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January 21, 2025 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
DSL Project Room J (Main Library, 2 West)
Receive expert guidance on such topics as:
Digital storytelling
Digital project management
Omeka and other digital exhibit platforms
WordPress and other digital publishing platforms
Text mining and analysis
Digital tools for research and instruction
Join us at the Digital Scholarship Lab to get help virtually or in-person from someone who has expertise with these technologies.
Whether you’re developing a class assignment or a research project, we’re available to support you. We welcome all levels of experience. This is available to MSU faculty, students, and staff.
In-person location: Digital Scholarship Lab, Project Room J
Online location: https://msu.zoom.us/j/99982904121 (MSU NetID Required)
If these don’t work with your schedule, you can always request a consultation.
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January 21, 2025 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
DSL VR Room (Main Library, 2 West)
Whether you’re a VR first-timer, an immersive data visualizer, a researcher, a game developer, an artist in search of a new medium, an instructor curious about how to use the tech in class, or a student of storytelling, our VR Open Hours are for you! Try out the Digital Scholarship Lab’s HTC Vive Elite XR headsets and learn about our VR Headset loan program. We love to connect people with hardware, software, and each other.
The Digital Scholarship Lab will be hosting Open VR every Tuesday from 4:00-7:00pm. Join us to explore the expansive world of Virtual Reality:
Immersivity visualize data, anatomy, molecules, math equations, historical sites and events, or even comics.
Paint, sculpt, animate, and work with 3D models/environments
Learn languages, 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, an astronaut experience, or a rollercoaster ride.
... And so much more!
For parking information visit http://maps.msu.edu/interactive.
If you have questions about accessibility or need to request accommodations, please email lib.dl.accessibility@msu.edu.
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January 21, 2025 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Green Room (Main Library, 4 West)
Join MSU Libraries and WKAR for a screening of the award-winning documentary, Fannie Lou Hamer’s America as part of the 2025 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Celebration. Fannie Lou Hamer was a leader in the civil rights movement, founder of the Freedom Democratic Party in Mississippi, and the organizer of Freedom Summer, a volunteer-based campaign launched in the summer of 1964 in order to register as many Black voters in Mississippi as possible. FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA, a documentary produced by her grand-niece Monica Land, and winner of Best TV Feature Documentary or miniseries at the IDA Awards, is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made her work essential. Through public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of the fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist, Fannie Lou Hamer’s America explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A featuring Tamera Carter (Lansing City Council), Trini Pehlivanoglu (Lansing City Council), and Cindy Villarreal-Medina (Student, MSU College of Social Science), Senator Sarah Anthony (State of Michigan) and Willye Bryan (Justice League), moderated by Erika Vallejo (PhD Candidate, Political Science). The panel will reflect on Hamer’s impact on today’s social justice movements and explore the ongoing fight for equity in the United States.
The event is open and free to the public. Registration is encouraged. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.
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Please allow me to extend a hearty welcome to you all as we enter the new academic year! I hope that the summer months provided a chance to recharge and relax. The MSU Libraries is happy to see our students back on campus, and I wanted to take a moment to share some important updates as we look ahead to an energetic semester.Fall semester hours: The MSU Libraries Main Library is typically open 24 hours per day on Monday through Thursday, with later opening and earlier closing times on the weekends. The Business Library located in the MSU College of Law Building is regularly open from 8 a.m. to 12 a.m. Monday through Thursday, with modified weekend 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 MSU Libraries hours is available here.Special Collections closing/move to 3-East: This past August, the MSU Libraries Stephen O. Murray & Keelung Hong Special Collections began the process of relocating to the third floor of the Main Library’s East Wing. To accommodate this exciting and necessary move, which includes hundreds of thousands of delicate and valuable materials, access to the MSU Libraries’ Special Collections will be closed for about 16 weeks beginning Monday, Aug. 12. For more information including timely updates, please visit our Move to 3-East page.We are looking forward to supporting your learning and research needs this fall (and in all seasons)! 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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EAST LANSING, Mich., Jan. 2025 – Those returning to Michigan State University at the start of the spring semester can enjoy an exhibit demonstrating the MSU Libraries’ commitment to accessibility, on display through Feb. 5 at the MSU Libraries Main Gallery.The exhibit “Universal Access: Accessibility in the Library World” showcases how the MSU Libraries have implemented accessibility practices to ensure our collections and archives, assistive technologies and equipment, and spaces are and remain widely available to all. For those looking to visit virtually, an online exhibit is also available as a companion piece to the physical exhibit. Audio files of text for both the physical and virtual exhibits are also available via QR codes.This exhibit was curated by Libraries staff members from multiple units including the Accessibility and User Experience teams, as well as University Archives. Head of Accessibility Heidi Schroeder emphasized the collaborative effort behind the exhibit and how it demonstrates the commitment of faculty and staff across the Libraries to ensuring access to our world-class collections. “It was great to work with units across the Libraries to install this exhibit and showcase how accessibility has been and continues to be a priority for us,” Schroeder said. “It features a wide array of items — accessibility and disability studies materials from our collections and archives, assistive technologies and gaming equipment in the Libraries — and offers interactive sensory experiences like a hearing loss simulation in our sound dome and tactile maps and objects.”The sound dome and tactile resources noted by Schroeder are key features of the “Universal Access” exhibit that also provide interactive sensory experiences. The simulation in the sound dome aims to lend insight into living with hearing loss, including an interview with MSU accessibility trailblazers Eric Gentile and Judy Taylor that aired on the WKAR program “Viewpoints for Action” in 1979, which has been modified with filters to demonstrate how various levels of hearing loss affect the ability to understand the text. The tactile table includes an array of 3D-printed objects created in the MSU Libraries’ Hollander Makerspace, which is an alternative learning environment and gathering space that encourages cross-discipline collaboration, experimentation and learning, as well as a globe from the Map Library’s collection of braille and tactile resources. The technologies incorporated in the tactile table and throughout the various exhibit cases are known as assistive technologies, which are resources used to increase, maintain or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities. The MSU Libraries has an Assistive Technology Center (ATC) on the first floor of the Main Library that offers resources including adjustable desks and chairs, a SARA Scanning & Reader Appliance, a Perkins Brailler and more. According to former Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities Student Assistive Technology Manager and 2024 MSU graduate Annika Arney, the ATC is a convenient and necessary resource.“The Assistive Technology Center is an important resource for MSU students who may have specific needs while they are completing their coursework at the Main Library,” Arney said. “The space is convenient to use, as it does not need to be signed up for ahead of time, but rather the student can ask for the room to be unlocked when they have a need for it. The Assistive Technology Center is also useful for collaborating and meeting with other students. I have no doubt that if a student had any concerns regarding one of the machines or computers available within the space, library staff would be readily available to assist.”For more information about the exhibit, including additional accommodations, please contact the exhibit curation team. To learn more about the MSU Libraries accessibility services including the ATC, please visit the Libraries’ Accessibility webpage.View All News Articles
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The MSU Libraries Fall 2024 edition of our Insight magazine is now available! This edition features stories on the collaboration between MSU Extension and MSU Libraries in bridging science communication statewide through service, internship opportunities available at MSU Libraries for young adults with disabilities through Spartan Project SEARCH, a behind-the-scenes look at the conservation efforts in reviving a rare 16th-century cartography text, and more!View All News Articles
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February 07, 2025 – May 30, 2025
How are solidarities formed across sociopolitical struggles, and then visualized and disseminated through visual culture? Entangled Solidarities explores this question in relation to Arab American histories through the rich archival material and artists’ books found in MSU Libraries’ Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections.
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September 16, 2024 – January 31, 2025
This exhibit, curated by the Michigan State University Libraries’ Accessibility and User Experience units, showcases the MSU Libraries’ commitment to accessibility, demonstrated through its collections and archives, assistive technologies and equipment, and spaces. This exhibit also provides interactive sensory experiences via the sound dome and tactile table.
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May 23, 2024 – September 01, 2024
This exhibit details the history of oil palm cultivation throughout the world, with a specific focus on Indonesia and how this crop impacts the livelihoods of farmers and others in Sumatra and throughout the archipelago.
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