On December 16, 2020, former Central Michigan University President Bill Boyd passed away after a short battle with COVID-19. In addition to the obituaries and remembrances from CMU and the Racine Journal Times (a remembrance entitled,… Read moreFormer CMU President Bill Boyd’s Usonian House
The COVID-19 public health emergency has changed everything about our lives, including how cities arrange public spaces to account for physical distancing. We have new needs we never had before—Where it is safe to place a… Read moreDesigning Physical Distancing in Our Cities
Books are incredible pieces of art: authors arrange tens of thousands of words to form meaningful information. Printers impress those words in thousands of lines on the fronts and backs of hundreds of leaves of paper,… Read moreFore-Edge Painting
“A wooden boat has far more soul than a fiberglass boat.” The staff at the Mystic Seaport Museum explain the allure of wooden boats and the craftsmanship and artistry involved in building, restoring, and maintaining… Read moreThe Art of the Wooden Boat
Samuel Zygmuntowicz has been working with violins since he was thirteen. He has become one of the world’s most renowned luthiers (artisans who work with stringed instruments), creating custom-made “fiddles’ for musicians who are the best… Read moreThe Violin Maker
From the first days of the computer age, there has been a dream of unlimited, immediate access to the information created by humanity over the centuries. Almost as soon as computer connectivity between remote locations began,… Read moreHathi Trust: Centuries of Information at Your Fingertips
Ten of Our Favorite Online Resources You Might Not Know About Here at the CMU Libraries, we work with thousands of electronic resources that bring information right to the screen in front of you –… Read moreTen of Our Favorite Online Resources You Might Not Know About
On January 12, the latest installation in the Park Library’s Third Floor Exhibit Area opened. Grace Smolinski, a CMU junior majoring in Graphic Design and an employee in the Clarke Historical Library, has coordinated an effort… Read moreNew Student-Led Exhibition at the Library: Interview with Grace Smolinski
