VIDEO: The Art of Conservation - Leyla Lau-Lamb
October 3, 2012
Video portrait of Leyla Lau-Lamb, Senior Conservator of Books and Papyri at the University of Michigan Library.
News
News for All
U-M and EMU initiate reciprocal guest borrowing program
September 25, 2012
The University of Michigan Library and Eastern Michigan University (EMU) Library recently initiated a program that makes all current faculty, students and staff eligible for guest borrowing privileges at the other institution.
Schnitzer receives National Library of Medicine outreach award
September 25, 2012
Anna Ercoli Schnitzer, Disability Issues Librarian at the Taubman Health Sciences Library, has received the 2012 Michael E. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award from the Friends of the National Library of Medicine.
Digging Deep into Welles
September 21, 2012
Special Collections adds to extensive Orson Welles archive
By Vivianne Schnitzer
New grant subsidizes access to library resources for Michigan entrepreneurs
August 16, 2012
A new grant will enable Michigan entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses to more readily obtain critical information from journals, conference proceedings, books, and other research library holdings at greatly reduced prices.
California Digital Library joins MLibrary's copyright review project
July 11, 2012
The University of Michigan Library recently announced that the California Digital Library (CDL), one of the world’s largest digital research libraries, is joining its grant-funded effort to identify public domain volumes from among the more than ten million volumes that reside in HathiTrust.
"An Imaginary Arctic"; an unlikely curator
July 11, 2012
The exhibit “An Imaginary Arctic: Speculative Cartography in the Search for the Northwest Passage” offers a close look at centuries of cartographic representations of the so-called Northwest Passage, a once mythical Arctic trade route from Europe to Asia.
Elaine Westbrooks to join Michigan as Associate University Librarian for Research
June 27, 2012
The University of Michigan Library is pleased to announce that Elaine Westbrooks will serve as the University's first Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Research, starting on August 13.
mPach project update: May 2012
June 1, 2012
University of Michigan staff continued work on modifications to the HathiTrust PageTurner to display JATS XML. Staff began development of wireframes for the Dashboard module and are close to the completion of a specification for mapping JATS metadata elements to MARC fields to create analytic records for journal articles.
VIDEO: Senior thesis project uses MIDEN to visualize the universe
June 4, 2012
For her senior IP thesis, Danielle Battaglia set out to visualize the universe. Working with the theory that the universe could be a multiverse based on budding toroidal forms, she created a 3D model of her idea, texture mapped stars on to it and installed her model into the virtual reality MIDEN at the 3D Lab in the Duderstadt Center.
