Electronic Lunch at the Dude

Electronic Lunch is an open lab for exploring and designing with electronic devices, sponsored by the Digital Media Commons.

It’s held every Friday at Noon in Design Lab 1 in the Duderstadt Center.

Bring your own lunch and your own projects, or work with our weekly features. A modest collection of micro-controllers, sensors and motors is available for in-lab use or for check-out with special permission.

For further information see: electroniclunch.wordpress.com

BrowZine journal app trial

The library is running a trial of  a new technology called BrowZine which is a tablet application that allows you to browse, read and monitor some of the library’s best journals, all from your iPad.  Built to accompany your searching needs, items found in BrowZine can easily be synced up with Zotero, Dropbox or several other services to help keep all of your information together in one place.

To learn more, please take a look at this short two minute video:

http://thirdiron.com/browzine-ipad-app/video/

For the trial, search for “BrowZine” in the App Store and download the app for free; when initially launching BrowZine, select our school from the drop down list.

We only have this trial for a few weeks, so I would appreciate your feedback while we consider subscribing to this service.

Thank you,

Annette Haines

ahaines@umich.edu

 

MLibrary Emergent Research Series - Starts Monday Jan.28th

Please join us for the first event in the MLibrary Emergent Research Series on Monday, January 28, from 10:00am-11:30am in the Hatcher Gallery.
Our first speaker will be Professor Finn Brunton from the School of Information, with a talk titled, "The Accidental Archive: Or, Researching criminals, otherkin, cipher anarchists, spammers and the online history that doesn't want to be kept."

Professor Brunton engages in a wide range of inquiry that includes: the digital humanities, the history of technology, STS, "dead media", Internet culture, and network politics. Professor Brunton will respond to a series of prepared questions related to his research process(es), followed by Q & A from the audience. Light refreshments will be served.

We look forward to learning with you!

Winter Term Workshops at the Faculty Exploratory

For Faculty:

Hi all! I hope the start of the semester is going well for you. Our workshop schedule for winter term is now available at http://teachtech.umich.edu - please visit to find out more information or to register.

Also remember that we are happy to teach technology sessions for your students as it may relate to assignments you create; just contact me to learn more or to set one up for a class.

As always, you are welcome to set up an appointment at your convenience to learn to use a technology tool in your teaching or research - just let us know some dates and times that work for you.

Thank you for your interest in our services and workshops!

--L.

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Laurie A. Sutch
Director, Academic Technology Group
University Library
University of Michigan
206 Hatcher Library
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205
phone:  (734) 647-7406
Fax:    (734) 764-0259
http://www.lib.umich.edu/exploratory

Electronic Lunch on Wednesdays

Electronic Lunch is an open lab for exploring and designing with electronic devices, sponsored by the Digital Media Commons.  It’s held every Wednesday from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM in Design Lab 1 on the first floor of the Duderstadt Center. Bring your own projects to share or trouble-shoot, or join in community projects. A modest collection of micro-controllers, sensors and motors is available for in-lab use or for check-out with special permission.

Electronic Lunch has its a own blog. Posts there also appear here, in the Electronic Lunch category, but if you’re looking for historical projects, or if you’d just like to get the EL feed, head on over to electroniclunch.wordpress.com

Share Your Academic Work in Bert's Study Lounge

Sharing is part of discovering.

Display your academic work on the big(ish) screens in Bert's Study Lounge in the Shapiro Library. We're looking for art, images, presentations, videos and more!  See our submission and display guidelines for details. Questions? Contact us at shapiroscreens@umich.edu.

Rhizome - for emerging artistic practices that engage technology

The Library has an institutional subscription to Rhizome http://rhizome.org

Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Through open platforms for exchange and collaboration, their website serves to encourage and expand the communities around these practices. Their programs, many of which happen online, include commissions, exhibitions, events, discussion, archives and portfolios. They support artists working at the furthest reaches of technological experimentation as well as those responding to the broader aesthetic and political implications of new tools and media. Their organizational voice draws attention to artists, their work, their perspectives and the complex interrelationships between technology, art and culture.

If you haven't already signed up, you can register here: http://rhizome.org/preferences/register.rhiz

ARTstor now includes even more contemporary art images

ARTstor, the digital library of more than one million images, has signed an Online Art Agreement (OLA) with Artists Rights Society (ARS) on behalf of six additional international visual arts organizations covering more than 10,000 new artists from six countries. This substantially expands the ARTstor Digital Library’s modern and contemporary artworks for subscribers.

The artists covered in the agreement include: Waino Aaltonen (Finland), Raul Anguiano (Mexico), Oscar Araripe (Brazil), Charles Blackman (Australia), Paul-Emile Borduas (Canada), Arthur Boyd (Australia), Jack Bush (Canada), Fernando and Umberto Campana (Brazil), José Chávez Morado (Mexico), Grace Cossington-Smith (Australia), Adam Cullen (Australia), Wilhelm Dachauer (Austria), Ken Done (Australia), Destiny Deacon (Australia), Max Dupain (Australia), Felipe Ehrenburg (Mexico), Valie Export (Austria), Rosalie Gascoigne (Australia), James Gleeson (Australia), Jorge González Camarena (Mexico), Oswaldo Goeldi  (Brazil), Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Austria), Eero Jarnefelt (Finland), Angelika Kaufmann (Austria), Manfred Kielnhofer (Austria), Awad Krayem (Austria), Emily Kngwarreye (Australia), Ozias Leduc (Canada), Elwyn Lynn (Australia), Adolfo Mexiac  (Mexico), Benito Messeguer (Mexico), Tracey Moffatt (Australia), Rodolfo Morales (Mexico), Hermann Nitsch (Austria), John Olsen (Australia), Jose Clemente Orozco (Mexico), Mike Parr (Australia), Jean-Paul Riopelle  (Canada), Georg Paul Thomann (Austria), Francisco Toledo (Mexico), Brett Whiteley (Australia), Fred Williams (Australia), Peter Paul Wiplinger (Austria), and Erwin Wurm (Austria), among thousands more.
For further information about the agreement see the ARTstor Blog at:

http://artstor.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/new-agreement-with-international-affiliates-of-the-artists-rights-society-ars/

Faculty Exploratory - Workshops and one-on-one help with technology

A program as well as a facility, the Faculty Exploratory was designed specifically for faculty at the University of Michigan to enhance lecturing, research, and publishing skills. Whether you already use technology and just need a few tips or are just starting out and need a whole new skill set, you can take hands-on workshops, setup an appointment, or just stop in and say, HELP! In addition to getting assistance with software applications, we can help you digitize video, audio, photographs and slides for your classes and presentations on our multimedia workstations.