Welcome to Library of the Great Lakes
Contained within the immensity, complexity, and beauty of the Great Lakes are stories of shifting tectonic plates, volcanoes, and glaciers; of mammoths, and hunters; of First Nations, explorers, fur-traders, miners, and loggers; of great ships and bustling cities and industries that changed the world; of countless lives altered, enriched, and lost. The Great Lakes region is the home to innovation, research, technology, science, industry, architecture, poetry, theater, freshwater studies, lake effect snow, sustainable agriculture, fisheries, wilderness and wildness.
One fifth of Earth’s fresh surface water is contained in the Great Lakes. Lakes Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior are so big they create their own weather.
It is time they had their own Library.
New Edition of Living Here
Poet Keith Taylor gives us directions to a way of seeing among the jack pines in a new edition of Living Here.
Library of the Great Lakes welcomes new board member, Liz Hartig
We are delighted to welcome Liz Hartig as our newest member of the Board of Directors. She brings with her experience as an academic librarian with practical and visionary ideas for the Library of the Great Lakes to better serve our community. Welcome to our team!
Library of the Great Lakes begins Great Lakes Great Reads Book Tour!
Great Lakes Great Read author Sally Cole-Misch could be coming to a community near you!
The Library of the Great Lakes is launching a Great Lakes Great Read Book tour beginning this fall.
Partnering with local libraries and organizations, we will customize a program that is right for you. Take a look at a few examples of our GLGR Book tour programs. To learn more about the LGL GLGR Book tour contact us at info@libraryofthegreatlakes.org and support the program here.
To host your own author visit (real or virtual) in your community and to join the conversation visit the Great Lakes Great Read website.
Collage Photos:
Top Row, left to right: “Sandhill Crane Flying on and Autumn Morning,” photograph by Silke-Maria Weineck; Photo courtesy of Amanda Rockafellow; The City of Buffalo Steam Side Wheeler, Library of Congress collection; Portion of Detroit Public Library in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, 1921, Library of Congress collection; Two Indian guides(?) standing, and two women seated, in canoe, in the Sault Sainte Marie region of Michigan, Library of Congress collection; Montreal Winter Carnival 1887, Library of Congress collection.
Bottom row, left to right: Neighboring Lighthouse, Lake Michigan, St Joseph, MI, Library of Congress collection; Inspection Lincoln Motor Co. Detroit 1914 1915, Library of Congress collection; Sleeping Bear Dune_credit: johnshultzart.com; Great Lakes from space_credit: EPA; Photo courtesy of Amanda Rockafellow; McGregor Memorial Conference Cent., Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, Library of Congress collection.