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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 16/09/2026

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY please join us at AADL's AALF at 265 PARKLAND PLAZA for the GREAT LIBRARY BRAWL! Very few people on earth can say they witnessed pro wrestling in a library archives facility. DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO JOIN THIS ELITE CADRE! 4 PM Sunday. Free Admission! aadl.org/node/668772

Promo image for the Great Library Brawl made by Pure Pro Wrestling. Various Wrestlers looking tough or in action in front of a synthetic backdrop of library books.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 05/09/2026

10 years ago this weekend, @aadl.org opened our vastly expanded Westgate Branch, which immediately became one of our most popular locations, as busy as the Downtown Library. Please join me Sunday 9/6 from 1-2:30 for a simple celebration of 10 years of Westgate Branch!

Green graphic reading "Celebrating 10 Years of Westgate Branch, Sun Sep 6, 1 PM, Westgate" and including a national-park style posted of the Honeycomb Wall in the Westgate Kids Area.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 29/07/2026

One of the actions #SummerGame players can take for points is to make a public comment at a meeting of the AADL Board of Trustees. This always makes for very rewarding civic engagement, but this young player took it to the next level and displayed a preternatural grasp of parliamentary procedure!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 26/07/2026

Rapper Sean Forbes tearing up the Lobbytorium! Thank you so much for bringing the Deaf and Loud tour to the Downtown Library! What a great turnout!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 21/06/2026

It’s time for SOUSAPALOOZA for #makemusicday at Top of the Park! This instant band under the direction of Col. Jason Fettig (Ret.) is sounding great! Join us at 4:30 Sunday for an incredible tour through Sousa’s career with one of his greatest scholars. Don’t miss it!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 10/06/2026

The one and only AADL #SUMMERGAME is here and WHOA NELLY. Last year, on Day 3, we were marveling at the fact that we had 500 lawn codes already. WELL THIS YEAR it's only Day 2 and we already have OVER 1000. It's gonna be another big big year for the Summer Game! Get started today at play.aadl.org!

An openstreetmap view of what one would assume is Ann Arbor and its surrounding environs, almost completely obscured by red map pins.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 01/05/2026

The 2026 KYLYN Festival, celebrating AAPI arts & culture, begins at the Downtown Library with experimental improvisational quartet All Things Shining, featuring Marcus Elliot, Jon Monteverde, Chace Morris, and Chien-An Yuan. See the full list of events at kylynfest.com!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 28/04/2026

Last night, the AADL Board approved a transfer agreement, for the air rights above the Library Lane garage for inclusion in our new Downtown Library project. This milestone is the next step in a long journey, and we're looking forward to delivering an incredible new dream library for our community!

An incredible, colorful crayon drawing of a dream downtown library by a child named Mori, titled Indoor / Outdoor Playing. A blue sky fills the page with fluffy clouds floating by, a red and yellow sun in the top right, as a passenger jet pulling an AADL! banner flies over a smiling butterfly. The library itself is shaped like a tree with an underground kids room labeled "Books of the world!" inlcudling a changing room and a rainbow waterslide labeled "Awesome Library" leading into a pool where two people are snorkeling. In the tree are stacks and stacks of books, one labeled "Awesomeness" with three happy library patrons standing nearby. A guy with dark hair and a beard appears to be flying upwards inside the trunk, I choose to believe that is me.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 27/03/2026

Planning to attend a protest? Drop by Sign Lab tonight at the Downtown Library from 5-7 PM to make a sign and express yourself! aadl.org/node/666301

A promotional graphic for Sign Lab, Friday March 27th at 5 PM at the Downtown Library. It's a white paper sign on a wooden stick with a handwritten-looking SIGN LAB! text against a beautiful blue sky.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 20/03/2026

I hope you'll join me this Saturday, March 21st, from 11-1 for a low-key, drop in celebration of 20 years of Pittsfield Branch! aadl.org/node/665832

A graphic celebrating the birthday of the Pittsfield Branch. It features an illustrated building with water in the foreground and the text "Happy Birthday, Pittsfield Branch! Est. March 20, 2006" on a dark blue background with festive party iconography.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 20/03/2026

Today is the 20th anniversary of the opening of Pittsfield Branch Library! Suspended over a protected wetland that is home to birds, turtles, and muskrats, Pittsfield Branch had over 150,000 visits in FY25. Huge thanks to @debbiedingell.house.gov for her congressional tribute to the occasion!

A winter photo of a wooden birdhouse on the site of Pittsfield branch, with the steel and masonry building in the background. The birdhouses were an Eagle Scout project by Bill Gallagher.

A dramatic photo of Pittsfield Branch at night taken by Jim Howe on January 3, 2007. Tail lights of cars leave trails across the image and the building's windows glow warmly as the moon shines through clouds above.

The Homer Chance reading room at Pittsfield Branch. The arch of windows high on the wall let light stream through the exposed steel structure. Bright yellow suspended lighting fixtures point towards a vanishing point. Opening day flowers still stand in a vase on top of the fireplace. The treeline is visible through the windows.

A tribute from the Congressional Record by Representative Debbie Dingell on March 21st, 2026 (edited)

The Ann Arbor District Library (AADL) system was established in 1957 at the Downtown Library and has expanded to include four branch libraries over the past six decades. Holding over 480,000 materials - including books, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks, tools, art materials, and more - the library was named "National Library of the Year" by Library Journal in 1997.
Opened in March of 2006, the Pittsfield Branch serves as a community-based learning center for the residents of Ann Arbor's southwest quadrant while also capitalizing on environmental principles. The goal of the construction was to create a building that would operate in more harmony with the ecosystem and the community in which it serves; the library has done just that for 20 years.
The building houses an updated physical collection of books, DVDs, magazines, and more, as well as over two dozen public computer terminals and numerous collaboration spaces for the people who rely on it. Pittsfield Branch also incorporates solar heating, natural daylighting, convection cooling, and renewable resources for the ecosystem it exists in. More than 150,000 people visited Pittsfield Branch in 2025, checking out items from the collection, gathering in meeting rooms, and attending more than 300 in-person events throughout the year.
Mister Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me today in celebrating the remarkable 20" anniversary of AAPL's Pittsfield Branch. This milestone is a testament to the library's commitment to providing resources, expanding knowledge, and enriching the Ann Arbor community in a sustainable manner.
We commend the generations of members, workers, and visitors who have sustained and raised the library over its 20 years of service, We wish Pittsfield Branch Library continued success and many more years of bringing the community together.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 06/02/2026

Forklifting a pallet of McDonalds hashbrowns boxes full of VHS tapes of broadcast TV bound for @archive.org to make room for FIRST in Michigan’s swerve drive robotics training event in our warehouse this weekend while the local teams build their practice field. Just normal library director stuff.

View through the lift of a forklift holding a shrink wrapped pallet of mcdonalds boxes filled with vhs tapes of tv broadcasts from the naughts while a half-built high school robotics field lingers in the background and a humongous fan(tm) spins lazily above. The donation operations of the Friends of the library recede into the distance.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 25/01/2026

Matzo ball with extra matzo balls!

a steaming delicious pot of matzo ball soup bursting with amazing matzo balls!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 15/01/2026

All clear. Thanks again for the ping; as you know we’re not part of the city government and seeclickfix doesn’t reach us unless someone at the city manually lets us know.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 18/12/2025

Thanks so much for sharing these! Sorry to hear it's definitely over, but you brought us so much joy with this show. Best wishes to you and everyone who worked on the show. ❤️

Eli and Sherlonya as Mister Okay and Dr. Lullah from the amazing show Stugo. Mister Okay is a dog with human legs and waders, and Dr. Lullah is wearing a gold-trimmed labcoat and pink glasses.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 16/12/2025

I hope you’ll join us at the Downtown Library this very evening as we celebrate Miss Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with a ball and period dancing! Capital!

i’m clean shaven except for mutton chops, wearing a regency cravat, vest, and red officers coat with gold trim and epaulets, standing in the lobby with a large screen showing Jane Austen’s 250th birthday ball!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 30/10/2025

Collections department pumpkin coming in hot!

A dramatic tombstone painted on a pumpkin surrounded by roses and flower petals set against a dramatic black background. The epitaph reads R.I.P. BAKER & TAYLOR 1828-2025

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 26/10/2025

Stugo is my favorite new cartoon to come along in years. So of course I knew who AADL deputy director Sherlonya and I would be for Halloween: Mad Scientist Dr. Lullah and her loyal mutant dog henchman Mr. Okay. Thanks to @gillizama.bsky.social @wolfhard.bsky.social and crew for such a great show!

Eli dressed up as mutant dog Mr. Okay, including waders, galoshes, furry ears and a dog beard, while Sherlonya is the inimical Dr. Lullah in a white lab coat with gold trim and pink goggles.

A screenshot from Stugo showing Mr. Okay and Dr. Lullah in their cartoon form.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 12/10/2025

Akako G. Shins posing for a tintype portrait at Dead Media Day, just another day @aadl.org!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 12/10/2025

It’s gonna be a fun day at the Downtown Library! Join us for Dead Media Day from 11-3 Sunday and enjoy the vintage arcade. No tokens required!

vintage arcade cabinets in the downtown library’s 4th floor meeting room. galaga, centipede, ms. pac man, qbert, and space invaders are visible.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 10/10/2025

We have a packed weekend planned @aadl.org! SATURDAY: Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival Small & Indie Press edition, 11 AM - 5 PM Downtown SUNDAY: Dead Media Day, 11 AM - 3 PM Downtown; 16mm films, tin types, arcade games &c. Plus the Friends' Fall Bag Sale at 265 Parkland Plaza, Sat 10 AM - 2 PM!

Poster for A2CAF Small & Indie Press with a drawing of a comic book labeled COMICS! October 11th 11:00 AM 0 5:00 PM featuring CAROLINE CASH (but remotely) LISA HANAWALT JULIA WERTZ and the url AADL.ORG/a2cafsip

A muted, mondrian-style image of vhs tapes, typewriters, floppy disks, reel to reel recorders, labeled Dead Media Day, Downtown Library, 11 AM - 3 PM, Sunday October 12.

An image reading: Friends of the Ann Arbor District Library Fall Bag Sale! Saturday Oct 11 10AM - 2PM at the AALF (265 Parkland Plaza) faadl.org Just $5 a bag!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 31/08/2025

Here are some photos from my visits to Gangdong Libraries. I was invited to read a story to kids at the opening of the new Gangdong Central Library, so I read Chico Chews a Tale, from AADL's own Fifth Avenue Press!

Eli posing with a copy of Chico Chews a Tale, published by Fifth Avenue Press, and Korean children that have just heard him read the book, along with Gangdong-gu Mayor Lee Soo-hee.

The science book display wall at the Gangdong Forest Library, featuring science books donated by a scholar.

A shelf of books from AADL now available to Gangdong Library Patrons, including a handwritten note from Eli that says: "Congratulations on the opening of the Gangdong Central Library! Such a beautiful place for the people of Gangdong-gu. Thank you for inviting me to be a part of it!" An Akako G. Shins sticker is next to my signature.

The "Smiling Book Small Library", a small community library next to a playground.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 30/08/2025

Today Mayor Lee Soo-Hee of Gangdong-gu and I signed a partnership agreement bringing collaboration, and exchange of ideas and materials between Gangdong in Seoul and AADL! Thank you to the team here in Gangdong-gu for making me feel so welcome in Seoul! n.news.naver.com/article/001/...

Eli is wearing a black suit! And he is standing next to Mayor Lee Soo-hee of Gangdong, an autonomous district in Seoul. They are holding copies of the partnership agreement, in front of a sign reading "Gangdonggu - The Ann Arbor District Library Partnership Ceremony" in Korean and English.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 27/08/2025

I’m visiting Seoul this week as a guest of Gangdong-gu government, to participate in the opening ceremony for their new Central Library, and to celebrate a new partnership between Gangdong-gu and AADL. More photos of Gangdong-gu libraries to come!

view of morning over Lotte World, Lotte Tower, and Lotte World
Fantasy Forest

me in the airport holding the banner my Korean colleagues brought to welcome to me! It reads Welcome to Korea Eli Neiburger!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 26/08/2025

At the Game Over Gala we welcomed a new friend and AADL staffer: our new costumed mascot Akako G. Shins! Akakojiishiins means "Little Groundhog" in Ojibwe, and while they're not exactly little, they'll be making a big impression at AADL festivals and expos! aadl.org/akakogshins

An enormous furry costumed groundhog mascot wearing glasses, a blue puffer vest, a mustard yellow beanie, hiking boots, and an AADL staff badge, standing in front of an AADL Summer Game banner in the lobby of the Downtown Library with AADL Communications & Marketing Manager Rich Retyi and Library Director Eli!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 06/08/2025

Thank you to Ann Arbor for this huge vote of confidence in your library! We can't wait to get started on making everyone's dreams come true; we are up to the challenge and ready to create something truly special. Thanks to all our staff and supporters, and everyone who helped make this happen!

A crayon drawing of a library shaped like a colorful stack of books labeled THE Greatest Of All Time LIBRARY. Hearts bubble from the top as a happy sun wearing sunglasses looks on.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 02/08/2025

Silky Grooves is NOW OPEN in the lobby of the Downtown Library through our Lobby Shops incubator program! Check out records, vintage clothes and housewares, games, movies, decor and more. Open most Fri-Sun, see aadl.org/lobbyshops for their schedule. More to come!

A shot of Silky Grooves inventory, showing 2 crates of records, 2 shelves of DVDs, and a stack of books, board games and puzzles. An ernie puzzle is visible and a board game about farts called “Gas Out”

the vintage clothing racks at silky grooves. colorful dresses, shirts, gowns and funky tops.

A shelf of vintage cookie jars and ceramic decor at Silky Grooves. A teddy bear, witch, dark blue alligator, ducks, dogs, and a brown elephant are featured.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 23/06/2025

I hadn’t wanted to spoil it for those who had not yet SQUONKED, but here is the unbelievable climax of their show BROUHAHA. When i said don’t miss it, I meant it! Thank you to SQUONK for sharing your incredible creativity, vision, and SQUONKCORDION with the people of Ann Arbor!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 20/06/2025

Tonight at Ann Arbor Summerfest at 5:45 and 8 PM, @aadl.org is SO EXCITED to copresent: SQUONK. This setup is already legendary. Also two HOT shows Saturday and Sunday. Don’t miss this, Ann Arbor!

a stage with large accordion like bellows on front spelling out SQUONK. One can see Moogs, a drum set, trumpet and sousaphone bells, a gong… this is sure to be something else!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 13/06/2025

#summergame at @aadl.org is off to a RIP-ROARIN' start! It's only day 3, and we've already had over 500 lawn or library codes created. You've got all summer to find me & the 1000-point code on my shirt: aadl.org/findingeli This summer is already shaping up to be the biggest yet. THANKS FOR PLAYING!

A map of Ann Arbor showing red pins marking locations of lawn codes. They are absolutely everywhere, you can hardly see the map for the codes!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 27/05/2025

On August 5th, Ann Arbor will decide if @aadl.org adds the surface of the lot next door to its project to bring a new Downtown Library with housing above to the community. This summer, we want to see Your Dream Library on both sites. It just takes 4 LEGO plates to get started: aadl.org/node/642536

A rendering of four flat LEGO plates forming a microscale model of the sites of the Downtown Library and the surface of the Library Lane parking garage next door. A 2x4 plate, a 1x4 plate, and two 3x2 plates are all you need to get started.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 07/05/2025

AADL is proud to announce a new opportunity for the community. Applications are now open for the Downtown Library Lobby Shops: small, short-term, very inexpensive downtown retail space inside one of the busiest buildings in Downtown Ann Arbor. Apply by 6/1! More info here: aadl.org/lobbyshops

Green graphic with a sign hanging saying "AADL Lobby Shops, Applications Now Open" with the url aadl.org/lobbyshops

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 04/05/2025

one more from the Threepios: “Droids Don’t Fly”

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 04/05/2025

Star Wars Day @aadl.org in full effect! The Threepios present: Wicket. WICKET GOOD

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 29/03/2025

This is Walter, he comes with pre-installed handlebar streamers.

a closeup of a small black dog with a wide pitty face and a white jabot running from chin to belly. he’s sitting nicely and looking right at the camera. strange hairs extend from the ends of his ears, making him look a little like a schwinn. ancient oak floors beneath, beat up white baseboard to the right, patterned grey ikea chair to the left. he is a good boy

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 26/03/2025

With what's happening at IMLS, we've been getting some questions about how this might impact AADL. While we don't receive any direct federal funding, once I started writing about all the good that IMLS does, I couldn't stop. So here's 2500 words on what IMLS does for us all. aadl.org/whatIMLSdoes

A 4-part image. The top left has an illustration of a bear carrying a rock past trees and mountains in the background, with a blue sky above, while the old AADL and Exhibit Museum Logos hover overhead. The top right shows an illustrated grid of dirt labeled the dig with squares dug to different depths. An object is partially revealed in one of the squares as a brush removes dirt. The bottom left is labeled "Plate Puzzle" and has the tectonic plates of the world off a map they can be dragged onto. The bottom right has a 3d version of a map with a fault running through it, with buildings and trees that can be placed on a map as a timer counts down to an earthquake.

4-part image. The top left reads "The Village" showing graphics and sound quality settings, 4 simple cartoon faces, and a button labeled "begin", the top right features a close up of one face with a word balloon saying "Welcome to the forest, eli. I'm one of the village elders" and a button labeled go on... The bottom left shows an interface screen listing 8 starting villagers, each with their wellness, nutrition, health, and happiness meters, and their talent. The bottom right shows the village's inventory, with places for meat, bones, pelts, logs, sticks, boulders, stones, and more.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 18/02/2025

I'm looking forward to giving a talk this Wednesday night at Evening with OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) about what's going on @aadl.org. The short answer is A LOT! but I'm going to try to cover a hearty slice. mmcommunityprograms.med.umich.edu/umich/course...

White text on a black background reading: "More than you can imagine!"

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 10/01/2025

The Kids Area at the Downtown Library has closed for about 8 weeks of updates and reorganization! In the meantime, we’ve got a temporary Kids Room set up in the Lobby. Read all about it on my blog: aadl.org/node/636931

The Kids Room in the Lobby. Doors stand open with a sign that reads “kids room (it’s just temporary!) Some kids books, toys and seating are available. A toddler toddles by.

AADL staff hard at work relabeling some of the 50,000 books that will be relabeled and reahelved during the closure. 8 relabeling stations fill the story corner with carts of books and supplies everywhere!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 02/01/2025

2025 seems like a great time to start a blog. So, I'm restarting the AADL Director's Blog! For my first post, I look back over our massive Bicentennial Project and highlight my favorites. But, there are so many of them! So, here are my Top 100 of the Ann Arbor 200: aadl.org/aa200top100 Enjoy!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 12/12/2024

Hugely excited to release a new single from Athletic Mic League as part of our Ann Arbor 200 bicentennial project. Big thanks to Jamall Bufford and company for producing this track about their history. Download it now: aadl.org/madehistory

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 06/12/2024

One of the fun things we did for the program for Last Summer was to recreate this photo of Goudsmit, Heisenberg, Fermi and others with some of the cast, at the actual house in Ann Arbor where this conversation took place! From the Niels Bohr archive: repository.aip.org/islandora/ob...

A black & white photo from 1939 showing left to right, Umich Professor Samuel Goudsmit, Umich Dean Clarence Yokum, Werner Heisenberg, Enrico Fermi, and Ohio State Physicist John Kraus, standing in front of the home Goudsmit was living in in Ann Arbor.

The cast of Last Summer, photographed in black & white in November 2024. From Left to Right, Trevor Maher as Samuel Goudsmit, Greg Kovas as Werner Heisenberg, and Chris Grimm as Enrico Fermi, standing in front of the Ann Arbor home where the conversation took place in 1939.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 06/12/2024

Tomorrow we've got 2 big Bicentennial events! Join us Downtown at Noon to help us build the "new" LEGO courthouse around the "old" LEGO courthouse, as happened in 1954. Then at 2 PM, it's the world premiere of LAST SUMMER, a new play about a pivotal conversation that happened in Ann Arbor in 1939.

A rendered LEGO model of Washtenaw County's lost courthouse, red brick with limestone details, pointed towers at the corners, and a large tower in the center, set against a white background.

A picture of the program for Last Summer. It reads:
PLAYBILL
Ann Arbor District Library
Ann Arbor Civic Theater
Ann Arbor MI
LAST
SUMMER
Heisenberg
Fermi
Ann Arbor
and the Bomb
A New One-act Play by Jim Ottaviani

With the yellow Playbill banner at the top, and photo of Heisenberg and Fermi in Ann Arbor on the cover.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 03/12/2024

In 1974, the Ann Arbor Public Library produced a video series of interviews celebrating 150 years of the city's history. For our bicentennial project, filmmaker Aaron Valdez combed through 17 hours of rediscovered interviews to produce I Remember When: Bicentennial Remix: aadl.org/irwbicentenn...

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 02/12/2024

Also on December 7th at Noon, we'll debut David Lorch's new LEGO model of Ann Arbor's lost courthouse, and we'll invite members of the public to help us build a LEGO model of the new courthouse around it, just like what happened in 1955. aadl.org/node/634544

a rendering of a lego model of the old Washtenaw County Courthouse, with red brick and limestone, with a tall central tower, on a white background.

An aerial photograph showing the construction of the current Washtenaw County courthouse being build around the old courthouse in 1955.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 02/12/2024

On December 7th at 2 PM, we'll premiere a new play about a real conversation between Enrico Fermi and Werner Heisenberg that happened in Ann Arbor in 1939. Written by award-winning comics writer Jim Ottaviani, this short play follows Fermi's efforts to convince Heisenberg not to return to Germany:

Last Summer: Heisenberg, Fermi, Ann Arbor, and the Bomb. A New One-Act play by Jim Ottaviani

Saturday December 7 2 PM & Wednesday Dec 11 6:30 PM Downtown Library.

Featuring a photo of the real Heisenberg and Fermi, taken in Ann Arbor in 1939.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 15/11/2024

Please join us at the Downtown Library at 6:30 tonight for music and refreshments to celebrate the dedication of a new Black History Bicentennial Mural! Local artists were asked to reinterpret images from the AADL Archives, and the results are spectacular: aadl.org/blackhistory...

A colorful painting of a Black dane instructor demonstrating a pose with head turned and hands touching as 6 young Black girls in leotards watch closely and follow along. A boy sits in a chair with bongo drums, and a purple and blue curtain hangs behind.

An angled perspective of two panels on a green fence with the brick of the Downtown Library in the background. The panel on the left shows a bright yellow car superimposed over a black and white photo of a driver with a sign mounted on top of the car saying "This MAZDA is a LEMON". The closer photo shows 6 Black women in collage, with one seated at a piano, each wearing dresses, white socks, and black shoes, with golden haloes around their heads. Stained glass windows in the background and a swan swimming in blue water in the foreground.

A colorful painting of four Black men singing, with open-collar dress shirts of vibrant green, blue, red, and orange. An orchestra in a band shell is visible in the background with colorful musical notes floating above.

The entire fence mural, showing 8 panels of paintings from the aadl archives receding into the distance, with the brick of the downtown library behind.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 13/11/2024

And if you're a Mission Hill fan like me, you won't miss his appearance Sunday Night at Planet Ant in Hamtramck with Josh Weinstein to celebrate 25 years of Mission Hill with a screening and Q&A. (also a great excuse to get some pierogi.)

Poster for 25 years of Mission Hill with creators Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein. Planet Ant in Hamtramck. Purple gradient background with the characters of Mission hill sitting in theater seats facing the viewer.

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 13/11/2024

Please join us at 6 PM on Saturday 11/16, to welcome former Simpsons showrunner, food personality, and collectible vinyl toy impresario @thatbilloakley.bsky.social to the Downtown Library! Bill's work is a delight across many media, and a fun evening is a surety! aadl.org/node/629419

A poster for Bill Oakleys event at the Downtown Library, featuring a simpsons-style drawing of Bill holding a burger aloft with a plate of fries in front of him. Text reads: The Ann Arbor District Library presents Food Personality & Former Simpsons Showrunner, Saturday November 16, 6 PM, Downtown Library. Bill Oakley Talks Food and also The Simpsons and food ON and AT The Simpsons, The Story of Steamed Hams, TUBBB! Krustyburgers and More!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 26/10/2024

Today we had the honor of hosting Michigan SoS Jocelyn Benson at Westgate! Ann Arbor residents can stop by Traverwood, Malletts, or Westgate from 11AM-7PM through 11/3 to cast their ballot. Thanks to SoS Benson, our AADL Trustees, and all the other elected officials who came out to cast their vote!

Library Director Eli Neiburger at the Podium in the Kids Room at Westgate branch in Ann Arbor. Elected officials including AADL Trustee Onna Solomon, Ann Arbor City Councilor Travis Radina, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Washtenaw County Commissioner Yusuf Rabhi, Michigan Representative Carrie Rheingans, Michigan Senator Sue Shink, Secretary Benson's ASL interpreter, and State Representative Jason Morgan, are visible. The background is the color honeycomb of reading nooks.

AADL Trustees Lisa Campbell, Molly Kleinman, Onna Solomon, Cat Hadley, and Aidan Sova, with AADL Director Eli Neiburger and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

The line for early voting at Westgate branch, stretching from the meeting room past the cafe and out towards the front door!

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