Thursday, December 13, 2012

Library hours extended during exam week

Find out the hours during exams or during break for any campus library at http://www.lib.umich.edu/hours/index.php

New Resource: International Studies Encyclopedia


The University Library is pleased to announce access to a new online resource: International Studies Encyclopedia.
This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference work of its kind for the fields of international studies and international relations. It includes over 400 signed articles on all aspects of international studies, including topic areas such as peace studies, diplomacy studies, foreign policy analysis, global development and environmental studies.  The print format of the International Studies Encyclopedia was published in 12 volumes (2010).  Edited by Robert A. Denemark, this work is a product of the International Studies Compendium Project and is published in association with the International Studies Association.

Share Your Academic Work in Bert's Study Lounge



Sharing is part of discovering.

Display your academic work on the big(ish) screens in Bert's Study Lounge in the Shapiro Library. We're looking for art, images, presentations, videos and more!  See our submission and display guidelines for details. Questions? Contact us at shapiroscreens@umich.edu.

MLibrary Image Collections


MLibrary staff are so pleased to announce the refresh of our MLibrary Image Collections interface.MLibrary Image Collections interface provides connections to databases of digitized images of artworks, cultural and historical artifacts, etc., from museums and other sources maintained by the Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) at the University of Michigan Library. You can also search across all the image databases with the Image Collections search engine. Our impetus in modifying this interface was to greatly enhance the discoverability and use of these collections by any user. If you have questions about this new interface, please contact dlps-help@umich.edu.

Upcoming CTools workshops


There are several CTools sessions scheduled in the next few weeks to help you get ready for winter term.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/tag/ctools/

The Faculty Exploratory will be open through December 20th to help you get ready, but will be closed Dec. 21 - Jan 7th.

Library Used Book Sale Mon. 12/17


Monday, November 19, 2012

Translating Slavery, Translating Freedom panel Nov.28, 4:00-6:00pm


Translating Slavery, Translating Freedom
4:00-6:00pm, Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The Gallery, Hatcher Graduate Library
University of Michigan

Presenters will discuss issues related to translation in the contexts of slavery and emancipation.
      
The panel will feature:
Françoise Massardier-Kenney: Translating Slavery
Martha Jones: Emancipation's Many Legalities
Jean M. Hébrard: Translating Freedom in the Atlantic World
Christi Merrill will moderate.

This panel during the Fall 2012 LSA Translation Theme Semester coincides with the Proclaiming Emancipation exhibit in the Gallery of Hatcher Graduate Library, and will include light refreshments.    

This event is co-sponsored by the U-M Library, the Romance Languages and Literatures Department, the History Department, the Institute for the Humanities, the International Institute, and the Fall 2012 LSA Translation Theme Semester.

Françoise Massardier-Kenney is Professor of French and Director of the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University where she teaches in the graduate program in translation. She is the editor of the American Translators Association Scholarly Series, and her publications include Translating Slavery (with Doris Kadish), the monograph Gender in the Fiction of George Sand (2001), a translation of Sand’s Valvèdre (2007) and of Antoine Berman’s Toward a Translation Criticism, and numerous articles on Sand, nineteenth-century women’s writers, slavery and translation. She is the co-editor with Carol Maier of Literature in Translation.

Martha S. Jones is associate professor of history, associate chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and a member of the Law School's Affiliated LSA Faculty, where she is codirector of the Michigan Law Program in Race, Law & History. Her scholarly interests include the history of race, citizenship, slavery, and the rights of women in the United States and the Atlantic world.  Professor Jones is curator of Proclaiming Emancipation on view at the Hatcher Library, with Clayton Lewis.

Jean M. Hébrard teaches history of colonial and post-colonial societies in the Atlantic World in the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris where he is the co-director of the Centre de Recherches sur le Brésil Contemporain. He is also the co-director of the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project at the University of Michigan where he has been a visiting professor each fall since 2008. He recently published a book with Rebecca Scott on the circulation of a Creole family in the Atlantic world before and after the Haitian Revolution (Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation), and edited a book on the history of slavery in Brazil (Brésil: Quatre siècles d’esclavage). 

Christi Merrill is associate professor of South Asian literature and postcolonial theory in the Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature, and co-director of the Fall 2012 LSA Theme Semester on Translation. She writes about the theory and practice of translation, including Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession (Fordham University Press, 2009). Her 2010 translation of Chouboli, a two-volume collection of the humorous, oral-based stories of contemporary Rajasthani writer Vijaydan Detha won the 2012 A.K. Ramanujan Prize for translation. She is currently working on issues surrounding human rights literature in translation.

Cuban Book Artist talk Dec 5th, 4-6pm at the Library Gallery



Rolando Estévez, from Matanzas, Cuba has created over 500 handmade artist books, magazines, plaquettes, and catalogs for the independent publishing house, Ediciones Vigía. His books are collected privately and in cultural institutions in Europe and the US, such as the British National Library, the Atlantic Art Museum, the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the U.S. Library of Congress, as well as numerous universities in the U.S., Canada and other countries in the Americas. The University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, holds a major collection of these extraordinary books.
Please join us for a retrospective presentation by Estévez as he speaks about his work designing these spectacular books over the last twenty-seven years and the role of being an artist in Cuba today. His presentation will be followed by a reception.
December 5, 2012
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Hatcher Library Gallery

Friday, November 16, 2012

LS&A and University Library Offer Digital Research in the Humanities Course

In Winter 2013, LS&A and the University Library will offer a new two-credit course on advanced research called UC 270-010: Digital Research in the Humanities.

UC 270-010: Digital Research in the Humanities is aimed at upper-level undergraduates interested in gaining expertise in advanced research strategies. Students will be introduced to the conventions of scholarly research within their disciplines by developing research questions, conducting literature reviews, and presenting the results of their research. In this course, the emphasis
will be on understanding disciplinary research processes, finding primary and secondary sources, synthesizing information, and thinking critically about how sources support a scholarly argument. This course will prepare students for conducting research throughout their academic careers. Class meets 10 am - 12 pm, Wednesdays in 1245 NQ. Contact the instructor, Sigrid Anderson Cordell (scordell@umich.edu), for more information.


Friday, November 9, 2012

UMMA Multipurpose Room - Info Sessions



Information Sessions on Teaching and Research at UMMA
Multipurpose Room (Room 125), University of Michigan Museum of Art
November 28, 10:00 - 10:30

UMMA invites faculty and graduate students from across the university to come and learn how to access our collection of nearly 19,000 art objects for teaching and research.

A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has enabled UMMA to hire two staff members—David Choberka, the Mellon Academic Coordinator, and Anne Drozd, the Mellon Collections Assistant—who can help to connect faculty and graduate students to UMMA’s resources.

We are particularly interested in promoting and assisting innovative use of our collection by instructors who teach in academic units that do not regularly work with art objects and in connecting faculty for creative, interdisciplinary approaches to teaching with visual and material culture.

We will also be offering two information sessions next semester.

Please plan on coming.

Sincerely,

David Choberka (dchoberk)                                     
Mellon Academic Coordinator                                 

Anne Drozd (drozda)
Mellon Collections Assistant

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Mellon Academic Coordinator

University of Michigan Museum of Art
+1 734 615 8181 phone
+1 734 764 2540 fax

525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1354
www.umma.umich.edu
www.facebook.com/ummamuseum

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3106 Modern Languages Building
812 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275

New Copyright Guide: What can I put in CTools? Ten Copyright Considerations

 by Melissa Levine
 'Can I put this in CTools?'
This is one of the most common questions posed to UM Copyright Office staff. We've come up with a new (short) resource to help faculty and staff with copyright decisions they make in using CTools.  
LibGuide format
or PDF as ©Guide | What Can I Put in CTools? Ten Copyright Considerations (PDF) 
Thanks to Kristina Eden and Jack Bernard for their help with this.  If you have a copyright question that comes up regularly, give us a call to see if we should develop a resoure for you. If have a copyright question, its likely someone else is wondering about the same thing.

Rhizome - for emerging artistic practices that engage technology


The Library has an institutional subscription to Rhizome http://rhizome.org

Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Through open platforms for exchange and collaboration, their website serves to encourage and expand the communities around these practices. Their programs, many of which happen online, include commissions, exhibitions, events, discussion, archives and portfolios. They support artists working at the furthest reaches of technological experimentation as well as those responding to the broader aesthetic and political implications of new tools and media. Their organizational voice draws attention to artists, their work, their perspectives and the complex interrelationships between technology, art and culture.

If you haven't already signed up, you can register here: http://rhizome.org/preferences/register.rhiz

Monday, October 22, 2012

Sign up for A&D Field Librarian's Office Hours

My office hours are now posted on my calendar. If you would like to meet with me simply click on the link below to view my available hours. Just click on the hour you would like and you will be signed up. Please make sure that your Google calendar is set for Eastern Standard Time.

Here is the link:
 https://www.google.com/calendar/selfsched?sstoken=UVBxbHplSkVlcHhhfGRlZmF1bHR8ZmVjY2RhMzEzMGRhMDQyNDY5MmRjYTU4YTg3NGIzY2I

Annette Haines
Art & Design Field Librarian

Drawing On Nature: Animal Illustrations, New Exhibit at the Shapiro Science Library




This exhibit features animal illustrations by Professor Joseph Trumpey from the School of Art & Design and the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.

Date: October 5th - April 30th

Location: Shapiro Science Library, 3rd Floor Connector Hall

http://www.lib.umich.edu/events/drawing-nature-animal-illustrations

Grants Classes


Finding Funding for Graduate Students
This hands-on workshop will present an overview of online resources at that can assist you in getting fellowships, internships, and dissertation/research grants. Online sources list and describe tens of thousands of current funding opportunities. We will discuss and demonstrate the various web-based funding databases available, search strategies, and how to establish email alerts. Additionally, there will be a discussion about matching sponsor and student priorities. (All sessions cover identical content.)

   
     * Wednesday, October 17th, 12-1:30pm, ULIC (4059 Shapiro)
     * Wednesday, November 14th, 12-1:30pm, ULIC (4059 Shapiro)
     * Thursday, December 6, 12-1:30pm, ULIC (4059 Shapiro)
     * Monday, December 10, 4-5:30pm, ULIC (4059 Shapiro)

Great Grantsmanship: Finding Funding Sources for Faculty Research and Academic Projects
This hands-on workshop will present an overview of online and human resources at UM that can assist you in getting research grants. Online sources list and describe thousands of current funding opportunities. We will discuss and demonstrate the various web-based funding databases currently available, search strategies, establish email alerts, and create and use individual expertise profiles. Additionally, there will be a discussion about matching sponsor and faculty priorities. (All sessions cover identical content.)

     * Friday, October 12, 9-11am (4041 Shapiro)
     * Thursday, October 25, 11:30am-1:30pm (Gallery Lab, Room 100 Graduate Library)
     * Friday, November 9, 9-11am (ULIC, 4059 Shapiro)
     * Thursday, December 6, 2-4pm (ULIC, 4059 Shapiro)

To register for any of the workshops, please point your browser to: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/

Sam Karres: Sketchbooks -- October 24 Exhibit and Reception

The University of Michigan Library and the U-M Modern Greek Program invite you to an exhibit and reception on Wednesday, October 24 from 4-6 pm celebrating urban expressionist painter Sam Karres, who recently donated his sketchbooks to the Library.  His drawings, mostly in pen and ink, illuminate his city of Detroit.  Brief remarks by the artist and others followed by light refreshments.

Workshop for UM faculty authors


Can My Book Cross Over to a Mainstream Audience?
Should I Get a Literary Agent?
Strategic Workshop for Faculty
  • How can I tell if my book has mass appeal?
  • How do I write for a sophisticated lay audience?
  • How do I find the right agent?
  • What will an agent do for me?
  • How do I get media attention for my work?

On Friday, November 16, Rebecca Sestili, Author-Publisher Liaison, welcomes Dr. Carole Sargent, Director of Georgetown University’s Office of Scholarly Publications. She joins us on campus for a morning publishing workshop to share her experience working with Georgetown’s faculty on these topics and to answer your questions. You'll leave the workshop with a good idea of how take your book to mainstream readers and how to bring media attention to you and your work.

When:  Friday, November 16, 2012, 10:00 to noon.

Where: Michigan Union, Welker Room

Who should come: Faculty at any level are encouraged to attend. The workshop is highly suitable for authors interested in reaching a broad audience.

RSVP to rsestili@umich.edu by November 9, 2012

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR: Carole Sargent, Ph.D. is Director of Scholarly Publications at Georgetown University, where she was previously on the English Department faculty. Her two books with Farrar, Straus & Giroux received attention in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and on "60 Minutes," NPR and CNN, among many others. She leads a workshop, “Public Intellectual,” for faculty authors at Georgetown, and she has brought literary agents from William Morris Endeavor, Trident Media, and ICM to campus. Her office has been profiled in The Chronicle of Higher Education and featured in Change. She welcomes your questions or thoughts before the workshop, booklab@georgetown.edu.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

The Clark Library is offering workshops on GIS, Excel, and data visualization


The Clark Library is a new library combining the Government Information and Map Collections and Spatial and Numeric Data Services (SAND, including SAND North).

Find and register for a workshop at http://www.lib.umich.edu/clark-library/services/classes-workshops.

These workshops are free and open to anyone on campus. As always, consultations on finding data and using software are available, including topics not covered in workshops this term, such as finding and using Census data, and more advanced features of ArcGIS. See http://lib.umich.edu/clark-library for contact information or to make an appointment!

Workshop titles for fall 2012:

Intro to GIS
Data Visualization Strategies
Mapping Strategies for Complex Data
Excel: Beyond the Basics

Make a free tote at the Shapiro Tech Deck


"Academic Publishing Untangled" workshop for faculty


Rebecca Sestili, the Author Publisher Liaison, is offering two sessions of her popular "Academic Publishing Untangled" workshop for faculty and post-docs this fall:
This session, directed to tenure-track faculty and post-docs planning an academic career, will take you step by step through the process of getting your book published.  In an informal setting, I’ll stop along the way to answer your questions, general and specific, and offer tips on how to get your book proposal noticed, what to look for in your contract, and many other topics.

Academic Publishing Untangled
Monday, October 15, 2012
10AM-12PM
Michigan Union, Welker Room
register via email

Academic Publishing Untangled
Friday, October 26, 2012
10AM-12PM
Hatcher Gallery Lab
register via  TTC

Stock photos available from Thinkstock


Thinkstock Photos is a product that provides all sorts of royalty-free stock photos, illustrations, and notably, vector graphic possibilities. University of Michigan affiliates are permitted up to 25 downloads per day (750/month). Thinkstock can be used for searches as specific as Detroit, Ann Arbor, or brick wall; but it’s also useful for more generic or concept-based searches, like confusion, smile, or skyline. 
Access Thinkstock at this link: https://www.lib.umich.edu/pk/resource.php?011386960

Thursday, September 27, 2012

UM Department of the History of Art presents a new website for their Visual Resources Collections


As part of a larger effort to make more of our collections available to the U-M as well as the global community, the new site features more images from our collections, articles about the collections and the people connected to them, news items specific to the VRC, events listings, streamlined navigation, and more.

The combined efforts of History of Art/VRC staff and the LSA web services team have created a website to match the needs of the VRC community as we move forward into the digital age.
 
Please join us at  www.lsa.umich.edu/histartvrc and explore the site.
 
Sincerely,
Matt Biro, Chair, History of Art
Kim Schroeder, Head, Visual Resources Collections
 
 
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Stephanie Harrell
Communications Specialist
University of Michigan

Strategies and Techniques for Effectively Using Video in Teaching


Monday, 10/1, 6:00 pm-7:30 pm
There are a multitude of possibilities for bringing video into today’s classroom to support student learning, but how can it best be done in a way that encourages learning and involvement? In this session we will explore the realities of what can be done with current technology as well as some ideas for what might be possible with new technologies on the horizon. We will explore three aspects of classroom use: making video available to students 24/7; effective use of video for classroom presentations; and ways to support students with creating video based assignments.

Register at:
http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/strategies-and-techniques-for-effectively-using-video-in-teaching/

Read Out-- Banned Books Week, Oct. 4th on the Diag

Next week is Banned Books Week. The Read Out will be Thursday, Oct. 4th, from noon-1pm on the diag. The Read Out is an annual event where readers from the campus community read short passages (2-3 minutes) from banned books. Please pass this information along to any interested departments, campus organizations, and individuals. Readers can contact me to schedule a time to read.

Library celebrating recently-published books by faculty


The UM Library is launching an effort to celebrate new book publications by UM authors across the Humanities and Social Sciences. We will host an annual event in recognition of new work, and will feature new releases in a special UM Authors Corner housed in the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Have you published a book during this calendar year (or, will you be publishing one before April 2013)? If so, we'd love to know about it.

Kind regards,

Barbara Alvarez, Jennifer Bonnet, Sigrid Cordell, and Aaron McCollough
MLibrary Faculty Publication Project 
newfacultybooks@umich.edu

Friday, September 14, 2012

Solo Exhibit Series Reception in Bert's Study Lounge


           Please join us for a reception highlighting University of Michigan student work. Featured Artists: Aaron Rappaport, Shannon Kohlitz, Katie Eberts, and Alden Reiss. Refreshments will be served!
Event Details
Date:September 17th, 2012
Time:4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:Bert's Study Lounge, Shapiro Lobby

Is your Ctools site getting messy?

Did you know that you can customize your Ctools site by rearranging and deleting tabs? Check out this quick and easy video tutorial to learn how:

http://www.umich.edu/~umctdocs/TabTutorial.html

Contact me if you would need help.

Annette Haines
Art & Design Librarian
ahaines@umich.edu

New database of performance videos - OntheBoard.tv


The Library has just subscribed to OntheBoards.tv, a streaming video resource providing access to contemporary performances by innovators in the realms of theater, dance, and music:

OntheBoards.tv

OntheBoards.tv is an on-demand website for HD-quality contemporary performance films available for streaming, download or mobile viewing. Launched in January 2010, this first-of-its-kind site brings contemporary work to a wider public by filming top caliber performances with multiple high-definition cameras, editing the film collaboratively with the artists, and delivering them online as feature-length performance films. OntheBoards.tv has more than doubled in size with plans to continue adding multiple new performance films each year. Filmed at On the Boards in Seattle, WA, as well as in peer theaters across the country, the performances present a snapshot of the best new works by current leaders in dance, theater and music. The films consist of compelling international and northwest contemporary performance, including works by artists who are rarely seen in the US and works that will never be performed again. 

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

New interlibrary loan service offers access to 90 million items

Check out this short article in the Record about our new super-fast Interlibrary Loan Service called UBorrow

http://www.ur.umich.edu/update/archives/120905/uborrow

Please let us know what you think!

Friday, August 31, 2012

Using the proxy bookmarklet to access library materials from off campus

Have you ever been browsing the web and come across and article, but because you are off campus you are unable to access the full text? The proxy bookmarklet lets you reload a web page through the U-M Library's proxy server. If the page you are visiting is one that the library has a subscription for, then you should get immediate access to the resource once you've logged in with your uniqname and Kerberos password and have been verified to have a valid library account.

See this link for a quick video tutorial on how to set up the proxy bookmarklet:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/mlibrary-labs/proxy-server-bookmarklet

ARTstor now includes even more contemporary art images

ARTstor, the digital library of more than one million images, has signed an Online Art Agreement (OLA) with Artists Rights Society (ARS) on behalf of six additional international visual arts organizations covering more than 10,000 new artists from six countries. This substantially expands the ARTstor Digital Library’s modern and contemporary artworks for subscribers.

The artists covered in the agreement include: Waino Aaltonen (Finland), Raul Anguiano (Mexico), Oscar Araripe (Brazil), Charles Blackman (Australia), Paul-Emile Borduas (Canada), Arthur Boyd (Australia), Jack Bush (Canada), Fernando and Umberto Campana (Brazil), José Chávez Morado (Mexico), Grace Cossington-Smith (Australia), Adam Cullen (Australia), Wilhelm Dachauer (Austria), Ken Done (Australia), Destiny Deacon (Australia), Max Dupain (Australia), Felipe Ehrenburg (Mexico), Valie Export (Austria), Rosalie Gascoigne (Australia), James Gleeson (Australia), Jorge González Camarena (Mexico), Oswaldo Goeldi  (Brazil), Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Austria), Eero Jarnefelt (Finland), Angelika Kaufmann (Austria), Manfred Kielnhofer (Austria), Awad Krayem (Austria), Emily Kngwarreye (Australia), Ozias Leduc (Canada), Elwyn Lynn (Australia), Adolfo Mexiac  (Mexico), Benito Messeguer (Mexico), Tracey Moffatt (Australia), Rodolfo Morales (Mexico), Hermann Nitsch (Austria), John Olsen (Australia), Jose Clemente Orozco (Mexico), Mike Parr (Australia), Jean-Paul Riopelle  (Canada), Georg Paul Thomann (Austria), Francisco Toledo (Mexico), Brett Whiteley (Australia), Fred Williams (Australia), Peter Paul Wiplinger (Austria), and Erwin Wurm (Austria), among thousands more.
For further information about the agreement see the ARTstor Blog at:

http://artstor.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/new-agreement-with-international-affiliates-of-the-artists-rights-society-ars/



MLibrary Open House for Graduate Students and Faculty

It's YOUR Library. Come learn about it!

MLibrary invites faculty and graduate students to the Library Open House, on Monday September 10, 2012 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., on the second floor of the Graduate Library in the Clark Library. Meet many different subject librarians, learn about our amazing collections, and find out about how we can help you with your teaching and research needs.

Refreshments available as well as a raffle. See you on September 10th!


Thursday, August 30, 2012

Using Google Calendar to Schedule Office Hours

Did you know you can use Google Calendar to set up appointment slots? I recently did this to set up individual meetings with the first year Graduate Students. Basically all it involves is blocking out a time on your calendar and sending your students an email with a URL so they can sign up. The complete instructions are here:

http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=190998

See me and I can help you do this.

Annette Haines
UM Art & Design Field Librarian
ahaines@umich.edu

Friday, August 24, 2012

Ctools meets Google

There are lots of new features integrating Ctools with various Google products. You can read more about them in this article from the Record:

New version of CTools integrates with Google, Box and more


Please contact me if you have questions about these new tools or would like some one-on-one assistance with setting up your Ctools site. 

Annette Haines
Art & Design Field Librarian

AAEL acquires WSW archive of artists' books


The University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library recently acquired the complete collection of books published by the Women's Studio Workshop. The Women’s Studio Workshop operates and maintains an artists’ workspace that encourages the voice and vision of individual women artists, provides professional opportunities and employment to artists at all stages of their careers, and promotes programs designed to stimulate public involvement, awareness and support for the visual arts.

Here is a link to WSW searchable digital archive:
http://www.wsworkshop.org/archive_search.php

The UM archive of these books is housed in AAE Library Special Collections. Please contact me if you would like to make an appointment for you or your class to see them.

Annette Haines
Art & Design Field Librarian
ahaines@umich.edu

Imageworks Newly Acquired Videos

Linked here are the new art and design videos that were acquired for the Imagworks Library.

2011

2012

For a complete list of videos in Imageworks see the The Imageworks Online Database of Visual Media


If you have suggestions for Library purchases, please contact me:

Annette Haines
Art & Design Field Librarian
ahaines@umich.edu


Thursday, August 23, 2012

Short Youtube videos to get you started using the Library

Here are a few short Youtube videos that will get you started using the Library

Get This: MLibrary Books Delivered to You

Finding Full-Text with MGet It

ProQuest: More Subjects and Articles Than Ever!

Searching for Articles? Try ArticlesPlus!

How to Access Library Resources from Off Campus

Google Scholar with MGet It Links

Introduction to Mirlyn

Finding Library Databases

AP Images

**Click here for a complete list of videos**

Cameras and other equipment you can check out at the Library

On the second floor of Art, Architecture and Engineering Library in the Duderstadt Center we now have the following items that can be checked out with your UM ID card.
  • Still camera kits 
  • Video camera kits 
  • Lighting kits 
These items have a three-day loan period with no renewals.

Groundworks provides the Library with a list of classes that require these items. If a student is not on the class list, he/she needs to speak with their professor to be added to that list. If there is no class list at all, students can have their professor submit a list with names. The lists can come to the AAE Library directly or be sent to Groundworks.

For further information contact the AAE Library Circulation Desk at aael.circ@umich.edu or phone 734-647-5747.

New Materials Collection in Imageworks: Come see and touch STUFF!




In March, the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library at the University of Michigan held an open house to announce their collection of materials leased from Material ConneXion. The collection is housed in Imageworks, our visual resources library and consists of samples of 200 materials, a selected subset of the over 6,500 materials found in the Materials ConneXion® database to which we had previously subscribed. We envision the collection being most heavily used by the School of Art & Design, and the Architecture and Materials Engineering departments, but the collection is available for in-house use to anyone.

In preparation for this new collection, special mobile shelving units were created by the UM Cabinet Shop to display the materials. Susan Garret, our Visual Resources Cataloguer and Coordinator, and her staff created a database of the 200 samples which cross-references the Material ConneXion database. For further information, please visit our Materials Collection Guide at http://guides.lib.umich.edu/materials_collection.

Faculty Exploratory - Workshops and one-on-one help with technology

A program as well as a facility, the Faculty Exploratory was designed specifically for faculty at the University of Michigan to enhance lecturing, research, and publishing skills. Whether you already use technology and just need a few tips or are just starting out and need a whole new skill set, you can take hands-on workshops, setup an appointment, or just stop in and say, HELP! In addition to getting assistance with software applications, we can help you digitize video, audio, photographs and slides for your classes and presentations on our multimedia workstations.

New full text and video databases


The University Library has purchased several video and text databases from Alexander Street Press.  These titles are available for immediate use on the Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn campuses.  Videos can be temporarily downloaded to mobile devices for later viewing.


VIDEO 

Art & Architecture Online : documentaries and interviews on the theory and practice of art, design and architecture

New World Cinema: Major Independent Features and Shorts, 1990-Present : coming soon!  Contemporary independent films.  Will appear with other video collections here in Academic Video Online

The March of Time : Time newsreels and docudramas, 1937-1967

Theatre in Video: Supplement : performances of plays and documentaries on theater


TEXT COLLECTIONS

Black Drama: Second Edition  : nearly 1500 plays from authors from North America, Africa and the Caribbean

Women and Social Movements International: 1840 to Present : primary documents from women activists in social movements world-wide