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  1. Find, Borrow, Request
    1. Find Materials
      1. Using Library Search
      2. By Topic
      3. Books in Various Formats
      4. Articles
      5. Audio
      6. Video
      7. Textbooks and Course Materials
      8. Special Collections and Archival Materials
      9. Other Types of Materials
      10. In the Library by Call Number
      11. Using Other Catalogs
    2. Borrow and Return
      1. Who Can Borrow
        1. Students
        2. Faculty and Staff
        3. Sponsored Affiliates
        4. Alumni, Guests, and Native and Indigenous Peoples
        5. Spouses or Other Qualified Adults
      2. How Long You Can Keep Items
        1. How Long You Can Keep Specific Formats
      3. Renew Your Items
      4. Request Return of Checked-out Items
      5. Where to Return Items
      6. Reminders, Overdue Items, and Suspended Privileges
        1. Lost Items
      7. Check Out Special Items and Equipment
      8. Reciprocal Borrowing and Visiting Privileges
        1. Eastern Michigan and WCC
        2. Research Universities for Michigan
        3. Big Ten Academic Alliance
        4. SHARES
      9. Interlibrary Loan Services (ILL)
        1. Access and Use Loans
        2. Renewals, Returns, and Lost Items
        3. Lending
    3. Request Items for Pick Up or Delivery
      1. Get Items Off the Shelves
      2. Request From Offsite Shelving
      3. Pick Up at a Library Desk
      4. Delivery to Your Department
    4. Request Digital Copies or Duplication
      1. Scans from the Print Collection
      2. Duplication of Special Collection Materials
      3. Scans of Clark Library Maps
      4. Scans for Urgent Patient Care
      5. Digitization for HathiTrust
      6. Accessible Copies
    5. Request Modifications for Accessibility
    6. Access Special Collections Materials
      1. Register as a Researcher
      2. How to Request Materials
      3. Use Materials Onsite
      4. Guidance for Using Reproductions
    7. Recommend a Purchase
    8. Access Online Resources
      1. On Campus
      2. Remote Access
        1. Using a Browser Extension
        2. Using a Browser Bookmark
  2. Visit and Study
    1. Study Spaces
      1. Find a Study Space
      2. Bookable Study Spaces
        1. Hatcher South Bookable Daily Carrels
        2. Hatcher South Bookable Weekly Carrels
        3. Hatcher South Long-term Research Carrels
        4. Hatcher Bookable Carrel Guidelines
        5. Hatcher North 212A
        6. Shapiro Bookable Study Rooms
        7. Soundproof Booths
        8. Hatcher and Shapiro Bookable Study Room and Booth Guidelines
        9. Duderstadt Center Interview Rooms
        10. Fine Arts Library Carrels
        11. Music Library Carrels
      3. Conversational Study Spaces
        1. Clark Commons Computing Spaces
        2. Bert's Study Lounge
        3. Shapiro Floor 1
        4. Shapiro Floor 2
        5. Clark Commons Seating Areas
        6. Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library Floor 2 Computing Spaces
      4. Low Noise Study Spaces
        1. International Studies Reading Room
        2. Hatcher North Floor 2
        3. Clark Library Seating Area
        4. Shapiro Basement
        5. Shapiro Floor 4
        6. Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library Floor 2 Lobby Spaces
        7. Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library Floor 3
      5. Quiet Study Spaces
        1. Hatcher Reference Reading Room
        2. Asia Library Reading Room
        3. Hatcher North Stacks Study Tables
        4. Hatcher South Open Carrels
        5. Hatcher South Designated SSD Carrels
        6. Hatcher Floor 6
        7. Shapiro Reading Room
        8. Taubman Health Sciences Library Study Space
        9. Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library Floor 2 Stacks Spaces
        10. Fine Arts Library Floor 2
        11. Music Library Floors 3 and 4
      6. Student Parent and Caregiver Study Room
    2. Creation and Learning Spaces
      1. Shapiro Design Lab
        1. Our Work
          1. Our Principles
        2. Workshop
        3. Media Production Rooms
          1. Perlstein Editing Room
          2. Video Production Room
          3. Winberg Audio Production Room
        4. PIE Space
      2. Sweetland Peer Writing Center
      3. Book Arts Studio
      4. Conservation Lab
        1. Our Work
      5. Digital Conversion Unit
      6. Digital Preservation Lab
      7. Library Instruction Rooms
    3. Cafés and Well-being
      1. Cafés
      2. Reflection Rooms
      3. Well-being Rooms
      4. Lactation Rooms
      5. Changing Tables
    4. Computing and Technology
      1. Computing
      2. Printing, Scanning, Copying
      3. Guest Computing and Printing
      4. Specialized Technology
        1. Anatomage Table
        2. Microform Readers and Scanners
    5. Events and Exhibits
      1. Today and Upcoming
      2. Online Exhibits
      3. Annual Events and Series
        1. Café Shapiro
        2. Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies
        3. MLK Day
        4. Third Thursdays at the Library
      4. Gallery and Event Spaces
        1. Hatcher Gallery Event Space
        2. Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Space
        3. Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room
          1. The Birds of America
        4. Hatcher North Lobby Cases
        5. Clark Library Exhibit Space
        6. Special Collections Exhibit Space
        7. Shapiro Gallery
        8. Directions to the Hatcher Gallery
    6. Floor Plans
      1. Hatcher Library North Floors
        1. Basement
        2. Basement A
        3. Floor 1
        4. Floor 1A
        5. Floor 2
        6. Floor 2A
        7. Floor 3
        8. Floor 3A
        9. Floor 4
        10. Floor 4A
      2. Hatcher Library South Floors
        1. Floor 1
        2. Floor 2
        3. Floor 3
        4. Floor 4
        5. Floor 5
        6. Floor 6
        7. Floor 7
        8. Floor 8
      3. Shapiro Library Floors
        1. Basement
        2. Floor 1
        3. Floor 2
        4. Floor 2 Group Study Rooms
        5. Floor 3
        6. Floor 4
      4. Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library Floors
        1. Basement
        2. Floor 1
        3. Floor 2
        4. Floor 3
      5. Taubman Health Sciences Library Layout
      6. Buhr Building Floors
        1. Floor 1
        2. Floor 3
      7. Fine Arts Library Floors
        1. Floor 1
        2. Floor 2
      8. Music Library Floors
        1. Floor 3
        2. Floor 4
        3. Floor 5
    7. Information Desks
  3. Research and Scholarship
    1. Help with Research
      1. Find a Specialist
      2. Use Research Guides
      3. How We Can Help
      4. Citation Management
      5. Formatting Scholarly Work
      6. Non-English Research Support
      7. Funding and Grants
      8. Research Impact
        1. Assess Your Impact in the Health Sciences
      9. Share and Preserve Your Work
      10. Open Access Publishing Support
      11. Publish with Us
    2. Instruction and Course Support
      1. Request Instruction
        1. What We Teach
      2. Get Course Design Help
      3. Use Recordings and Canvas Modules
      4. Get Course Materials
        1. Use Electronic Items
        2. Put Items on Physical Reserve
          1. Checkout Locations
        3. Use Film in Courses
        4. Create Links that Work
        5. Provide Access Through Canvas
        6. Submit a Request
    3. Create and Design
      1. Design and Present Research
      2. Edit Video
      3. Produce Audio
      4. Create a Website
      5. Develop a Spreadsheet
      6. Create Online Surveys and Forms
      7. Make and Print 3D Models
      8. Use a Letterpress
    4. Digital Scholarship
      1. How We Support Digital Scholarship
        1. Understanding Digital Scholarship
        2. Principles Guiding Our Work
      2. Request a Consultation
        1. Support Levels
      3. Get Help with Funding Requests
      4. Connect with Us
    5. Data Services
      1. Get the Data You Need
      2. Geospatial Data and Mapping
        1. Support for GIS on Campus
      3. Make a Data Management Plan
      4. Metadata Consultation
      5. Text and Data Mining
      6. Data Visualization
      7. Share and Preserve your Data
    6. Copyright Services
      1. Connect with Us
      2. Copyright and Teaching
        1. Using Third-Party Materials for Online Classes
        2. Copyright Basics Canvas Module
      3. Our Advocacy
      4. Guides
        1. Copyright Scenarios
      5. Copies Made by Libraries and Archives
      6. Forms
        1. Author’s Addenda
        2. Contract Request Letter
        3. Copyright and Oral History Interviews
        4. Gift Agreements
        5. Licensing Form
        6. Rights Reversion
        7. Syllabus Statement
    7. Awards and Grants
      1. Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute
        1. Program Details
        2. How to Apply
        3. Support Provided
        4. Grant Funds
        5. Funded Projects
      2. Artists in the Archive
      3. Library Data Grant Program
        1. Previous Winners
      4. Student Mini Grants
        1. Requirements for Funding
      5. TOME Publishing Grant
        1. How to Apply
        2. Award Notification and Distribution
        3. Funded Publications
      6. Undergraduate Research Awards
        1. Details and Requirements
        2. Guidelines for Support Letter
        3. Recent Awards Winners
        4. About Pam MacKintosh
      7. Asia Library Travel Grants
      8. Special Collections Research Fellowships
        1. How to Apply
    8. Library Workshops and Credit Courses
      1. Drop-in Workshops
      2. Library Credit Courses
      3. International Data Workshop
      4. Systematic Reviews Workshop
        1. What You'll Learn
        2. Registration and Fees
      5. The History of Bookbinding from 200 to 1900: A Structure-Based Perspective
        1. Workshop Content by Day
        2. Recommended Readings
  4. Collections
    1. Collecting Areas
      1. Arts and Humanities
        1. Architecture
        2. Art and Design
        3. Children's Literature Collection
        4. Classical Studies and Modern Greek
        5. English Language and Literature
        6. Film, Television, and Media
        7. General and Comparative Literature
        8. History
        9. History of Art
        10. Museum Studies
        11. Music, Theatre, and Dance
        12. Philosophy
        13. Religious Studies
        14. Romance Languages and Literatures
      2. Engineering
        1. Engineering
        2. Entrepreneurship
      3. Health Sciences
      4. International Studies
        1. Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
        2. Chinese Studies
        3. French Studies
        4. Germanic Studies
        5. Iberian Studies
        6. Japanese Studies
        7. Judaic Studies
        8. Korean Studies
        9. Latin American and Caribbean studies
        10. Middle Eastern and North African Studies
        11. Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
        12. South Asia Studies
        13. Southeast Asia
        14. Sub-Saharan Africa
      5. Mathematics and Sciences
        1. Biology and Natural History
        2. Chemistry
        3. Earth and Environmental Sciences
        4. Environment and Sustainability
        5. Mathematics and Statistics
          1. Astronomy
        6. Physics
      6. Social Sciences
        1. Anthropology
        2. Communication and Media Studies
        3. Economics
        4. Education
        5. Information Science
        6. Law and Legal Studies
        7. LGBTQ Studies
        8. Linguistics
        9. Multicultural Studies
        10. Political Science
        11. Psychology
        12. Public Policy
        13. Social Work
        14. Sociology
        15. Urban Planning
        16. Women’s and Gender Studies
      7. Special Collections
        1. Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library Special Collections
        2. Book Arts
        3. Children's Literature
        4. European History
        5. History of Astronomy and Mathematics
          1. The Galileo Manuscript
        6. History of Medicine
        7. Islamic Manuscripts
        8. Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
          1. About Janice Bluestein Longone
        9. Joseph A. Labadie Collection
        10. Literature
          1. American Literature
          2. British Isles Literature
          3. Early Spanish Literature
          4. Hubbard Imaginary Voyages Collection
          5. Russian Literature
          6. Science Fiction
          7. The Shakespeare Collection
        11. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
        12. Music Library Special Collections
          1. Edison Sheet Music Collection
          2. Montgomery Sheet Music Collection
          3. Scores, Papers, and Recordings
          4. Women Composers Collection
        13. Papyrology Collection
        14. Philippine History
        15. Screen Arts Mavericks and Makers
          1. Alan Rudolph
          2. John Sayles
          3. Jonathan Demme
          4. Lawrence Kasdan
          5. Nancy Savoca
          6. Orson Welles
          7. Robert Altman
          8. Ira Deutchman
          9. Robert Shaye
        16. Theatre History
        17. Transportation History
        18. William A. Gosling Pop-up and Movable Book Collection
      8. Specific Formats
        1. Comics and Graphic Novels
        2. Computer and Video Games
        3. Data
        4. Film and Video
        5. Government Information
        6. Maps and Atlases
          1. Significant Map and Atlas Collections
        7. News
        8. Web Archives
      9. Undergraduate Collections
    2. Collection Development Philosophy
    3. Digital Collections
    4. Deep Blue Repositories
    5. Michigan Publishing Services and University of Michigan Press
    6. HathiTrust Digital Library
  5. About Us
    1. About the Library
      1. Our Organization
      2. Mission, Vision, and Values
      3. Strategic Commitments and Actions
      4. Accessibility
        1. Accessibility Support
        2. Accessibility Practices
        3. Digital Product Accessibility
        4. Library Website Accessibility
      5. Our Commitment to Diversity
        1. Library Advisory Council
      6. Territorial Acknowledgement
        1. Territorial Acknowledgement in Anishinaabemowin
        2. Territorial Acknowledgement in English
        3. Resources and Further Reading
      7. Library Repository Project
        1. Why a Repository
        2. Status and Timeline
      8. Advocacy for Employees
      9. Assessment
        1. Significant Assessment Projects
        2. Statistical Highlights
      10. Library Council
      11. Library Blogs
    2. Staff Directory
    3. Our Divisions and Departments
      1. Library Administration
      2. Deans' Office
        1. Administrative Support
        2. Communication and Marketing
        3. Development Office
        4. Finance
        5. Library Facilities
        6. Library Human Resources
        7. Strategic Planning
      3. Access and Fulfillment
        1. Circulation and Access Services and Divisional Libraries
        2. Document Delivery
        3. Physical Collections and Access
      4. Collections
        1. Asia Library
        2. International Studies
        3. Preservation Services
        4. Special Collections
      5. Library Information Technology
        1. Architecture and Engineering
        2. Automation, Indexing, and Metadata
        3. Design and Discovery
        4. Digital Content and Collections
        5. Digital Library Applications
        6. Technical Services
      6. Michigan Publishing
        1. Copyright Office
        2. Deep Blue Repository and Research Data Services
        3. Marketing and Outreach
        4. Publishing Acquisitions
        5. Publishing Production
        6. Publishing Services
        7. Publishing Technology
      7. Research and Learning
        1. Accessibility
        2. Arts and Humanities
        3. Consultation and Discovery
        4. Digital Scholarship and Creative Spaces
        5. HS-STEM
        6. Learning Programs and Initiatives
        7. Outreach and AV Services
        8. Social Sciences and Clark Library
      8. HathiTrust
    4. News
    5. Work for Us
      1. Librarian and Staff Positions
        1. Cathleen A. Baker Fellowship in Conservation
          1. Developing your Proposal
      2. Jobs for Students
        1. Student Engagement Program
          1. Engagement Fellows
          2. Student Ambassadors
        2. Michigan Library Scholars
          1. Summer 2026 Projects
        3. Design Lab Student Positions
        4. Summer Fellowship in Library User Experience
        5. Lafer Preservation Internship Program
        6. Archival Processing Internship Program
    6. Partner with Us
      1. Student Consultants
      2. Install an Exhibit
      3. Display a Digital Promotion or Showcase
        1. Guidelines for Digital Signage Submissions
      4. Host an Information Table or Donation Drive
      5. Propose Your Unique Collaboration Idea
      6. Support for Campus Book Clubs
    7. Policies
      1. Ask a Librarian Guidelines
      2. Building Access Policy
      3. Collections Access Policy
      4. Commitment to Open Discovery
      5. Copyright Policy
      6. Digital Preservation Policy
        1. Registered Formats and Support Levels
        2. Digital Preservation Baseline
      7. Disaster Response and Recovery Plan for Library Collections
      8. Digital Scholarship Framework and Policy
      9. Film and Photography in the Library
      10. Gifts of Books and Other Materials
      11. Library Privacy Statement
        1. Checkout History Options
      12. Protests and Demonstrations in the Library
      13. Remediation of Harmful Language in Descriptions of Collection Material
      14. Statement on Appropriate Use of Electronic Resources
      15. Statement on Potentially Objectionable or Culturally Sensitive Collection Material
      16. Takedown Policy for Addressing Copyright Concerns
      17. Takedown Policy for Private Information in U-M Digital Collections

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    4. MLibrary@NCRC
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      3. Collections
      4. Transit and Parking
      5. Navigating the Building
      6. Evening Access
      7. Hatcher North Information Services Desk
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      9. Serials and Microform Services
    8. Shapiro Library
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      2. Transit and Parking
      3. Navigating the Building
      4. Shapiro Lobby Information Services Desk
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      4. Glenn Watkins Seminar Room
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