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 13, 2013
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Online exhibit of printed works by artist Lynne Avadenka
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For further information see: http://www.lib.umich.edu/ill-interlibrary-loan-um-community/uborrow
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