U-M Library
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May 19, 2015
U-M Library rolls out researcher ID system
A U-M Library initiative will provide the university’s researchers with a unique identifier in a system to reliably identify and link them with their work.
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March 27, 2015
Mellon grant funds U-M Press collaboration on digital scholarship
An $899,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support U-M Press in a collaboration to development a new platform for digital publication and preservation of humanities monographs.
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February 6, 2015
U-M teaching and learning professionals invited to virtual conference
A three-day conference of teaching and learning professionals from around the world will be broadcast to U-M staff and faculty for free Monday-Wednesday.
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February 2, 2015
Foundations, grants librarian promotes learning across differences
Darlene Nichols is working at the grassroots level to encourage productive conversations about a vitally important topic: race.
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January 27, 2015
U-M helps open more than 25,000 early English books to public
A partnership that includes the U-M Library has made public more than 25,000 manually transcribed texts from 1473-1700 — the first 200 years of the printed book.
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January 12, 2015
Lawsuit over HathiTrust Digital Library resolved
The lawsuit brought by the Author’s Guild alleging copyright infringement by U-M and additional HathiTrust institutions came to a formal conclusion on Jan. 6.
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September 2, 2014
U-M acquires papers of alumnus and activist Tom Hayden
Scholars of contemporary American history, social justice and political reform have a rich new resource to mine in the Tom Hayden Papers at the U-M Library.
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July 14, 2014
Mechanical engineering students take on book scanning challenge
Students in the Mechanical Engineering 450 class are taking on the challenge of creating a low-cost, automatic page-turning scanner to aid small libraries and cultural organizations seeking to preserve local collections.
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July 1, 2014
Charles Watkinson to lead university’s publishing enterprise
Charles Watkinson has been named to the position of associate university librarian for publishing and director of the University of Michigan Press.
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June 11, 2014
Federal appeals court upholds library digitization project
A federal appeals court has upheld library digitization practices as well as certain uses of in-copyright volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library, in which U-M is a partner.
