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!

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!

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.

New Materials Collection in Imageworks: Come see and touch STUFF!

In March, the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library at the University of Michigan held an open house to announce their collection of materials leased from Material ConneXion. The collection is housed in Imageworks, our visual resources library and consists of samples of 200 materials, a selected subset of the over 6,500 materials found in the Materials ConneXion® database to which we had previously subscribed. We envision the collection being most heavily used by the School of Art & Design, and the Architecture and Materials Engineering departments, but the collection is available for in-house use to anyone.

In preparation for this new collection, special mobile shelving units were created by the UM Cabinet Shop to display the materials. Susan Garret, our Visual Resources Cataloguer and Coordinator, and her staff created a database of the 200 samples which cross-references the Material ConneXion database. For further information, please visit our Materials Collection Guide at http://guides.lib.umich.edu/materials_collection.