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. 

For more information visit: http://www.lib.umich.edu/events/student-job-fair-u-m-libraries

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

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 .

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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).

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.

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!

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.

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

Afro Kilt Documentary Screening on December 5th

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

Hatcher Graduate Library

Special Collections Library

April 9, 2013 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm

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