Posts on April 2017

Detroit History Images Online

Access Detroit Historical Society images related to the history of Detroit.

Personal Digital Archiving Guide Part 1: Preservation Planning

The first in a series of how-to guides helping you to preserve your personal files and archives!

Establishing the University Library's Collection: Asa Gray's Purchase

In this post, student Eric Morgel provides a brief overview of Asa Gray's foundational purchase of materials for the University Library.

What to Read Next

Looking for vacation reading? The popular Japanese novelist Murakami Haruki has published a new book.

This Week in the Shapiro Lobby: April 24-30, 2017

This week in the Shapiro Lobby we are featuring the exhibit "Shapiro Design Lab: Explore, Inspire, Make, Media" which highlights the cumulative work of the Shapiro Design Lab Residents. We also continue to host donations bins for the Quito Project and Textbooks for Change.

Reflecting on a Year of Pop-Up Exhibits

A pop-up exhibit (or rare book meet and greet, as we later came to call them) is an informal, short-term display of Special Collections materials. We take our items outside of the Reading Room because we want as many people as possible to engage with our collections and ask our staff questions. This year, we held six of these exhibits in three locations within the Hatcher & Shapiro Libraries and we're excited to tell you what we've learned from a year of ephemeral events.

Artist Spotlight: Michelle Sheng

In our first ever Artist Spotlight, we are featuring Michelle Sheng who helped create the Fake News exhibit "Changing the Story" which the Shapiro Lobby hosted during the last week of March 2017. Learn about Michelle's thoughts and motivations for creating the exhibit in today's special blog post.