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March 15, 2024 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
DSL Classroom/Lab: (Main Library, 2 West)
Workshop on using Tableau for visualizations for James Madison Human Rights Data Science Lab students.
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March 15, 2024 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Makerspace Flex Space Classroom
Patch those holes in your favorite clothes! Repair your ripped jeans and replace those shirt buttons! Come as a beginner, a seasoned expert, or anywhere in between! Gain or give hands-on help in the Makerspace with your item. We have a variety of equipment and supplies. Bring clothing you need to repair, or come to learn techniques. Mending is a fun way to save money and the environment.
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March 19, 2024 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
DSL VR Room (Main Library, 2 West)
The VR lab is back! Whether you’re a VR first-timer, an immersive data visualizer, a researcher or a developer, an artist in search of a new medium, an instructor curious about how to use the tech in class, a student of storytelling, or some other type of human being, VR Open Hours are for you! Take our HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and other headsets for a spin, and talk to us about your ideas. We love to connect people with hardware, software, and each other.
Participants can log into their personal accounts to access VR content they own, or explore the content we have available, including real student projects and industry tools:
Paint, sculpt, animate, and work with 3D models/environments Immersively visualize data, anatomy, molecules, math equations, historical sites and events, or even comics. Learn language, circuitry, lab chemistry, medical procedure, extended-reality (or "XR," including VR and 360) media production. Play games for transportive narrative, exercise, team building, or just plain fun. Explore the great outdoors, real-world geography, or hypothetical interior designs. Simulate colorblindness, astronaut experience, a rollercoaster ride, etc. Develop your own VR experiences, or use VR tools to develop interactive experiences of any kind. Deploy VR to support your course or research. Record and/or share screens and workspaces with others in real time.
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Welcome! I hope the spring break provided a good opportunity for some rest and relaxation amid a busy semester. The MSU Libraries has also seen a lively term, and as we look ahead I wanted to take a moment to share some important updates.Spring semester hours. Regular hours following spring break resumed Monday, March 4. The MSU Libraries is typically open 24 hours per day on Monday through Thursday, with later opening and earlier closing times on the weekends. Regular hours will shift beginning with the last class day of the spring semester on Friday, April 26, as we head into our shortened summer hours. Please note that for safety and security purposes, all students, staff and faculty are required to scan their MSU ID to access the MSU Main Library building between 10:00 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. on Sunday – Thursday. A complete schedule for the Main Library hours is available here.MSU Press director appointment. In October Elizabeth Demers was appointed director of the MSU Press. Demers comes to MSU from the University of Michigan Press, where she was hired as editorial director in 2017. She also previously held positions at Johns Hopkins University Press, Quarto Publishing and Potomac Books. Demers received undergraduate degrees in English and French from MSU as well as a master’s in comparative literature. She also earned a doctorate in history at MSU. In addition to her education at MSU, she obtained a Master of Business Administration at the University of Maryland. Demers has expressed enthusiasm about the opportunity to lead MSU Press, noting that she is “thrilled to be a part of MSU Press’s tradition of outstanding scholarship and community engagement.”Harmful Language Remediation Group. The Harmful Language Remediation Working Group (HLRWG) at MSU Libraries formed in fall 2022 with the goal of identifying, assessing and responding to harmful language issues in the MSU Libraries’ descriptive metadata. The primary role of the HLRWG is to facilitate and track harmful language remediation projects across the MSU Libraries. The group has recently developed a publicly available form that can be used to report instances of potentially harmful language in the MSU Libraries catalog. This form is available here.Building construction. In August 2022 the Libraries began working in partnership with brightspot strategy to reimagine our spaces and services to be more responsive to current and future needs of our faculty, staff and students. Several phases have already been completed while others have seen significant progress. Our new MSU Libraries Starbucks opened at the beginning of the spring semester, with updated seating in the café area as well as an option for mobile ordering, and the reconfiguration of 2-West is now also complete and home to the MSU Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation and the Office of Faculty and Academic Staff Development. Construction on 3-East to relocate our Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections is progressing with plans to install shelving in April; this project phase is expected to continue into Fall 2024. Ongoing updates are available on our website at lib.msu.edu.We are looking forward to supporting your learning and research needs as we approach the end of the spring semester (and beyond!). As a reminder, if you are unable to find an answer on our website or would like to speak to someone in person, we are available at our information desks as well as by phone at (517) 353-8700.With warm wishes for a productive semester,Neil Romanosky, Ph.D. Dean of LibrariesView All News Articles
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The next generation of Spartans want to see your artwork in the library!The MSU Libraries Student Art Competition will award two $500 prizes – one each to an undergraduate and a graduate student – and will acquire the winning artworks for display in the MSU Libraries. The competition is generously supported by the Irene B. Arens Endowment in Support of Student Arts in the MSU Libraries. Submit your work by 5 pm on Friday, March 29, 2024.For more information, please visit our website, https://lib.msu.edu/artcontest. Questions? Contact Terrie Wilson, Art Librarian: wilso398@msu.edu
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EAST LANSING, Mich., Feb. 2024 – This month the Michigan State University Libraries in partnership with the MSU Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures will be welcoming National Book Award finalist and Michigan author Bonnie Jo Campbell for a discussion and book signing featuring Campbell’s latest novel “The Waters.”“An Evening with Bonnie Jo Campbell” will take place on Feb. 19 at 5:00 p.m. in the MSU Libraries’ Green Room with light refreshments provided. Attendees can look forward to an engaging conversation about “The Waters” between Campbell and Bill Castanier of the Lansing City Pulse, followed by a Q&A session. Books will be available for sale at the event from Lansing bookstore Everybody Reads. The event will be recorded as part of the MSU Libraries’ Michigan Writers Series.Campbell highlighted the significance of visiting MSU as part of her book launch tour. “I’m thrilled to be visiting Michigan State University at this time, with my new novel, ‘The Waters,’” Campbell said. “As the nation’s premier land-grant university, located in the heart of our state, with an excellent university press and library system, with a commitment to high standards, MSU is destined to be the center of celebrating Michigan literature.” A native of Kalamazoo, Campbell grounds her fiction in landscapes that will feel like home to readers familiar with the lushness of Michigan’s wilderness as she explores the fictional Great Massasauga Swamp and the women who inhabit its mystical island. It’s here that herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women from a neighboring small town called Whiteheart of their ailments for generations. The reader follows Donkey, the 11-year-old daughter of Herself’s own youngest, Rose Thorn, in a coming-of-age story that illuminates family secrets and passionate love against an unfurling backdrop anchored in the brutality and tenderness of Whiteheart’s community. MSU Libraries Dean Neil Romanosky shared his excitement for the upcoming event. “The impact of Bonnie Jo Campbell’s writing on place and in specifically foregrounding the Rust Belt region makes the MSU Libraries an ideal host for her most recent rural masterpiece,” Romanosky said. “I am extremely pleased to be able to partner with WRAC in this event, as it emphasizes the importance of community in celebrating works that ultimately embrace community.”Recognized as a master of rural noir, Campbell is known for her national bestseller “Once Upon a River” (2012) and the story collections “Mothers, Tell Your Daughters” (2016) and “American Salvage” (2009), which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic’s Circle Award. Freshly released in 2024, “The Waters” is already making waves as the “Today” show’s January pick for their Read With Jenna book club; it’s also featured on Oprah Daily’s list of “Most Anticipated Books of 2024” and the Chicago Review of Books’ “12 Must-Read Books of January 2024.”WRAC Chair and William J. Beal Distinguished Professor Dànielle Nicole DeVoss also expressed enthusiasm for Campbell’s upcoming campus visit. “It’s an honor to work with MSU Libraries and to welcome Bonnie Jo Campbell to MSU’s campus,” DeVoss said. “Bonnie Jo’s eloquent, powerful writing resonates with the ways in which we see and situate writing as the act and art of making and sharing meaning.”More information about “An Evening with Bonnie Jo Campbell” can be found on the Libraries’ event page.View All News Articles
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December 08, 2023 – April 30, 2024
Approximately 1.3 billion, or one in six, people experience disability worldwide (World Health Organization). Despite this high prevalence, people with disabilities have been oppressed and treated unequally and unfairly by ableist societies and systems since the beginning of history. There have, however, been many accessibility advancements and improvements, especially in technology and physical spaces, throughout time; some of which are highlighted in our exhibit.
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A systematic review of the maps contained in Clason State Road Maps, touring atlases, and Green Guides reveal that the road legends and other map symbols varied over the years in systematic ways.
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This exhibit features American Jewish cookbooks and schoolbooks from MSU Libraries’ Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections. American Jews, in their children's books and cookbooks, demonstrated the importance of religion and gender in their families, and asserted themselves as both American and international/multilingual.
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