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.