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Did you see the new Ben Affleck movie Argo about the rescue of American diplomats during the Iran Hostage Crisis? Want to know more about events that the movie deals with? Check out books and video in the library’s collection, including Our Man in Tehran: The True Story Behind the Secret Mission to Save Six Americans During the Iran Hostage Crisis and the Foreign Ambassador Who Worked With the CIA to Bring Them Home. Thousands of newspaper, magazine, and journals articles as well as dissertations and e-books are also available online through the Summon discovery tool.

Join us in the Mardigian Library at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 18 for the opening reception of the Armenian Research Center’s exhibition celebrating the 500th anniversary of the first Armenian printed book.

Dr. Levon Avdoyan, Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist at the Library of Congress, will speak on “The Three Eras of Armenian Literature.”

Armenian language printed books from the 17th century to the present will be on display in the library. The exhibition runs until Friday, November 16.

The exhibition is co-organized with the Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum in Southfield, and is sponsored by the Robert Ajemian Foundation. For group tours, contact the Armenian Research Center at 313-593-5181.

On this day in 1971, the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar opened on Broadway. The Mardigian Library doesn't have any books, videos, or sound recordings from this hit musical. But, you can find them in MeLCat (see http://elibrary.mel.org/search). You can order books or audiovisual materials from another library in Michigan and have it delivered right to the Mardigian Library for pick-up. For more about MeLCat, see How to use MeLCat.

Heather Ann Thompson, Associate Professor of History at Temple University, will be coming to UM-Dearborn on October 17 to speak on Which Way Detroit? From Struggles for Civil Rights to the Crisis of Criminalization as well as about her book "Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City." The Mardigian Library has copies of Whose Detroit?. Check one out!

Dr. Heather Williams will be the guest speaker at the SOE Research Colloquium/A Conversation on Race event on Tuesday, October 16. Dr. Williams, from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be presenting “Freedom Through Education: African Americans in the 19th Century South”.

Two books by Dr. Williams are in the library’s collection; check them out!
Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom

The speaker at the October 18 Text in Community Series lecture will be Ian Buruma. The Mardigian Library has several books written by the Bard College Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism. Check them out!

Dr. Buruma has been a prolific author. In addition to the books in the library’s collection, check out more of Dr. Buruma’s newspaper and journal articles, book chapters, and more through our Summon discovery tool.

On Friday, October 12, Dr. Simona Marincean, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at UM-Dearborn, will be the guest speaker at the Natural Sciences Colloquium. Dr. Marincean’s presentation will be “Forays into Hydride Transfer Reactions”.

Read some of Dr. Marincean's work through the Scopus database. To read articles, click on "View at publisher" or "Article Linker.” Note that full text of all papers may not be available.

There are many ways to contact a reference librarian or one of our knowledgeable student assistants:

• In-person – stop by the Library Research Center on the first floor of the library next to the public computers.
• Make an appointment with a subject specialist librarian
• Telephone – call 313-593-5563
• Text messaging – text your question to 66746, and start your question with “AskLRC”
• E-mail – ask-a-question@umd.umich.edu
• Instant messaging/chat – see our Ask a Question page
• Open Research Workshops for students (see blog post)

The SLRC Observatory will be hosting several public viewing sessions in October and November -- including this Friday, October 5. Are you going? How about checking out one of the library's astronomy handbooks to take along as a reference? We have many available. Many are available online, too, if you take your laptop or iPad with you.

The Natural Sciences Colloquium will be hosting two speakers this Friday, October 5. In the morning, Dr. Diane Ebert-May, from Michigan State University, will be speaking about “Learner-centered teaching: What are you doing that your students could be doing instead?” Then, in the afternoon, Dr. Mona Jarrahi, from the University of Michigan, will be presenting “Plamonic photoconductors for high-performance terahertz optoelectronics.”

Are you interested in reading more work by either professor? Articles by both Dr. Ebert-May and Dr. Jarrahi can be accessed through the Scopus database. To read papers, click on "View at publisher" or "Article Linker.” Note that full text of all papers may not be available.