Lisa Carter
@lisarcarter.bsky.social
flickerfuzion elsewhere; Dean of Libraries, University of Michigan
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...
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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
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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
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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...
Reposted by Lisa Carter
We don't have every single gaming system and game ever made, but we sure do try! Make a reservation to play games at our Computer and Video Game Archive (CVGA). Open Monday-Friday, 4th floor Shapiro Library. #NationalVideoGamesDay myumi.ch/pVx6e
Computer and Video Game Archive
The Computer and Video Game Archive (CVGA) acquires, maintains, and makes available an extensive collection of video games, consoles, board games, and more, from the 1970s to today.
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September 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
We don't have every single gaming system and game ever made, but we sure do try! Make a reservation to play games at our Computer and Video Game Archive (CVGA). Open Monday-Friday, 4th floor Shapiro Library. #NationalVideoGamesDay myumi.ch/pVx6e