Events

Panel Discussions:  Social Protests of 1968

November 13, 2008 from 4:00-6:00 p.m., Library Gallery

Free and open to the public!

Panelists will share their experiences of the late 1960s and explore the impact that the protests of this period had on them personally and on the culture of our country. The panel discussions are in conjunction with the exhibit, The Whole World Was Watching: Protest and Revolution in 1968, which is on display in the Library Gallery through December 15, 2008. There will be two panels addressing the topic of protests in the late 1960s.

Moderators are:

Paul N. Courant, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Economics and of Information, University of Michigan.
Roger Lowenstein, U-M alumnus (LSA '64), member of the defense team in the Chicago Eight trials, Founder and Director of the Los Angeles Leadership Academy.

Panelists are:

Judy Gumbo Albert, an activist and former Yippie
Frank Beaver, U-M alumnus (PhD Music Theater '70), U-M Professor Emeritus of Film and Video, Vietnam veteran
Honorable Cynthia Diane Stephens, U-M Alumna (LSA '71), Judge,Third Circuit Court, Detroit
Harold Johnson, Dean Emeritus, U-M School of Social Work
Aviva Kempner, U-M Alumna (LSA '69), Filmmaker, writer, and director
Ken Mikolowski, Lecturer in English and writer, U-M Residential College
Ahmad Rahman, U-M Alumnus (LSA '98, PhD 2006), Asst. Prof of History, UM Dearborn
Daniel Zwerdling, U-M Alumnus (LSA '71), Correspondent, National Desk, National Public Radio

• When: Thursday, November 13, 2008 from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
• Where: Library Gallery, First Floor of Hatcher Graduate Library North Building
• Contact: Harriet Teller at 734-615-4801 or librarydevelopment@umich.edu

If you come to the University of Michigan Library today, you can see original Country Joe and the Fish albums along with other album covers and political buttons from the 1960s. If you come to the Library on November 13, 2008 at 8:00 p.m., you can experience Country Joe McDonald live in person.

• When: Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
• Where: Library Gallery, First Floor of Hatcher Graduate Library North Building
• Contact: Melissa Levine, Exhibits and Outreach Librarian, at 734-615-3194, mslevine@umich.edu

The University of Michigan Library is inviting parents, alumni, and the general public to visit the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library and to view an exhibit of some of the treasures in its collection, including the Audubon, the first purchase made by the Regents for the Library. Librarians will be present to explain the items on exhibit. As part of its holdings, the University of Michigan Library has an extraordinary collection of unique and rare materials that are seldom seen by the public. The Library's goal is to make these materials more accessible by displaying selected items free of charge or the public to view and enjoy.

• When: Friday, November 14, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to Noon
• Where: Library Gallery, First Floor of Hatcher Graduate Library North Building
• Contact: Melissa Levine, Exhibits and Outreach Librarian, at 734-615-3194, mslevine@umich.edu

Please join us to celebrate the Grand Opening of our Computer & Videogame Archive in the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library. The archive houses current generation and previous generation game systems and computer platforms, with a variety of games, both current and historical.

Selected games and game systems from the archive will be on display to play and observe. Please save the date for this special event celebrating our Grand Opening.

Light refreshments will be served.

• When: Monday, November 17, 2008 from 3:30-6:00 p.m. with remarks by Paul N. Courant, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, at 4:15 p.m.
• Where: Art, Architecture & Engineering Library, 2nd Floor, Duderstadt Center
• RSVP: By November 10, 2008 to Marylin Cesarz at mjcesarz@umich.edu or 734-764-3577.

We will be displaying ethnographic and linguistic maps from our extensive collection. Maps are a powerful tool for understanding the locations of both current and historical cultures and where particular languages and dialects are spoken. Linguistic maps are especially useful in understanding countries such as Papua New Guinea where over 800 languages are spoken. We will include some interesting antique ethnographic maps as well. Please join us.

• When: Thursday, November 20, 2008 from 4:00-7:00 p.m.
• Where: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, 8th Floor, Room 825, South Central Campus
• Map Library Phone: 734-764-0407

Public parking is available at the Maynard Street garage near Borders and at metered spaces on nearby streets. Link to Campus Parking

In this 40th anniversary year of 1968, the University of Michigan Library presents 'The Whole World Was Watching: Protest and Revolution in 1968, Selections from the Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Library.' This exhibit provides a snapshot of a complex and pivotal year in American history highlighting protests against the Vietnam War and the draft, the highly fractured Presidential election and the violence that erupted outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago against anti-war demonstrators, and the activities of student and other protest groups such as the Ann Arbor-founded Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, the White Panthers, and the Yippies. The exhibit notes the women's movement and international matters such as Prague Spring and the May Paris uprisings.

• When: September 15-December 19, 2008
• Where: Library Gallery, First Floor of Hatcher Graduate Library North Building
• Contact: Melissa Levine, Exhibits and Outreach Librarian, at 734-615-3194, mslevine@umich.edu

The Espresso Book Machine (EBM) is a new book-making machine that can, in a matter of minutes, print and bind library quality paperback books on demand. The EBM prints books using digital files produced by digitization and is available on a Web database. Requiring minimal human intervention and maintenance, all printing, book block milling, page jogging, cover alignment, binding, and shearing are performed in a continuous mechanical process for a cost of about a penny per page. The EBM is situated in the Shapiro Undergraduate Library circulation area, across from Bert's Café. For more information, please go to "Arrival of Espresso Book Machine."

A heartfelt thank you to all the Library supporters who made this possible!