Entries by Joel Seewald

ProQuest databases will be undergoing maintenance and are expected to be unavailable:

Saturday, March 9 at 10:00 p.m. until
Sunday, March 10 at 4:00 a.m.

The March library display case exhibit is Let's hear it for the girls! Women in Michigan history. The exhibit features books by and about women with Michigan connections. Included are some well-known people, such as Jennifer Granholm and The Supremes, as well as some that are not so well known, such as Grace Lee Boggs and Emily Peterson.

The display case is near the first-floor elevators.

       

This Friday (March 8), Dr. Louis Lefebvre from McGill University will speak at the Animval Behavior speaker series. Dr. Lefebvre’s presentation will be “Feeding innovations in birds and their implications for ecology, evolution and neuroscience.”

Dr. Lefebvre has worked with many species of birds and much of his work can be found in the ScienceDirect database.

April 2013 R.E.A.D. (Read, Eat, and Discuss) Meeting

Book: “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back” by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum.
Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Time: 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Location: Room 1210 Mardigian Library

Ask for R.E.A.D. titles at the Circulation Desk; both the Kindles and print books are kept there, and the print copies are on reserve for us.

Light refreshments are provided. Please join us!

Marty Hershock, associate provost and associate professor of history, will discuss his book, A New England Prison Diary: Slander, Religion, and Markets in Early America. Specifically, he will speak about the last chapter of the book, "Diaries, Dead Ends, and Discoveries: Personal Texts as Historical Sources."

A micro history built around the diary of Timothy Joy, the book portrays a down-on-his-luck New Hampshire debtor imprisoned for slander after telling false stories about a powerful politician at a time of extreme partisanship.

Where: 2nd floor of the Mardigian Library
When: Wednesday, March 6
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

The University of Michigan - Dearborn will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the song "Precious Lord" on Wednesday, March 6. There will be a keynote presentation facilitated by Dr. Tammy Kernodle, Associate Professor of Musicology at Miami University, along with other special invited guests.

• See the Student Engagement website for more details.
• Listen to Precious Lord and other songs by Thomas A. Dorsey through the Naxos database
• See some of the research by Dr. Kernodle in the Summon research tool
• Check out the e-book Encyclopedia of African American Music, edited by Dr. Kernodle.

Have you been reading anything for fun lately? The last couple of weeks, I’ve been listening to Midnight Catch: A Novel by Norman Gilliland on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Chapter a Day®. I also just finished listening to Trickster’s Point: A Novel by William Kent Krueger. The Mardigian Library doesn't have "Trickster's Point," so I got the CDs from the Houghton Lake Public Library through MeLCat and they were sent to me at the Mardigian Library.

Do you listen to audio books? What kinds of books do you listen to? Are you reading anything right now? What’s it about? Would you recommend it?

Are you working on a term paper or just getting started? Do you have a presentation that requires library research? There are many ways to contact a reference librarian or one of our knowledgeable student assistants:

• Text messaging – text your question to 66746, and start your question with “AskLRC”
• Open Research Workshops for students (see blog post)
• 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
• E-mail – ask-a-question@umd.umich.edu
• Instant messaging/chat – see our Ask a Question page

The list of new books and other materials added to the library’s collection in November has been posted. Click on “…more New Arrivals” on the library’s home page. Or, go directly to http://library.umd.umich.edu/newbooks/.

Examples from the November list include:

       

Library hours will be shorter during Spring Break:

Saturday, February 23 - CLOSED
Sunday, February 24 - CLOSED
Monday, February 25 - 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday, February 26 - 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 27 - 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 28 - 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday, March 1 - 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Library Research Center hours will also be shorter:

Friday, February 22 - 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 23 - CLOSED
Sunday, February 24 - CLOSED
Monday, February 25 - 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, February 26 - 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 27 - 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 28 - 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Friday, March 1 - 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

On Saturday, March 3 our regular Winter Semester hours resume .

Hours for the ITS Computer Lab in the library can be found on the ITS website.

Are you looking for someone to help you make your paper better? You can talk to a student Writing Center Consultant in the Writing Center’s Mardigian Library location. Look for the table past the Library Research Center and the shelves with College/Career Information. See the Writing Center’s website for more information about how the Writing Center can help you, as well as locations and hours.

Due to system maintenance, from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. today, some library services will be unavailable. This includes:
• off-campus access to databases
• check-out of materials
• and paying fines
• ILLiad

UM-Dearborn and the Mardigian Library are closed today, Friday, February 8, 2013 due to snow.

It could get noisy in the computer area of the first floor on Tuesday, February 5 and Wednesday, February 6. Wiring will be installed between the elevators and the northwest corner of the building and this will involve a lot of drilling.

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