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The original drawings created for the book, “Five Bay Landscapes: Curious Explorations of the Great Lakes Basin” by Karen Lutsky and Sean Burkholder, are on exhibit through May 31, 2023 at the U of M Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library. A reception and book launch event takes place March 29, 5-7 p.m.

During his formative years, Matthew Holm's family lived outside town on a horse ranch, and he would ride in the car to and from Cannon Falls with his mother. In the hours between school getting out and them heading home, he’d walk to the local public library. There he got to know the librarians by name and he read, well, “everything I could” — from the graphic novels about Tintin, nonfiction accounts, and books about ghosts to compilations of the earliest photographs. Now, he's a board member with the Friends of the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Join the University Libraries and the Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship for the 11th annual Founders Day celebration of student entrepreneurship across the University. Learn about innovative projects to develop new products, test new business concepts, and launch and operate real businesses. Hear from the 2023 University of Minnesota Entrepreneur of the Year.

Thanks to the funding received from the Legacy Grant the Wangensteen Library is going to be able to take 4,000 medical instruments from its collection of artifacts and enrich their catalog records through the creation of new, more improved metadata, thereby furthering the opportunities for research and study.

This post is one in a series about the Libraries open access (OA) principles, as outlined in Towards Open Access at the University of...

This panel discussion delves into Beyond Boundaries, an art installation on display in the first floor of Wilson Library. Beyond Boundaries is co-created by students in Diane Willow’s course Art + Change: The Transformational Power of Art. Join the University Libraries and the Department of Art for this event on Thursday, March 30, noon-1:30 p.m. at Wilson Library.

‘The Searcher’ — A New York Times bestselling thriller — is reviewed on Read This Book by University of Minnesota Dean of Libraries Lisa German and host Lisa Von Drasek.

  By Peter Nomeland Carolyn Bishoff, who has been with the Toaster since the very beginning, is transitioning to a role as a Liaison Librarian within...

Join the University Libraries and the College of Design as we celebrate the recently released book, “Five Bay Landscapes: Curious Explorations of the Great Lakes Basin,” with the authors and landscape architecture professors Karen Lutsky (U of M) and Sean Burkholder (UPenn). The book launch will include a small reception and reading from the authors. Books will be available for purchase at the event on Wednesday, March 29, 5 p.m. at the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library.

The Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine will be hosting a pop up exhibit showcasing our most colorful and vibrant books!

This post is one in a series about the Libraries open access (OA) principles, as outlined in Towards Open Access at the University of...

Thacher Hurd’s introduction to Margaret Wise Brown was not especially promising. Brown, the renowned author of “Goodnight Moon,” which his father Clement Hurd had illustrated, had no children of her own.

As a writer and researcher, Palmer has long been a member of the Friends of the University of Minnesota Libraries, so he could have access and borrowing privileges to the University collections. He has used these materials in numerous writing projects, both fiction and non-fiction. “Because I have enriched myself intellectually by what the University [of Minnesota] has provided ... I feel that in the end I owe back the product of that enrichment.”

This post is one in a series about the Libraries open access (OA) principles, as outlined in Towards Open Access at the University of...