University of Michigan Library
[3] The University of Michigan was the original home of the JSTOR database, which contains about 750,000 digitized pages from the entire pre-1990 backfile of ten journals of history and economics.[4] Books scanned by Google are included in HathiTrust, a digital library created by a partnership of major research institutions.The University Library is also an educational organization in its own right, offering a full range of courses, resources, support, and training for students, faculty, and researchers.[9] Before the university's first years, books were stored in various places around campus, including at the Law School and in various professors' homes.[7] In 1883, with Raymond Cazallis Davis (chief librarian) as a motivating force in its completion, the university's first library building was finished.[7] In 1947, the library took over collection development responsibilities, replacing the old system in which each academic department selected and purchases books and journals.[15] It is one of the largest collections of East Asian materials in North America, as of June 2012 holds some 785,000 volumes of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean monographs, 2,100 currently received serials, and 80,000 titles of materials in microform, and a large number of electronic resources in all East Asian languages.[17] Among the highlights of the collection are Abraham Ortelius's 1570 Americae sive novi Orbis, nova Descriptio, an early map of the Americas; Giambattista Nolli's 1798 Nuova Pianta di Roma, a map of Rome; Giovanni Battista Piranesi's 1746 Plan of the Course of the Tiber, a plan of the Tiber River commissioned by Pope Benedict XIV; an 1809 pocket globe, and Guillaume Coutans's 1880 Tableau Topographique des Environs de Paris.[22] The SCRC includes around 275,000 published volumes, as well as an estimated 6,500 linear feet of archival material, about 450 incunabula (pre-1501 books), and almost 1,400 early manuscripts on vellum and paper.Many rare volumes of significance to the history of medicine have been moved to the Special Collections Research Center, with access by appointment only.Particular strengths of the collection are early 19th-century American medical literature; anatomy; surgery; homeopathy; pharmacy and materia medica; obstetrics and gynecology; cardiology; pathology; and hernia treatment.The Music Library's collections feature extensive materials in performance, musicology, composition, theory, and dance, including scores, serials, and sound and video recordings in many formats.[42] The library has especially strong collections in early twentieth-century art and design, with many materials on the Bauhaus school, Le Corbusier, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright."[44] Michigan Publishing hosts and helps operated 25 University of Michigan-based journals and scholarly conference proceedings in a variety of fields.In addition to developing cost-effective methods of publication, SPO also helped scholars increase access to their work by making it openly available online, within a trusted and durable digital library environment.Historically, libraries have defined their mission according to the rubrics of collecting, preserving, cataloging, and distributing the fruits of scholarly inquiry.For many years this broadly conceived mission has sufficed; today, the economics of the publishing world have created a situation in which the status quo is impossible to maintain.Library budgets for public universities like the U-M are either cut or stagnant, while the costs of publishing in print form continue to rise.The first fruits of this alliance was digitalculturebooks, an imprint that offers books on the role of technology in contemporary society in both print and digital formats.For example, it released the online publication of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (BASP), in partnership with the University of Michigan Library's Papyrology Collection.All costs for the project are borne by Google, and the company has developed special scanning technology to ensure that the books are not damaged during the process.
Ann Arbor, MichiganUniversity of MichiganvolumesserialsBentley Historical LibraryWilliam L. Clements LibraryGerald R. Ford LibraryRoss School of BusinessUniversity of Michigan Law SchoolUniversity of Michigan–DearbornUniversity of Michigan–FlintGoogleMichigan Digitization ProjectHathiTrustcost-effectiveMichigan LegislatureBoard of Regents of the University of MichiganJohn James AudubonBirds of AmericaAsa GrayRaymond Cazallis Daviscard catalogLibrary of CongressJames Burrill Angellrare bookDetroitanarchistJoseph LabadieLabadie Collectionfire hazardAlbert KahnKelsey Museum of Archaeologyancient EgyptianpapyriUniversity of Michigan Papyrus CollectionWorld War IIG.I. BilljournalsPapyrologyHarold T. and Vivian B. Shapirohumanitiessocial sciencesHarlan HatcherPresident of the UniversityChineseJapaneseKoreanmonographsmicroformEast Asian languagesencyclopediasdictionariesbibliographiesindexesEast Asian studiesatlasescartographicgazetteersAbraham OrteliusGiambattista NolliGiovanni Battista PiranesiTiber RiverPope Benedict XIVgovernmentFederal Depository LibraryState of Michigangovernment of CanadaUnited NationsFood and Agriculture OrganizationEuropean UnionOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentWorld BankInternational Monetary FundWorld Trade OrganizationU.S. censusdata setsgeographic information systemsincunabulamanuscriptsvellumHistory of astronomymathematicsCopernicusKeplerEuclidGalileoLeonardo Donatodoge of Venicemoons of JupiterChildren's literaturemedievalRenaissanceleavesparchmentShenoute of AtripeArabicPersianTurkishThe Saint John's BiblecalligraphyDonald JacksonJanice Bluestein LongoneJoseph A. Labadie Collectionanarchismlabor movementscivil libertiessocialismcommunismcolonialismimperialismAmerican labor historyIndustrial Workers of the WorldSpanish Civil Warhistory of the PhilippinesDean Conant WorcesterPhilippine CommissionBureau of Insular Affairsrailroad historyHot air ballooningsteamshipsLincoln Highway AssociationPierce-Arrow Motor Car CompanyDetroit United RailwayCharles Ellet, Jr.building of the Panama CanalSpanish Golden Age