Winter is fun in southeast Michigan! This 1968 map highlights six local ski resorts, complete with highway routes and resort details. A snapshot of when you didn’t need to go Up North to ski! #MapMonday Learn more: https://myumi.ch/Qw9wb

Many library locations are either closed or open with reduced hours Saturday, 12/20 through Wednesday, 12/24. All library locations are closed Thursday, 12/25 through Thursday, 1/1. Reopening dates vary. Get the details: https://myumi.ch/E8rr1

Party like it's still Jane Austen's 250th birthday! Explore her works preserved in HathiTrust and marvel at the volumes illustrated by C.E. Brock. "She felt the awkwardness of having no party to join." 😭 😭 😭 buff.ly/5XfxYBJ

We want to share our favorite things with you! Tomorrow is the Third Thursday of December, so we'll be waiting for you in the Hatcher Library, 4-6pm. Stop by to see curator favorites from our collections, have a chat (or not), and enjoy light refreshments. https://myumi.ch/egXd2

Students are getting creative with our 3D printer in the Shapiro Design Lab. Read about their projects in the Lab Notes blog: https://myumi.ch/6yG12

Happy 250th birthday, Jane Austen! Your six novels live on, and your avid followers learn something new each time they reread your timeless stories. Jane Austen online exhibit: https://myumi.ch/qZWXg

Have you recently worked on a research project that made significant use of U-M Library resources? Apply for an undergraduate research award and win cash! The details: https://myumi.ch/VGV5e

Trying to bake from a recipe written down in the 1700s is challenging. What IS that ingredient? How much do I use? What temperature? You might learn something from Librarians in the Kitchen: Baking 19th Century Cookies from Scratch: https://myumi.ch/n1wQg

Curator Juli McLoone chatted on NPR about "The cookies that fueled votes for women." Suffragists sold baked goods (such as kiss cakes) and cookbooks to raise funds. Read the story and listen to the short (4 min) interview: https://myumi.ch/E8nGx

This pocket guide to Paris and the Cities of Northern France was issued in 1944 to help American soldiers navigate history, culture, and geography abroad. It features maps of Paris alongside advice for exploring the city. #MapMonday https://myumi.ch/9pA1X

Students, it's the final push. We're keeping the Shapiro Library open until midnight today and tomorrow so you can study for those last finals of the semester. You can do it! #GoBlue

The Big Chill, Body Heat, The Accidental Tourist, Raiders of the Lost Art, Star Wars. Filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan's papers have come home to our Screen Arts Mavericks and Makers Collection. Read and watch an Associated Press interview with Kasdan: https://myumi.ch/jJWWb

History comes to life in the course Cult or Culture, part of LSA’s Program in the Environment. Students use historical cookbooks to address modern problems like food waste and rot, overpackaging, overconsumption, and household chemicals in watersheds. https://myumi.ch/g3AAQ

See a few of our favorite things! This month's special Third Thursday event (Dec 18) features items our curators like — a 1544 book illustrated with woodcuts, a (creepy) movie prop baby, the Atlanta hip-hop map shown here, and much more. https://myumi.ch/D8Qm6

Students, create a unique design that encapsulates your experience with U-M Library! Three selected designs will be available to print on pencil cases in the Shapiro Design Lab during a future event. Learn more, and submit by January 6: https://myumi.ch/bV37y

Do you recognize this location? This is a plan of Fort Detroit in 1760, where downtown Detroit now stands. It gives us an idea of what Detroit looked like as the region changed from French territory to British. Take a closer look: https://myumi.ch/Mk8z8 #MapMonday

Our winter sale has begun! Get 50% off all UMP titles with code HOLIDAY25, so start browsing here: buff.ly/6Q2tz4J

Students, head to the Shapiro Library this Friday, 12/5, for a Night Against Procrastination! We'll have light refreshments on the first floor, and additional study rooms open on floors 2-4. https://myumi.ch/R3XjX

TODAY in the Hatcher Gallery at 4: Celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday with tea, coffee, and conversation. Join us for Jane Austen Retellings: A Literary Salon. https://myumi.ch/rAPwn

To those who donated to help us fund student activities leading up to midterms and finals — thank you! We always say library friends are the best, and it’s so true. Your support is greatly appreciated. #GivingTuesday #GoBlue

It’s not too late! It’s still #GivingTuesday, with plenty of time to show your support for U-M students! Help us help them…with stress-busting activities to help survive midterms and finals. #GoBlue https://myumi.ch/8qnbj

It’s #GivingTuesday. Will you contribute funds to help us support students in the lead-up to midterms and final exams? We’re talking therapy dogs, snacks, sensory kits, and relaxation stations. Help fellow Wolverines survive and succeed! #GoBlue https://myumi.ch/8qnbj

Therapy dogs offer students comfort, connection and support in the lead-up to midterms and finals. On this #GivingTuesday, help us expand our student wellbeing events, making the library a welcoming gathering place for students. #GoBlue https://myumi.ch/8qnbj

TODAY, #GivingTuesday, 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. #GoBlue https://myumi.ch/8qnbj

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was an honor to host Dr. Egbunike at the @umichlibrary.bsky.social this past #OAWeek. His presentation was so enlightening. If you missed it, the recording is now available!

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

Miss Parloa was a household name in late 19th century America. Juli McLoone, curator of the library's Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive, tried an October-appropriate recipe from Miss Parloa's 1897 cookbook: fried apples. Read the blog post: https://myumi.ch/NrQJj

Congratulations to Education Librarian Karen E. Downing, recipient of the faculty senate University Librarian Achievement Award for 2025. So well deserved! https://myumi.ch/15PQM

Friday: Watch frightening foreign-language movies in the Hatcher Gallery on Halloween! Free. With subtitles. Viewer discretion is advised. myumi.ch/z9gQr 10:00 a.m. — Tetsuo the Iron Man — Japan 11:25 a.m. — Bacurau — Brazil 1:45 p.m. — Possession — UK & Germany

On this day in 1938, "The War of the Worlds" broadcast by Orson Welles supposedly caused panic across the country — it was a drama about a Martian invasion, presented as breaking news. Explore 1300+ fan letters to find out what the audience really thought: https://myumi.ch/79mVG