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February 19, 2025 12:10 PM – 12:50 PM
Green Room (Main Library, 4 West)
Take a movement break with these free group fitness classes inside MSU’s Main Library! Join us the third Wednesday of the month for variety of classes to help you get moving this spring. Pre-registration required (in person or virtual). Bring clean athletic shoes, water and a towel.
Register for January, February, or March sessions: https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8x1ObOLlGe49O1U
Register for April (Offered in-person and virtual): https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eY8VrgbsFc2FSBg
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February 20, 2025 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Green Room (Main Library, 4 West)
A lecture series given by faculty in the Department of Religious Studies who use primary sources from Special Collections in the MSU Library in teaching and research. Each presentation will include ample time for conversation. The sources will be available for viewing during the talks. Bring your lunch; Coffee and tea will be provided.
Dr. Amy DeRogatis
Primary collection: Millerite Prophetic Chart, and Explanation of the Prophetic Chart, and Application of the Truth
SPONSORED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES
cal.msu.edu/religiousstudies
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February 20, 2025 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
DSL Project Room J (Main Library, 2 West)
Receive expert guidance on such topics as:
Getting set up with GitHub
UNIX shell basics
Introduction and assistance with coding languages, such as Python
Data preparation
Developing research software
Join us at the Digital Scholarship Lab to get help virtually or in-person from someone who has expertise with these technologies.
Whether you’re developing a class assignment or a research project, we’re available to support you. We welcome all levels of experience. This is available to MSU faculty, students, and staff.
In-person location: Digital Scholarship Lab, Project Room J
Online location: https://msu.zoom.us/j/99982904121 (MSU NetID Required)
If these don’t work with your schedule, you can always request a consultation.
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Please allow me to extend a hearty welcome to you all as we enter the new academic year! I hope that the summer months provided a chance to recharge and relax. The MSU Libraries is happy to see our students back on campus, and I wanted to take a moment to share some important updates as we look ahead to an energetic semester.Fall semester hours: The MSU Libraries Main Library is typically open 24 hours per day on Monday through Thursday, with later opening and earlier closing times on the weekends. The Business Library located in the MSU College of Law Building is regularly open from 8 a.m. to 12 a.m. Monday through Thursday, with modified weekend hours. Please note that for safety and security purposes, all students, staff and faculty are required to scan their MSU ID to access the MSU Main Library building between 10:00 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. on Sunday – Thursday. A complete schedule for the MSU Libraries hours is available here.Special Collections closing/move to 3-East: This past August, the MSU Libraries Stephen O. Murray & Keelung Hong Special Collections began the process of relocating to the third floor of the Main Library’s East Wing. To accommodate this exciting and necessary move, which includes hundreds of thousands of delicate and valuable materials, access to the MSU Libraries’ Special Collections will be closed for about 16 weeks beginning Monday, Aug. 12. For more information including timely updates, please visit our Move to 3-East page.We are looking forward to supporting your learning and research needs this fall (and in all seasons)! As a reminder, if you are unable to find an answer on our website or would like to speak to someone in person, we are available at our information desks as well as by phone at (517) 353-8700.With warm wishes for a productive semester,Neil Romanosky, Ph.D. Dean of LibrariesView All News Articles
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EAST LANSING — Michigan State University Press is proud to announce the release of “Forever in the Path: The Black Experience at Michigan State University” by Dr. Pero G. Dagbovie, a distinguished historian and current Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at MSU. This comprehensive 682-page volume explores the rich and complex history of Black students, faculty, and staff at America’s first agricultural college.In “Forever in the Path,” Dr. Dagbovie weaves a detailed narrative that spans from the 1890s through the late 20th century, highlighting the transformative roles played by African Americans in shaping the university’s identity. The book blends intellectual, social, and institutional history with African American biographical tradition, capturing the trials and triumphs of the Black community at MSU.Dr. Dagbovie, a University Distinguished Professor in MSU’s Department of History, is renowned for his rigorous scholarship and dedication to making history accessible and relevant to a broad audience. His previous works and his role as an editor for the Journal of African American History have established him as a pivotal figure in the field of African American studies.“Dr. Dagbovie’s work is more than just a historical account; it is an examination of the indomitable spirit and contributions of the Black community at MSU,” said MSU Press Director Elizabeth Demers. “This book is essential for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of racial history in American educational institutions and its implications for today.”Keith R. Widder, author of “Michigan Agricultural College” shared praise for the new book and recognized the care that went into writing it.“Dagbovie’s exhaustively researched ‘Forever in the Path’ introduces us to the Black students, staff and faculty who courageously built the path to racial integration at Michigan State University during the twentieth century,” Widder said. “Along the way, Dagbovie tells us how people and events on the local, state and national stages influenced developments at MSU and how the university’s story fits into the larger historical picture. To understand the history of MSU, this magnificent book is a must-read.”“Forever in the Path” delves into the arrival of the first Black students at MSU, their challenges, and their enduring legacies. It chronicles significant events such as the hiring of the university’s first full-time Black faculty member and the contributions of Black individuals during the Civil Rights Movement. Through personal stories and institutional analysis, the book sheds light on the broader impact of these pioneers on both MSU and society at large.Dagbovie depicts and imagines how his numerous subjects’ upbringings and experiences at the institution informed their futures, and how they benefitted from and contributed to MSU’s vision, mission and transformative role in the history of higher education.The book will be available in hardcover and eBook formats from MSU Press. For more information, visit https://msupress.org/9781611864946/forever-in-the-path.Sidebar“Forever in the Path” Book Launch DateDate: Monday, February 24, 2025Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmLocation: Green Room (Main Library, 4 West)More InformationView All News Articles
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America in the Kitchen is a new project at Michigan State University that recently received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize 200 of the most important American cookbooks published from the 18th century through 1960. The team behind the grant includes Associate Professor of History Helen Veit, MSU Libraries Head of Special Collections and University Archives Leslie McRoberts, former MSU Libraries Head of Special Collections and Librarian Emeritus Peter Berg, and Associate Professor of History and Director of Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Rehberger.The almost $350,000 NEH grant will allow the team to modernize and expand Feeding America, one of the most-used digital resources on food history. Dr. Berg was one of the directors of the original project, which launched in 2003. Feeding America is comprised of 76 American cookbooks spanning the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. “Feeding America is already an important resource for food studies scholars,” Veit said. “Now, with America in the Kitchen, we’ll be creating a beautiful new website that’s even larger and more user-friendly. We’ll not only be able to expand the number of cookbooks in the collection, but we’ll also push the collection’s chronology up to 1960 and emphasize how many different Americans have created and used cookbooks.” The team at Matrix will create the new America in the Kitchen website, while the MSU Libraries team will be digitizing the cookbooks. The finished website will also include short author biographies and photographs of historic cooking tools, among other resources. “Besides expanding the availability of historic American cookbooks online, this NEH grant will also allow us to provide context so that users can better understand where each cookbook came from and why it’s significant,” Veit said. “Our goal is to create a place where people can learn more about food history, American history, and humanities ideas.” The website is aimed at scholars, researchers, students, cooks, and lifelong learners of all ages.“The MSU Libraries is thrilled to receive this grant, which will be significant in helping us broaden the digital presence of our robust Cookery & Food Collection,” said McRoberts. “The Feeding America digital repository is already a fabulous resource for researchers seeking out these important and influential American cookbooks, and we are so excited to soon be able to offer additional access to cookbooks through 1960, thanks in large part to these NEH funds. We are proud as well that these publicly available collections can help support MSU’s position as a top-tier research institution by allowing researchers to browse our cookbooks across the globe.”Berg said, “One of the wonders of the digital age is the opportunity to bring the resources of a world-class special collection of books to people throughout the state, nation, and world who otherwise could not afford to make a trip to East Lansing to see the cookbooks. While the means to deliver our knowledge and resources may be modern, our work remains traditional as part of the land grant mission, the founding principle of MSU.”All cookbooks will come from the Murray & Hong Special Collections at the MSU Libraries, which has more than 40,000 cookbooks and food-related works and is one of the largest American culinary collections in the world.The team behind America in the Kitchen previously created the What America Ate project, a digital archive and interactive website on food in the Great Depression also funded by the NEH. Veit noted that she hopes the new website will entice people to cook from historic cookbooks as well as to read them. “We all have strong feelings about food, and it’s a great way to get people asking bigger questions about why things happen and how culture works,” she said. This story was originally published on the College of Social Science website.Contact: Leslie McRoberts and Elise Jajuga View All News Articles
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February 07, 2025 – May 30, 2025
How are solidarities formed across sociopolitical struggles, and then visualized and disseminated through visual culture? Entangled Solidarities explores this question in relation to Arab American histories through the rich archival material and artists’ books found in MSU Libraries’ Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections.
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September 16, 2024 – January 31, 2025
This exhibit, curated by the Michigan State University Libraries’ Accessibility and User Experience units, showcases the MSU Libraries’ commitment to accessibility, demonstrated through its collections and archives, assistive technologies and equipment, and spaces. This exhibit also provides interactive sensory experiences via the sound dome and tactile table.
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May 23, 2024 – September 01, 2024
This exhibit details the history of oil palm cultivation throughout the world, with a specific focus on Indonesia and how this crop impacts the livelihoods of farmers and others in Sumatra and throughout the archipelago.
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