January 15, 2008
Announcing the 1st Annual Library Photo Contest: Science on Campus
The Library is sponsoring a photo contest! Currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students may participate and each student may submit up to three photos electronically. The theme for this first contest is “Science on Campus.� Photographers may interpret that in any way they like, but must explain how the theme applies to their photograph. Submissions will be accepted from Feb. 1-Feb. 22. The top three photographs will be printed and displayed in the Shapiro Science Library and the three top winners will receive prizes. All the rules and further information can be found here: http://www.lib.umich.edu/photocontest/rules/
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October 22, 2007
Great Grantsmanship: Finding Funding Sources
The University Library and the U-M Division of Research Development and Administration are offering the following workshop:
Great Grantsmanship: Finding Funding Sources
10/30/2007 10:00 AM-12:00 PM - Faculty Exploratory
This hands-on workshop will present an overview of online and human resources at UM that can assist you in getting research grants. University members have online access to resources that list and describe thousands of current funding opportunities from the Federal Government, Foundations, Professional Societies, and other sources. We will discuss and demonstrate the various web-based funding databases currently available, how to develop search strategies, establishing email alerts for new grants, and how to navigate university policies and timelines for grant-getting.
Register at
https://www-a1.lsa.umich.edu/es_conf/app/DisplaySession.asp?sessionid=2033
For this and other workshops go to http://www.umich.edu/~teachtec/workshops.html
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September 14, 2007
Risks, Rights and Responsibilities: Current Copyright Issues for Academics
Monday, October 1st, 4:00-5:30 pm. Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room.
The University Library is pleased to bring together two local intellectual
property experts to share their insights about the copyright issues facing
today’s academics. Jack Bernard, assistant general counsel with the U-M’s
Office of the General Counsel, and an adjunct professor in the School of
Law, the School of Information, and the School of Public Policy, will
discuss strategies for being a responsible copyright holder in a time of
increasing limitations on rights and access. Jessica Litman, Professor of
Law at the University of Michigan and author of the book Digital Copyright,
will speak about the copyright related opportunities and pitfalls afforded
to academics by the Internet.
With an introduction by Paul Courant, University Librarian and Harold T.
Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School
of Public Policy.
Light refreshments provided. For more information call (734) 763-7832 or
visit http://copyright.umich.edu/events.html. Please join us!
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September 13, 2007
Visual Culture Workshop
The Visual Culture Workshop presents
a lecture/discussion by Professor Anthony Lee
In the Opium Den

I. W. Taber, White Women in Opium Den, 1892
Wednesday, October 3, from 1-3 pm
3222 Angell Hall
Anthony Lee is Associate Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College and a leading scholar of American Studies, visual culture studies, and the history of art. His publications include Painting on the Left: Diego Rivera, Radical Politics, and San Francisco’s Public Murals (California, 1999), Diane Arbus: Family Albums (Yale, 2003), and the award-winning Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco (California, 2001). He is also the editor of a groundbreaking University of California Press series on photography in the US. His lecture will be drawn from his ongoing work on the social history of Asian America and the photographic history of its representation.
Please join us for refreshments and a lively discussion!
For further information, contact Sara Blair, sbblair@umich.edu
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