U-M Library

  1. September 4, 2024

    Library exhibition explores mixed-race lived experiences

    A new U-M Library exhibition “Being Mixed Race in a Mono-racially Organized World” is open at the Clark Library through December 2024.

  2. June 10, 2024

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  3. May 23, 2024

    Library offers free borrowing privileges for Native people

    The U-M Library is extending free borrowing privileges to Native and Indigenous people not already affiliated with the university, allowing them to check out items from the library’s circulating collection.

  4. May 6, 2024

    It Happened at Michigan — The university’s first gift, in 13 volumes

    The first recorded gift from an individual to the university came from a well-to-do fur trader who never set foot in Ann Arbor.

  5. May 3, 2024

    UM-Flint archive helps digitize historical Black newspapers

    A collaboration involving UM-Flint’s Frances Willson Thompson Library and the Digital Collections Service at the U-M Library is digitizing Flint’s Black historical newspapers.

  6. March 4, 2024

    Librarian sees beauty in tools of the trade

    Paul Schaffner manages the creation of electronic texts as well as the revision and upkeep of the university’s 90-year-old Middle English Dictionary.

  7. November 13, 2023

    Library launches campuswide survey to inform future direction

    The U-M Library has launched a campuswide survey to gather information about the university community’s experiences and needs regarding its collections, services and spaces.

  8. October 2, 2023

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  9. September 28, 2023

    U-M Library offering free copies of banned books Oct. 3-5

    The U-M Library is offering 16 titles — almost 2,000 free books — that have been recently challenged or banned and that span themes, topics and depictions that are most often challenged.

  10. August 14, 2023

    Six to receive Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Awards

    Six faculty members will receive 2023 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Awards for their exceptional contributions to the development of a culturally and ethnically diverse U-M community.