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Check out the renovated U-M Clements Library!
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Michigan Makers featured on University of Michigan home page!
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MakerBridge & its founder Sharona Ginsberg featured in Publisher’s Weekly!
As some of you know, I’m part of UMSI’s MakerBridge project (site, blog, Twitter), which connects librarians to maker ideas and fellow making librarians. We’re thrilled that our project founder and coordinator Sharona Ginsberg was featured in Publisher’s Weekly this … Continue reading
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Great Thought: “Supposed to Do” versus “How to Do”
From Melissa Johnston’s post on the Creating a Culture of Collaboration blog (emphasis added): Yesterday morning in the School Library Media research SIG session [at the ALISE conference] Elizabeth Burns, a PhD student at Old Dominion University, presented her dissertation … Continue reading
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Present at the U-M 4T Virtual Conference!
The University of Michigan’s 4T Virtual Conference, a free conference supporting technology-rich teaching and learning for practitioners and U-M students, is accepting applications for lead and lightning talk presenters for its May 2014 online conference. We’d love to have librarians, … Continue reading
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Developing an “Empathy Muscle”
This past semester, my colleague and I, along with six graduate student instructors, took on our school’s signature foundations course. In this course, students work in groups to interview and observe clients struggling with some aspect of information (e.g., data, … Continue reading
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Makerspaces at UMSI Convocation
Michigan Makers’ brainstorm of what “being a maker” means. Copyright 2013 Michigan Makers. Happy New School Year, Everybody! Last month, Rachel Goldberg shared her perspective on the Michigan Makers project, a pop-up middle school makerspace featuring University of Michigan School … Continue reading
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“Critical Making”
“3D printed heart gears” by John Abella on Flickr. Used with a CC-BY license. Earlier this week, the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog shared the story of Matt Ranto, an information faculty member at the University of Toronto. Harnessing a $50,000 … Continue reading
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Quotable: U-M in Huffington Post
“North Quadrangle Residential and Academic Complex (University of Michigan)” by Corey Seeman on Flickr. CC-BY-NC-SA. “If you’re looking for a school that combines what could be called the traditional American college experience with cutting edge academics and one-of-a-kind opportunities, … Continue reading
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Finn Brunton on NPR
Congratulations to my UMSI colleague Finn Brunton, who was interviewed by Scott Simon on NPR’s Weekend Edition on Saturday. You can hear the But in countries like India, cipla india viagra Sex was never a hidden subject in ancient India. viagra rx … Continue reading