Posts on April 2017

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.

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.

Michigan Daily - From Newspaper Prints To Digital Archives

The Michigan Daily Digital Archives is a joint collaboration between the University of Michigan Library IT division, Michigan Daily, and the Bentley Historical Library. The Michigan Daily Digital Archives provides searchable access to over 300 volumes, 23,000 issues of digitized student newspaper, from 1891 through 2014. New volumes of the newspaper will be added in the future as they become available. The Library IT team developed a robust discovery interface for the archives. The team made...

Conducting Wayfinding Research to Improve Navigation

It’s not uncommon for academic research libraries, especially large ones, to have multiple renovations that add a wing, a floor, or even a new building. The University of Michigan Library buildings on our central campus are no exception. Our undergraduate and graduate libraries form a complex whose structure is just that. Many times a day, staff members direct visitors, patrons, or even a colleague to their intended destination.

Everybody's Talking about Our Chinese Dance Collection

Chinese Dance: National Movements in a Revolutionary Age, 1945-1965, our exhibit on the history of Chinese dance, is receiving lots of media coverage.