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UM LIBRARIES
| Library Link | Description |
| Art, Architecture & Engineering Library | Located at Duderstadt Center, North Campus. Plenty of computer science, engineering type books. Don't forget to check out O'Reily electronic books online for programming manuals. |
| Asia Library | Asian language books, magazines, searchable assets. |
| Askwith Media Library | |
| Digital Library Production Service Collections | DLPS provides access to over 200 text, image, and finding aid collections that collectively provide access to over a million digital objects. |
| Fine Arts Library | The library maintains a collection of print and electronic resources in the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts. The library contains over 100,000 volumes covering painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic arts, decorative arts, architectural history and photography. The Library also houses the OSR, a reading room of non-circulating East Asian language material on the visual arts. |
| Sumner and Laura Foster Library | Foster Library maintains a core collection of journals, working papers and books in economics and public policy. |
| Government Documents Center | The Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news. |
| Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library | The Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library is the University of Michigan's primary research collection for the humanities and social sciences. Its collection numbers approximately 2.5 million volumes including 10,000 journals and periodical subscriptions written in several hundred languages and covering a broad array of subject specialities. |
| Dentistry Library | The library's primary focus is on the research, education and clinical literature. The journal literature, both print and electronic is the most current record of advances in knowledge and is therefore emphasized more over other published forms in this library. Electronic access to the catalog has enhanced the collection's reputation as a national resource. |
| Public Health Library & Informatics | Public Health Library & Informatics provides library and informatics services for the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The library is one of the nineteen distributed libraries comprising the University Library system, and its collection of books, journals, databases, and electronic resources supports teaching and research in the School as well as the broader campus community. The informatics division supports the School of Public Health's curriculum, including both classroom and online learning environments. |
| Taubman Medical Library | The Alfred Taubman Medical Library is a divisional library within the University Library system. It is one of the health sciences cluster libraries -- which also includes the Dentistry and Public Health libraries -- and which works closely together to coordinate collection development, especially in areas of overlapping interest. |
| Map Library | The Map Library is the principal collection for cartographic materials at the University of Michigan, with an emphasis on both historic and modern mapping, including digital resources. It supports teaching and research activities of faculty, staff and students in many disciplines. |
| Museums Library | The Museums Library serves the principle literature needs of curators and researchers in the Museums of Anthropology, Exhibits, Paleontology, Zoology and the University Herbarium. The Library collections of 130,000+ cataloged volumes focus on taxonomic botany and zoology, behavioral biology, paleontology and archaeological anthropology. |
| Papyrus Collection | With over 7,000 inventory numbers and more than 10,000 individual fragments, this collection is one of the largest of its type in the world. |
| Shapiro Science Library | * Astronomy
* Biology * Chemistry * General Science * Geoscience (VGL) * History of Science * Mathematics * Natural Resources * Physics * Statistics |
| Shapiro Undergraduate Library | The Shapiro Undergraduate Library is named after the 10th president of the University of Michigan, Harold T. Shapiro. His wife, Vivian B. Shapiro, earned her master's degree in social work from the University of Michigan and is an Associate Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Work. The University Library consists of many libraries and vast collections, but the best place to start your research is at the Shapiro Undergraduate Library. Most undergraduate library research consists of finding books and finding journal articles. To find what books (and journals subscriptions, datafiles, CDs, etc.) that the University Library owns, connect to the library catalog, Mirlyn. To find out what databases we have and to find citations to scholarly articles, use Search Tools.. |
| Social Work Library | The Social Work Library (SWL) supports in particular the professional education information needs of the School of Social Work, including its values and ethics, through the library's services, instructional efforts, collections, and collaborative computing resources. |
| Special Collections Library | The Special Collections Library holds internationally recognized collections of books, serials, ancient and modern manuscripts, posters, playbills, photographs, pamphlets, artwork, and other materials. Tracing their roots back to one of the earliest Rare Book Rooms in the United States, these collections are the primary basis of research for many scholars, both from the University of Michigan and from around the world. |
| Towsley Reading Room (Ford School of Public Policy, Weill Hall) | The reading room includes a collection of core books and recent issues of journals relating to public policy. The Towsley catalog is not available online, please call or email the Towsley Reading Room to find out if a book is in the collection. |
Independent Libraries on Campus
| Library Link | Description |
| Kresge Business Administration Library | Ross School of Business library |
| Law Library | The Library’s comprehensive collection covers Anglo-American, foreign, comparative, and international law, and includes legislation, court reports, and appropriate administrative material from all U.S. jurisdictions, Great Britain and the Commonwealth, Europe, and most Asian and South American countries. |
| Kresge Business Administration Library | Dearborn campus library |
| Population Studies Center | The Ronald and Deborah Freedman Library holds over 45,000 publications, government and U.N. documents, dissertations, working papers, and monographs and supports the research projects of Population Studies Center members with a variety of services. |
| Frances Willson Thompson Library | Flint campus library |
| Transportation Research Institute Library | The UMTRI Library houses one of the world's most extensive collections of literature on traffic safety. It reflects the diversity of disciplines that the field comprises: biomechanics, lighting, vehicle dynamics, driver behavior, and injuries from motor-vehicle crashes. The collection is also strong in the areas of intelligent transportation systems, crash causation, driver distraction, and the automotive industry. Its collection includes more than 110,000 items and more than 210 periodical titles. The library's catalog can be searched online. The library also continues to add its catalog records to TLCat, a union catalog that comprises the holdings of nineteen different transportation libraries. |
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| Book Title | Comments |
| New Venture Creation by Jeffry Timmons | New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship For The 21st Century is a book about the actual process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it, and starting again. |
| Zero to IPO by David Smith | "Zero-to-IPO plots out the life of a high-tech startup in the context of a journey. The journey starts at Zero with the formation of a private company to commercialize a new technology or invention. This journey terminates when the company ceases to exist as a private, independent corporation – at IPO, Acquisition or Shutdown." |
| Good to Great by Jim Collins | "Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time." |
| The E-Myth by Michael Gerber | According to Gerber, the role of the business owner is to create a business that works independently of himself or herself. If that is the case, there is an "end point" where the business functions independently of the business owner. At that point, the business owner may choose to sell it or not, but he or she will have created a ready-to-sell "money making machine" for which he or she may choose the effort to devote to it. The business can also be duplicated from place to place. |
| The Young Entrepreneurs' Edge by Jennifer Kushnell | "If you are ever going to take risks in exploring your career options, this is the absolute best time to do it," says 26-year-old entrepreneurial expert Jennifer Kushell. "Why wait until you have a semi-stable corporate job and major financial obligations to discover that you hate your career and need to make a big change?" |
| The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting and Running a Business by Steve Mariotti | Brief case studies and inspiring tales of notables who started young, including Russell Simmons of Def Jam, Tom Monaghan of Domino's Pizza, and Steve Perlman of WebTV, offer encouragement. |
| The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship by William D. Bygrave | A reference for prospective entrepreneurs covers such topics as identifying sound business opportunities, creating a business plan, calculating financial projections, working with venture capital and debt financing, getting assistance, marketing, and the Internet. |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker | Peter Drucker's classic book on innovation and entrepreneurship This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, Innovation and Entrepreneurship explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures need to know and do to succeed in today's economy. |
| At Work with Thomas Edison by Blaine McCormick | "Among the key lessons readers can learn from Edison are "limit your way to greater creativity" (Edison felt his deafness helped his creativity) and "the greatest innovators have made a lot of F's" (failure is essential to inventions). McCormick includes the inventor's own words as well as success stories about others who, like Edison, have achieved success through untraditional methods (including one of this season's top success stories, General Electric CEO Jack Welch)." |
| Multiple Streams of Income by Robert G. Allen | In Multiple Streams of Income, bestselling author Robert Allen presents ten revolutionary new methods for generating over $100,000 a year—on a part-time basis, working from your home, using little or none of your own money. For this book, Allen researched hundreds of income-producing opportunities and narrowed them down to ten surefire moneymakers anyone can profit from. |
| Harvard Business Review on Entrepreneurship by Amar Bhldt et al | Beginning with the basics of writing a business plan, this wide-ranging resource moves on to cover sophisticated topics such as how to navigate the world of venture capital funding and strategies for turning technological innovations into successful marketplace realities. Harvard Business Review on Entrepreneurship offers valuable insights for all types of business pioneers. |
| The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki | What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers. |
| Fire in the Belly - an exploration of the entrepreneurial spirit by Yanky Fachler | This book is dedicated to what the author describes as "the neglected part of the entrepreneurial equation", asking what it means to go out and do your own thing. It attempts to analyze that "fire in the belly" that fuels the entrepreneurial urge. The author explores the thrill, the challenge, the fun - and the problems - of becoming an entrepreneur. |
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