Adria Carpenter

Feb 16, 2024 | libnews.umn.edu | Adria Carpenter

It’s Valentine’s Day, and your home is dimly lit with candles. You’ve just finished a romantic, homemade dinner. There’s a warm bath waiting in the bathroom. But first there’s your date, firm and sturdy, tucked into a tan jacket. You take off the sleeve to find … your blind date with a book!In February 2023, the University of Minnesota Libraries set up over 250 students and staff with a blind date and had 40 book matchmaking requests. And it’s looking to be equally popular this year.

Feb 5, 2024 | libnews.umn.edu | Adria Carpenter

Related exhibit The exhibit, “Graywolf at 50: First Drafts and Next Pages,” will be on display Feb. 19 to May 17 at the U of M’s Elmer L. Andersen Library — home to the Graywolf Press archive. If there’s a book you just can’t stop thinking about, chances are Graywolf Press published it. Graywolf Press, a nonprofit publisher based in Minneapolis, doesn’t focus on publishing brief bestsellers. Instead, Graywolf hunts for literary prestige, for the authors and novels with staying power.

Jan 24, 2024 | libnews.umn.edu | Adria Carpenter

Myra Billund-Phibbs remembers coming to Wilson Library for National History Day when she was a middle school student in Bloomington, Minnesota. “I had never been here, and my mind was blown. It was really cool. I remember the wonder, and I looked at microfilm, and I had never seen that before, so that was fun,” said Billund-Phibbs, a doctoral student and teacher’s assistant at the University of Minnesota’s Department of History.

Jan 18, 2024 | libnews.umn.edu | Adria Carpenter

Tomorrow, these young women will change the fields of orthopaedic surgery and engineering. But today, they’re learning the basics with drills, plastic bones, sutures, and bananas.

Jun 16, 2023 | littlevillagemag.com | Adria Carpenter