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On Thursday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m., the Mardigian Library and the Holocaust Memorial Center are cosponsoring a performance by Ethan Bortnick. Only 11 years old, Ethan Bortnick already has made history as the youngest musician, composer, and entertainer to headline a concert tour. He has shared the stage with Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, the Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncé, and Justin Bieber. Ethan also stars in, and wrote the music for, the film Anything is Possible, to be released later this year.

On Saturday, March 24, at 8:30 p.m., the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, along with the Jewish Gay Network, is co-sponsoring an evening with Detroit’s own Don Was. As half of the satiric R & B duo Was (Not Was), Don became one of the most prolific and sought-after producers in contemporary music. He has produced such legendary artists as Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Glenn Frey, Iggy Pop, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Seger, and the B-52s. In 1995, he received a Grammy Award for Producer of the Year.

The evening will be hosted by award-winning music journalist Gary Graff and will feature a discussion and a musical performance focusing on the producer’s extraordinary career.

Both musical performances are part of the Jewish Community Center’s Stephen Gottlieb Music Festival (running from March 15 through March 25, 2012). Both events sponsored by the Mardigian Library and Voice-Vision Archive will be held at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts on the West Bloomfield campus of the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit.

For more information, including tickets, please visit, http://50.28.88.26/~musicfes/

The 2012 Spring Career Fair will be held on Thursday, March 15. The library has many books about career development and we have career databases that include city guides, civil service exam practice, country guides, interviewing skills practice, job listings, occupational outlook information, resume and cover letter creation, and more.

Next week, an Electric Hybrid & Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles Seminar will take place on campus. Although the seminar is not open to the public, you might still be interested in learning more about electric, electric hybrid, and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Read books about these vehicles from the library’s collection.

Join us as fantasy author Saladin Ahmed discusses his debut novel Throne of the Crescent Moon. Throne is one of the year's most anticipated fantasy novels and is reminiscent of The Arabian Nights. Ahmed will bring his novel to life through discussion of its images of Arab folklore.

Ahmed's short stories have been nominated for several writing awards and have been translated into five languages. His previous writings have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies.

Author of :
Throne of the Crescent Moon

Thursday, April 12, 2012
2nd floor of the Mardigian Library
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Ahmed will be selling and signing his debut novel.
Light refreshments will be served.

For more information about Saladin Ahmed, visit his website: www.saladinahmed.com.

Contact Sue Flannery at sasbury@umd.umich.edu or (313)593-5236 if you have questions.

On Thursday, March 8, the campus will be celebrating the retirement of Dr. Shelley Perlove. Celebrate her career by reading books written by Dr. Perlove in the library’s collection:

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

Dr. Kevin Boyle, noted historian and native Detroiter, will be a guest speaker at the Conversation on Race events on Thursday and Friday, February 16 and 17. Professor Boyle’s Thursday presentation will be based on his award winning book “Arc of Justice.” Friday, Professor Boyle will lead a panel discussion about Detroit history after 1925 and the origins of Detroit’s racial and economic divide.

Read books in the library’s collection by Dr. Kevin Boyle:
• Arc of Justice: a Saga of Race, Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
• Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons: Images of Working-Class Detroit, 1900-1930
• Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994 the Labor-Liberal Alliance
• The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968

Read articles by Dr. Boyle through the Scopus database. To read articles, click on “View at publisher” or “Article Linker.” Full text of all papers may not be available.

Through February, the library’s display case features books written by UM-Dearborn graduates. The display case is near the first-floor elevators.

The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive is co-sponsoring three performances of the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company’s “Legacy Project” at the Berman Center for the Performing Arts in West Bloomfield. The “Legacy Project,” narrated by Dorfman, is presented in three parts and is set to music by Ilse Weber, composed while she was imprisoned in a ghetto. Dorfman is the company’s director and a child of Holocaust survivors. She choreographed the dances that bring together her family’s stories, Jewish history, and the universal struggle for identity among immigrants.

The three performances are scheduled for the following dates and times:
Thursday, January 26 – 7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 27 – 10:00 a.m. (Family matinee)
Saturday, January 28 – 8:00 p.m.

For ticket information, please contact the Berman Center for the Performing Arts:
6600 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield, MI 48322
(248) 661-1000

For more information on the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, including an artist’s statement, please visit http://cddc.info/

The Holocaust Memorial Center and the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit are also co-sponsoring these performances.

Roland S. Martin, columnist and host of the TV One Cable Network show Washington Watch with Roland Martin, will be a guest speaker at the Conversation on Race event on Wednesday, January 18. Mr. Martin’s presentation will be “Race/Racism and the Continual Challenge for Blacks and Whites to Acknowledge and Accept its Impact on Our Lives”.

Read books in the library's collection by Roland S. Martin.

The lists of new books and other materials added to the library's collection in November and December have been posted. Click on "...more New Arrivals" on the library's home page. Or, go directly to http://library.umd.umich.edu/newbooks/.

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University gathered a group of journalists, academics, and Census Bureau staff to video-record 45-minute lectures and demos about a variety of datasets produced by the Census Bureau and other federal agencies. The result is at http://cronkite.asu.edu/census2010.

This looks like a very good resource if you want to learn more about:
- Census data
- American Community Survey
- Census geography
- American FactFinder and Data Ferrett
- The Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
- Survey of jails, prisons, and employees
- Small area income, poverty, and health insurance estimates
- iPums.org
- Economic census
- Employment and unemployment estimates
- Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Local employment dynamics data
- Housing and construction data
- Survey of governments
- Current surveys of wholesale and retail trade as well as manufacturing and services
- Foreign trade Statistics

Are you going to The Winter Sky - Public Observing Event at the SLRC Observatory on Friday, December 9? How about checking out one of our astronomy handbooks to take along as a reference? We have many available to check out.

Dr. Jerome Nriagu from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health will be the guest speaker at the Natural Sciences Colloquium on Friday, December 9. Dr. Nriagu’s presentation will be “Environmental Justice”. See more of Dr. Nriagu's work in 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.

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