Image Caption Article at Folha de São Paulo praising the release of O Herói Devolvido (2000), Mirisola’s second book of short stories   It is with pride and excitement that we announce the acquisition of the Marcelo Mirisola Papers – an archival collection that comprises 5 boxes of materials produced in the Portuguese language by renowned Contemporary Brazilian author Marcelo Mirisola during the first 15 years of his writing career (1989–2004 ..read more

Image Caption First part of a calligraphy license or diploma (icazetname) in naskh (nesih) script, mounted in fol.17b in Isl. Ms. 438, Islamic Manuscripts Collection  This post is by Sumeyra Dursun, 2023 Heid Fellow, from her research in the Islamic Manuscripts Collection. Sumeyra is a doctoral candidate in the history of Islamic arts at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul ..read more

Image Caption Cover of The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King. The Beekeeper's Apprentice is an outstanding mystery novel set in 1915-1919, featuring Sherlock Holmes and his new partner in crime-solving, the brilliant teenager Mary Russell. In this first novel in a long-running series, they are faced with a criminal mastermind who is targeting Holmes and everyone associated with him. This year marks the 30th anniversary of this novel, which is one of my favorite books of all time ..read more

Spotlight on food history features prepared by students enrolled in Much Depends on Dinner in Winter 2024. Students worked in groups to research and write captions for food history materials in the Special Collections Research Center's Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive and in the collections of the William L. Clements Library ..read more

Image Caption Miles Hionis, Maddie Vassalo, and Rory Hunt  Iphis and Ianthe is a short film that places the Greek myth of the same name in a more contemporary framework. The original myth of Iphis and Ianthe tells the story of an impoverished couple in ancient Crete who is forced to give up their daughter due to their inability to afford her future dowry price. However, on the evening before the delivery of her daughter, Telethusa prays to the goddess Isis for a solution. Isis gives her word that she will have a daughter but the next day, Telethusa gives birth to a daughter. She h ..read more

Image Caption Team PACT stands for “Preventive and Accessible Cervical Cancer Testing” and is an M-HEAL project team.  Team PACT stands for “Preventive and Accessible Cervical Cancer Testing” and is an M-HEAL project team. We formed in the Fall of 2021. Team PACT is partnered with Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana to develop a method for cervical cancer screening that is effective, non-invasive, and cost-efficient. Our device accomplishes this by collecting urine to be screened for high-risk HPV strains. Our mission is to design a cervical cancer screening urine collection device ..read more

Happy Birthday Stefan is an Pinteresque comedy short film following Stefan, an early 20s pre-med student. After a long day, Stefan comes home to find his family and friends have thrown a surprise party for him. The only problem is it’s not his birthday, and he’s never met any of these people in his life. This work, while standing alone as solely a chaotically psychedelic milieu, further serves as a repurposed trenchant political allegory on the current crisis of democratic backsliding and populist rhetoric in the United States. Happy Birthday Stefan allows viewers to contemplate the danger of ..read more

Spotlight on food history posters prepared by students enrolled in the Food Literacy for All (Winter 2024), a community-academic partnership course hosted by the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Systems Initiative ..read more

Image Caption Still shots from the movies "Stop Making Sense," "The Brother from Another Planet," and "Choose Me." Join us next Thursday, 18 April between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event ..read more

Asia Library Technical Services colleagues share their reflections on CEAL 2024 annual conference ..read more