Posts on March 2017

The Black Prince of Florence by Catherine Fletcher

Historian Catherine Fletcher tells the fascinating story of Alessandro de' Medici, the first Duke of Florence and arguably the first person of African descent to rule a European state.

Michigan Football History

While the start of the 2017 college football season is still a long way off, you can binge on the glorious and fascinating history of Michigan Football year round by visiting the library. The Hatcher and Shapiro Libraries have enough books about Bo Schembechler, the Big House, and our famous football rivalries to satisfy even the strongest appetite for gridiron history.

This Week in the Shapiro Lobby: February 20-26, 2017

This week in the Shapiro Lobby we are featuring information and facts about Fair Use in the United States in a display created by the UM Copyright Office. We will also be hosting information tables for Active Minds, Living Grace, and LSA Student Government.

The Miracles of Prato by Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz

This historical novel tells the story of the brilliant Renaissance artist Fra Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Buti, the woman who inspired him.

Inside the Student Mind: Library Perspectives from a Student Engagement Ambassador

Starting last October, I worked as the University of Michigan Library Student Engagement Ambassador. With six other wonderful ambassadors, we aimed to actively publicize library resources and services to the campus community through events and social media. We functioned in two different teams: the programming team focused on creating and planning events while the social media team concentrated on publicizing by making posts on Facebook and Twitter. The system was flexible enough to chime in...

New Exhibit: The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

We are pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit from the Special Collections Library. It includes an extraordinary selection of magical, religious, and medical artifacts held at Special Collections, the Papyrology Collection, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. These objects are an extraordinary evidence of how people coped with physical and mental ailments from antiquity through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

The Joy of Insights: How to harness qualitative data in your work

Quantitative data gives you the hard numbers: what, how many times, when, generally who, and where. Quantitative data also leaves out the biggest and possibly most important factor: why.