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Squirrel with a wrench.

We know it's hard to tell, but both the Shapiro Library and the Hatcher Library are open! The Diag is fenced off, sidewalks are torn up, brickwork is happening, doors and ramps are being replaced...but the library is open. Weave your way around the detours to your safe haven.

Front cover of Polished Pearls for Sunday Schools & Protracted Meetings, 1876 - the earliest published book from our contributions

We partnered with the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship in Atlanta to digitize and share songbooks and hymnals of sacred music. Read about Collaborating on a Digital Music Archive: U-M's contributions to the Sounding Spirit Digital Library: myumi.ch/R3dp4

We're so excited to be a part of the second collection from #BigTenOpenBooks and @bigtenacademic.bsky.social! 100 #OpenAccess books from 8 university presses are featured in this vital subject collection, and all books are free to read and download. Browse the collection: myumi.ch/rAnyV

Title page to the full score of Aaron Copland's Inscape, with two signature inscriptions by Copland and Leonard Bernstein dated 1977, and the Boosey & Hawkes publisher's mark at the bottom.

We recently acquired a first edition full score of Aaron Copland’s "Inscape," with inscription by Leonard Bernstein. Read about it, including its U-M connection, in A Notable New Acquisition at the Music Library: myumi.ch/JPdME

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...

A bunch of comics arrayed on a wood grain table

Here are all the comics I acquired today at the Toledo Comic Arts Festival (at @toledolibrary.bsky.social), all destined for the @umichlibrary.bsky.social comics collection

Creative Arts Meetup - network with other artists and learn new skills.

7/15: Join the Creative Arts Meetup (CAM) — a mixed-media gathering where artists of all disciplines can connect, share works-in-progress, exchange ideas, and explore creative collaboration. Bring your art work, music, & photography. We'll bring the food. myumi.ch/Xy5wx

Pamphlet cut in the shape of a Campbell's soup can, colored in red, white, and silver, reading "Campbell's Condensed (21 Kinds) Soup. Joseph Campbell Company, Camden, N.J., U.S.A."

Our Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive includes 200+ boxes of 19th & 20th century advertising ephemera. In this early 20th c. Campbell's soup pamphlet, advertisers used a die cut to give the illusion of three dimensions: myumi.ch/G2qZ1

Rare item in our Computer and Video Game Archive (1978!):

A fat squirrel on a branch staring into the camera. Photo by Corey Seeman.

Take a holiday break! All library locations are closing at 5pm today and will remain closed all day Friday, July 4. Only the Shapiro Library will be open on Saturday, July 5. Check hours before you visit: myumi.ch/E8rr1

Installation View of where violence flows (2025), with a row of zines under two spotlights along with a sign saying, "please take one." Photo by Andy Kajie.

Printed materials can become vessels of memories and mourning. A library mini grant helped Okyoung Noh collaborate on a very personal zine. Find out more in her blog post, "where violence flows - mediating on family, grief, and imperialism": myumi.ch/VVr7X

Special Collections Research Center sign, next to an indoor window looking into the space.

We hold one of the largest collections of trans history in the country, attained by acquiring the National Transgender Library and Archives in 2000. In the @michiganadvance.com, "Within the halls of U of M’s Hatcher Library, a wealth of transgender history": myumi.ch/R39WN

Video Game History Hour on a background of circuits.

David Carter, video game archivist for our Computer and Video Game Archive @umcvga.bsky.social, collects and maintains video games and consoles. He'll tell you what that really means in this podcast. (You can visit the CVGA to play just about any game from the last 50 years!) myumi.ch/Z27kb

National Institutes of Health

An NIH Public Access Policy originally scheduled for December 2025 will now take effect July 1. It requires that manuscripts resulting from funding (in whole or part) by NIH be submitted to PubMed Central without embargo. Join our Zoom info session at noon this Friday. More info: myumi.ch/pVRp5

Line drawings showing the path of the sun for the summer solstice, the vernal and autumnal equinox, and the winter solstice.

Happy summer solstice, happy weekend! The Orientation of Buildings or Planning for Sunlight, 1912: myumi.ch/Mkz3Q

A bunch of comic books, mini comics, etc. arrayed on a faux wood grain tabletop

Comics purchased at the Ann Arbor Comics Festival (A2CAF) this past weekend, all destined for the @umichlibrary.bsky.social comics collection #a2caf #comics

Balls of soil embedded with seeds.

Look at these cute little seed dumplings! Take a break at the A2SF (Ann Arbor Summer Festival) Annex on Wednesday, 5-9pm to create a seed dumpling to plant in your own garden, make planter pots, learn about our Seed Library vending machine, and more. myumi.ch/A13ZQ

Giant 3-D printed tooth, hollow to be used as a vase.

Take a look at what students have been making in the Shapiro Design Lab! They've been using the vinyl cutter, 3D printer, and sewing machine for things like a bike tool tray, custom t-shirts, a giant tooth vase (!), and a model plane. Lab Notes: myumi.ch/6yG12

Comic covers and names of panel discussion participants: Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, and Tony Weaver Jr.

Today at 1pm! Learn how graphic novelists collaborate to make comics that exceed the sum of their parts. Comics in Conversation: Artist, Writer, Reader — myumi.ch/P3mke

A circle of 12 colors, moving from yellow to orange to red to purple to blue to green and back to yellow.

6/13: Join us 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. See you @aadl.org downtown! myumi.ch/792jr

The Loving Story, showing a Black woman and a white man facing each other.

6/12 at noon: Celebrate Loving Day 2025 with a free screening of "The Loving Story," an HBO documentary (77 mins). The Loving case helped overturn state bans on interracial marriage. You can also join us for discussion after the film. The details: myumi.ch/w9wz9

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"The hype surrounding AI is enormous, but so are its technical overhead, financial costs and environmental implications." — Eliot Scott, Senior Developer

Read his enlightening post, "Experimenting with Generative Artificial Intelligence on Library Blogs": myumi.ch/9pJVx

Woman pulling a large wooden frame up out of a water bath, making paper.

6/10: Come and learn about paper making and the "Virgil Wove." Cathleen A. Baker (Conservation Librarian Emerita) will talk in the Hatcher Gallery about John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757) and the Development of the Earliest Western-Made Wove Papers: myumi.ch/3R971

Brick facade of the Hatcher Library.

Most library locations will be closed Saturday, 5/24 through Monday, 5/26 for the Memorial Day holiday. Shapiro Library is open with limited hours on Saturday and Sunday. See hours by location: www.lib.umich.edu/locations-an...

There’s an excellent exhibit on the paintings of Rachel Ruysch at the @toledomuseum.bsky.social w/ supporting material from the University of Michigan’s herbarium, museum of zoology, and special collections of the @umichlibrary.bsky.social on display. Very cool!

@arl.org responds to the news about Dr. Carla Hayden from the Library of Congress.

Read our full statement: 🔗https://www.arl.org/news/arl-comments-on-the-dismissal-of-dr-carla-hayden-from-the-library-of-congress/
#ARLStatements #ARLUpdates @librarycongress.bsky.social

The American Library Association praises servic of Dr. Carla Hayden, decries 'unjust dismissal' of Librarian of Congress. [Image of Dr. Carla Hayden standing in the stacks in a library]

NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work.

Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

Fund Libraries: Tell Congress to invest in libraries. ALA American Library Association, #FundLibraries.

We need EVERY library advocate to raise their voice in support of library funding. Take action NOW, call Congress to #FundLibraries: bit.ly/Call2FundLibraries

Time is running out to Fund Libraries next fiscal year. Congress MUST act to include libraries in the next federal budget. #ForOurLibraries

Man and his fuzzy white dog in front of a giant block M in front of the Hatcher Library.

Family of four around a giant Block M in front of the Hatcher Library.

Woman in graduation gown and stoles posing next to a giant block M in front of the Hatcher Library.

Man in doctorate regalia and holding a bouquet of flowers next to a giant block M in front of the Hatcher Library.

Sharing some joy from our block M photo event in front of the Hatcher Library. Congrats to all grads and their families! #MGoGrad #GoBlue