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Berkley Sorrells and Jaxson Kaplan-Rudolph are the latest cohort of a student fellowship program that helps preserve and share University of Michigan athletics history.

Get exclusive access to the Bentley Library as you've never seen it! Our free behind-the-scenes tours are offered every month, giving visitors a special look at the thousands of square feet of materials archived at the Bentley.

As AI changes archivists’ work, the Bentley is helping guide the future. Learn how a recent symposium, co-sponsored by the Bentley and the School of Information, explored the implications of generative AI for archival reference services.

Can you remember a beloved U-M space that no longer exists? In this Making Michigan talk, Professor Jim Tobin traces the University of Michigan's “lost campus” and how changing spaces reflect broader patterns in University history.

Generous donors during the most recent Giving Blueday made it possible for the Bentley Library to purchase a new scanner for patrons in the reading room.

The Bentley Historical Library is proud to announce the awardees for its annual fellowship program. The fellowships support the use of Bentley collections by K-12 educators, artists, and researchers.

It’s that time of year again, when thousands of U-M students will receive graduate degrees. But as Bentley collections show, figuring out what constituted a graduate degree, and how to award it, wasn’t always clear cut.

Inside the Bentley Historical Library’s vast postcard collection are pictures and missives from U-M spanning the centuries. We pulled out a few postcards, and their accompanying messages, to take you back to U-M’s bygone years.

Fellowships can be used to explore any Bentley collections in-person. They support artistic inspiration, K-12 curriculum and lesson planning, and publication research.

Archived scorecards at the Bentley tell the story of Michigan baseball over time, including the quirks of the game, how it’s changed, and how it’s remained remarkably the same.