VIDEO: Award winner chronicles research journey
October 24, 2012
On October 12, the U-M Library celebrated the recipients of the 2012 MLibrary Undergraduate Research Award in a ceremony held in Bert’s Study Lounge in the Shapiro Library.
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U-M law professor opts for open access
October 23, 2012
When Don Herzog (photo left) was near to finishing what would be his fifth book, he considered all of the available publication options — and then made a decision he calls “obvious and easy” for a tenured professor like himself: he would make his book, Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England, available for free to
Authors Guild lawsuit over HathiTrust is dismissed
October 11, 2012
On Wednesday U.S. District Court Judge Harold Baer, Jr. granted the U-M’s motion for summary judgment in the Authors Guild lawsuit that sought to severely curtail the HathiTrust Digital Library initiative.
Google, AAP settle library project lawsuit
October 8, 2012
Last week it was announced that the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google have settled the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the AAP in 2005 over Google’s library book scanning project.
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.
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.
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.
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.
