News from 2025
See all upcoming Libraries events — including our featured events, workshops, and exhibits — on the UMN Twin Cities Events Calendar.
The Tradition of a Holiday Edition
A gallery of holiday covers from the Minnesota Daily student newspaper.
Here’s the best books we read in 2025
The books we read can say a lot about us. The ones we enjoy, the ones we dislike, and especially the ones we recommend. So as 2025 shrinks in the rearview mirror, get to know the University of Minnesota Libraries through the books we read this year.
The first ever game jam at the Toaster
Tinker @ the Toaster welcomed participants with a fun new challenge
A variety of students from majors all across the University of Minnesota met for three nights straight for the Toaster’s first ever game jam, a departure from the classic Tinker event that the Toaster hosted for years.
College is stressful. Here’s how the Libraries can help
An overview of mental health services, events, stress relieving programs, and wellness spaces at the Libraries.
Health Sciences librarians make their professional conference a hoot
A retrospective of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association's conference, hosted at the University of Minnesota.
Spitballing at MPR: Voices for Impact
The Toaster hosts an abundance of entrepreneurial events every year. Usually focused in the business or STEM worlds, however on Oct. 21, MPR came to the Toaster.
Are You Ready for Some FOOT BALL?
To coincide with the 1899-1900 football season, editors of Ariel, the weekly student newspaper, announced the creation of a supplementary daily bulletin titled FOOT BALL, the purpose of which was “to create enthusiasm in football, to get everybody thinking and talking about it, and so to aid in bringing success to our team” (Ariel, October 14, 1899, page 60). Twenty-six (26) issues of FOOT BALL were published from October 17 – November 24, 1899.
Resistance Against Japanese American Incarceration Camps
A research report of IHRCA materials relating to the activism of White Americans who supported the civil rights of Japanese Americans in the incarceration camps.
‘Take this Daily home. Send it to a serviceman’
“Take this Daily home. Send it to a serviceman,” read the recurring appeal from the staff of the student newspaper in the fall of 1943, accompanying a special edition dedicated to the army and navy servicemen training at the University of Minnesota during World War II.
Anatomy resources at the Health Sciences Libraries expand student learning opportunities
An overview of anatomy resources at the Health Sciences Library, including models, VR, online learning tools, and primary sources.
Sherlock Holmes Curator Tim Johnson retires after 27 years at the Libraries
Johnson officially retired in October 2025 after 27 years as the Curator of Special Collections and Rare Books and 15 years as the E. W. McDiarmid Curator of the Sherlock Holmes Collections.
A Shakespearean recipe for Witch’s Brew
It’s almost Halloween, our favorite holiday in the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine (WHL), so we’re busy thinking about all the spooky things in our collections. Since much of our material focuses on the histories of pharmacy (making medicines) and nutrition (making food), many of these books are full of recipes.