Friday, July 25, 2014

Tools and Features in CTools

As you get ready to set up your course sites, you might find this list of all of the Ctools tools and their uses helpful. For further information see the CTools Help Page. Please contact me directly at ahaines@umich.edu if you have any questions about CTools or need help setting up your site.

Announcements -- For posting information
Assignments -- For private submission and grading of coursework
BlueReview -- For linking to lecture recordings hosted on BlueReview
CAEN Lecture Recording -- For linking to lecture recordings hosted by CAEN
Chat Room -- For posting messages among site participants in real time
Drop Box -- For private file sharing between instructors and students
Email Archive -- For displaying email sent to the site
Engineering Honor Code -- For displaying your course honor policy (Engineering courses only)
Forums -- For posting topics and responses
Gradebook -- For posting grades, either entered directly or imported from other tools
i>clicker Sakai i>clicker Plugin - integrates Sakai and i>clicker products
iTunes U -- For distributing media using iTunes
LectureTools -- For enabling live interactivity during lecture sessions
Library Help -- For instant-messaging with a UM librarian
M+Box -- For storing and sharing files in your M+Box account
Messages -- For posting messages directly to individual site participants
Modules -- For building and displaying sequenced learning materials
News -- For displaying RSS and other -- Forms of syndicated web content
Piazza -- For students to ask and answer questions under the guidance of their instructor
Podcasts -- For distributing media
Polls -- For collecting feedback on a given question
Resources -- For posting documents, website URLs, etc.
Schedule -- For posting deadlines, events, etc.
Site Info -- For modifying site properties and participants
Syllabus -- For posting a summary, outline, or requirements
Test Center -- For building and distributing assessments (e.g., quizzes)
Web Content -- For displaying standard web pages
Wiki -- For collaborative authoring of pages and content

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Faculty Invite to Enriching Scholarship Artists' Books Workshop

I would like to invite interested faculty and graduate students to sign up for my Enriching Scholarship Workshop, Artist Books For Inspiration or Just for Fun, happening on Thursday, 5/8 from 1:00 pm-3:00 pm in The AAEL Special Collections Room, room B245 in the Duderstadt Center.
Artists’ books are books that were created as works of art. The Art, Architecture and Engineering Library (AAEL) Special Collections has a growing collection of artists’ books in its holdings. These books have been created via printing press, silk screening, painting, sewing, and numerous other processes. They are made from a wide range of media including aluminum, cloth, handmade paper and wood. The books vary greatly in size and structure. Some fit in the palm of a hand, while others span the length of a table. Some are bound, while others must be constructed to be read, and still others illuminate to be read in the dark. In this hands-on session, Annette Haines, the Art and Design Librarian, will showcase this vibrant and thought-provoking collection and discuss ways in which you might incorporate these books into your courses.
Click here to register for this workshop.

Enriching Scholarship is a weeklong, campus-wide conference sponsored by the Teaching and Technology Collaborative. Throughout the week of May 5th-9th free workshops are offered for faculty, staff, and students to support teaching and technology.
This year's Enriching Scholarship Keynote (Monday, May 5th) "From Disruption to Design: Technology and the Future of Residential Education" will be given by Diana Oblinger, President and CEO of EDUCAUSE.
Visit the Enriching Scholarship website to view the schedule and register for sessions.
Please join us for a week of teaching a learning together!

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Workshops on Citation Analysis

The Library will be offering two workshops on citation analysis in the coming weeks. The first workshop will be an overview for beginners and the second workshop, provided as part of the Enriching Scholarship series will be slightly more advanced. We invite you to come to one or both of these workshops to find out more about both traditional models of citation analysis and emerging methods. Registration is required. 
  • What is citation analysis?
  • How can citation analysis help you promote your research and yourself?
  • Are there ways to compare and find the best place to publish your research using citation analysis?
  • How can you gather data on your impact beyond scholarly journals? 
Thursday, April 24, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
University Library Instruction Center (ULIC)
4059 Shapiro Library 


Monday, May 5, 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
University Library Instruction Center (ULIC)
4059 Shapiro Library 

Questions? Contact Sue Wortman or Emily Puckett Rogers

University Library Hosts Job Fair for Students

Date & Time
April 18, 2014 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location
Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery, 100

Are you a student looking for Spring/Summer and/or Fall 2014 employment?  Are you interested in a flexible work schedule that accommodates your class schedule?

Please join us if you are interested in working in the University of Michigan Library system. Potential work locations include the Hatcher-Shapiro Libraries, Buhr Building, the Museums Library, the Music Library and the Duderstadt Center. No registration is required to attend this student job fair. Please contact libjobfair@umich.edu with questions. 

There are a variety of work study and non work-study positions available including:
  • Staffing Customer Service and Information Desks
  • Shelving
  • Document retrieval
  • Instructional Technology consultants
  • Programmer/Analysts
  • Publishing Marketing assistants
  • Project assistants
  • Peer Information Counselors

Art and Architecture in Video - New Content

Art and Architecture in Video is an online collection of documentaries and interviews illustrating the history, theory and practice of art, design and architecture.

The databaase has been recently been updated with 40 new titles (35 hours). This update includes new content from Windrose, TVF International, Ampersand, ArtHaus Musik, Passion Distribution, and BBC.

Find this and many other amazing databases in Searchtools!

Friday, March 21, 2014

Accessing the Public Domain: a conversation with copyright experts

Accessing the Public Domain: a conversation with copyright experts
Friday, March 28, 10am-12pm in Hatcher Library gallery
Panelists: Jack Bernard, Jessica Litman, Melissa Levine, Justin Bonfiglio

Virtually every academic discipline benefits from public domain works that are free of copyright in HathiTrust. The public domain should be simple to identify, right? Come for a discussion among copyright experts on the challenges of identifying public domain works - and why the public domain is important for all of us. This event is hosted by the University of Michigan Copyright Office in honor of the milestone completion of the CRMS-US copyright review project that identified public domain books in HathiTrust that were published in the United States between 1923 and 1963.


Within HathiTrust, freely available public domain volumes range from the complete works of Shakespeare to The Theory and Practice of Ice Cream Making.  Perhaps less understood is the time intensive, often complex, and collaborative Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) which, through the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, has identified over 150,000 public domain works in the United States. Panelists will put this accomplishment in context and provide some examples of the range of challenges presented by a systematic copyright review of hundreds of thousands of unique works.  

More information on the discussion and panelists is available here:   http://www.lib.umich.edu/events/accessing-public-domain

Mini-Comics Day at the Duderstadt Center

The Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library is hosting its 4th annual Mini-Comics Day on Saturday, March 22, 2014 from 10am to 6pm. Participants are challenged to write and draw a complete mini-comic within the span of a day.
Registration required; register now at http://bit.ly/mcd2014 .

Radiation mapping is too important to be left to experts : the role of maps in Japan after March 11. 2011

Radiation mapping is too important to be left to experts : the role of maps in Japan after March 11. 2011

Jean-Christophe Plantin, Postdoctoral Fellow of Communication and School of Information, University of Michigan
Monday, April 7, 2014 from 1 - 2:30 pm
Clark Instruction Space

A tradition of "critical cartography" has highlighted that maps can either serve the interests of those in power, or empower those seeking social justice. This talk will present how this ambivalence of the cartography is present in contemporary web-based mapping application. It will describe the production of radiation maps to address the lack of information directly following the Fukushima Daiichi power plant explosions in March 11. 2011, by specifically focusing on three points: how these maps were used along with innovative initiatives to find radiation data; how these mapmakers gathered and communicated online in an ad hoc crisis infrastructure; how the maps were used to sort out different and possibly contradictory radiation measures and to make sense of the radiation situation in the country.



Speaker  Biography
Jean-Christophe Plantin is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan (Communication Studies Department & School of Information). His dissertation was about the creation and use of participatory maps during public debates, with the case study of citizen radiation mapping initiatives after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. He holds MAs from Université Paris 8 and from the European Graduate School, and a PhD from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France.

Light refreshment will be served. If you have any question, feel free to email Jungwon Yang ( yangjw@umich.edu) and Keiko Yokota-Carter(kyokotac@umich.edu).

Clark Library Workshops on Data Visualization, Network Analysis, and GIS this semester

Subject: Workshops on Data Visualization, Network Analysis and GIS
 
The Clark Library* is offering workshops on GIS, Excel, and data visualization this term.
 
*The Clark Library for Maps, Government Information and Spatial and Numeric Data Services (SAND, including SAND North).
 

These workshops are free and open to anyone on campus. As always, consultations on data visualization, 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!
 
Workshops for winter 2014:

Cytoscape for Social Science and Humanities, Fri, 3/28, 10:00 am-12:00 pm
Data Visualization Strategies with R, Thu, 4/3, 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Intro GIS with ArcGIS for Desktop, Tue, 3/25, 4:00 pm-5:30 pm and Wed, 4/9, 10:00 am-11:30 am
Mapping Strategies for Complex Data, Tue, 4/1, 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
GIS Learning Roadmap Workshop, Wed, 4/23, 1:00 pm-3:00 pm

Monday, March 10, 2014

Visual Resources Survey

The U-M Library is conducting a survey to better understand how our resources, services, and collections are used by our academic community. This survey is voluntary and the results will be used for decision making purposes internal to the library. Upon completing this survey, you will be eligible for a drawing to receive a gift certificate to Amazon or the University Musical Society not exceeding $25 in value.

If you are a student taking this survey, please be aware that accepting any award, prize or gift may impact your financial aid. The value of any such award must be reported to the U-M Office of Financial Aid. Details: Email financial.aid@umich.edu or call 734-763-6600.

https://umich.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bw1ghY2RYn330a1

Undergraduate Research Award due May 1st - PRIZES!

In recognition of the extraordinary academic achievements of our undergraduate students, the University Library announces the fourth annual U-M Library Undergraduate Student Research Award for excellence in library research conducted in support of an undergraduate student project.

If you have students who have written or participated in a research paper/project from Spring 2013-Winter 2014 term, please encourage them to submit their work for consideration.  Students will also need a faculty sponsor. 

The awards are as follows:

Maize Award for Single-Term Projects                 Blue Award for Multi-Term Projects
First Place:      $1,000                                        First Place:      $1,000
Second Place: $   500                                        Second Place:  $  500
Third Place:     $   250                                        Third Place:      $  250


Interested faculty and students can find additional information about this award at: http://www.lib.umich.edu/undergraduate-research-award

The application deadline is Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 5 p.m.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the award committee at:libresearchaward@umich.edu

TODAY: ArtsLab on Business Entities and the Arts

Business Entities for Arts Organizations and Projects
[REGISTER]
March 10th. 4:30-6:00 pm.
Hatcher Gallery Lab (Room 100)

Does it make sense to incorporate as a corporation or an LLC? What’s an LLC? Why would you want to incorporate an artistic project? The corporate structure provides a significant number of protections and advantages for all types of organizations. This session will briefly outline the advantages and the formal requirements while addressing common practices in the industry.

ArtsLab and the UM Copyright Office will be hosting a series of round-table discussions on topics ranging from intellectual property to business organization to art as an advocacy tool. These events will bring together interested students, staff, and faculty in 60 to 90 minute long sessions designed to introduce a topic and discuss the impact it has on creative arts, careers, and campus life. Even though we will be discussing legal and business topics, these sessions are not legal advice


ArtsLab is an interdisciplinary project from the UM Library Copyright Office, funded by the Third Century Initiative. ArtsLab connects students across campus to work on entrepreneurial projects in the arts, including music recording. Contact Cliff at cehelm@umich.edu for more information.

Monday, February 24, 2014

Event Cancelled - Material ConneXion Shows the Newest and Coolest Materials

Regrettably the speaker from Material Connexion has been called away due to family obligations and will not be able to come to present to us so we are having to cancel this event. 


Date & Time
March 18, 2014 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location
Art, Architecture & Engineering Library, 2nd Floor Duderstadt Center, North Campus
Event Type
Lecture

Learn about the newest and coolest materials on the planet and new trends in materials research and design applications. What are you making? Need a little inspiration and impetus? The library's not just about books and journals!
Material ConneXion, a global materials consultancy with the world's largest library of innovative materials and processes, provides the core of the library's new and growing Materials Collection. A Material ConneXion materials specialists will talk, followed by a reception with light refreshments. Allow time to explore the materials!

Selfies in the Stacks

I wanted to let you know about my new Tumblr "Selfies in the Stacks" at http://selfiesinthestacks.tumblr.com. The idea of this Tumblr is to encourage students to experience the joys of seeing actual, physical books in the library. The selfies were part of a library project for Beth Hay's Methods of Inquiry class. Check it out and please submit your own selfie in the stacks!

The Golden Rule (Fair Use, Re-Use, and New Use)

The Golden Rule (Fair Use, Re-Use, and New Use) [REGISTER]
February 26th. 4:30-6:00 pm.
Hatcher Graduate Library Lab, Room 100

When should you be able to use someone else’s work without permission? Does the answer change when it’s your art being used? The copyright concept of “Fair Use” is the law’s attempt to deal with this question, with mixed results of actual “fairness.” This session will first outline the law and contemporary examples and then discuss campus-based issues.

ArtsLab and the UM Copyright Office will be hosting a series of round-table discussions on topics ranging from intellectual property to business organization to art as an advocacy tool. These events will bring together interested students, staff, and faculty in 60 to 90 minute long sessions designed to introduce a topic and discuss the impact it has on creative arts, careers, and campus life. Even though we will be discussing legal and business topics, these sessions are not legal advice.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Open workshops on publishing for graduate students


Thursday, 2/6, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm
This session, directed to graduate students and junior faculty in the social sciences and humanities, will discuss the process of publishing a scholarly book. Attendees will learn how to craft a book proposal, identify potential publishers, approach press editors, and benefit from peer review at a university press. Equally important, you will find out how to work with the publisher’s marketing team to promote book sales, compete for book prizes, and draw wide attention for their scholarship. Bring your questions–and get answers from two experienced publishing professionals!
Presenters:
Melody Herr, Senior Acquisitions Editor at the University of Michigan Press
Renée Tambeau, Director of Marketing and Outreach for Michigan Publishing and the Press.

Tuesday, 2/18, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Want to make sure your published work reaches as many readers as possible? Interested in publishing in an open access journal, but aren’t able to pay a publication charge? Curious about why your funding agency is requiring you to share your research findings? This workshop will discuss the basics of open access and how the landscape of scholarly publishing is changing. Attendees will learn how to select appropriate publication venues, understand their rights as an author, and identify important trends in the larger publishing world that are relevant to their work.

Wednesday, 3/12, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Copyright for the dissertation writer is not that scary, we promise! In this workshop we’ll cover data, images, and  reusing prior published articles in your dissertation.  We’ll also show you how to protect your copyright as an author and how to get permissions when necessary.  This session is specifically for those working on a dissertation or thesis.

Thursday, 3/13, 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
A panel of faculty members from a range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences will discuss their experience as authors, editors, and reviewers in today’s academic publishing environment. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear directly from faculty on topics such as:
  • how the peer review process works
  • what presses are looking for in book proposal
  • common methods for handling reviewer feedback
  • tips for successfully co-authoring materials
  • advice for fitting writing into a busy schedule
  • and much more!
Registration for all sessions is available via the TTC.

ArtsLab intellectual property workshops - Third Century Initiative

ArtsLab is an interdisciplinary project from the UM Library Copyright Office, funded by the Third Century Initiative. ArtsLab connects students across campus to work on entrepreneurial projects in the arts, including music recording. Contact Cliff at cehelm@umich.edu for more information.

ArtsLab Studios
Conversations in Art, Entrepreneurship, and Law
Hatcher Library, Gallery Lab Room 100
ArtsLab and the UM Copyright Office will be hosting a series of round-table discussions on topics ranging from intellectual property to business organization to art as an advocacy tool. These events will bring together interested students, staff, and faculty in 60 to 90 minute long sessions designed to introduce a topic and discuss the impact it has on creative arts, careers, and campus life. Participants are encouraged to bring their own topics and issues to discuss generally. Even though we will be discussing legal and business topics, these sessions are not legal advice
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Art, Ownership, and Moral Rights [REGISTER]
January 28th. 4:30-6:00 pm.
How exactly do you “own” art? How do we expect people to respect ownership? This session will broadly cover the types of intellectual property protection we have, from the law to cultural norms. Topics include copyright, moral rights, industry custom, internet trends, and Creative Commons.
Legal Regimes and Art [REGISTER]
February 3rd. 4:30-6:00 pm.
What’s the difference between Copyright, Trademark, and Patent protection? How do they affect art and creative projects? This session will help identify the differences in the regime, provide basic information on when you might be eligible for legal protection, and discuss some campus-based examples.
Public Performance, Public Display, and Public Art [REGISTER]
February 18th. 4:30-6:00 pm.
Copyright grants an exclusive right to a public performance – but what does that really mean? What happens when music is performed live? What about playing a cover of someone else’s song? What about a film screening? Does a mural have any legal protection against reproductions? This event will explore when performances or displays are “infringing” – and what that means.
The Golden Rule (Fair Use, Re-Use, and New Use) [REGISTER]
February 26th. 4:30-6:00 pm.
When should you be able to use someone else’s work without permission? Does the answer change when it’s your art being used? The copyright concept of “Fair Use” is the law’s attempt to deal with this question, with mixed results of actual “fairness.” This session will first outline the law and contemporary examples and then discuss campus-based issues.

Business Entities for Arts Organizations and Projects [REGISTER]
March 10th. 4:30-6:00 pm.
Does it make sense to incorporate as a corporation or an LLC? What’s an LLC? Why would you want to incorporate an artistic project? The corporate structure provides a significant number of protections and advantages for all types of organizations. This session will briefly outline the advantages and the formal requirements while addressing common practices in the industry.
Using Art as an Effective Advocacy Tool [REGISTER]
March 20th. 4:30-6:00 pm.
Do social and civic projects benefit from the inclusion of art? Can art itself be used as a tool for advocacy? This session will provide a background into some recent efforts and highlight some current projects in Detroit and Ann Arbor.

Imageworks newly acquired videos 2012-2013

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


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

For Madiba with Love! - exhibition Jan.27th-Feb.14th


Ask a librarian - funny video



Of course you can email (ahaines@umich.edu) me or stop by my office (2032 A&A) if you need help. Or use the Ask a Librarian service.

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Happy 2014, from the University of Michigan Library


U-M Library Undergraduate Student Research Award

In recognition of the extraordinary academic achievements of our undergraduate students, the University Library announces the fourth annual U-M Library Undergraduate Student Research Award for excellence in library research conducted in support of an undergraduate student project.

If you have students who have written or participated in a research paper/project from Spring 2013-Winter 2014 term, please encourage them to submit their work for consideration.  Students will also need a faculty sponsor. 

The awards are as follows:

  Maize Award for Single-Term Projects                Blue Award for Multi-Term Projects
First Place:      $1,000                                        First Place:      $1,000
Second Place: $   500                                       Second Place: $   500
Third Place:     $   250                                        Third Place:     $   250


Interested faculty and students can find additional information about this award at:  http://www.lib.umich.edu/undergraduate-research-award

The application deadline is Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 5 p.m.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the award committee at:libresearchaward@umich.edu

Call for Self Portraits

The Shapiro Library is putting together a digital display of SELF PORTRAITS to be displayed on the digital screens in Bert's Study Lounge later this semester.
All (faculty, staff, students) are invited and encouraged to submit their work. Most digital file formats are acceptable (.pdf, .jpg, .png, .ppt, .mov + YouTube, vimeo). Further information about formatting is available here:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/berts-study-lounge/submitting-content 
When in doubt, please feel free to submit -- we will work with any content submitted to make sure it displays correctly.
To submit your work, please email it as an attachment along with a separate file that includes the following information byFriday, January 24 at 5 PM.
Your Name
Status: Student, Faculty, or Staff
Title or Major
School/College/Department/Unit
 
Image Title(s)
Date
Medium
Short Description/Statement
 
 
Questions? jlausch@umich.edu

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Jamie Lausch Vander Broek
Learning Librarian
Exhibits and Programming Librarian
University of Michigan