This is a very special opportunity to hear Bacon talk about how Bo achieved his great success both on and off the football field. In the book, Bo describes the timeless values that led him to become not only the winningest football coach at the most successful program in the nation, but also a beloved leader far beyond the gridiron.

The public is welcome. Light refreshments and an opportunity to talk with the author will follow. ]]> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:56:11 EST Exhibits/Events http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/trial_access_to_ebooks_on_science_direct_247.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/trial_access_to_ebooks_on_science_direct_247.html Kathleen Folger. There is a link to the trial in SearchTools or, if you're on campus, you can access it directly from this address.

A complete list of the titles available during the trial is available on the ScienceDirect website: http://info.sciencedirect.com/content/books/docs/ebooks_triallistSD.xls ]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:36:02 EDT Resources http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/revised_copyright_website_246.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/revised_copyright_website_246.html U-M Copyright website. This new site will better serve the U-M community by providing basic and practical information on copyright, and by directing users to trustworthy resources both on the web and at the Library.

The revised site is full of new content, and has been redesigned to improve accessibility and help users understand the increasingly complex world of intellectual property. The goal of the site is to provide straightforward information and clarification on the issues most relevant to scholars, researchers, staff, and students. It offers guidance on questions such as: What works are protected by copyright and which ones are not? How do you request permission to use a resource? What are the current legal battles about file sharing about, and how do they affect U-M users? What are our rights and responsibilities regarding copyright?

The site provides useful links to other U-M offices that handle copyright issues, copyright information from other universities, and the United States Copyright Office's website. Links to sites that promote online intellectual freedom are also featured.

Feedback and questions are always welcome. If you have any questions, please contact an Intellectual Property Specialist from this page: http://copyright.umich.edu./contact.html ]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:22:18 EDT Resources http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/um_library_online_collections_among_largest_worldwide_241.html http://www.lib.umich.edu//news/stories/um_library_online_collections_among_largest_worldwide_241.html The University of Michigan's Institutional Repository, Deep Blue, was listed as the eleventh largest repository of university content by the Registry of Open Access Repositories, an organization that tracks open access archives worldwide. No other U.S. based repository was listed higher in this category. This is especially significant given that Deep Blue has only been online for a little over a year.

With over 35,000 titles Deep Blue is one of the fastest-growing and most robust online institutional archives anywhere. Deep Blue's mission is to preserve and make easily accessible online the work of U-M faculty, which in many cases is difficult to find, out of print, or only available through expensive subscriptions to journals or other databases. Jim Ottaviani, Deep Blue's Coordinator, prefers not to overplay the ranking's importance as the sole indicator of Deep Blue's impact, focusing instead on the quality of its service: "We've had hundreds of active users and over a million downloads in our first year, so we're pleased Deep Blue has such strong campus support. We're excited that we are able to attract very high quality work and enable the greatest possible access to U-M research."

In the larger category of digital collections, the University of Michigan Library's online collections ranked fourth. Above the U-M on the list are the renowned collections PubMed Central and arXiv, covering biomedical and physics literature, respectively. PubMed is run by the federal government, and arXiv has had broad disciplinary support for more than fifteen years, so it is especially significant that a university library ranks favorably alongside them.

U-M Library online collections are managed by the Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) and the Scholarly Publishing Office; examples of materials they make available include the books in the Making of America collection and contemporary journals such as Philosopher's Imprint. While PubMed and arXiv cater to highly specialized fields, U-M collections exhibit incredible breadth, ranging from the humanities to the sciences.

The U-M Library's numbers in this ranking do not include the hundreds of thousands of items that have already been digitized as part of the ongoing MBooks project, the U-M Library's partnership with Google to digitize its entire print collection. When the MBooks titles that are currently digitized are included in future rankings, the U-M Library could move up one or perhaps two spots.

As Associate University Librarian John Wilkin argues, rankings such as these provide evidence of the significant impact that the U-M Library has made in contributing to and shaping scholarly content on the Internet: "Over the years, we have worked to open our collections to the world and to create significant public goods. These rankings demonstrate the way that a university library can shape the nature of online research and access to scholarship." ]]> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:27:16 EDT Resources