Last alert: We've moved from Blogger to Wordpress

The Library news blog has moved to http://librarynews.marygrove.edu/.

What does this mean for you?

Well, those of you who read new blog posts by visiting the library homepage (http://research.marygrove.edu) won’t have to do a thing. Continue to click on news stories that pique your interest and read to your heart’s content!

Those of you who have new blog posts brought to you – via email or an RSS reader, for example – will need to change your settings so that you continue to receive library news. This is our NEW blog address: http://librarynews.marygrove.edu/. Visit this site to grab the new RSS feed or to set up email notifications. If you need help with this, please don’t hesitate to visit or call us (313.927.1378).

Thanks to the Communications & Marketing team at Marygrove (especially Shane Sevo!) for help transitioning our blog to WordPress. At his invitation, we spoke about what this transition was like during a web meet-up on December 16th: http://marketing.marygrove.edu/2011/12/09/december-9th-training-agenda/.

Holiday hours: Dec 19 - Jan 9

Please make note of these changes to our hours during the next few weeks

December 19th – 23rd: the Marygrove College Library will be open by appointment only from 9 am - 5 pm. If you are a Marygrove student, staff, faculty member, or alum, you can make an appointment by calling 313.927.1346. 

December 24th – January 1st: the library as well as the College will be closed. 

January 2nd - 8th: the library will be open by appointment only from 9 am - 5 pm. If you are a Marygrove student, staff, faculty member, or alum, you can make an appointment by calling 313.927.1346.

Beginning January 9th the library will resume normal hours:

Monday - Thursday: 9:30 am - 9 pm
Friday: 9:30 am - 6 pm
Saturday: 8 am - 4 pm
Sunday: 1 - 5 pm:

Happy holidays! We wish you a warm and joyful holiday, surrounded by the people you love.

New "Faculty Selects" exhibition in the Beyond Words gallery

[Today we welcome guest blogger Erin McDonald, administrative assistant for the Visual and Performing Arts Division & The Institute for Arts Infused Education. Visit the VPA Division on Facebook.]



The Faculty Selects exhibition showcases student artwork from the Fall 2011 semester in the Beyond Words Gallery in the Library and in the 4th floor gallery of the Liberal Arts building. The exhibition highlights a variety of mediums including drawings, paintings, prints, ceramics, sculptures, and graphics from Marygrove students.

In the Beyond Words Gallery, a cluster of small, white, foam core sculptures represents a class project by Professor Mary Lou Greene's 3-D Design course. Using one sheet of foam core, students created sculptures that explored ideas of positive and negative space in a three-dimensional form. Student Doreen Jenkins stated, "I thought this was a unique project. It was interesting to create sculptures out of simple materials (foam core and straight pins) to explore these complex concepts."

If you look closely at Robert Abrams and Faith Lancaster's foam core sculptures in the Beyond Words Gallery, you can see casted shadows against the walls and pedestals. The shadows give depth to the three-dimensional sculpture and become an important component of the artwork. The show includes works from:

• Dinah Aremo
• James Meek
• Nelson Adams
• Janella Dockery
• Carl Ellis
• Gabrielle Gorges
• Ginette Balbin-Cuesta
• Shinese Lavergne
• Elizabeth Lerczak
• Virginia Montagne
• Danielle Regier
• James Riggins
• And more!!

Want to see more? The show runs from December 2nd until December 16th in the Beyond Words Gallery and in the 4th floor gallery of the Liberal Arts building.

Library services for Marygrove MAT students that'll make you go WOW!

Calling all MAT students! Did you know that you can get personalized research help and thousands of scholarly resources via the Marygrove College Library website?

It's true! Librarian Christine Malmsten (313.927.1378) frequently helps Master in the Art of Teaching students via the phone or email, especially when it comes time for them to complete their Action Research Project. Here's what they have to say about their library help:

(Jackie, Sept 14, 2011)

WOW!!! Thank you so much! I am excited to try and search some more when I get home from work today. I will for sure let you know how it goes! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

(Jana, Sept 28, 2010)

You are a life saver! Most of these look VERY helpful! I will definitely try and search the way you said to find more. I have never done a research project before, other than trying to find specific things on Google, etc. LOL! Though doing this so far has been more frustration than enjoyment, I can see that if I am ABLE to find what I need, it can become more interesting. If you come up with any other ideas for search parameters, please let me know! You are brilliant!

(Diane, May 12, 2009)

You are a saint. Thank you.

To learn more about how MAT students can receive research guidance (brainstorming search words, finding books, articles, and websites, narrowing or broadening a topic, and creating citations) visit this library webpage: http://research.marygrove.edu/research-help-a-guides/mat-students

Signposts to librarian-esque excellence

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)* is a professional association for academic librarians. Recently its Board of Directors approved several new and revised standards and guidelines, including:

• Standards for Faculty Status for Academic Librarians
• Guidelines for Academic Librarians Without Faculty Status
• Information Literacy Competency Standards for Journalism Students and Professionals (PDF)
• Guidelines for Instruction Programs in Academic Libraries
• Standards for Libraries in Higher Education
• Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

Your Marygrove librarians use standards like these to deliver consistently excellent service. We also rely on you - students, staff, faculty, alumni, and the Detroit community - to learn how to best serve your needs. As always, we welcome hearing from you: 313.927.1346 or marygrovelibrary [at] gmail.com.

* The ACRL is a division of the American Library Association. It's a professional association of academic librarians and other interested individuals, dedicated to enhancing the ability of academic library and information professionals to serve the information needs of the higher education community and to improve learning, teaching, and research. (From http://www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl.)

Second alert: library blog is moving from Blogger to Wordpress

This is our second public service announcement for this blog's new readers and loyal followers that we're moving from Blogger.com to Wordpress.com. Those of you who read new blog posts by visiting the library homepage won't have to do a thing. Continue to click on news stories that pique your interest and read to your heart's content!

Those of you who have new blog posts brought to you - via email or an RSS reader, for example - will need to change your settings so that you continue to receive library news.

This is our NEW blog address: http://librarynews.marygrove.edu/
And here's the OLD blog address: http://marygrovelibrary.blogspot.com/

If you need help with this, please don't hesitate to visit or call us (313.927.1378). We will give you one more alert in the next few days so you can take care of this.

Thanks to the Communications & Marketing team at Marygrove (especially Shane Sevo!) for his help transitioning our blog to Wordpress. At his invitation, we'll be talking about what this transition was like during a web meet-up this Friday: http://marketing.marygrove.edu/2011/12/09/december-9th-training-agenda/.

Screaming sharks, shattered glass, & neon love: Just another day in the library

This past Thursday, December 8th, students from Art History 101 held their contemporary art poster presentations from 1:30 - 2:30 pm in the Library's beautiful Fisher Room. They did a fantastic job of describing their chosen artists and presenting eye-catching displays. Such enthusiasm and professionalism! Kudos to professor Mary Lou Greene for leading such a great group! (Bonus points if you can spot Marygrove President Dr. David Fike in one of these pictures.)

Bruce Nauman: Google Images

Arman: Google Images

John Baldessari: Google Images

Willie Birch: Google Images

"The Interesting Book" - Ilya Kabakov (Google images)

Tony Cragg: Google Images

Eva Hesse: Google Images

Damien Hirst: Google Images

Anish Kapoor: Google Images

Open Access as a Healthcare Investment

Here’s part of a new post from Tin Knežević at The Right to Research Coalition:

Perhaps you are lucky, and the university you studied at had full access to research journals and up-to-date research data. And you were probably not aware of any related costs. In which case – wow!

But if you are reading this, you have probably come across articles you cannot open, data you cannot reach, and information you cannot access. Most probably it was both new as well as interesting. Most probably, it would have helped you with your research and made your results more relevant. And most probably you were surprised by the fact that you did not have access to it and wished it was open to the public… (Continue reading)

Mr. Knežević echoes much of what I heard at the Berlin9 Open Access conference last month: as data and research are opened for anybody to read, use, and modify, tough problems – such as disease or lack of safe water or writing a new national constitution (see Iceland) – are broken down and tackled much more quickly.

The Right to Research Coalition “was “founded by students in the summer of 2009 to promote an open scholarly publishing system based on the belief that no student should be denied access to the articles they need because their institution cannot afford the often high cost of access.”

Head's up: we're moving from Blogger to Wordpress

This is a public service announcement for this blog's new readers and loyal followers that we'll soon be moving from Blogger.com to Wordpress.com.

Those of you who read new blog posts by visiting the library homepage won't have to do a thing. Continue to click on news stories that pique your interest and read to your heart's content!

Those of you who have new blog posts brought to you - via email or an RSS reader, for example - will need to change your settings so that you continue to receive library news. If you need help with this, please don't hesitate to call or visit us.

We want to give you plenty of warning, so expect at least one more announcement before we make the switch.

Fall 2011 issue of the Marygrove Monitor

Did you know that the Educational Technology Services department publishes a regular newsletter for the Marygrove Community? The ETS department runs the STICC in the lower level of the library, among other things. Here's a taste of what's inside the latest issue:

• Description of the new collaborative technology in the STICC ("The media:scape...allows a team of three to six students to attach their laptops to pucks. When the puck is pressed, control goes to the user of the laptop it is attached to.")
• List of workshops and tutorials on Microsoft Word 2010, Blackboard, Email, PowerPoint, and others.
• Instructions on scanning a document and sending it to your email.
• An invitation to work for the Educational Technology Services department.

You can read the Fall 2011 issue here: http://www.marygrove.edu/images/docs/etsnews/fall2011.pdf. Or read past issues here: http://www.marygrove.edu/current-students/resources/educational/educational-technology-services/ets-news.html. Enjoy!

Decking the halls and letting it snow

The elegant and warm Festival of Trees took place on Friday, December 2, 2011, in the Denk Chapman room of the Madame Cadillac building. The Staff Advisory Council did a phenomenal job organizing and hosting the event, and they chose a lovely theme in "Lighting the Way: A Symbol of Peace, Hope, and Thanksgiving."

And oh, was it beautiful. Ken Malecke, Vice President of Institutional Advancement, was responsible for securing the 25+ donated trees. Different departments and offices around campus volunteered to decorate them. Here's a before and after shot of the Library's tree:

Before...

...and after!

Antoinette Cartwright, student president of The Association of Dramatic Artists (TADA!) welcomed the large crowd. Jane Hammang-Buhl, Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Leslie Love, President of Staff Advisory Council, made the opening remarks. Students Jeriel Woods and Dejon Parmer were accompanied by Tara Sievers of the Music department on piano. Student Jennifer Colvin performed a liturgical dance solo, and then TADA! and the Theater Department showed a short film of Marygrove students, staff and faculty describing what they're thankful for this holiday season. The Office of Student Engagement and Leadership provided donuts and hot cocoa - so delicious!

What are we thankful for this holiday season? Among other things, magical mornings like this:

Visit the National Jukebox, an interactive website of historical music

From the June 2011 Library of Congress Information Bulletin (http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/1106/jukebox.html):

"The Library of Congress on May 10 launched the "National Jukebox," an interactive website that allows users to play thousands of historic sound recordings—many of them unavailable to the public for more than a century.

The National Jukebox provides access to more than 10,000 out-of-print recordings of opera, popular music, comedy, religious music and political speeches produced by the Victor Talking Machine Co. in the first decades of the 20th century."

Intrigued? Visit the website to learn more and begin listening: http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/