Archives: 10 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Digital Studio open by appointment; contact ds@mtu.edu

Interlibrary loan/ Document Delivery: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Research Help Desk: 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.; 1:00 p.m.– 5:00 p.m.

No extended study hours in the Library Reading Room during the break. Regular hours resume 7:45 a.m., Monday, November 30.

November 18th

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

East Side Reading Room

“Lessons of a Lipstick Queen” follows Poppy King’s extraordinary journey through the world of business and teaches you how to be more entrepreneurial in your own life.

In “Lessons of a Lipstick Queen”, Poppy reveals how she managed to launch a multimillion-dollar business, extracting valuable lessons from the experience as she goes along.  Through King’s example, you can learn how to become a real entrepreneur - from recognizing a good idea and finding financing, to marketing yourself and your brand, to approaching the media and avoiding common pitfalls.  In a world where everyone is looking to get ahead, it’s essential to think like an entrepreneur.  Much more than just a guide to success, “Lessons of a Lipstick Queen” is a candid adventure story designed to take you on a journey of self-discovery.

Sponsored by the Michigan Tech School of Business and Economics

Dr. David Orozco is an assistant professor of business law in School of Business and Economics. His teaching interests include business law, intellectual property, entrepreneurship and innovation. And his research interests include law and management, intellectual property, trademarks, patents and innovation policy. The copy of the book “Lessons of a Lipstick Queen: Finding and Developing the Great Idea that can Change Your Life” will be on display in the new-book area of the library and will be available to check out beginning Dec. 14.

Events on campus include:

* 9:30 a.m. to noon–Paper Prototyping, Fisher Hall lobby near the Aftermath Cafe. Students in computer science and humanities will participate in a usable design competition using simple paper materials. Passersby can help by testing their designs. Paper prototyping is fun (and effective).

* 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.–Poster session and other exhibits, Memorial Union Ballroom B, will describe promising designs of products and ideas. Viewers’ Choice award(s) with $100 in prizes will be announced by the humanities department at 1:15 p.m.

* Noon to 1:15 p.m–Brown bag luncheon, Memorial Union Ballroom B. “Sense-Able Sustainability: Three Perspectives,” [working title] with speakers Rick Donovan, Rick Loduha and Christopher Plummer. Cookies and drinks will be provided. Bring your lunch.

• Rick Donovan is the Operations Manager, Senior Engineer and Research Scientist at Sustainable Futures Institute. Dr. Donovan’s research interests include high performance computing, artificial intelligence computing, computational materials science, and systems modeling for sustainability.
• Rick Loduha is an Associate Professor of Art and Design (Interdisciplinary Design) at Finlandia University in Hancock. For him, every problem in life is a design problem. He believes design is like a dance and its most powerful skill is creative problem-solving.
• Christopher Plummer, Associate Professor of Theater in the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Michigan Tech will speak about sustainability in sound design and soundscapes, discussing aural pollution and carelessness that can impact people’s ability to sustain conversation, focus, and health.

WUD-UP updates will be posted at http://www.mtu.edu/usability/. Full story about this year’s WUD-UP activities is in the November 5, 2009 issue of TechToday.

“About a hundred pages into Kurzweil’s book, I began to appreciate the likely synergy between neuroscience and artificial intelligence research.  Kurzweil is one of those amazing people whose breadth of understanding is, well, humbling. He suggests that within a decade or two, most of the work that humans presently do will be routinely performed by fast, cheap machines. What will the future hold for all of us in terms of work and play?  Kurzweil provides a glimpse into the future by extrapolating a trajectory from the past and present of rapidly changing complementary technologies. ”

Infowall display

4 p.m. (Presentation will begin after a short business meeting of The Friends of the Van Pelt Library)

This presentation is open to the public

Please join us in the J.R. Van Pelt and Opie Library

East Side Reading Room

Ulla Aatsinki, visiting Fulbright Scholar in the Social Sciences Department, will be giving a presentation on October 29, 2009, titled “Research, Resource and Remembrance - How to Study Schooling of Finnish-American Children in Upper Peninsula in the 1920’s”.

Dr. Aatsinki is a graduate from University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.  Her dissertation was about the labor movement in Northern Finland right before and after the Finnish Civil War in 1918.

The Fulbright Program is an international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.”  With this goal as a starting point, the Fulbright Program has provided almost 300,000 participants - chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential - with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.

SPARC celebrates Open Access Week 2009.  Open Access is truly an international movement which sees the Internet as a way to expan access to knowledge.

“It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.  Open Access is the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication, and it’s gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers throw their weight behind it.”  more

SPARC’s Heather Joseph and Jennifer McLennam welcome participants and supporters of Open Access 2009 in a new video letter.  This brief, 6-minute clip helps to set the stage for Open Access Week 2009.  It notes the important opportunity to raise awareness, celebrate progress made in advancing Open Access to date, and to inspire the community to find new ways to continue the momentum.

Also, in partnership with student advocates, who are increasingly active around Open Access issues, SPARC has developed a new, animated Open Access 101 video. This 3-minute clip highlights the widespread concern among students for the cost of access, the dynamics of the scholarly publishing process, how Open Access is made possible, and the opportunities created by the open accessibility and reuse of research results.  Open Access 101 is available to view or download free at http://vimeo.com/6973160.

Learn more about Open Access by visiting SPARC’s Open Access Week page.

To learn more about X-ray crystallography, ribosomes and/or this years recipients please visit the American Chemical Society.  You can also contact your reference librarian or visit us at the Library’s Research Help Desk.

• To learn more about this years recipients and read some of their original ground breaking research please visit the American Institute of Physics 2009 Physics Nobel Prize Resources page.
• For more information about these and other 2009 Noble Prize Winners please see your Reference Librarian or visit us at the Library’s Research Help Desk.

You may add Express Cash to your Tech ID card using a credit or debit card and this link:
http://www.aux.mtu.edu/techx/

Click on “Card Holder Online System” in the menu on the left, log in, and follow the instructions.

Recommended by Nancy Grimm, professor and director of the MichiganTech writing center, “Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters and How to Talk About It” will be available to check out beginning Oct. 26. Professor Grimm’s research interests focus on literacy studies, writing center studies, pedagogical theories, and composition studies. Her current research addresses the teaching of literacy in ways that account for cultural, racial, and class differences.

Candidates are required to hold a bachelor’s degree with significant study in engineering, physical or life sciences; have familiarity with literature and databases in science and engineering; and have familiarity with research and research methods in an academic environment. A full position description is available at: http://www.admin.mtu.edu/hro/postings

This is a 9-month temporary appointment with no continuation beyond this period. Salary for the position will be $15.50 per hour and there are no benefits included with this position. The successful candidate will be expected to cover their own relocation expenses to Houghton, Michigan.

To submit an application for this position please mail, fax, or e-mail a cover letter and current resume to:

Science and Engineering Reference Associate

Attn: Erik Nordberg, Van Pelt and Opie Library

Michigan Technological University

1400 Townsend Drive

Houghton, MI 49931

Review of applications will begin on October 19, with applications accepted until the position is filled.

Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Burton has served as director of the Ebbing Health Science Library at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 2003. From 1997 to 2003, he was director of the Health Sciences Library at West Virginia University, Morgantown. He holds a MLIS degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a MFA in Theatre Design and Technology from the University of Georgia and a BA degree from Carroll College.

Questions or comments can be shared to Ellen Seidel, interim library director, at eseidel@mtu.edu or by calling 906-487-2500. ]]> http://blogs.mtu.edu/library/2009/10/01/library-director-candidate-to-visit-campus-oct-6-7/feed/ http://blogs.mtu.edu/library/2009/09/14/techreads-wallace-recommends-the-radical-center-a-karel-capek-reader/ http://blogs.mtu.edu/library/2009/09/14/techreads-wallace-recommends-the-radical-center-a-karel-capek-reader/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:46:42 +0000 haili http://blogs.mtu.edu/library/?p=664 “Karel Čapek is best known for giving us the word ‘robot’, which appears in his play ‘R.U.R.’ But he was more interested in people: how they manage to preserve their humanity in the face of technological and political upheaval. He has a playful, humorous tone that sounds like your best friend telling you a funny story. This particular book contains robots, a 300 year old soprano, talking dung beetles, and an essay on ‘Inventions’ that is the funniest thing ever written about vacuum cleaners.”

Dr. Charles Wallace is an associate professor in Computer Science. His research interests focus in the area of software requirements, usability, formal methods, parallel computing, programming languages, and software engineering education. The copy of the book “The Radical Center: A Karel Čapek Reader” will be on display in the new-book area of the library and will be available to check out beginning Oct. 5.

We invite you to recommend a book - email TechReads@mtu.edu for information.

The Library offers professional assistance in-person at the research help desk, now located on the first floor of the library. Starting Sunday, September 13, and continuing through the end of the fall semester, librarians will staff this service point during the following times:

    Sunday:  6-10pm
    Monday-Wednesday:  10am-12noon, 1-5pm, and 6-10pm
    Thursday-Friday: 10-12pm, 1-5pm
    The desk will not be staffed Thursday or Friday evenings, nor on Saturday.

Research assistance is also available by telephone at 487-2507, by e-mail at reflib@mtu.edu, or by visiting the “ask a librarian” page at http://www.lib.mtu.edu

Don Sechler, manager of customer education for Thomson Reuters, will cover basic and advanced functionality of the “Web of Science” information resource tool. The session will include information about end-user tools, such as personalization, alerting, ResearcherID and using EndNote Web to store references and track citation activity. The workshop will include live demos of the products and time for questions from participants.

Web of Science provides access to some of the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, including proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops and conventions. Web of Science comprises several key electronic tools, including Science Citation Index Expanded (1973-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1973-present) and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).

Although time will be limited, the session will also touch on shared searching and citation aspects with the Medline life sciences database and Inspec, an index to journal and proceedings literature in physics, electrical/electronic engineering, computing, control engineering and information technology. Medline and Inspec are part of the larger Web of Knowledge resource package available from Thomson Reuters through the library.

Preregister at 487-2507 or at reflib@mtu.edu .

On Monday it was realized that links to government documents in library catalogs nationwide were not working, including MTU. As of today the Government Printing Office is working to fix the problem and hopefully it will be resolved soon.

In the mean time if there are any documents you need please let our Government Documents librarian know:

Rhianna Williams: rlwillia@mtu.edu

“I noticed that a lot of people were unfamiliar with the sanctuaries and preserves open to the public for walking, education, and non-motorized enjoyment,” said Joan Chadde, K-12 education program coordinator for the Michigan Tech Center for Science & Environmental Outreach and Western UP Center for Science, Math & Environmental Education, who compiled the guidebook.

TechReads is a program on the Van Pelt Library website and information wall that showcases influential books recommended by members of the Tech community. The book could be one they are currently reading or one that made a significant impression on them.  The book is displayed in the new books area on the library first floor.  We hope TechReads inspires you to read something new, and to stop by to browse our new books. We invite you to recommend a book - email TechReads@mtu.edu for information.

Ask a Librarian for any questions you may have.

http://ils.lib.mtu.edu/vwebv/searchBasic