Try Arts: Search (formerly designinform) to research into the history of modern art and design

designinform changed its name to Arts: Search
Given the increased digitization of a wide range of fine art and architecture journals, it was felt that the title designinform, with its apparent emphasis on design, did not fully represent the scope and coverage of the database.

Arts: Search is an invaluable resource for research into the history of modern arts, architecture and design. It consists of three linked databases: 

ReVIEW  - digitized, searchable versions of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art journals

Arts + Architecture ProFILES (AAP) – a biographical dictionary of modern artists, designers, architects, craftspeople and photographers

Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR) – a retrospective journal abstracting and indexing service

To access Arts: Search go to http://www.lib.umich.edu/database/link/11265 or search for Arts: Search from any MLibrary webpage and click on the link under databases.

On the Road: Celebrating 100 Years of the Lincoln Highway

On the Road: Celebrating 100 Years of the Lincoln Highway uses rich visual resources – including vintage postcards, maps, and photographs – to document the formation and early days of the Lincoln Highway Association and the construction of the highway itself. The Lincoln Highway was the first transcontinental highway in North America and originally covered approximately 3,400 miles from coast to coast. The route, consisting of both existing and newly-built roads, followed the most direct, scenic route possible from New York to San Francisco.

The exhibit coincides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Lincoln Highway Association in Detroit. The Association, led by Indianapolis-based entrepreneur Carl Fisher, was made up of representatives from the automobile, tire, and cement industries, with the goal of planning, funding, constructing, and promoting the highway. Drawn from Association records, which were donated to the U-M's Transportation History Collection in 1937, items in the exhibit shine a spotlight on the founders and their travels plotting the Highway's route, and highlight interest in this piece of American history that continues through the present day.

Event Details

Date & Time:

June 5th - August 30th, 2013

August 7, 2013 - 8:30am to 7:00pm

Location:Audubon Room

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

Use UBorrow for Interlibrary Loan

Looking for books not available at MLibrary? Try UBorrow.

UBorrow is another service of interlibrary loan (ILL) for the borrowing of physical items that allows you to:

• Search or browse a database of 14 combined library catalogs
• Discover whether or not a book is available at MLibrary or within the participating institutions
• Place a request that goes directly to another institution without pausing in the local interlibrary loan office
• Expect a faster and more reliable turnaround time (usually within 5 business days)
• Receive longer loan period for physical book loans for 12 weeks (DVDs and other special materials will still have relatively brief loan periods)

UBorrow is only available for books and other items that can be physically loaned (not scans/article/chapters that you would download).  If you are going to need a book for 12 weeks, start with Uborrow; ILL traditionally has shorter loan periods, particularly for popular items.  But if you can’t find the book in the UBorrow database, then ILL should be your next stop.

For further information see: http://www.lib.umich.edu/ill-interlibrary-loan-um-community/uborrow

Spouse and Significant Other Borrowing Privileges

Did you know that UM faculty and staff may request an MLibrary card for their spouse or significant other? It's true! With this MLibrary card, the borrowing privileges are good for one year (or for the duration of the faculty/staff appointment, if less than one year), and the loan period is typically three weeks. For more details, and to request borrowing privileges for your spouse or significant other, see:

https://www.lib.umich.edu/spouse-so-borrowing

Shapiro Library Staff Say READ - Summer reading recommendations

Looking for some recommended books for reading during the lazy days of summer? Explore the READ READ READ list, provided by the Shapiro Undergraduate Library staff. 

This list of books will help entering undergraduate students get a glimpse of the cultural universe at the University of Michigan. Arranged in categories of Fiction, Science, Technology, The Arts, History, Politics/Economics/Media, Sociology/Anthropology and Psychology, the READ READ READ list gives you a fresh introduction to a field to be studied at UM and an opportunity to discover some new pleasure reading material.

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.