Join us for an engaging opportunity to learn more from the 2024 Dr. Linda Mack Schloff research award recipient, whose work uses materials at the the Upper Midwest Jewish Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Bring your lunch and learn more from Montrie about his current research exploring the history of ‘blackface’ minstrel show caricature during the twentieth century in Duluth, Minneapolis, and St. Paul.

Join us at Wilson Library on Thursday, Sept. 12 at 2 p.m. for a film screening of Purple Rain. Everyone is welcome to join us at this free event, brought to you by the Music Library at the University of Minnesota!

Join us on Sept. 18 for a Sherlock Holmes book tour event with Nicholas Meyer, an award-winning author, screenwriter, and director. His body of creative work in publishing, film, and television spans more than five decades. Meyer’s sixth Sherlock Holmes novel, Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram From Hell, was published in August 2024 by the Mysterious Press.   

Ahoy, Mateys! Do you have a passion for treasure maps? Do you love talking like a pirate? Then this is your day! Join the Children's Literature Research Collection, the James Ford Bell Library, the Music Library, the Upper Midwest Literary Archive, and the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine for a pop-up exhibit featuring all things piratical!  Arrr!

Join us on Saturday, Sept. 28 for a poetry reading and book launch event with author Emilie Buchwald. Her new book of poems, Incandescent, will be published by Nodin Press this fall and will be available for purchase at the event.