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Put your puzzle skills to the test! Try assembling this 1594 world map by Petrus Plancius, one of the first to feature decorative allegorical borders. Stop by the Clark Library to piece it together, or learn more here: https://myumi.ch/E8eWp #MapMonday
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Put your puzzle skills to the test! Try assembling this 1594 world map by Petrus Plancius, one of the first to feature decorative allegorical borders. Stop by the Clark Library to piece it together, or learn more here: https://myumi.ch/E8eWp #MapMonday
Most library locations are closed today (Saturday). Shapiro is currently open, but will close at 3pm.
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Most library locations are closed today (Saturday). Shapiro is currently open, but will close at 3pm.
12/3: Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with tea, coffee & conversation. Share your fav Austen retelling(s), learn about titles to read, browse items from the library, and view 19th-century editions of Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, & more. https://myumi.ch/rAPwn
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
12/3: Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with tea, coffee & conversation. Share your fav Austen retelling(s), learn about titles to read, browse items from the library, and view 19th-century editions of Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, & more. https://myumi.ch/rAPwn
Save the date: #GivingTuesday is one week away! We hope you'll help support U-M students’ comfort, connection, and overall well-being by helping us expand our popular therapy dog events to offer more stress-busting activities during mid-terms and finals. https://myumi.ch/8qnbj
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Save the date: #GivingTuesday is one week away! We hope you'll help support U-M students’ comfort, connection, and overall well-being by helping us expand our popular therapy dog events to offer more stress-busting activities during mid-terms and finals. https://myumi.ch/8qnbj
Have you ever heard of Piri Reis' World Map? Created by the Ottoman cartographer Piri Reis in 1513, this map is one of the oldest known geographical depictions of the Americas. On this #MapMonday, learn more about other examples of Islamic mapping: https://myumi.ch/3RX8D
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Have you ever heard of Piri Reis' World Map? Created by the Ottoman cartographer Piri Reis in 1513, this map is one of the oldest known geographical depictions of the Americas. On this #MapMonday, learn more about other examples of Islamic mapping: https://myumi.ch/3RX8D
Students! Create and share a design that sums up your experience with the U-M Library. Three designs will be selected to print on pencil cases in the Shapiro Design Lab during a future event. Submissions are open until January 6, 2026. Get the details: https://myumi.ch/bV37y
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Students! Create and share a design that sums up your experience with the U-M Library. Three designs will be selected to print on pencil cases in the Shapiro Design Lab during a future event. Submissions are open until January 6, 2026. Get the details: https://myumi.ch/bV37y
Third Thursdays at the Library starts at 4pm. Visit each of the four locations in the Hatcher Library and win a prize.
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Third Thursdays at the Library starts at 4pm. Visit each of the four locations in the Hatcher Library and win a prize.
11/21: Comics, in France, are serious business. Learn about the museification of comics, and rethink what a museum space "should" be. Join us in person or on Zoom for this talk by Gala Patenkovic, PhD candidate in Romance Languages & Literatures. https://myumi.ch/P3Z4g
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
11/21: Comics, in France, are serious business. Learn about the museification of comics, and rethink what a museum space "should" be. Join us in person or on Zoom for this talk by Gala Patenkovic, PhD candidate in Romance Languages & Literatures. https://myumi.ch/P3Z4g
In International Studies, view items documenting grassroots movements for social and political transformation around the world. In the photo, women in Buenos Aires demonstrate for legal abortion. #ThirdThursdays myumi.ch/R3Z2X
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In International Studies, view items documenting grassroots movements for social and political transformation around the world. In the photo, women in Buenos Aires demonstrate for legal abortion. #ThirdThursdays myumi.ch/R3Z2X
In Asia Library, explore the remarkable literary achievements of Nobel Prize in Literature laureates from East Asia who have shaped global literature. The photo is Han Kang, the most recent and the first female Nobel Laureate in Literature from East Asia. #ThirdThursdays myumi.ch/Mk33n
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In Asia Library, explore the remarkable literary achievements of Nobel Prize in Literature laureates from East Asia who have shaped global literature. The photo is Han Kang, the most recent and the first female Nobel Laureate in Literature from East Asia. #ThirdThursdays myumi.ch/Mk33n
In the Special Collections Research Center, the Ezra and Sara Seegar Stone Papers will plunge you into 1930-1950s Hollywood. Here, director Ezra Stone and actress Joan Davis on the set of the TV show "I Married Joan" that aired from 1952-1955. #ThirdThursdays myumi.ch/8qn7D
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In the Special Collections Research Center, the Ezra and Sara Seegar Stone Papers will plunge you into 1930-1950s Hollywood. Here, director Ezra Stone and actress Joan Davis on the set of the TV show "I Married Joan" that aired from 1952-1955. #ThirdThursdays myumi.ch/8qn7D
In the Clark Library, view kit-house catalogs from Michigan-based companies and maps showing the growth of Detroit suburbs. This is a partial cover of an Aladdin homes catalog, The Aladdin Company, 1934. #ThirdThursdays myumi.ch/A1D7M
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In the Clark Library, view kit-house catalogs from Michigan-based companies and maps showing the growth of Detroit suburbs. This is a partial cover of an Aladdin homes catalog, The Aladdin Company, 1934. #ThirdThursdays myumi.ch/A1D7M
Join us in the Hatcher Library for Third Thursdays at the Library, a themed monthly open house where we share materials from our collections. While you’re here (4-6pm), pick up a Third Thursday Passport and collect a stamp from each of the four open houses to win a prize! myumi.ch/egXd2
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Join us in the Hatcher Library for Third Thursdays at the Library, a themed monthly open house where we share materials from our collections. While you’re here (4-6pm), pick up a Third Thursday Passport and collect a stamp from each of the four open houses to win a prize! myumi.ch/egXd2
When you acquire a rare atlas from 1570, and it's in rough shape, you call in the experts — the team in our Conservation Lab. Read about the first steps taken to repair Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theater of the World). #MapMonday https://myumi.ch/y1ze8
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
When you acquire a rare atlas from 1570, and it's in rough shape, you call in the experts — the team in our Conservation Lab. Read about the first steps taken to repair Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theater of the World). #MapMonday https://myumi.ch/y1ze8
Apply for the Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute (a week-long institute + mini-grant). We'll provide knowledge & resources to help you build skills in anti-racist research methods & digital methods to advance your project. Apply 11/13 to 12/19 2025. https://myumi.ch/kP1r1
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Apply for the Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute (a week-long institute + mini-grant). We'll provide knowledge & resources to help you build skills in anti-racist research methods & digital methods to advance your project. Apply 11/13 to 12/19 2025. https://myumi.ch/kP1r1
We're thrilled to announce acquisition of the papers of screenwriter and director Lawrence Kasdan, adding them to our Screen Arts Mavericks and Makers Collection. Kasdan is the most successful filmmaker ever to have graduated from @umich.edu. https://myumi.ch/D8qxE
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We're thrilled to announce acquisition of the papers of screenwriter and director Lawrence Kasdan, adding them to our Screen Arts Mavericks and Makers Collection. Kasdan is the most successful filmmaker ever to have graduated from @umich.edu. https://myumi.ch/D8qxE
11/13, 6pm, Hatcher Gallery: Watch a screening of the 2024 documentary Made in Ethiopia, which follows three women's search for prosperity as Chinese factory complexes expand in rural Ethiopia. Director Xinyan Yu & Professor Kelly Askew will join the Q&A. https://myumi.ch/W6w7R
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
11/13, 6pm, Hatcher Gallery: Watch a screening of the 2024 documentary Made in Ethiopia, which follows three women's search for prosperity as Chinese factory complexes expand in rural Ethiopia. Director Xinyan Yu & Professor Kelly Askew will join the Q&A. https://myumi.ch/W6w7R
Have you heard of Marie Tharp? A revolutionary in cartography, she collaborated with Bruce Heezen to produce the 1st scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, revealing it was covered with canyons, ridges, & mountains. #MapMonday The Floor of the Oceans: https://myumi.ch/W6gND
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Have you heard of Marie Tharp? A revolutionary in cartography, she collaborated with Bruce Heezen to produce the 1st scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, revealing it was covered with canyons, ridges, & mountains. #MapMonday The Floor of the Oceans: https://myumi.ch/W6gND
11/11: Join us for a Creative Arts Meetup — an open, mixed-media session where artists, makers, and community members are welcome to show their work, create, collaborate, network, or simply hang out. We'll have art supplies on hand for open-lab projects. https://myumi.ch/e3dJw
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
11/11: Join us for a Creative Arts Meetup — an open, mixed-media session where artists, makers, and community members are welcome to show their work, create, collaborate, network, or simply hang out. We'll have art supplies on hand for open-lab projects. https://myumi.ch/e3dJw
Celebrate Native American heritage, history, art, languages, and traditions. We offer resources and collections, including movies. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth https://myumi.ch/4m5z3
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Celebrate Native American heritage, history, art, languages, and traditions. We offer resources and collections, including movies. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth https://myumi.ch/4m5z3
Register for a workshop on painting and drawing portraits on salvaged materials. No experience needed, and we'll provide the materials! Nov 11, 5-7pm, in the Shapiro Gallery. Cardboard Reliquary: A Portraiture Workshop with Narsiso Martinez: https://myumi.ch/4m5JP
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Register for a workshop on painting and drawing portraits on salvaged materials. No experience needed, and we'll provide the materials! Nov 11, 5-7pm, in the Shapiro Gallery. Cardboard Reliquary: A Portraiture Workshop with Narsiso Martinez: https://myumi.ch/4m5JP
Today 2-6pm: Play video games! Stop by the Shapiro Gallery (3rd floor) to play and learn from these Indigenous video games in recognition of Native American Heritage Month: "Never Alone," and "When Rivers Were Trails." https://myumi.ch/z92Rb
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Today 2-6pm: Play video games! Stop by the Shapiro Gallery (3rd floor) to play and learn from these Indigenous video games in recognition of Native American Heritage Month: "Never Alone," and "When Rivers Were Trails." https://myumi.ch/z92Rb
Justice InDeed published an interactive map so residents can search for Washtenaw County properties to see if they have racially restrictive covenants, plus a DIY toolkit to help homeowners & neighborhoods repeal racist restrictions from their properties: https://myumi.ch/z92R9
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Justice InDeed published an interactive map so residents can search for Washtenaw County properties to see if they have racially restrictive covenants, plus a DIY toolkit to help homeowners & neighborhoods repeal racist restrictions from their properties: https://myumi.ch/z92R9
Wed 11/5, 2-6pm: Play video games! Stop by the Shapiro Gallery (3rd floor) to play and learn from these Indigenous video games in recognition of Native American Heritage Month: "Never Alone," and "When Rivers Were Trails." https://myumi.ch/z92Rb
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Wed 11/5, 2-6pm: Play video games! Stop by the Shapiro Gallery (3rd floor) to play and learn from these Indigenous video games in recognition of Native American Heritage Month: "Never Alone," and "When Rivers Were Trails." https://myumi.ch/z92Rb
Did you know that Isle Royale is one of the least-visited national parks in the U.S.? This 1939 pictorial map depicts the rich history and wildlife of the island, capturing its remote wilderness long before it became a national park. #MapMonday https://myumi.ch/P3wdP
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Did you know that Isle Royale is one of the least-visited national parks in the U.S.? This 1939 pictorial map depicts the rich history and wildlife of the island, capturing its remote wilderness long before it became a national park. #MapMonday https://myumi.ch/P3wdP