Evyn Kropf and Cathleen Baker's article "A Conservative Tradition? Arab Papers of the 12th–17th Centuries from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection at the University of Michigan" has just appeared in the latest issue of the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts (4.1).
Congratulations to Sara Bahnmaier, Head, Electronic Resources Acquisitions & Licensing, on the publication of the article she co-authored, "Deal or No Deal?: Evaluating Big Deals and Their Journals," in the March 2013 issue of College & Research Libraries.
Please join us in welcoming JJ Jacobson to the Special Collections Library as Curator, American Culinary History Collection.
Congratulations to Kenyon Stuart, Rafael Escobar, and Emily Campbell on their presentations at the recent Electronic Resources and Libraries conference in Austin, TX.
Carrie Luke, an Instructional Learning Specialist in the Learning and Teaching area, has just published an article she co-authored with two former colleagues from Eastern Michigan University in the latest edition of Computers and Composition, a special issue on Deploying 21st Century Writing on the Economic Frontlines. The article, entitled "Valuing the Resources of Infrastructure: Beyond From-Scratch and Off-the-Shelf Technology Options for Electronic Portfolio Assessment in First-Year Writing," addresses the importance of leveraging community expertise and free eportfolio tools to improve student learning without impacting the bottom line.
You can access the article at http://
Musicology professor Jason Geary has a newly published essay titled "Converting the Pagans: Mendelssohn, Greek Tragedy, and the Christian Ethos." It appears in Mendelssohn Perspectives from Ashgate (ML 410 .M5 M59 2012).
Charles Garrett, professor of musicology, has an essay titled "The Humor of Jazz" in the book Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries (ML 3506 .J465 2012), a new publication from the University of California Press. Garrett is also co-editor of the volume.
Librarians Suzanne Chapman and Nerea Llamas are among twenty-one faculty members honored for their teaching, scholarship, service and creative activities.
Anna Schnitzer, Liaison and Disabilities librarian at the Health Sciences Libraries, was featured in the University Record Spotlight on
January 11 (http://www.ur.umich.edu/0910/Jan11_10/430-spotlight-librarian-helps-others-with-some-cuddly-canines).
Jean Song has accepted the position of Research and Informatics Coordinator for the Health Sciences Libraries. In this role, she will be coordinating and promoting collaborative interdisciplinary work to support informatics and research projects.
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