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May 14, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Special Collections Seminar Room (Main Library,1 West)
Visiting Scholar Isaiah Rivera, from University of Texas-Austin, presents 'Black Queer Grief: Diasporic Death Consciousness in the Digital Age and MSU Libraries’ Terri Jewell papers'.
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May 14, 2026 12:10 PM – 1:00 PM
Beal Botanical Garden (shed)
Join Beal for a garden walk exploring the spring ephemerals that are so brief in their floral display. Bring binoculars, we may catch some early spring birds migrating north!
Speaker: Carolyn Miller, Beal Arboretum and Invasive Species Coordinator
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May 15, 2026 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Green Room (Main Library, 4 West)
Friday, May 15 — 9 am - 4 pm — MSU Main Library
The MSU Libraries are excited to offer another free symposium on reparative language in library cataloging. Our theme this year is enhancements to subject access.
Our two keynote speakers are both doing significant work in this area: Violet Fox, founder of…
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Welcome! I hope the beginning of the 2026 spring semester has found folks feeling refreshed, even amid the wintry mix of weather. As we approach spring break, I wanted to take a moment to share some important updates.Spring semester hours. The MSU Main Library will be closing at 5 p.m. on Friday, February 27, and will reopen at 8 a.m. on…
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EAST LANSING, Mich., April 2026 – On March 31, Michigan State University Libraries celebrated the naming of the Zaiga Kuze Moon and Mirdza Kuze Reading Lounge with a ribbon cutting and reception honoring the Moon family’s generous contribution to the popular study space in the Main Library.The gift that made this naming ceremony…
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Beginning in early May, the Michigan State University Libraries will be moving to a new system, OpenAthens, for accessing online library resources from off-campus. This change affects how users sign in to journals, databases and other electronic resources. This move will require faculty and staff who utilize stable links (also called…
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February 13, 2026 – June 11, 2026
Food Fads: American Advertising Cookbooks invites you to examine the history of American cooking through the cookbooks that helped guide it. From the earliest culinary advertisements to wartime cooking, we invite you to imagine the meals these cookbooks helped make, the traditions they built, and the people for whom they became…
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October 01, 2025 – February 12, 2026
Featuring rare books, travel anthologies, maps, and atlases from the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections, this exhibit reveals a world of fascination, exchange, and rivalry. Discover how these encounters shaped the European imagination and helped create a "Global Renaissance."
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August 18, 2025 – December 29, 2025
In 2025, the MSU African Studies Center (ASC) celebrates its 65th anniversary, a remarkable achievement with many impactful years of service. Drawn from the extensive Africana collections of the MSU Museum, MSU Broad Art Museum, and MSU Libraries, these exhibitions explore the University’s deep relationship with the African continent…
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