University Library Blogs

Duchess of Death : the unathorized biography of Agatha Christie / Richard Hack.

Lime tree can’t bear orange : a novel / Amanda Smyth.

Packing the court : the rise of judicial power and the coming crisis of the Supreme Court / James MacGregor Burns.

Mark Bittman’s Kitchen Express : 404 inspired seasonal dishes you can make in 20 minutes of less / Mark Bittman.

Black Hills / Nora Roberts.

The road to Woodstock / Michael Lang with Holly George-Warren.

The fence : a police cover-up along Boston’s racial divide / Dick Lehr.

McNaughton Audio Books

The girl with the dragon tattoo [sound recording] / Stieg Larsson.

The fixer upper [sound recording] / Mary Kay Andrews.

Due to recent cuts in the library budget, it was necessary to reduce the size of our browsing collection. In order to continue to make leisure reading easy for all of our patrons, we have started a brand new Book Swap program!

The new Book Swap bookshelf is located near the circulation desk in Library North, where patrons can now exchange donated books. Checkout is not required for books on the book swap shelf and these books do not have to be returned. Book donations are encouraged.

Are you a Eudora Welty fan?  If not, you could be!  The 100th anniversary of her birthday is Monday, April 13, 2009.  To help celebrate, the University Library’s Special Collections & Archives has an exhibit of rare books, manuscripts, artifacts, and audio recordings for your viewing and listening pleasure.

“Winning Hearts”:  A Eudora Welty Centennial Exhibition
University Library Special Collections Department
Library South 8th floor
April 8-16
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday-Friday

Featuring rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts from the Rare Book Collection

According to a University of Michigan press release, the university library is the first academic library to install the Espresso Book Machine. The machine “produces perfect-bound, high-quality paperback books on demand” and has been called “the ATM of books.”

Read the full press release.

(originally posted by Bernie Sloan to the COLLIB Listserv)

General collection books in PZ1, PZ3 and PZ4 (subclasses used by the Library of Congress prior to 1980) are being reclassified to the appropriate subclasses of literature. This will bring works together in PQ, PR, PS, etc. that were previously shelved in different places. For example, Roald Dahl’s Kiss, Kiss has gone from PZ3.D1374Ki to PR6054.A35 K57 1960 along with the rest of the books we have by that author. The project to re-mark and re-shelve the PZs has already started and will take most of the summer.