Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · 1d

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

blogs.lib.umich.edu

1

Reposted by Lisa Carter

U-M Library @umichlibrary.bsky.social · 9d

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

Test your library and media knowledge with our trivia game. Participants could win U-M Library swag. Plan until October 26.

1 1

Reposted by Lisa Carter

U-M Library @umichlibrary.bsky.social · 5d

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

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.

2 2

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · 8d

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

www.lib.umich.edu

1

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · 13d

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.

guides.lib.umich.edu

1

Reposted by Lisa Carter

U-M Library @umichlibrary.bsky.social · 15d

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

1

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · 24d

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

www.lib.umich.edu

1 1 3

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · 24d

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

www.lib.umich.edu

2

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · 26d

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

www.lib.umich.edu

2

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · 26d

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.

www.lib.umich.edu

Reposted by Lisa Carter

U-M Library @umichlibrary.bsky.social · 28d

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.

myumi.ch

1 1

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · 29d

Michigan readers love @uofmpress.bsky.social books! The "Read Michigan" Program impacts every county in the state. Launched in collaboration with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social, "Read Michigan" features works of 3 MI university presses, incl. MSU and Wayne State's. ebc.press.umich.edu/stories/2025...

Michigan Press, Michigan Impact. Where are the State's most serious bookworms? A new map answers the question

University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection

ebc.press.umich.edu

3 4

Reposted by Lisa Carter

Michigan Publishing @michiganpublishing.bsky.social · Sep 4

Check out this impact story and webinar recording about @uofmpress.bsky.social digitally converting its entire backlist of ~3500 monographs! Learn more about how UMP made their older scholarly works digitally available, high-quality, accessible ebooks on Fulcrum:

Back(list) to the Future: Making Older University Press Monographs Digitally Available

University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection

ebc.press.umich.edu

2 3

Reposted by Lisa Carter

U-M Library @umichlibrary.bsky.social · Sep 5

Take your student project to the next level by partnering with the library! Apply for a Student Mini Grant (up to $1,000) to support your innovative & collaborative project that will make a real-life impact. We'll help every step of the way. Apply by 9/30: myumi.ch/dkPp6

Student Mini Grants are open to all U-M students (undergraduate and graduate and registered student orgs, up to $1,000, application deadline September 30.

1

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · Sep 7

Explore the art of judging books by their covers! Come check out this @umichlibrary.bsky.social exhibit which highlights binding topics featured in "Suave Mechanicals," the nine-volume series dedicated to the study of the art and history of bookbinding. www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Suave Mechanicals: A Celebration of Nine Volumes on the Art and History of Bookbinding (2013–2025)

www.lib.umich.edu

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · Sep 6

Maps, maps, maps! If you are in Ann Arbor this fall, stop by and check out this @umichlibrary.bsky.social exhibit which presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the @umich.edu campus throughout its evolution! #annarbor www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

The Evolution of Campus, 1838-1963: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's History

www.lib.umich.edu

1

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · Sep 5

All artists, makers, and community members are welcome join U-M Library for this Creative Arts Meetup next Thursday, September 11, 2025 from 6 - 8 PM. Bring your work, network, collaborate or simply hang out and enjoy food and refreshments. @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Creative Arts Meetup (CAM)

www.lib.umich.edu

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · Aug 7

There's still time to experience the rainbow (now through Sept 4)! @umichlibrary.bsky.social Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room. Coffee with the Curator on Wednesday, September 3 at 10am! www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color

www.lib.umich.edu

1

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · Aug 5

Human rights are top of mind these days. If you have the chance, come by and see these fifteen linocuts, each representing an article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Linocuts by Meredith Stern @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Linocuts by Meredith Stern

www.lib.umich.edu

3

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · Aug 3

Being Human in the Academy: Celebrating 10 Years of Experiments in Collaborative Humanities @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Being Human in the Academy: Celebrating 10 Years of Experiments in Collaborative Humanities

www.lib.umich.edu

1

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · Aug 1

16th - 18th century maps by some of Europe’s most influential cartographers on display through August 25 in the Clark Maps Library! Highlights from the Dr. Stevo Julius Collection @umichlibrary.bsky.social www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

Highlights from the Dr. Stevo Julius Collection

www.lib.umich.edu

1

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · Jul 30

Up for a suggestion for summer reading (or viewing)? This @uofmpress.bsky.social memoir by William Walter Scott, III. has been reissued as an open access ebook (www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...) and you can watch a panel discussion about the book (lib.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/t/1_d0...)

Hurt, Baby, Hurt

The 1967 Detroit Rebellion was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "Long hot summer of 1967." <I>Hurt, Baby, Hurt </I>takes a personal look at the Rebellion from the persp...

www.fulcrum.org

2 3

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · Jul 28

Over the last 50 years, Chicana transformed the way we analyze and write history as well as who is included in U.S. history. @umichlibrary.bsky.social hosts a digital collection of oral histories you can view in The First 100: Chicanas Changing History archival project. quod.lib.umich.edu/f/first100

Index | The First 100: Chicanas Changing History | University of Michigan Library Digital Collections

quod.lib.umich.edu

2 4

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · Jul 22

If you missed the @umisr.bsky.social panel on Disappearing Federal Data: Implications and Preservation Efforts, back in April (featuring @umichlibrary.bsky.social librarians) you can catch it on youtube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugCi...

Disappearing Federal Data: Implications and Preservation Efforts

YouTube video by UMISR

www.youtube.com

1

Lisa Carter @lisarcarter.bsky.social · Jul 20

Go, Betty! A story of family legacy and giving back to a university that shaped a life. I'm so glad to see Betty at such a wide variety of campus events. blogs.lib.umich.edu/journeys-gen...

Go, Betty!

blogs.lib.umich.edu