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Not all maps are made for adults! This 1998 map reimagined Chicago for children. Chicago and beyond are illustrated with...
06/01/2026

Not all maps are made for adults! This 1998 map reimagined Chicago for children. Chicago and beyond are illustrated with points of interest, a Loop inset, and an index to everything worth seeing when you're small & the Windy City feels enormous. https://myumi.ch/rw7Dn

This declassified D-Day map (1 of 2) was used by the American military to plan the Omaha Beach landings (Normandy, Franc...
05/25/2026

This declassified D-Day map (1 of 2) was used by the American military to plan the Omaha Beach landings (Normandy, France on June 6, 1944). These remarkable maps include red print detailing intelligence readings. https://myumi.ch/NrAVG

Most library locations are closed Saturday, 5/23 through Monday, 5/26 for the Memorial Day holiday. Shapiro Library is o...
05/22/2026

Most library locations are closed Saturday, 5/23 through Monday, 5/26 for the Memorial Day holiday. Shapiro Library is open regular hours Saturday and limited hours Sunday. See hours for details: https://myumi.ch/D8g88

Joe Veazey, the artist behind the famous Atlanta Rap Map, spent two years eating at 150+ barbecue joints to make this ma...
05/18/2026

Joe Veazey, the artist behind the famous Atlanta Rap Map, spent two years eating at 150+ barbecue joints to make this map. It charts 180+ restaurants, 25 barbecue legends, and the full regional history of American barbecue, all painted by hand. https://myumi.ch/kVwjV

In the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room: The People’s Bicentennial. Original artifacts document the work of the Peoples Bice...
05/15/2026

In the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room: The People’s Bicentennial. Original artifacts document the work of the Peoples Bicentennial Commission (PBC), which challenged the official, corporate-sponsored commemoration of the 1976 bicentennial. https://myumi.ch/nVk1V

Happening NOW in the Clark Library: the opening of "Muted Volumes: Book-objects, patterned papers, and the closed stacks...
05/14/2026

Happening NOW in the Clark Library: the opening of "Muted Volumes: Book-objects, patterned papers, and the closed stacks of Buhr," an exhibit of handbound unopenable book-objects as symbolic stand-ins for books languishing in offsite storage. https://myumi.ch/Mpbk6

Zooniverse volunteers helped us transcribe and digitize our collection of letters that were sent to Orson Welles’s Mercu...
05/14/2026

Zooniverse volunteers helped us transcribe and digitize our collection of letters that were sent to Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre in the aftermath of his War of the Worlds broadcast. Watch "My Dear Mr. Welles: War of the Worlds Fan and Hate Mail": https://myumi.ch/bDZVy

100 years ago on May 12, 1926, the first undisputed sighting of the North Pole took place by airplane! Advances in arcti...
05/11/2026

100 years ago on May 12, 1926, the first undisputed sighting of the North Pole took place by airplane! Advances in arctic exploration led to the creation of many maps of the top of our globe in the 1920s, including this one from 1929. https://myumi.ch/G2w8E

Ella Hall was a Black landlord and cook in Ann Arbor. Her manuscript cookbook (1920-1940ish) resides in our Janice Blues...
05/07/2026

Ella Hall was a Black landlord and cook in Ann Arbor. Her manuscript cookbook (1920-1940ish) resides in our Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive, and a facsimile will be released by U-M Press in June. Read about Hall, her cookbook, and her cornbread! https://myumi.ch/qw87D

Fri 5/8, Clark Library, 2pm: Giovanni Scorcioni, owner of Facsimile Finder, a provider and maker of high quality facsimi...
05/05/2026

Fri 5/8, Clark Library, 2pm: Giovanni Scorcioni, owner of Facsimile Finder, a provider and maker of high quality facsimiles based in San Marino, gives a presentation on how ornate facsimiles (of manuscript copies from ca. 700-1600 CE) are made. https://myumi.ch/VD5Wg

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