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The William L. Clements Library is a rare book and manuscript repository located on the University of Michigan's central campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Specializing in Americana and particularly North American history prior to the twentieth century, the holdings of the Clements Library are grouped into four categories: Books, Manuscripts, Graphics and Maps.
The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is a meeting place for the arts, bridging visual art and contemporary culture, scholarship and accessibility, tradition and innovation. The museum's collections include nearly 19,000 objects that span cultures, eras, and media and include European, American, Middle Eastern, Asian, and African art ...
The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Michigan is one of the earliest American research universities and is a founding member of the Association of American ...
The Michigan Legislature created the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1838, and that year allocated funding for a library. [7] The next year (three years before classes began), the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan acquired the University Library's first volume, John James Audubon's Birds of America, purchased at a cost of $970. [8]
The University of Michigan Press ceased distributing the book in the Fall of 2007, after "serious questions" were raised about the book by "members of the university community". [16] In addition, the relationship between the University of Michigan Press and Pluto Press came under examination by the faculty committee that oversees the press. [16]
The University of Michigan, founded in 1817–twenty years before Michigan's statehood–is the state's oldest university [1] [2] and remained the only university in the state until the 20th century, when Detroit College became the University of Detroit in 1911 and Wayne State University achieved "university" status in 1933 following the ...
The Diag The Diag, ca. 1900. The Diag (/ ˈ d aɪ. æ ɡ / DY-ag) is a large open space in the middle of the University of Michigan's Central Campus.Originally known as the Diagonal Green, the Diag derives its name from the many sidewalks running near or through it in diagonal directions.
The University of Michigan Center for Digital Curricula is an educational research center at the University of Michigan, College of Engineering, in Ann Arbor, Michigan dedicated to the development of deeply-digital, open educational resources.