Abstract

The Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries (SEMLOL) is a voluntary multitype library cooperative that establishes channels of communication among member libraries; creates programs to encourage cooperative use of resources; undertakes projects to address common issues; works to enhance the quality of service in member libraries; and operates through membership contribution of staff time and resources to its programs.

Abstract Linda Brockett Photographic Negative colelction is a series of photographic negatives taken around the Great Lakes region between 1910-1915. The images follow an unknown family whose son graduated from Northwestern University in 1915. They had a vacation home in Paw Paw Lake, Michigan and traveled often between Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. The collection names friends of the family including Helen Lett, Will Knight, and Ruth Moorehead. They often traveled by steamboat or by train, owned...

Abstract The Veterans History Project is an initiative of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress that was created through an act of the United States Congress in 2000. The local efforts to interview and record veteran oral histories as a part of the Veterans History Project were taken up by several volunteers including this collection’s donor and Ypsilanti Rotary Club volunteer, William “Bill” Vollano and Eastern Michigan University Professor of History JoEllen Vinyard. For over a...