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Beyond the Reading Room

Anecdotes and other notes from the U-M Special Collections Research Center.
Detailed illustration from Audubon's Birds of North America of a nest in a tree with birds sitting around it.

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An arm labeled "Fig 4" with letter annotations.
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  • Pablo Alvarez
Special Collections After Hours | Treasures from our History of Medicine Collections
Join the Special Collections Research Center in Hatcher next Tuesday (13 December) at 4 pm for our final After Hours open house of the term exploring a selection of artifacts illustrating the early history of western medicine.
Postcard depicting a group of men in front of a two-store building in Salonica (Thessaloniki), circa 1917
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
Varsano and Mosse restaurant in Salonica, photographed by Henry Manuel in 1917
Newly cataloged for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: a postcard depicting a group of men in front of a narrow two-store building in Salonica (Thessaloniki), circa 1917. On the ground floor of the building was the Electrically Powered Bakery while the first floor housed the kosher restaurant of Varsano and Mosse.
complex collage of images taken from books, posters, and photographs featuring figures, writing in various scripts, water and air scenes and abstract forms
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  • Martha O'Hara Conway
Applications Open: Special Collections Research Fellowships
The current application cycle is now open for fellowships available to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to our special collections!
two women standing at a bench face each other in conversation as one works on a book
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  • Marieka Kaye
This Friday: Ask a Conservator Day!
Do you have questions about how our conservators care for our collection materials? 4th November is #AskAConservator Day! Conservators Marieka Kaye and Amy Crist will be responding to your questions over on Twitter.
image of man-presenting person with pregnant belly
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  • Julie Herrada
Special Collections After Hours | Women's Reproductive Rights
Join the Special Collections Research Center in Hatcher next Tuesday (8 November) at 4 pm for our third After Hours open house of the term exploring Labadie Collection materials on women's reproductive rights.
The engraving on the gem shows a man in a loincloth bent over, cutting stalks of wheat with a hooked tool
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  • Shannon Zachary
Courtesy University of Michigan Library Special Collections Research Center
Have you been traveling? Visiting exhibits at museums and libraries? Check out materials from our collections currently out on loan for exhibition!
open book with arabic script in gold and colors
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  • Evyn Kropf
Special Collections After Hours | Reading Blessings on the Prophet
Join the Special Collections Research Center in Hatcher next Tuesday (11 October) at 4 pm for our second After Hours open house of the term exploring the Arabic devotional compendium Dalāʼil al-khayrāt!
Lower half of a one-page manuscript falsely attributed to Galileo Galilei. Allegedly, the document includes a draft letter to the Doge of Venice (1609) and Galileo's telescopic observations of the moons of Jupiter from January 7 to January 15,1610.
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  • Pablo Alvarez
Discovering a Forgery: Jupiter's Real Moons and U-M's Fake Galileo Manuscript
We are pleased to invite you to a panel regarding the discovery of the forgery of our Galileo manuscript: October 6, @7:00 pm. Hosted by the U-M Detroit Observatory in Ann Arbor, Nick Wilding (Georgia State University) and Pablo Alvarez (University of Michigan Library) will be discussing various aspects surrounding this extraordinary document, including its alleged historical significance, the fascinating process establishing it as a 20th-century fake, and the lessons that we can all learn from the unmasking of this forgery.
brown lunch box shaped and designed like a loaf of bread standing beside square cookbook with cartoon on cover and paper lunch sack
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  • Juli McLoone
Special Collections After Hours | A Perfect Pairing
Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (13 September) at 4 pm (Eastern) for our first After Hours virtual open house of the term with the curators of A Perfect Pairing!
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  • Evyn Kropf
Special Collections After Hours: Fall 2022
We are excited to continue our After Hours open houses this semester, online and in person! Join us on the second Tuesday of each month at 4 pm for an encounter with our collections.