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
Monday, October 22, 2012
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
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
"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
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