Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Afro Kilt Documentary Screening on December 5th


Materials Collection gets new/improved space

Please stop by the NEW Materials Collection space in the library!  The collection is located on the 2nd floor of the library on east side of the main floor (above Mujo's).  The room is open  from 8am to midnight (Mon-Thurs), 8am to 9pm (Fri), 10am to 6pm (Sat), and noon to midnight (Sun).

We envision the space as a creative place meant both to inspire and to inform.  You can see and touch over 400 samples of a variety of innovative materials from a company called Material ConneXion.  We also have access to their database which provides information on those materials plus another 6,000 or so.  We'll be adding purchased materials to the collection, mostly at the request of faculty.  These additional materials will represent basic samples of metals, woods, fabrics, etc.  We're also providing group project space.  Though we're "open for business" now, we are still moving some storage cabinets and other materials into the space over the next couple of weeks.

Stay tuned for an official open-house celebration early in the new year!

Online Exhibit: Engraved in Wood: The Work of John DePol

The online exhibit, "Engraved in Wood: The Work of John DePol (1913–2004)," serves as an introduction to the incredible wood engravings of this American master. From January 28, 2014 until April 4, 2014, the accompanying physical exhibition will be the inaugural one in the newly renovated 7th Floor exhibit area, Special Collections, Hatcher Graduate Library, U-M Library.

Curated by Cathleen A. Baker, Conservation Librarian and Exhibit Conservator

Annual Library Book Sale 2013

Date & Time: December 9, 2013 - 10:00am to 10:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery (Room 100) Location Information

The University Library is selling several thousand gently used books, including duplicate or superseded titles and other books not needed for the collection. Other miscellaneous items may also be available, such as CDs, DVDs, and maps.

There's something for everyone at low, low prices.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Grant Databases for UM affiliates

UM students, faculty and staff have access to the Foundation Center and a multitude of other grants and foundation resources at the Library's Grants and Fundraising guide here: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/grants.

You may also be interested in registering for one of the grants and funding workshops listed in this earlier blogpost: http://artdes-librarian.blogspot.com/2013/10/grants-and-funding-workshops-for.html

Electronic Lunch at the Dude

Electronic Lunch is an open lab for exploring and designing with electronic devices, sponsored by the Digital Media Commons.

It’s held every Friday at Noon in Design Lab 1 in the Duderstadt Center.

Bring your own lunch and your own projects, or work with our weekly features. A modest collection of micro-controllers, sensors and motors is available for in-lab use or for check-out with special permission.

For further information see: electroniclunch.wordpress.com

Art & Exhibits at the Library


Join us for refreshments in the Library Gallery and the Clark Library on Friday, October 18 from 4-6 PM

Remarks by James Hilton at 4:30 PM in the Gallery

On View highlights student work in the Libraries, including the new Afrokilt exhibit in the Clark Library by former Stamp's student Sally Mae Volkmann, charming animations in the presentation area of the Gallery, and the Soundscapes of Childhood exhibit in the Gallery.


Literature Review Workshops

Do you need to conduct a literature review for your proposal, dissertation, or research article? Are you concerned about how you’ll find the best articles, how to keep track of your findings, or ways to improve your search process? This workshop will guide participants through the steps that will help them search the literature to see what research has been done on a particular topic and how best to keep track of what they find along the way. Participants will learn about the different kinds of literature reviews, how to judge which are the more important writings on the topic, as well as what are some of the more specialized sources to check in their specific fields. Best of all, they will learn when they can stop searching!

Literature Review for the Social Sciences
Wednesday, 10/30, 1:00pm-3:00pm

Literature Review for the Humanities
Monday, 11/11, 3:00-5:00pm

For additional information on Library instruction and workshops see:

New International Engagement Guide for Stamps Students

Sandra Wiley and Annette Haines recently collaborated on a new international engagement guide for Stamps students. The guide offers useful information about the Stamp's international requirement, passports, health, safety, and separate resources tabs for Bangalore, Copenhagen and Florence. The guide will be continually updated. Let us know what you think.

You can check it out at:
http://guides.lib.umich.edu/ARTDESinternational

Thursday, October 3, 2013

ARTstor training on Youtube

For those of you who may not have discovered it yet, ARTstor is a vast database of high quality digital images from hundreds of world class museums and institutions. University of Michigan users should link to ARTstor through any MLibrary website or directly via this link: http://www.lib.umich.edu/database/link/9539 

ARTstor has some very useful Youtube videos showing different aspects of the database such as registering, using folders and image groups, and exporting to PowerPoint. Check them out on the ARTstor Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/artstor.

What is LectureTools and is it right for me and my class?

Have you heard the name "LectureTools" or seen it in the CTools list of tools and wondered what it is? The Faculty Exploratory and LSA Instructional Support Services are hosting two types of events to help you answer that question. First, we have a demonstration and discussion about what the tool is, the impact it can have on your class, and how it is currently being used here at the University. Second, if you decide you would like to try this tool, we'll have some hands-on workshops that will help you get ready for winter semester. To register for either, please visit http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/tag/lecturetools/

Descriptions of the sessions are below. As always, if you have questions about these or other tools, or would like to be removed from this email group, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools
Tuesday, 10/22, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
If you have a large lecture section, it is sometimes difficult to know which concepts are confusing to students and if they are actively engaged with the material during class. Using LectureTools can be an effective way to directly involve students and solicit their feedback while you are teaching. Activated via your CTools site, this tool allows you to ask multiple choice or free response questions, and lets students flag slides they find confusing, submit questions, and take notes that are synchronized with the lecture slides.

In this demonstration, you will hear from University faculty members who are currently using LectureTools, and how it has impacted their teaching. This demonstration is a broad overview of the tool, focusing on why and how you could use it in your classes; later on in the semester there will be “hands-on” workshops that will get you ready to use LectureTools during the Winter Term.

Getting Started with LectureTools
Wednesday, 10/30, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm OR Thursday, 11/14, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
Now that you’ve attended the "Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools" demonstration and understand how LectureTools can enhance your students’ classroom experience, it’s time to get your lectures ready for Winter term. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll start as “students” in a class, so you can experience what LectureTools could be like for your students. After that, we’ll move to the instructor’s side, starting with a tour of the interface. You’ll then learn how to import PowerPoint presentations and insert interactive slides. We’ll discuss the instructor dashboard, how to read and answer student questions, and strategies for successful presentations. Finally, we’ll work in the assessment feature of LectureTools and discuss how to produce reports generated from student responses.

We strongly encourage you to attend the “Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools” demonstration session to see if LectureTools is right for you and your course.

Grants and funding workshops for graduate students and faculty

Finding Funding for Graduate Students
Need funding to do your dissertation work?  Perhaps a fellowship or scholarship for graduate school? A graduate internship over the summer? This hands-on workshop will present an overview of several academic funding databases available to you that can assist in getting research, fellowship, and other grants. University members have online access to resources that list and describe thousands of current funding opportunities from the Federal government, foundations, professional societies, and other sources. We will do hands-on work with the various resources, learn how to develop sound search strategies, and learn about establishing email alerts for new grants.
  •   October 7, 4-5:30 pm  
  •   October 23, 12-1:30 pm
  •   November 14, 8-9:30 am
To register:  http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/sponsor/university-library/

Finding Funding for Faculty Research & 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, search strategies, establish email alerts, and create and use individual expertise profiles.
  •   October 9, 2-4 pm
  •   November 6, 10 am - 12noon
  •   November 19, 8:30-10:30 am
  •   December 4, 12-2 pm
To register: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/sponsor/university-library/

New space available for groups to meet and engage with library materials


This new space was recently created in the lower level of the Duderstadt Center near the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Special Collections room. Over the past several years, interest in special collections materials like artists' books has increased the number of classes visiting the collections. The new space offers a quiet, bright and flexible environment for special materials instruction and viewing. In addition, the space will be equipped with an 80" flat screen monitor allowing for demonstrations of databases and other digital content. When not in use for classroom visits, the room will be open for group study. The room will soon be entered into the Duderstdt Center Room Scheduling Online Reservation System at http://www.dc.umich.edu/scheduling/scheduling.htm so that other groups can book the space for meetings or events. If you have any questions about this space, please contact Annette Haines, the Art & Design Field Librarian at ahaines@umich.edu.

Friday, September 6, 2013

Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists' Books from Women's Studio Workshop

Location: Street Gallery, 1st floor Art & Architecture Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Exhibition dates: September 2-October 21, 2013
Artist Talk: Wednesday, September 25 at 5:00 pm (following the reception), Duderstadt Center, Room 1180
Reception: Wednesday, September 25, from 4:00-5:00 pm, Street Gallery
Sponsor: University of Michigan Library


On Wednesday, September, 25th at 4:00 p.m. The University of Michigan Library will host a reception for the exhibition Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists' Books from Women's Studio Workshop featuring an artist talk by UM alumnae, Toby Millman, who will discuss her experiences completing a residency at the Women’s Studio Workshop to make her book, Facts on the Ground. For further information about Toby Millman see http://www.tobymillman.com/. Refreshments and free, full-color catalogs of the exhibition will be given away at the reception on a first come, first serve basis.


The Hand, Voice & Vision exhibition, on now until October 21st, presents artists’ books by thirty-six artists published over thirty years by Women’s Studio Workshop. Curated by Kathleen Walkup, the exhibition is a comprehensive retrospective featuring some of the most influential contemporary book artists in America. The forty works in Hand, Voice & Vision celebrate three facets that characterize the artist’s book program at Women’s Studio Workshop: the hand-made mark of the book-maker, the unique voices and viewpoints of a broad and diverse range of artists, and the visionary nature of artwork that forges new directions in the medium of book arts. For further information about the exhibition see: http://handvoicevision.com/


In 2012, the University of Michigan Library became a repository for the ongoing collection of artists’ books created at the Women’s Studio Workshop. This repository is located in the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Special Collections. Works can be viewed online in the AAEL Special Collections Artists’ Books Database at http://sitemaker.umich.edu/artistsbooks or in person by appointment. Please contact Annette Haines, Art & Design Librarian at ahaines@umich.edu.


How to use "Get This" in Mirlyn


UMS "Bert's Tickets" Season Launch Event

by Stephen Griffes on behalf of Library Operations Bert Askwith, donor of the Askwith Media Library, Bert's Cafe, and Bert's Study Lounge spaces, has made another generous donation to the class of 2017!
Bert believes that each student at Michigan should have an equal opportunity to experience the rich cultural events that the University Musical Society brings to campus. He has offered a free "Bert's Ticket" to every first year and new transfer student for a UMS event of their choice! Visit ums.org/bert to learn more about the program.
The Library will host a UMS Season Launch Event in Bert's Study Lounge in the Shapiro Library to celebrate this wonderful donation. Refreshments will be served, and first year and transfer students will be able to sign-up to claim their free UMS Bert's Ticket.

Automatic Book Scanning: Designing the Linear Book Scanner from Google

by Meghan Musolff Automatic Book Scanning: Designing the Linear Book Scanner from Google
Dany Qumsiyeh, designer of the Linear Book Scanner
Date:  Wednesday, September 11
Time:  1:00-2:30
Location:  Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery, University of Michigan
In 2012, Google announced the development of a prototype linear scanner, a robotic scanner that scans books without removing the spines and without damaging the book. Google has made the plans and patent of the scanner openly available. This Linear Book Scanner is a new type of automatic page-turning book scanner with a simple, low-cost design. The scanner cost has been projected at $1500 each, making it affordable and scalable since it is envisioned that one person can manage multiple scanners simultaneously.
The University of Michigan Library is collaborating with the Mechanical Engineering 450 class to improve and enhance the design. Join Dany Qumsiyeh, the designer of the Linear Book scanner at Google, as he discusses how the idea was formed and how the Linear Book Scanner works.  Dany will also provide details on the design, motor control, and electronics involved, as well as list the technical challenges, limitation, and areas for improvement moving forward. A prototype of the scanner will be on hand for the presentation.

UM3D Lab Open House

by Kathi Reister for the UM3D Lab
Friday, September 13
Noon - 6:00 p.m.
UM3D Labs, Duderstadt Center

Meet the UM3D Lab staff and see demonstrations of motion capture, advanced visualization, rapid prototyping, 3D scanning and more.  Services that are available to the entire university community, by the UMLibraries, Digital Media Commons.
Please visit the UM3D Labs website for more information.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

For The Love of Literacy Children's Book Fair

For the Love of Literacy Children's Book Fair

The second year of this fun-filled event coincides with the second day of the 31st African World Festival, taking place on the grounds of The Wright Museum. Children of all ages are invited to meet and hear from local authors, artists, and storytellers. Arts and crafts, book giveaways, storytelling, appearances by storybook characters and more will bring the written word to life, and fill the air with imagination and wonder!

The For The Love of Literacy Children's Book Fair and African World Festival are both free and open to the public. Funding for the Book Fair is provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. For more information, please visit http://thewright.org/component/eventlist/details/784-for-the-love-of-literacy-childrens-book-fair or call (313) 494-5800.

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Online exhibit of printed works by artist Lynne Avadenka

Check out this fabulous online exhibition and interview of printed works (including many artists' books) by artist Lynne Avadenka. The exhibit was Curated by Peggy Daub, Outreach Librarian & Curator, Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan.

Language Comes After Artist: A Selection of Printed Works by artist Lynne Avadenka
http://www.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/avadenka2013

Clements Library to be closed for 2 years for renovation

While the Clements Library will be closed for expansion and renovation, many of the library's books, manuscripts, artwork and other historical items will be stored and available to scholars and students at an alternative site, 1580 Ellsworth Road.

For further information about the renovation see this Record article: http://www.ur.umich.edu/update/archives/130731/clements

Try Arts: Search (formerly designinform) to research into the history of modern art and design

designinform changed its name to Arts: Search
Given the increased digitization of a wide range of fine art and architecture journals, it was felt that the title designinform, with its apparent emphasis on design, did not fully represent the scope and coverage of the database.


Arts: Search is an invaluable resource for research into the history of modern arts, architecture and design. It consists of three linked databases: 

ReVIEW  - digitized, searchable versions of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art journals

Arts + Architecture ProFILES (AAP) – a biographical dictionary of modern artists, designers, architects, craftspeople and photographers

Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR) – a retrospective journal abstracting and indexing service

To access Arts: Search go to http://www.lib.umich.edu/database/link/11265 or search for Arts: Search from any MLibrary webpage and click on the link under databases.

On the Road: Celebrating 100 Years of the Lincoln Highway

On the Road: Celebrating 100 Years of the Lincoln Highway uses rich visual resources – including vintage postcards, maps, and photographs – to document the formation and early days of the Lincoln Highway Association and the construction of the highway itself. The Lincoln Highway was the first transcontinental highway in North America and originally covered approximately 3,400 miles from coast to coast. The route, consisting of both existing and newly-built roads, followed the most direct, scenic route possible from New York to San Francisco.
The exhibit coincides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Lincoln Highway Association in Detroit. The Association, led by Indianapolis-based entrepreneur Carl Fisher, was made up of representatives from the automobile, tire, and cement industries, with the goal of planning, funding, constructing, and promoting the highway. Drawn from Association records, which were donated to the U-M's Transportation History Collection in 1937, items in the exhibit shine a spotlight on the founders and their travels plotting the Highway's route, and highlight interest in this piece of American history that continues through the present day.
Event Details
Date & Time:
June 5th - August 30th, 2013
August 7, 2013 - 8:30am to 7:00pm
Location:Audubon Room

The Data Infrastructures of Thinking and Making

Jamie Allen, artist and Head of Research at CIID (the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design), discusses the relationship between technology, data, truth and representation. His projects deal with the material of media and its infrastructure (http://heavyside.net).
Abstract:
Technologies which manipulate data compose a new media, a new technical image, that is no longer a photograph of some presumed real, but an infinitely inferential and interpretable rendering of supposedly "raw knowledge" from a highly distributed network of spinning platters of silicon. As spheres of representation expand to include the psychic and biological interiorities of our lives, we increasingly see ourselves reflected in this data, not even as others see us, but as machines of collection and interpretation do. Claims of beauty and truth telling that the data body bring forth are not new: these are always the claims made by the apostles of any new media. There is not more truth in data than there is elsewhere, only newly warped reflections. As we examine the data from the mount on our new digital tablets, we are best to ask how this data reflects, rather that what new truth it holds.
MLibrary Emergent Research events are aimed at better understanding the various types of research undertaken across campus, particularly as they relate to library services and support, opportunities for collaboration, data management and preservation, and beyond.
 
Event Details
Date & Time:
August 9, 2013 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location:Gallery, Hatcher Graduate Library

Use UBorrow for Interlibrary Loan

Looking for books not available at MLibrary? Try UBorrow.
UBorrow is another service of interlibrary loan (ILL) for the borrowing of physical items that allows you to:
  • Search or browse a database of 14 combined library catalogs
  • Discover whether or not a book is available at MLibrary or within the participating institutions
  • Place a request that goes directly to another institution without pausing in the local interlibrary loan office
  • Expect a faster and more reliable turnaround time (usually within 5 business days)
  • Receive longer loan period for physical book loans for 12 weeks (DVDs and other special materials will still have relatively brief loan periods)
UBorrow is only available for books and other items that can be physically loaned (not scans/article/chapters that you would download).  If you are going to need a book for 12 weeks, start with Uborrow; ILL traditionally has shorter loan periods, particularly for popular items.  But if you can’t find the book in the UBorrow database, then ILL should be your next stop.

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Spouse and Significant Other Borrowing Privileges



Did you know that UM faculty and staff may request an MLibrary card for their spouse or significant other? It's true! With this MLibrary card, the borrowing privileges are good for one year (or for the duration of the faculty/staff appointment, if less than one year), and the loan period is typically three weeks. For more details, and to request borrowing privileges for your spouse or significant other, see:

Shapiro Library Staff Say READ - Summer reading recommendations

Looking for some recommended books for reading during the lazy days of summer? Explore the READ READ READ list, provided by the Shapiro Undergraduate Library staff. 
This list of books will help entering undergraduate students get a glimpse of the cultural universe at the University of Michigan. Arranged in categories of Fiction, Science, Technology, The Arts, History, Politics/Economics/Media, Sociology/Anthropology and Psychology, the READ READ READ list gives you a fresh introduction to a field to be studied at UM and an opportunity to discover some new pleasure reading material.

Emergent Research Conversation Series: Office of Technology Transfer

Emergent Research Conversation Series: Office of Technology Transfer
by Shevon Desai on behalf of the Emergent Research Working Group

Please join us Monday, June 24th, from 10:00-11:30 a.m. in the Hatcher Gallery for the next Emergent Research Conversation Series event: 
Katherine Moynihan and Jack Minor, Office of Technology Transfer
The mission of the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) is to “effectively transfer University technologies to the market so as to generate benefits for the University, the community, and the general public.” Katie Moynihan and Jack Minor will provide a general overview of OTT and discuss their work, specifically with licensing and startups. In addition, they will talk about how OTT reconciles their role with the movement toward open access, when a researcher should contact OTT, and more.
Light refreshments will be available. We look forward to seeing you there!
For more information about each of the speakers, and about other events in this series, check out our webpage: http://www.lib.umich.edu/research/events

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

BrowZine journal app trial


The library is running a trial of  a new technology called BrowZine which is a tablet application that allows you to browse, read and monitor some of the library’s best journals, all from your iPad.  Built to accompany your searching needs, items found in BrowZine can easily be synced up with Zotero, Dropbox or several other services to help keep all of your information together in one place.
To learn more, please take a look at this short two minute video:
For the trial, search for “BrowZine” in the App Store and download the app for free; when initially launching BrowZine, select our school from the drop down list.
We only have this trial for a few weeks, so I would appreciate your feedback while we consider subscribing to this service.
Thank you,
Annette Haines
 

Copyright workshops and information


Two copyright workshops are being offered next month for faculty and graduate students. I would encourage everyone to attend one these courses to help you understand your rights and responsibilities regarding copyright:

Copyright Basics
Monday, 6/3, 3:00 pm-4:30 pm

Copyright and Your Dissertation
Thursday, 6/27, 10:00 am-11:30 am

If you are unable to attend one of these workshops, here are two useful online resources that offer clear guidelines:

Copyright Basics

©Guide | What Can I Put in CTools? Ten Copyright Considerations






Tuesday, May 21, 2013

ARTstor video demos and online training

ARTstor is a vast database of digital images from hundreds of world class museums and institutions. Faculty can use these images and collaborate with others to enhance lectures and help students learn about art and design. ARTstor's excellent help resource (http://help.artstor.org) includes video demos to help you learn to take advantage of its functionality. Demos include:

ARTstor also offers webinars on the basics (viewing, printing and downloading images) and advanced topics (using folders and creating personal collections). You can sign up for these seminars here: http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/Online_training_schedule

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Faculty Workshop: “Promoting Your Book Like Plutarch: Wisely and Well”


A working scholar has precious little time to apply to attracting readers for a new book. But also can’t afford not to. The middle ground is, as Plutarch would say, to promote wisely and well, utilizing available resources for the best and strongest use of already overtaxed time. Please join us on Tuesday, April 9, as we welcome to campus Kevin Smokler, a noted expert on the relationship between new technologies and traditional publishing. He will discuss how to:
--promote your book smarter,
--reach a wider audience,
--extend the life of your scholarship,
--use social media,
--measure success, and
--develop your readership

Kevin Smokler is the author of “Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School” (Prometheus Books, 2013). He has lectured on the subject at universities and conferences throughout North America. His writings have appeared in the LA Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Publishers Weekly, Fast Company, The Believer, and on NPR.

Workshop details:
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
10:00AM – 12:00PM
Welker Room, Michigan Union

To register, please contact Rebecca Sestili, our Author Publisher Liaison, at rsestili@umich.edu.

Books/Texts/Fonts/Archives in a Brave New Digital World, April 9th


What is the future of books, texts, fonts and archives in this brave new digital world? This panel discussion includes Institute for the Humanitites Visiting Artist Lynne Avadenka, Paul Conway from the School of Information, Cathleen A. Baker from the University Library and the School of Information, Hannah Smotrich from the School of Art & Design, and Amanda Krugliak from the Institute for the Humanities. Join us: April 9, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., at North Quad, Space 2435.
Avadenka's two exhibits, "Language Comes After Artist: The Work of Lynne Avadenka" and "Language Comes After Artist: A Selection of Printed Works by Lynne Avadenka" are on display in the Thayer Academic Building.

April 9, 2013 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm

"Making Makers," a program featuring Mark Frauenfelder, this Friday, April 5


Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Emergent Research: Women's Incarceration


Carol Jacobsen will speak about "Women's Incarceration: Research and Creative Resistance." She will discuss her research, teaching and advocacy methods in connection with efforts to free incarcerated women who were wrongly convicted for killing abusers in self-defense as well as efforts for human rights for all women in prison.

Jacobsen is an artist/filmmaker and professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, Women's Studies and Human Rights at U-M. She serves as Director of the Michigan Women's Justice & Clemency Project.

Open to the public; light refreshments.

Sponsored by the University Library. On the 4th Monday of each month, from 10:00-11:30am in the Hatcher Gallery, programs are presented that address the research lifecycle. These events work to provide a better understanding of the various types of research undertaken across campus, particularly as they relate to library services and support, opportunities for collaboration, data management and preservation, and beyond.

Hatcher Graduate Library
Gallery
March 25, 2013 - 10:00am to 11:30am
Building:
Hatcher North
Room Number:
Room 100
Gallery
Series:
U-M Emergent Research Conversations

World Cafe - Wednesday, March 20, 6-7 PM


RSVP at umworldcafe.eventbrite.com

Workshops on Data Visualization, GIS


The Clark Library is offering workshops on data visualization with R or Cytoscape and mapping with GIS software this term.

The Clark Library is a new library combining the Map Collection, the Government Information Collection, 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 more information or email clarklibrary@umich.edu to make an appointment!

Workshop titles for winter 2013:

Data Visualization Strategies with R
Mapping Strategies for Complex Data
Intro to GIS
Cytoscape for Network Analysis and Visualization

Global Information Week 2013


tinyurl.com/global-info-week 

Global Information Week provides events and a venue for students to reflect on globalization and its effect on their lives. The University Library is not only a place for research, but also a vibrant social center, particularly for undergraduates, where connections and contacts are made. Whether it be through student panels, information workshops or international music performances, Global Information Week offers students a chance to connect with the world. This year's GIW is sponsored by MLibrary and the Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS).

Finding Funding for Race-Related Research and Projects

A University Library Workshop in Conjunction with the Theme Semester on Race

Does your research and/or programmatic efforts involve aspects of race? Do you need to find funding to help support these efforts? There is so much information on the Web, and it is time-consuming to plow through endless government and foundation websites. Even experienced researchers are having a hard time finding funding as federal sources of funding have become much more competitive.

Join librarians as we share strategies for finding funding, and demonstrate several campus-wide subscription-based funding databases with themes of race woven throughout the class. You will have time to look for your own funders using these resources. We will show you how to develop the best search strategies, and how to sign up for email alerts for future funding that fit your needs.

Please sign up for just one of the following workshops (they are identical):

March
Wednesday, March 13, 12noon-1:30pm, University Library Instruction Center (Room 4059 Shapiro Library, 4th floor)

April
Wednesday, April 3, 4-5:30pm, University Library Instruction Center (Room 4059 Shapiro Library, 4th floor)

To register, please point your browser to: http://teachtech.umich.edu

New Materials in the Materials Collection

Want some visual and tactile inspiration? Check out the new shipment of materials in the Materials Collection. The collection of over 200 samples of advanced, innovative and sustainable materials is housed in the Imageworks Library and is available for in-house use to any university faculty, staff, or student. The samples are provided by Material ConneXion, and are a subset of the more than 6,500 samples available on their online database.

Friday, January 25, 2013

January events in the Hatcher Gallery


MLibrary Emergent Research Series - Starts Monday Jan.28th


Please join us for the first event in the MLibrary Emergent Research Series on Monday, January 28, from 10:00am-11:30am in the Hatcher Gallery.
Our first speaker will be Professor Finn Brunton from the School of Information, with a talk titled, "The Accidental Archive: Or, Researching criminals, otherkin, cipher anarchists, spammers and the online history that doesn't want to be kept."

Professor Brunton engages in a wide range of inquiry that includes: the digital humanities, the history of technology, STS, "dead media", Internet culture, and network politics. Professor Brunton will respond to a series of prepared questions related to his research process(es), followed by Q & A from the audience. Light refreshments will be served.
We look forward to learning with you!

Friday, January 18, 2013

Native Women Language Keepers: Indigenous Performance Practices symposium, Jan 28th to Feb 1st

Native Women Language Keepers: Indigenous Performance Practices. An Arts-Based Research Symposium with playwright Alanis King

January 28th to February 1st 2013, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Aanii! Join us for UM’s sixth arts-based research symposium, a week-long exploration of Native women’s practices as language teachers, activists, and artists. In this week, we’re workshopping a play by celebrated Native playwright Alanis King, and we will work in close connection with Miiskwaasinii’ing Nagamojig (The Swamp Singers), a Michigan-based hand-drum group, to create a praise song for Daphne Odjig’s woodland paintings in the University of Michigan’s archives. 
This symposium will marry the strengths of the University of Michigan’s Anishinaabemowin language program, a thriving community of language teachers and learners, with our series of arts-based research symposia, in which we investigate ways of knowing through creative means.
In this week, we want to ask questions about the place of performance and women’s work in language survivance and revitalization, about decolonizing methodologies and performance, about honoring Native women artists, and about intercultural performance practices.

Pre-conference events:

Sunday 27th


2pm, Native Campus Community Meet-and-Greet with Alanis King, CSP Conference Room, Angell Hall, Main Campus

Monday 28th

11.30 to 1, Angell Hall 3222
Presentation by Alanis King, an Odawa Playwright/Director originally from the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve, the first Aboriginal woman to graduate from the National Theatre School of Canada, to English and Ojibwa language undergraduate students.

Tuesday 29th

Symposium Start:

Afternoon, 2pm, Duderstadt Center Video Studio, North Campus
Emilie Monnet is an interdisciplinary artist with Anishnabe and French heritage and a graduate of Ondinnok’s First Nations Theatre training program – in partnership with The National Theatre School of Canada (Montreal, 2007). Emilie co-directed and performed Bird Messengers, for which she was awarded the LOGIQ prize for the most outstanding Art/Culture project of 2011. In May 2012, Emilie directed Songs of Mourning, Songs of Life, a musical theatrical show addressing legacies of genocide and the role of art for collective mourning, in collaboration with the Aboriginal women’s drum group Odaya and the Rwandan traditional musical ensemble, Komezinganzo.
She has two works in development: OKINUM, a one-women interdisciplinary performance inspired by her great great grand-mother, and another theatre collaboration with indigenous artists from the Amazon, Colombia. Emilie’s artistic engagement is inspired by years of social activism with indigenous organizations in Canada and Latin America, and community art projects with incarcerated women and Aboriginal youth. Emilie is the founder and Artistic Director of ONISHKA, an arts organization that fosters artistic collaborations between indigenous peoples worldwide while honoring their richness, diversity and resilience (www.onishka.org).

Evening, Central Campus North Quad, Room 2435:
7pm, Formal Symposium Opening with Heid Erdrich

Poet Heid E. Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, and raised in nearby Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her Ojibwe mother and German American father taught at the Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school.
 Erdrich’s poetry often explores themes of indigenous culture, mothering, and the natural world, using the cadence of oral storytelling and a close attention to sound and meter to drive poems rich with sensory and dreamlike imagery. Erdrich is the author of several poetry collections, including Cell Traffic (2012), National Monuments (2008), winner of the Minnesota Book Award; The Mother’s Tongue (2005), part of Salt Publishing’s award-winning Earthworks Series of Native American and Latin American literature; and Fishing for Myth (1997). In a 2006 review, Twin Cities Daily Planet critic Erin Lynn Marsh described The Mother’s Tongue as “an exploration of our culture’s relationship with the term ‘mother’ and of the beginnings of language.”
With her sister, the writer Louise Erdrich, she founded the Turtle Mountain Writing Workshop. In 2008 the sisters co-founded Birchbark House, an organization that promotes literature written in indigenous languages. The sisters describe their vision on the foundation’s website: “We foresee a vital return to our Native American languages through the efforts of elders that are already underway. In creating ways to keep their words alive, through books, films, teaching and more, we will keep our languages viable and more, we will allow the means for creative fluency, the hallmark of a fully living language.”

Wednesday 30th

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Marcie Rendon workshop.  Duderstadt Center Video Studio, North Campus. 
Marcie Rendon (Anishinaabe) is a theatre maker and writer activist who supports and encourages other writers to write in Ojibwe. Among her projects are a writing residency she facilitated on the White Earth reservation as part of a three-phase Project Hoop Residency to create theater projects at a community level.
She will lead a ten-minute play, Friends, which was published in Performing Worlds into Being: Native American Women’s Theater, and which she and the group will translate into Ojibwe for possible production in Winnipeg in 2013.  We will have a reading of the script and then work together on translation issues. With 298 and 323, in Duderstadt

6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Angel Sobotta Presentation. CSP Conference Room, Angell Hall 
Angel Sobotta (Nez Perce), is a Nez Perce language teacher in the tribal headstart, local schools, and at the Lewis Clark State College in Idaho. She is also a writer and documentary filmmaker of projects like, "’Ipsqilaanx heewtnin' weestesne – Walking on Sacred Ground – the Nez Perce Lolo Trail" and "Surviving Lewis and Clark: The Niimiipuu Story" both winning the Aurora and Telly awards respectively. She is also a theater maker with the Lapwai Afterschool Programs, teaching language by adapting legends and directing the youth, including "Niimiipuum Titwaatit – The People’s Stories," an anti-bullying project (2012). Angel is a University of Idaho Interdisciplinary Masters student. Her thesis involves an immersion experience for language teachers by adapting the Nez Perce creation story, written in the Nez Perce language, into a stage play.

Thursday 31st

3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Virginie Magnat workshop, Duderstadt Center Video Studio, North Campus
Virginie Magnat is Assistant Professor of Performance at University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She conducts embodied research on transmission processes among women performers from different cultures, traditions, and generations; and draws from Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies to examine the interrelation of lived experience, embodied knowledge, tradition, creativity, and spirituality. Her essay "Can Research Become Ceremony? Performance Ethnography and Indigenous Epistemologies" appeared in summer 2012 in the Canadian Theatre Review.
She will share a workshop called "Sharing Embodied Cultural Knowledge Through Traditional Songs." In this session, participants will be invited to share/teach/learn traditional songs from their cultural legacy so that we can get to know each other through our songs.

6.00 -8.30 Swamp Women/ Miiskwaasinii’ing Nagamojig workshop, Duderstadt Center Video Studio, North Campus
Create a new praise song with the Swamp Women, Miiskwaasinii’ing Nagamojig, among Daphne Odjig’s’s paintings. Come, sing, drum and be part of the community!

Friday 1st of February

On Friday morning, we’ll gather for a workshop sharing and video recording in the Duderstadt Center Video Studio. 10-1.

In the afternoon, we end our gathering with a presentation by Margaret Noori, followed by a communal reflection on aesthetics, women and performance. 2.00-4.30, Duderstadt Center, Conference Room 1180, North Campus.

Margaret Noori (Anishinaabe) received an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English and Linguistics from the University of Minnesota.  She is Director of the Comprehensive Studies Program and teaches the Anishinaabe Language and American Indian Literature at the University of Michigan.  She is also one of the founders of the drum group Miskwaasining Nagamojig, current President of Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, one of the Clan Mothers who coordinate the annual Native American Literature Symposium, and member of the Anishinaabemowin-Teg Executive Board.  Her book Bwaajimowin: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature is forthcoming from MSU Press and her poetry has recently appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas and Cell Traffic by Heid Erdrich.  For more information visit www.ojibwe.net where she and her colleagues have created a space for language that is shared by academics and the native community.
She will be work-shopping a chapter from a forthcoming book on Anishinaabe narrative traditions which traces the way "oral" traditions are actually "physical" performance traditions which carry thought into space and allow us to exchange our interpretations of the world around as word which becomes stage dialogue, story, lyrics or poetry.


Contact for information and queries, contact the symposium directors, Margaret Noori and Petra Kuppers: mnoori@umich.edu and petra@umich.edu

Generous Support provided by the Institute for World Performance Studies, the Rackham Dean’s Strategic Funding, OVPR, LSA, the Humanities Institute and the International Institute, the Digital Media Commons – University Library, the English Language and Literature Department, the Women’s Studies Department, and the Trauma Studies Collective.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Winter Term Workshops at the Faculty Exploratory

For Faculty:

Hi all! I hope the start of the semester is going well for you. Our workshop schedule for winter term is now available at http://teachtech.umich.edu - please visit to find out more information or to register.

Also remember that we are happy to teach technology sessions for your students as it may relate to assignments you create; just contact me to learn more or to set one up for a class.

As always, you are welcome to set up an appointment at your convenience to learn to use a technology tool in your teaching or research - just let us know some dates and times that work for you.

Thank you for your interest in our services and workshops!
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Laurie A. Sutch
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University Library
University of Michigan
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Exhibit: The Geography of Colorants Jan 7-May 3


Third Thursday in the Clark Library
Thursday January 17th, 4:00-7:00 pm
University of Michigan, Hatcher Graduate Library, 2nd Floor
For more information call 764-0410

Please join us this Thursday for the opening celebration for our exhibit "The Geography of Colorants: An exhibit based on and inspired by the thesis The Geography of Significant Colorants: Antiquity to the Twentieth Century by Melissa Zagorski and maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library Map Collection". This is an especially interesting exhibit which explores the use of color in antique maps and the origins of the colorants used to make them. For example, Tyrian purple is made from the secretions of certain sea snails and was at times more valuable than gold. The exhibit runs through May 3rd. We'll also have on display many colorful and vibrant maps from our collection as examples. 

Upcoming Events at the Duderstadt Center


UM3D Lab Open House
Friday, January 18
Noon -6:00 pm
UM3D Lab

The UM3D Lab Winter Open House will feature demonstrations of 3D Scanning, Rapid Prototyping, Virtual Reality, Motion Capture, and more. Join us to see all of the amazing technology and services available to you. 

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Indivisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas
January 9-31
Gallery

Within the fabric of American identity is woven a story that has long been invisible—the lives and experiences of people who share African American and Native American ancestry.This Smithsonian traveling exhibit looks at the intersection between American Indian and African American people and cultures. 
Gallery Hours: M-F, Noon-6 pm; Sunday, Noon-5:00 pm

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Dr. Angela Davis
Monday, January 21
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Streaming Video: Room 1180, Duderstadt Center
Live Event: Rogel Ballroom, Michigan Union

Dr. Angela Davis presents Impediments to the Dream: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Dream. Davis, internationally known for her decades of work fighting oppression, urges us to think about a world without prisons. Dr. Davis's book The Meaning of Freedom and Other Difficult Dialogues will be available for purchase prior to the talk. Book signing to follow.

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Electronic Lunch on Wednesdays

Electronic Lunch is an open lab for exploring and designing with electronic devices, sponsored by the Digital Media Commons.  It’s held every Wednesday from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM in Design Lab 1 on the first floor of the Duderstadt Center. Bring your own projects to share or trouble-shoot, or join in community projects. A modest collection of micro-controllers, sensors and motors is available for in-lab use or for check-out with special permission.

Electronic Lunch has its a own blog. Posts there also appear here, in the Electronic Lunch category, but if you’re looking for historical projects, or if you’d just like to get the EL feed, head on over to electroniclunch.wordpress.com