Awards to be presented included two Amoco Foundation Teaching Awards, five Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards, five Faculty Recognition Awards, two Distinguished Faculty Governance Awards, the Regents' Award for Distinguished Public Service, the University Press Book Award, the Distinguished Research Scientist Award, and the Research Scientist Recognition Award.

Kathryn L. Beam, senior associate librarian and curator of the Humanities Collection of the University's Special Collections Library, and Traianos Gagos, associate professor of papyrology and Greek, assistant research scientist in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and archivist of the University Library, received the University Press Book Award for their CD-ROM "The Evolution of the English Bible: From Papyri to King James."

This is the first time the award has been given for an electronic work published by the U-M Press.

University Librarian Achievement Award is presented for exceptional distinction reflected in active and innovative career achievements in library, archival or curatorial services.

• Traianos Gagos, professor of papyrology and Greek, Department of Classical Studies http://www.umich.edu/~classics/ ; archivist of papyrology, Graduate Library, University Library; assistant research scientist, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

University Librarian Recognition Award honors an individual who holds a primary faculty appointment as librarian, archivist or curator with no more than eight years' practice in the profession. Selection criteria include active and innovative early career achievements in library, archival or curatorial services. This may include developing specialized services for faculty and students, improving access to information or efficiently managing library and archival resources (staff, space, funding, collections), or other activities.

• Donna Hayward, information studies librarian, Graduate Library, University Library

The trial/evaluation period runs from October 1 - October 31, 2008 and is accessible to UM Ann Arbor faculty, staff and students at: http://www.e-enlightenment.com.

Centered on the "long 18th century", Electronic Enlightenment contains over 53,000 letters and documents by nearly 6,000 correspondents as well as over 80,000 document sources - citing manuscripts and early editions. Sources are in a variety of languages including English, French, German, Italian, etc. Electronic Enlightenment also includes a network of external links to other online resources. This database is updated twice yearly with both published and previously unpublished correspondence.

Please direct any comments or questions about this database to Nerea Llamas (nllamas@umich.edu) or to Beau Case (bdcase@umich.edu). ]]> Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:09:29 EDT Resources http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/the_whole_world_was_watching_protest_and_revolution_in_1968_416.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/the_whole_world_was_watching_protest_and_revolution_in_1968_416.html An Exhibit From the Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Library
September 15-December 19, 2008

Now on display in the Gallery (Room 100), Hatcher Graduate Library

1968.... Peggy Fleming won an Olympic gold medal in Grenoble, France, Apollo 8 carried the first human beings into orbit to see the dark side of the moon and all of planet Earth, Hawaii Five-O debuted on television, and The Producers and Funny Girl ran in theatres. At the same time, the Vietnam War raged on, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were murdered, and protest seethed on university campuses with an increasing sympathy among mainstream Americans.

In this 40th anniversary year of 1968, the University of Michigan Library presents 'The Whole World Was Watching: Protest and Revolution in 1968, Selections from the Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Library.' This exhibit provides a snapshot of a complex and pivotal year in American history highlighting protests against the Vietnam War and the draft, the highly fractured Presidential election and the violence that erupted outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago against anti-war demonstrators, and the activities of student and other protest groups such as the Ann Arbor-founded Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, the White Panthers, and the Yippies. The exhibit notes the women's movement and international matters such as Prague Spring and the May Paris uprisings.

Julie Herrada, curator for the Labadie Collection organized the show. The Labadie Collection was established in 1911 when Joseph Labadie, a popular Detroit anarchist, donated his library to the University of Michigan. Today it includes a great variety of social protest literature together with political views from both the extreme left and the extreme right from all over the world.

A related display of original record albums and political buttons from the University of Michigan's Special Collections Library is on view in the Special Collections Exhibit Room located on the seventh floor of the Hatcher Graduate Library.

On October 21 at 5:30 pm in the Gallery, Curator Julie Herrada will give an informal tour of the exhibit.

On November 13th at 4 pm in the Gallery, the Library will host a discussion panel in association with this exhibit moderated by University Librarian Paul Courant. A performance by 60's legend Country Joe McDonald will follow at 8 pm. Updated information will be available on our website: www.lib.umich.edu.

The exhibit was organized by the University of Michigan Library with support from the Ginsberg Center, University of Michigan; Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan; Department of History, University of Michigan; the Program in American Culture, University of Michigan; and Arts at Michigan.

]]> Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:06:03 EDT Exhibits/Events http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/espresso_book_machine_415.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/espresso_book_machine_415.html With the installation of a state-of-the-art book-printing machine at one of its libraries, the University of Michigan stands at the new frontier of 21st-century publishing, offering printed and bound reprints of out-of-copyright books from its digitized collection of nearly 2 million books, as well as thousands of books from the Open Content Alliance and other digital sources.

U-M is the first university library to install the book-printing machine. The Espresso Book Machine, from On Demand Books of New York, produces perfect-bound, high-quality paperback books on demand. A Time Magazine "Best Invention of 2007," the Espresso Book Machine has been called "the ATM of books." It was purchased with donations to U-M libraries. Read more at: http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/ story.php?id=6735

See also:

• An ATM of Books
• Expresso Print on Demand
• Expresso Book Marchine
• Libraries and POD
• U. of Michigan Library Installs 'ATM of Books' (The Chronicle's Wired Campus)
• University of Michigan and Books on Demand
• Instant Books from the Library (Business Week)
• Markets Down, Library Cards Up (Washington Post)
• President Mary Sue Coleman's gateway page
• Print on Demand Goes Local
• The Espresso Machine Debuts (Publishers Weekly)
• On-Demand Printing Comes to the Library

Copyright law has a profound impact on the professional lives of university faculty, all of whom are both users and creators of copyrighted material. This session will provide an introduction to copyright questions that most affect scholarly authors, such as: What does copyright protect and for how long? Who owns the copyright? When do you need permission to use other people's works in your writing and teaching? What is involved in transferring rights to others? How can you protect your interests in dealing with journals and publishers? How can you increase the impact of your work by use of Creative Commons licenses or by depositing your work in Deep Blue?

Two sessions scheduled for Fall 2008:

• Wednesday, September 24th from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, in the Faculty Exploratory, Hatcher Graduate Library. Register at https://www-a1.lsa.umich.edu/es_conf/app/DisplaySession.asp?sessionid=2591
• Thursday, November 6th from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, in the Faculty Exploratory, Hatcher Graduate Library. Register at https://www-a1.lsa.umich.edu/es_conf/app/DisplaySession.asp?sessionid=2592

Creative Commons licenses work in combination with copyright to help authors and creators allow certain uses of their work without requiring permission. If you've ever wanted to find material that you can use without worrying about copyright violations, or share your photographs or writing on the web, then Creative Commons is for you. Already popular among artists and musicians, Creative Commons is gaining momentum in academia. This session will cover the principles behind Creative Commons, an explanation of the different licenses, and explore some of the ways that faculty can benefit from Creative Commons as educators, authors, and creators.

One session scheduled for Fall 2008:

• Thursday, October 9th from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, in the Faculty Exploratory, Hatcher Graduate Library. Register at: https://www-a1.lsa.umich.edu/es_conf/app/DisplaySession.asp?sessionid=2596

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture have jointly announced the first international Open Access Day. Building on the worldwide momentum toward Open Access to publicly funded research, Open Access Day will provide an opportunity for the higher education community and the general public to understand more clearly the opportunities of wider access and use of content.

Open Access Day will invite researchers, educators, librarians, students, and the public to participate in live, worldwide broadcasts of events, and the University Library will host the broadcast on campus.

More details about the Library's OA Day events will be coming soon. To learn more about Open Access day, visit the Open Access Day website: http://openaccessday.org/ ]]> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:57:48 EDT Workshops http://www.lib.umich.edu/hr/employment/student_job.html http://www.lib.umich.edu/hr/employment/student_job.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:34:23 EDT People http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/using_mtagger_404.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/using_mtagger_404.html MTagger is the University Library's tagging tool -- you can save and label things you find in the library catalog (Mirlyn), digital images, or on any library web page.

How does it work? You 'tag' an item by typing a few words or phrases that will help you categorize the page. You can think of a tag as a label to help you find that web page again. You may choose to give a web page several tags that describe the content of the page or why you saved it. For example, give it a subject tag like 'history' and a 'why' tag like 'hist122 paper.'

Use the tag cloud to find related items by clicking on tags that match your interest. Check out other people's tags to see what they are tagging -- find other U-M users with similar research interests. Build a list of related resources -- pulling together your books, web pages, electronic journals and images into a single spot by giving them common tags is easy.

Find it. Tag it. Share it. Use MTagger ]]> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:35:36 EDT Resources http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/mbooks_becomes_hathitrust_403.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/mbooks_becomes_hathitrust_403.html MBooks - the collection of books digitized from the University Library's collections - will become part of HathiTrust on September 3, 2008.

HathiTrust, launched by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) libraries, is a shared digital repository for storing university library digital content, incorporating all the content from MBooks plus new content from other HathiTrust partners. (For background information, see Google and CIC Partnership news.)

The UM community will now have access to books, journals, and other documents previously unavailable through MBooks. MBooks links in the Mirlyn Library Catalog will now be renamed HathiTrust Digital Library. The options for viewing, printing, and creating collections will be the same as in MBooks. We hope that HathiTrust will improve access to materials for our campus teaching, research, and scholarship.

If you have questions about the collections, please Ask a Librarian. ]]> Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:32:26 EDT Resources http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/welcome_new_graduate_students_402.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/welcome_new_graduate_students_402.html Please see our page, Library Services for Graduate Students, for useful information. If you have questions, please Ask a Librarian! ]]> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:07:18 EDT Services http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/opening_doors_contemporary_african_american_academic_surgeons_401.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/opening_doors_contemporary_african_american_academic_surgeons_401.html The Health Sciences Libraries are hosting the traveling exhibit "Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons." Opening Doors is an exhibition celebrating the contributions of African American academic surgeons to medicine and medical education. It tells the stories of four pioneering African American surgeons and educators who exemplify excellence in their fields, and believe in continuing the journey of excellence through the education and mentoring of younger physicians and surgeons. Through contemporary and historical images, the exhibition takes the visitor on a journey through the lives and achievements of these academic surgeons, providing a glimpse into the stories of those that came before them and those that continue the tradition today. Opening Doors was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture.

Opening Doors will be on display at the Taubman Medical Library from now through September. In October the exhibit will be moving to the Gallery (Room 100), Hatcher Graduate Library.

In conjunction with the traveling exhibit, HSL is planning special events, including bringing Dr. Alexa Canady, a pediatric neurosurgeon and University of Michigan double alumna featured in the display, to campus. Specific details about this event will be available soon. Learn more about the exhibit and related events at: http://www.lib.umich.edu/hsl/about/aasurg.html

The University Library offers the Ask a Librarian reference service with instant messaging (IM) software for answering your library- and research-related questions.

Our IM software will communicate with your AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, or Yahoo Messenger software. If you have never used the instant messaging software, you must first register a screen name with AOL, MSN, or Yahoo, and then download the free IM software. As soon as the software is installed on your computer, you can add the University Library's screen name to your personal Buddy List or Contact List.

The Library's Ask a Librarian service screen name is umlibraryaskus@umich.edu.

We can help! ]]> Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:53:44 EDT Services