2025 Virtual Program Schedule
The Library of Michigan's 2025 Virtual Program schedule is now available at Michigan.gov/LMPublicPrograms. All virtual programs take place on Zoom and registration is required. The topics for the 2025 schedule include:
- January 2, 2025 - Ancestry.com Library Edition
- February 6, 2025 - Cluster Research or Discovering You’re Related to the Whole Block
- March 6, 2025 - MyHeritage Library Edition
- April 3, 2025 - House Research
- May 2, 2025 - Cemetery Research with the Library of Michigan
- June 5, 2025 - Time To Hit the Books – Yearbooks, Alumni Lists, and more
- July 10, 2025 - Vital Records Research at the Library of Michigan
- August 7, 2025 - Digitizing My Family Tree: Formats, Software, and Techniques
- September 4, 2025 - Newspaper Research at the Library of Michigan
- October 2, 2025 - FamilySearch.org
- November 6, 2025 - Fold3 Library Edition
- December 4, 2025 - Michigan Pioneer Collections
All programs are on the first Thursday of each month starting at 6:30PM, except for the July program (it is the following week to avoid the July 4th holiday). All questions related to the 2025 virtual programs should go to Librarian@Michigan.gov or 517-335-1477.
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Library of Michigan Closing Announcement
The Library of Michigan will be closed on the following dates in December:
- Tuesday - Wednesday, December 24 - 25, 2024 (Christmas)
- Saturday, December 28, 2024
- Tuesday - Wednesday, December 31, 2024 - January 1, 2025 (New Year’s)
The State Law Library will be closed Monday, December 23, 2024 - Wednesday, January 1, 2025
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Michigan Yearbook Collection Project Update
The Library of Michigan grateful to the over 100 libraries, schools, organizations, and individuals who have reached out so far to donate yearbooks to Library of Michigan's collections. Several hundred yearbooks have been received with more on the way. Each yearbook helps preserve the stories of communities, schools, and individual people from all across the state. However, the collection project is by no means complete as the many communities still need to be represented in the collection.
Please help this project continue by spreading the word across Michigan. More information is available at Michigan.gov/LibraryGift. Potential donors are encouraged to first contact the Library of Michigan at Librarian@Michigan.gov or 517-335-1477.
 A portion of the yearbooks recieved so far by donors.
Michigan In Verse
Explore fast paced poetry slam to soothing nature scenes in Michigan in Verse as Michigan poets showcase the state's diverse voices through their stanzas and stories with Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer.
Michigan in Verse is a co-production of Library of Michigan and WKAR Public Media at Michigan State University. Learn more about the Michigan Poet Laureate program at Michigan.gov/PoetLaureate.
 Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer in "Michigan in Verse"
2025 History Detectives Grand Rapids
The Library of Michigan is pleased to be a collaborating organization along with several Grand Rapids area local history organizations to present the 2025 History Detectives Grand Rapids program on Saturday, January 18, 2025. Attendees can view 6 different presentations on topics connected to the history of Grand Rapids. The schedule and topics include:
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Michigan’s Lady Senator: Eva McCall Hamilton presented by Valerie Marvin | 9:30am – 10:15am
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Anywhere on the Face of Creation, but Michigan: Colonizing and Developing the Grand Rapids Fruit Ridge presented by Jayson Otto | 10:30am – 11:15am
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Sunken Stories of the Grand River and It’s Lost History presented by Adam Gross | 11:30am – 12:15pm
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Stanley Ketchel: Origins of American Achilles; Grand Rapids’ First World Boxing Champion presented by David Votta | 1:00pm – 1:45pm
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The WPA-funded City Tax Survey – A Literal Snapshot of Grand Rapids 1936-1938 presented by Pam VanderPloeg | 2:00pm – 2:45pm
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Baseball and the African American Experience in West Michigan presented by GF Korreck and George Bayard | 3:00pm – 3:45pm
The event is free to attend. Lunches may be purchased and reserved ahead of the program. Find program descriptions, presenter biographies, lunch reservation details, and additional information at https://historydetectivesgr.org
Coming Soon: Americans and the Holocaust exhibit
The Library of Michigan is one of 50 U.S. libraries newly selected to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association (ALA) that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.
Americans and the Holocaust will be on display in the Lake Erie Room at the Library of Michigan, along with a series of related special events, from January 11th, 2025 to February 22nd, 2025. More information about the exhibit and programs will soon be available at Michigan.gov/LibraryExhibits.
 Coming Soon: Americans and the Holocaust exhibit
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