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Bound manuscript cookbook in landscape format, with a recipe for "Hard biscuits" written in brown ink on laid paper. The ingredients are a piece of butter the size of an egg, a pound of butter, and enough water to make a dough.

Our Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive includes several dozen manuscript cookbooks, primarily from the 19th & 20th centuries. This handwritten volume is Cookery MS 15 and was written in England around 1850. The page shows a recipe for Hard Biscuits. https://myumi.ch/qZ2mg

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

Orange and grey map of Metro Beach Metropark, with an inset map of the greater Detroit area. The bottom third of the image is the cover for the map, with 4 symbols representing the 4 seasons.

Have you visited a Metropark recently? This system of 13 public parks in the Detroit area has been around since 1939 and allows you to enjoy the outdoors at any time of the year. This map of Metro Beach Metropark from 1981 is in our catalog: https://myumi.ch/R3N1N #MapMonday

The Mighty Red book cover with red text.

It's still #ClimateWeek! Read “The Mighty Red,” a novel by Louise Erdrich. Ebook & audiobook versions are available to students, faculty, & staff at all three U-M campuses via the library’s Overdrive collection: https://t.co/XCZzACPI79

Mobile phone with a list of news stories.

10/7: Bring a laptop and learn to develop habits that encourage an #OpenInquiry frame of mind. Join us in the Hatcher Gallery on Tuesday evening for "Reading Beyond the Headlines: Mindsets for Open Inquiry." https://myumi.ch/QwkMq

M Library logo in maize and blue.

Websites are ephemeral. Online content can disappear without notice. Our "Archiving Websites and Data" site shares information and tools that can help preserve access to websites and datasets that are needed for research and publication. https://myumi.ch/jJQpg

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

Depiction of eight human rights, such as the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Last chance! The exhibit Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Linocuts by Meredith Stern represents rights the United Nations General Assembly asserts should be protected worldwide. Special Collections Research Center, 6th floor Hatcher, closing Oct 3. https://myumi.ch/2rX3p

It's also affecting the return of items we've loaned out — paying a $100+ tariff to take delivery of an item we own.

The Mighty Red book cover with red text.

Love, family, and environmental & economic turmoil. For #ClimateWeek, read “The Mighty Red,” a novel by Louise Erdrich. Ebook & audiobook versions are available to students, faculty, & staff at all three U-M campuses via the library’s Overdrive collection. https://myumi.ch/R3ynD

University of Michigan Climate Week, Sept 27-Oct 5.

For U-M Climate Week, consider how to embrace "green computing." We've got tips, tools, and techniques for evaluating and minimizing the environmental impacts of computational research: https://myumi.ch/xwVwg

A tattered bookcover with a stitched binding and a display of modern recreations of historical book binding.

10/1, 10am: Enjoy an informal conversation with Julia Miller, curator of the exhibit Suave Mechanicals: A Celebration of Nine Volumes on the Art and History of Bookbinding (2013–2025), currently on display in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room. https://myumi.ch/NrxPW

A black and white print with many islands merging into a landmass, with a large swirl in the center, wave-patterned water around it, and lines of text along the top and in both lower corners.

Did you know that not all maps are made to depict precise geography?
This map made in Japan in 1710 shows the world according to Buddhist mythology:
India at the center, with Europe and America as distant islands. View this map
up close at: https://myumi.ch/y1dbb
#MapMonday

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

Play a trivia game for a chance to win library swag! Think you know a lot about the library? We'll see about that. (It's an open test, so looking up the answers isn't cheating.) #LibraryStudentAmbassadors https://myumi.ch/jJQWZ

Black and white striped head of a snake.

New digital collection: the "U-M Museum of Zoology, Reptiles and Amphibians Sea Snake Digital Collection." Pictured: Laticauda colubrina, found in tropical Pacific waters. See more: https://myumi.ch/bV1V2

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

We highly recommend HathiTrust, especially for items in the public domain. If you're current faculty, student, or staff, remember to log in as a University of Michigan affiliate.

View looking down from the upper floor of the music library, showing seating on both floors.

High-top study tables with monitors, one with a keyboard attached, facing a window that looks over green trees and lawn.

Comfortable lounge chairs next to large windows looking over green trees.

If you're looking for a study space with calm vibes, we recommend the Music Library, entered on the 3rd floor of the Earl V. Moore Building on north campus. https://myumi.ch/Xy1xq

Close up of a decorative archway and bricks surrounding an exterior door.

New digital collection: the John B. Cameron Collection of French Romanesque Sculpture. This lovely arch is from the parish church Église Notre-Dame de Biéville, built in Normandie, France in the 12th century. See more: https://myumi.ch/e3p3V

George Takei. Photo: Christopher Appoldt

@georgetakei.bsky.social is the 2025 Honorary Chair of #BannedBooksWeek (Oct 5–11), joined by youth advocate Iris Mogul. Together they’ll spotlight the harms of censorship.
https://www.ala.org/news/2025/09/legendary-actorauthoractivist-george-takei-named-honorary-chair-banned-books-week-2025

A map of Mackinac Island in green and black, with small illustrations of various attractions like old buildings, battle sites, boats, and forests.

Looking to explore more of Michigan? Let this 1940’s pictorial map of Mackinac Island and its "points of interest" inspire you to get out and explore the trails, beaches, and historic sites around you! #MapMonday
Find this map in our catalog: https://myumi.ch/xwEJq

Two different covers of anarchist Bob Black's "The Abolition of Work."

Bob Black Papers correspondence, archival processing in progress -- the processing workroom with many archival boxes lined up on a table.

Piles of Silence of the Lambs VHS tapes from the Johnathan Demme Papers.

A box of archival material from the Beloved movie in the Jonathan Demme Papers.

Special Collections Research Center hosted 4 archival processing interns this summer, working on:

*Bob Black Papers (anarchist movements)
*Small collections (anarchism, communism, environmentalism, etc.)
*Jonathan Demme Papers (the film Beloved and 15,000+ audiovisual materials)

Linocut posters with texts of Article 9 and Article 10 from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, illustrated with a scene of an arrest and of the watchtower and barbed wire fencing of a detention facility.

Linocut poster with text of Article 24 from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, illustrated with a scene of a seated woman expressing breastmilk in an office setting.

Currently on view in the #SpecialCollections Exhibit Space, through Oct. 3, is "Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Linocuts by Meredith Stern" — 15 linocuts (out of 30 that feature the artist's interpretation of American fundamental rights. https://myumi.ch/2rX3p

Two shelves of book spines with Japanese titles.

"View of the world from North Pole illustrates the immense problems of logistics confronting the Allies in shifting their weight from Europe to the East," Pacific Actions map inset from NewsMap for the Armed Forces, 1945.

Book spines with titles in multiple languages and scripts.

Several colorful stencil patterns, with a center oval depicting pink flowers.

TODAY, 4-6pm: Third Thursdays at the Library. Visit all four open houses in Hatcher to win a prize! https://myumi.ch/egXd2

* The Art of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Comics
* 80 Years Since the End of World War II
* Languages on the Margins
* Spectacular Stencils

A collection of historical bookbinding models made by Anna Embree.

Euchologion (Mich. Ms. 130), Sumela Monastery, Turkey, dated 1553 CE.

A Short but Comprehensive System of the Geography of the World by Nathaniel Dwight, 1808.

Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see fascinating items from library collections. "Suave Mechanicals: A Celebration of Nine Volumes on the Art and History of Bookbinding" features rare books representing topics from the Suave Mechanicals series. #SpecialCollections https://myumi.ch/3REQz

Ezra Stone next to a sign that says “Screen Test written, directed and produced by Ezra Stone 5 cents."

A photo of the Ezra Stone and Sara Seegar Stone Papers being processed,with piles of film canisters sitting on a table.

Next up—the Ezra Stone and Sara Seegar Stone Papers which will be available for research in Fall 2025. Stone,
(1917-1994) was an actor, director, author, theatre professor, and cow farmer, best known for his portrayal of teenager Henry on the radio show The Aldrich Family (1939-1953). Stay tuned!

A photograph of James Turner receiving the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service from President Ronald Reagan.

Every day our #SpecialCollections team works to prepare collections for use by researchers on campus & around the world. The latest collection open for research is the James P. Turner Papers. Topics include: the Viola Liuzzo Murder, the Rodney King trial, and Kent State. https://myumi.ch/kPGjV

Image of a bright red cake decorated as a top hat with a small white-bearded wizard figure nearby from Betty Crocker’s "Magic in the Kitchen" brochure.

Illustration of a cookie shaped like a white rabbit and another as an orange carrot from Betty Crocker’s "Bake Up a Story" pamphlet.

Folk-art style imagery of a couple greeting guests arriving in a red automobile outside their home from Betty Crocker’s "Merry Makings" pamphlet.

The Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive in #SpecialCollections documents the history of food & drink in America through cookbooks, menus, & more, including 200+ boxes of 19th & 20th century advertising ephemera. Like Betty Crocker pamphlets! 🧁 🎂 🍪 https://myumi.ch/61Qe1

A stencil: a single stem with a bright orange chrysanthemum flower.

The straight jacket worn by actor Anthony Hopkins in the film "Silence of the Lambs"—part of the Jonathan Demme Papers collection.

A portrait of Ezra Stone as the character Henry Aldrich from the Aldrich Family radio program (1939-1953).

An illustrated 1811 edition of Sir Walter Scott’s Marmion; a waterfront image with boats, people, and a rainbow.

Upcoming Third Thursdays from Special Collections:
https://myumi.ch/egXd2

Sept — Spectacular Stencils: Gorgeous Examples from our Pochoir Collection

Oct — Rare Boo👻ks and other Spooky Selections

Nov — Ezra Stone: The Busiest Man in Hollywood

Dec — A Few of Our Favorite Things, with staff faves

While you’re here for Third Thursday at the Library, pick up a Third Thursday Passport and collect a stamp from each of the four Third Thursday Open Houses — Asia Library, Clark Library, International Studies, and Special Collections Research Center — to win a prize!