #ThirdThursdays myumi.ch/R3Z2X

Woman wearing black and a microphone.

In Asia Library, explore the remarkable literary achievements of Nobel Prize in Literature laureates from East Asia who have shaped global literature. The photo is Han Kang, the most recent and the first female Nobel Laureate in Literature from East Asia. #ThirdThursdays myumi.ch/Mk33n

A man on his knees next to a director's chair, and a woman using his back as a chair while she talks on a telephone.

In the Special Collections Research Center, the Ezra and Sara Seegar Stone Papers will plunge you into 1930-1950s Hollywood. Here, director Ezra Stone and actress Joan Davis on the set of the TV show "I Married Joan" that aired from 1952-1955. #ThirdThursdays myumi.ch/8qn7D

Aladdin homes and an image of a white house with green shutters and a red brick chimney.

In the Clark Library, view kit-house catalogs from Michigan-based companies and maps showing the growth of Detroit suburbs. This is a partial cover of an Aladdin homes catalog, The Aladdin Company, 1934. #ThirdThursdays myumi.ch/A1D7M

M Library logo in maize and blue.

Join us in the Hatcher Library for Third Thursdays at the Library, a themed monthly open house where we share materials from our collections. While you’re here (4-6pm), pick up a Third Thursday Passport and collect a stamp from each of the four open houses to win a prize! myumi.ch/egXd2

Trina Parks-Matthews works on a page from the Ortelius atlas (Theatrum Orbis Terrarum), leaning over a yellowed page in a water bath.

When you acquire a rare atlas from 1570, and it's in rough shape, you call in the experts — the team in our Conservation Lab. Read about the first steps taken to repair Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theater of the World). #MapMonday https://myumi.ch/y1ze8

Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute.

Apply for the Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute (a week-long institute + mini-grant). We'll provide knowledge & resources to help you build skills in anti-racist research methods & digital methods to advance your project. Apply 11/13 to 12/19 2025. https://myumi.ch/kP1r1

Screenwriter and director Lawrence Kasdan (1985).

We're thrilled to announce acquisition of the papers of screenwriter and director Lawrence Kasdan, adding them to our Screen Arts Mavericks and Makers Collection. Kasdan is the most successful filmmaker ever to have graduated from @umich.edu. https://myumi.ch/D8qxE

Woman and girl, from the back, in a still image from Made in Ethiopia.

11/13, 6pm, Hatcher Gallery: Watch a screening of the 2024 documentary Made in Ethiopia, which follows three women's search for prosperity as Chinese factory complexes expand in rural Ethiopia. Director Xinyan Yu & Professor Kelly Askew will join the Q&A. https://myumi.ch/W6w7R

Blue and yellow topographical map of the world and its oceans; depths shown by land form drawings, shading, and soundings; text reading "The Floor of the Oceans."

Closeup of topographical map of the Pacific Ocean floor, with ridges depicting underwater mountains.

Have you heard of Marie Tharp? A revolutionary in cartography, she collaborated with Bruce Heezen to produce the 1st scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, revealing it was covered with canyons, ridges, & mountains. #MapMonday The Floor of the Oceans: https://myumi.ch/W6gND

Creative Arts Meetup, connect, collaborate, create.

11/11: Join us for a Creative Arts Meetup — an open, mixed-media session where artists, makers, and community members are welcome to show their work, create, collaborate, network, or simply hang out. We'll have art supplies on hand for open-lab projects. https://myumi.ch/e3dJw

Native American woman with gray hair and a young girl with a long braid and wearing a pink shirt crouch in a field of yellow flowers, gathering something in a silver bowl.

Celebrate Native American heritage, history, art, languages, and traditions. We offer resources and collections, including movies. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth https://myumi.ch/4m5z3

Painting on a repurposed cardboard box — a man wearing a baseball cap, face mask, and hoodie with the hood pulled up.

Register for a workshop on painting and drawing portraits on salvaged materials. No experience needed, and we'll provide the materials! Nov 11, 5-7pm, in the Shapiro Gallery. Cardboard Reliquary: A Portraiture Workshop with Narsiso Martinez: https://myumi.ch/4m5JP

Celebrate Indigenous video games.

Today 2-6pm: Play video games! Stop by the Shapiro Gallery (3rd floor) to play and learn from these Indigenous video games in recognition of Native American Heritage Month: "Never Alone," and "When Rivers Were Trails." https://myumi.ch/z92Rb