Please join us on the 4th Monday of each month, from 10:00-11:30am in the Hatcher Gallery for programs that address the research lifecycle. These events are aimed at better understanding the various types of research undertaken across campus, particularly as they relate to library services and support, opportunities for collaboration, data management and preservation, and beyond. This page is a list of past and upcoming events put on by the library about the entire research process. We will also post information about other relevant events.
Twitter account: @UMLibRes
Events hashtag: #MLibRes
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Upcoming Events
Brownbag series "I do not think it means what you think it means"
Each session in this summer series will focus on a term that is relevant to emergent research practices. We will have informal discussions of working definitions of the term and how it's being used in various contexts.
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Friday, May 31, 2013
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Turkish American Friendship Room, 4004 Shapiro
Visualization
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Turkish American Friendship Room, 4004 Shapiro
Archive(s)
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Turkish American Friendship Room, 4004 Shapiro
Curate
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Thursday, August 1, 2013
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Turkish American Friendship Room, 4004 Shapiro
Data
Monday, June 24, 2013
10:00 - 11:30 am
Katherine Moynihan and Jack Minor, Office of Technology Transfer
The mission of the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) is to “effectively transfer University technologies to the market so as to generate benefits for the University, the community, and the general public.” Katie Moynihan and Jack Minor will provide a general overview of OTT and discuss their work, specifically with licensing and startups. In addition, they will talk about how OTT reconciles their role with the movement toward open access, when a researcher should contact OTT, and more.
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Katherine Moynihan is a Licensing and Market Specialist in the University of Michigan’s Office of Technology Transfer. She is responsible for facilitating the development and release of University mobile apps, overseeing incoming and outgoing Material Transfer Agreements, managing the Tech Transfer Fellows Program, and marketing the portfolio of technologies developed at U-M for commercialization. |
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Jack Minor is a Senior Business Formation Specialist in the University of Michigan’s Office of Technology Transfer. He focuses on business formation around physical sciences intellectual property. |
Monday, July 22, 2013
10:00 - 11:30 am
Database Structures & Design
Justin Joque, Spatial and Numeric Data Librarian
Justin Joque, Spatial and Numeric Data Librarian, will discuss the basics of database design and how thoughtfully designing even the simplest data-structures one interacts with can make projects easier. We will also have a general discussion of the opportunities and challenges of data management as informed by principles of database structures. No previous knowledge about databases will be required.
Past Events
Monday, May 20, 2013 (Note: Date change due to Memorial Day)
10:00 - 11:30 am
M-Kairos: The Future of Scholarly Monograph Publishing and Academic Need
Aaron McCollough, Editorial Director of Michigan Publishing
Aaron McCollough, Editorial Director of Michigan Publishing (which includes the University of Michigan Press) will discuss the library's on-going efforts to find a sustainable model for publishing high quality scholarship in support of a range of academic needs, including the preservation and dissemination of ideas as well as the professional vetting of those ideas for hiring and tenure processes.
Monday, April 22, 2013
10:00 - 11:30 am
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Panel
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research provides leadership and training in data access, curation, digital preservation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. Staff from ICPSR will discuss their work in encouraging open access to data and closer links between publications and data, collaborative data curation, and improving data discovery and reuse.
George Alter is Director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), Research Professor at the Population Studies Center, and Professor of History at the University of Michigan. ICPSR is the world’s largest social science data archive with units that specialize in data on aging, childcare, criminal justice, demography, health, and substance abuse. Alter's research grows out of interests in the history of the family, demography, and economic history, and recent projects have examined the effects of early life conditions on health in old age and new ways of describing fertility transitions. He was president of the Social Science History Association in 2011. Recent publications include: Alter and Clark ,“The demographic transition and human capital,” in The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2010); and Alter, Dribe, and Poppel, “Widowhood, Family Size, and Post-Reproductive Mortality: A Comparative Analysis of Three Populations in Nineteenth Century Europe,” Demography (2007).
Mary Vardigan is Assistant Director of ICPSR and directs the ICPSR Collection Delivery Unit. This involves oversight of activities in the areas of Metadata, Publications, Web Site Development, User Support, and Membership Development. She also serves as Director of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), an effort to establish an XML standard for social science technical documentation.
Jared Lyle is Director of Curation Services at ICPSR, where he oversees the metadata group and digital preservation activities.
Elizabeth Moss is Assistant Librarian at ICPSR, where she manages the ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature, a searchable database that contains over 60,000 citations of known published and unpublished works resulting from analyses of data held in the ICPSR archive.
Monday, March 25, 2013
10:00 - 11:30 am
Women's Incarceration: Research and Creative Resistance
Carol Jacobsen, Professor, School of Art & Design
Carol Jacobsen is an artist/filmmaker and professor in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, Women's Studies and Human Rights at UM. She serves as Director of the Michigan Women's Justice & Clemency Project. She will be discussing her research, teaching and advocacy methods in connection with efforts to free incarcerated women wrongly convicted who killed abusers in self-defense and for human rights for all women in prison.
Did you miss the talk? You can view it online.
Monday, February 25, 2013
10:00 - 11:30 am
PainTrek
Alex DaSilva, Assistant Professor of Prosthodontics, Department of Biologic and Materials Science
Alex DaSilva, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, and Director of the Headache & Orofacial Pain Effort (H.O.P.E.) at University of Michigan School of Dentistry, will share his methods and innovations in the area of chronic pain disorders. Efforts in collecting fMRI data during a migraine attack to developing mobile apps and VR tools that facilitate new ways of pain data exploration and discovery will be discussed including the soon to be released PainTrek mobile app. PainTrek is a novel mobile app that was developed to make it easier to track, analyze, and talk about pain. Using an innovative "paint your pain" interface, users can easily enter the intensity and area of pain by simply dragging over a 3D head. Pain information can be entered as often as the user likes, can be viewed over time, and even analyzed to provide deeper understanding of the user's pain. Dr. DaSilva will respond to a series of prepared questions related to his research process(es), followed by Q & A from the audience. This event will take place on Monday, February 25, 10:00-11:30am, in the Hatcher Gallery. Refreshments will be served.
Did you miss the talk? You can view it online.
Monday, January 28, 2013
10:00 - 11:30 am
The Accidental Archive: Or, Researching criminals, otherkin, cipher anarchists, spammers and the online history that doesn't want to be kept
Finn Brunton, Assistant Professor at the School of Information
Professor Brunton engages in a wide range of inquiry that includes: the digital humanities, the history of technology, STS, "dead media", Internet culture, and network politics. Professor Brunton will respond to a series of prepared questions related to his research process(es), followed by Q & A from the audience. This event will take place on Monday, January 28, 10:00-11:30am, in the Hatcher Gallery. Refreshments will be served.
Did you miss the talk? You can view it online.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Collaborative Data Management Services at the University of California Webinar
A recording of the event is available here.
Presenters:
- Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager and Manager, Strategic and Project Planning (California Digital Library)
- Perry Willet, Digital Preservation Service Manager (University of California Curation Center [UC3], California Digital Library)
- Claudia Horning, Head, Metadata Team (UCLA Library and Cataloging Metadata Center)
- Lisa Federer, Health and Life Sciences Librarian (UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library)
Researchers are required by the National Science Foundation and other funding agencies to include data management plans with new grant proposals. Faced with this requirement, researchers are looking to libraries for help with various aspects of research data management and curation, from creating data management plans to archiving and providing access to their research data. The University of California Libraries deliver a growing range of services and tools such as the DMPTool, EZID, Merritt, Web Archiving Service and campus-based data management programs. In this webinar, we will introduce these services and tools and then highlight the approach that one UC campus, UCLA, is taking toward campus engagement and faculty outreach and the opportunities and challenges in developing library data services.
