Lisa Carter
@lisarcarter.bsky.social
flickerfuzion elsewhere; Dean of Libraries, University of Michigan
Explore the literary achievements of Nobel Prize in Literature laureates from East Asia who have shaped global literature with @umichlibrary.bsky.social during this Third Thursday! Pen, Ink, and Prestige: Nobel Laureates in Literature from East Asia www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Pen, Ink, and Prestige: Nobel Laureates in Literature from East Asia
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November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Explore the literary achievements of Nobel Prize in Literature laureates from East Asia who have shaped global literature with @umichlibrary.bsky.social during this Third Thursday! Pen, Ink, and Prestige: Nobel Laureates in Literature from East Asia www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Join us this Third Thursday for a look at @umichlibrary.bsky.social International Studies collections exploring grassroots movements, their impacts, and the echoes of their resistance! Waves of Resistance, Tides of Change www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Waves of Resistance, Tides of Change
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November 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Join us this Third Thursday for a look at @umichlibrary.bsky.social International Studies collections exploring grassroots movements, their impacts, and the echoes of their resistance! Waves of Resistance, Tides of Change www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Post Rock, not a new genre of music, but instead, a patented technology for creating a cladding material from waste plastics. Come learn more at the next @umichlibrary.bsky.social Material Conversations event! www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Post Rock: Incorporating Plastic Waste into Building Products
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November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Post Rock, not a new genre of music, but instead, a patented technology for creating a cladding material from waste plastics. Come learn more at the next @umichlibrary.bsky.social Material Conversations event! www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Creative Arts Meetup (CAM) @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Creative Arts Meetup (CAM)
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November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Creative Arts Meetup (CAM) @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Join @umichlibrary.bsky.social for this workshop on painting and drawing portraits on salvaged materials. Tomorrow Tuesday, November 11, 2025 from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM at Shapiro Library. Cardboard Reliquary: A Portraiture Workshop with Narsiso Martinez www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Cardboard Reliquary: A Portraiture Workshop with Narsiso Martinez
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November 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Join @umichlibrary.bsky.social for this workshop on painting and drawing portraits on salvaged materials. Tomorrow Tuesday, November 11, 2025 from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM at Shapiro Library. Cardboard Reliquary: A Portraiture Workshop with Narsiso Martinez www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
For Lester Bartson (LSA '65), UM "libraries weren’t just buildings, but integral partners in the process of self-realization." @umichlibrary.bsky.social "and classrooms together foster not just knowledge, but deep, lifelong inspiration."
Read more at: blogs.lib.umich.edu/journeys-gen...
Read more at: blogs.lib.umich.edu/journeys-gen...
Classics, Curley, and Carrels
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November 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
For Lester Bartson (LSA '65), UM "libraries weren’t just buildings, but integral partners in the process of self-realization." @umichlibrary.bsky.social "and classrooms together foster not just knowledge, but deep, lifelong inspiration."
Read more at: blogs.lib.umich.edu/journeys-gen...
Read more at: blogs.lib.umich.edu/journeys-gen...
Reposted by Lisa Carter
Thanks to the University of Michigan Library for contributing this ghoulish 1963 #Halloween title with truly spooky, awesome illustrations by Gil Miret. #trusty #digitallibraries buff.ly/OLZA3SY
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Thanks to the University of Michigan Library for contributing this ghoulish 1963 #Halloween title with truly spooky, awesome illustrations by Gil Miret. #trusty #digitallibraries buff.ly/OLZA3SY
Celebrate Indigenous Video Games @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Celebrate Indigenous Video Games
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October 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Celebrate Indigenous Video Games @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Reposted by Lisa Carter
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
October 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
Tomorrow is our annual Halloween spooktacular, where we screen frightening foreign-language movies from around the world. Join us if you can (or dare). @umichlibrary.bsky.social sky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
International Studies Horror Filmfest
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October 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Tomorrow is our annual Halloween spooktacular, where we screen frightening foreign-language movies from around the world. Join us if you can (or dare). @umichlibrary.bsky.social sky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
I heard that this was a good year for apples. Wondering what to do with them? If you have the chance to stop by Shapiro @umichlibrary.bsky.social, you can print your own recipe cards from some books from our culinary history collection this afternoon!
Today,10/28: Use a proof press to print your own recipe cards: Apple Fritters from The American Cottage Cookery-Book (1856), Fried Apples from Miss Parloa's Young Housekeeper (1897), or both! In the Shapiro Gallery, 4-5pm. https://myumi.ch/A1G5A
October 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I heard that this was a good year for apples. Wondering what to do with them? If you have the chance to stop by Shapiro @umichlibrary.bsky.social, you can print your own recipe cards from some books from our culinary history collection this afternoon!
Reposted by Lisa Carter
Today,10/28: Use a proof press to print your own recipe cards: Apple Fritters from The American Cottage Cookery-Book (1856), Fried Apples from Miss Parloa's Young Housekeeper (1897), or both! In the Shapiro Gallery, 4-5pm. https://myumi.ch/A1G5A
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today,10/28: Use a proof press to print your own recipe cards: Apple Fritters from The American Cottage Cookery-Book (1856), Fried Apples from Miss Parloa's Young Housekeeper (1897), or both! In the Shapiro Gallery, 4-5pm. https://myumi.ch/A1G5A
Reposted by Lisa Carter
10/27 online: Get in the mood for Halloween with a vampire film! Watch & discuss "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979). The film is a contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the cross of not being able to get old and die. Info & registration: https://myumi.ch/D8Zjx
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
10/27 online: Get in the mood for Halloween with a vampire film! Watch & discuss "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979). The film is a contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the cross of not being able to get old and die. Info & registration: https://myumi.ch/D8Zjx
Shapiro Creepy Crafts Party @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Shapiro Creepy Crafts Party
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October 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Shapiro Creepy Crafts Party @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
The story of one family of scholar-printers and how their work reflected and responded to the changes brought by printing technologies in the 16th century on exhibit at @umichlibrary.bsky.social. Five generations of Estienne printing in Michigan Collections (1512-1625) events.umich.edu/event/139020
Brothers and Uncles, Kings and Typecutters | Happening @ Michigan
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October 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The story of one family of scholar-printers and how their work reflected and responded to the changes brought by printing technologies in the 16th century on exhibit at @umichlibrary.bsky.social. Five generations of Estienne printing in Michigan Collections (1512-1625) events.umich.edu/event/139020
Always innovating @umichlibrary.bsky.social to improve the student experience! Learning from others and iteratively designing with users in mind. Read more: Helping Students Find a Study Space through Iterative Research and Design blogs.lib.umich.edu/tiny-studies...
Helping Students Find a Study Space through Iterative Research and Design
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October 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Always innovating @umichlibrary.bsky.social to improve the student experience! Learning from others and iteratively designing with users in mind. Read more: Helping Students Find a Study Space through Iterative Research and Design blogs.lib.umich.edu/tiny-studies...
Reposted by Lisa Carter
You could win library swag! Our #LibraryStudentAmbassadors are hosting a trivia game that tests your library and media knowledge. Will you crush it? https://myumi.ch/jJQWZ
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
You could win library swag! Our #LibraryStudentAmbassadors are hosting a trivia game that tests your library and media knowledge. Will you crush it? https://myumi.ch/jJQWZ
Reposted by Lisa Carter
For #BannedBooksWeek, October 5-11, join us in reading and advocating for the freedom to read diverse literature. We'll even share a few book titles to get you started: https://myumi.ch/9pQyg
October 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For #BannedBooksWeek, October 5-11, join us in reading and advocating for the freedom to read diverse literature. We'll even share a few book titles to get you started: https://myumi.ch/9pQyg
Thrilled that @umichlibrary.bsky.social is partnering with the Talking Maize and Blue initiative on U-M Open Inquiry Week (next week, which is also #BannedBooksWeek)! We are hosting Reading Beyond the Headlines: Mindsets for Open Inquiry www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Reading Beyond the Headlines: Mindsets for Open Inquiry
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October 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Thrilled that @umichlibrary.bsky.social is partnering with the Talking Maize and Blue initiative on U-M Open Inquiry Week (next week, which is also #BannedBooksWeek)! We are hosting Reading Beyond the Headlines: Mindsets for Open Inquiry www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Just in time for Climate Week at @umich.edu @umichlibrary.bsky.social librarian Jacob Glenn has published a new Green Research Computing research guide. guides.lib.umich.edu/green-resear... #umcw25
Research Guides: Green Research Computing: Getting Started
Tips, tools, and techniques for evaluating and minimizing the environmental impacts of computational research.
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September 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Just in time for Climate Week at @umich.edu @umichlibrary.bsky.social librarian Jacob Glenn has published a new Green Research Computing research guide. guides.lib.umich.edu/green-resear... #umcw25
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Mon, 9-29: U-M alum Phimmasone Kym Owens, director of the Refugee Garden Initiative, speaks on her experience as a refugee and as creator of an interconnected space active in sustaining community, culture, & relationships with the Earth through gardening. https://myumi.ch/4mz5E
September 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Mon, 9-29: U-M alum Phimmasone Kym Owens, director of the Refugee Garden Initiative, speaks on her experience as a refugee and as creator of an interconnected space active in sustaining community, culture, & relationships with the Earth through gardening. https://myumi.ch/4mz5E
It's almost Third Thursday @umichlibrary.bsky.social! Stop by our Asia Library tomorrow 4-6 pm to explore storytelling and art styles of Chinese manhua, Japanese manga, and Korean manhwa. www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Panels Across East Asia: The Art of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Comics
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September 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It's almost Third Thursday @umichlibrary.bsky.social! Stop by our Asia Library tomorrow 4-6 pm to explore storytelling and art styles of Chinese manhua, Japanese manga, and Korean manhwa. www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Maps @umichlibrary.bsky.social will have on display include German intelligence maps and photographs, and top secret Allied plans for D-Day. This Third Thursday! Eighty Years Since the End of World War II @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Eighty Years Since the End of World War II
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September 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Maps @umichlibrary.bsky.social will have on display include German intelligence maps and photographs, and top secret Allied plans for D-Day. This Third Thursday! Eighty Years Since the End of World War II @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Come explore some lesser known but vibrant corners of our @umichlibrary.bsky.social collections, as we highlight languages with smaller speaking communities such as Ladino, Kurdish, and Sorbian, this Thursday, as part of our Third Thursday program. www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Languages on the Margins: Less Commonly Taught and Vulnerable Languages in U-M Library Collections
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September 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Come explore some lesser known but vibrant corners of our @umichlibrary.bsky.social collections, as we highlight languages with smaller speaking communities such as Ladino, Kurdish, and Sorbian, this Thursday, as part of our Third Thursday program. www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Third Thursdays at @umichlibrary.bsky.social start up again this week featuring pochoirs (stencils), top secret plans for D-Day (WWII), less commonly taught languages, and East Asian comics. See what's on deck for this coming Thursday: www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
Today and Upcoming Events and Exhibits
See our upcoming events. All are free and open to public.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Third Thursdays at @umichlibrary.bsky.social start up again this week featuring pochoirs (stencils), top secret plans for D-Day (WWII), less commonly taught languages, and East Asian comics. See what's on deck for this coming Thursday: www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...