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“Ed Fabre, a leader in the Black Action Movement (BAM) on the University of Michigan campus, talks with a striker outside Rackham Auditorium where black students demand a 10-per cent black enrollment by 1973”
#Labadie Photograph Collection LPF.2036 (27 March 1970)
quod.lib.umich.edu/s/scl/x-lpf....
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In partnership with the Heritage Council, the #ChesterBeatty is pleased to offer a 12-month internship in book and paper conservation: ow.ly/LJNb50XlIKo #ConservationInternship #BookandPaperConservation #DublinJobs
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see fascinating items from library collections. "Suave Mechanicals: A Celebration of Nine Volumes on the Art and History of Bookbinding" features rare books representing topics from the Suave Mechanicals series. #SpecialCollections https://myumi.ch/3REQz
September 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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In 19th-century Damascus, the library of Khālid al-Naqshabandī is a centre for scholarly exchange. Preserving it requires legal ingenuity from his heirs, until it is finally scattered worldwide. In our PhD research series, Joud Nassan Agha tells its story:
uhh.de/csmc-agha
August 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Once a hub of Ottoman culture, Süleyman Efendi’s library was scattered by conquest. In our PhD Research Series, Rawda El-Hajji traces these manuscripts, showing how they help reconstruct lost intellectual communities and reveal the fate of cultural heritage in times of conflict:
uhh.de/csmc-el-hajji
August 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Evyn Kropf, curator of our Islamic Manuscripts Collection, lent her expertise to describe three manuscripts from the Sutro Collection at the California State Library. Read about them in this @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social blog post: myumi.ch/Z26kP
Three Islamic Manuscripts at the California State Library - Digital Scriptorium
Posted March 27, 2025 by Rose A. McCandless, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow In my descriptive work as the DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow, I often come across manuscripts in n...
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March 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“Ed Fabre, a leader in the Black Action Movement (BAM) on the University of Michigan campus, talks with a striker outside Rackham Auditorium where black students demand a 10-per cent black enrollment by 1973”
#Labadie Photograph Collection LPF.2036 (27 March 1970)
quod.lib.umich.edu/s/scl/x-lpf....
March 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Drawing on the expertise of Dr. Evyn Kropf from our DS Advisory Council, our Graduate Fellow @rosemccandless.bsky.social blogs about new descriptions of three Islamic manuscripts owned by the California State Library soon making their way into the DS Catalog. digital-scriptorium.org/20250327-csl...
March 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM