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February 11, 2025 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
DSL Project Room J (Main Library, 2 West)
The DSL will be hosting an in-person viewing of the presentation from ICPSR: AI & Data Sharing: A Love/Hate Relationship. Jonathan Barber, Data Services Librarian, will be on hand to facilitate a discussion of topics and issues covered in the presentation.
If you wish to attend this discussion remotely, you may register for it via Zoom.
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February 11, 2025 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
DSL Classroom/Lab: (Main Library, 2 West)
Would you like to learn how to create a media-rich digital timeline to illustrate an interesting story or a class project? With the open-source tool TimelineJS, you can embed images, video, or other media using a simple spreadsheet. As a part of the MSU Libraries’ Love Data Week celebration, this workshop will provide step-by-step instruction so that you can begin creating, hands-on, either using a topic of your choice or one of our sample timeline kits. We’ll also share information on how to locate and cite openly licensed images and other media.
This is an in-person workshop to be held in the DSL Computer Classroom. Please register here.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please contact milesli3@msu.edu or cantre48@msu.edu.
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February 11, 2025 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
DSL Project Room J (Main Library, 2 West)
Receive expert guidance on such topics as:
Data management plans
Research data management
Choosing a data repository
Data analysis tools
Data storage
Data visualization
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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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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America in the Kitchen is a new project at Michigan State University that recently received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize 200 of the most important American cookbooks published from the 18th century through 1960. The team behind the grant includes Associate Professor of History Helen Veit, MSU Libraries Head of Special Collections and University Archives Leslie McRoberts, former MSU Libraries Head of Special Collections and Librarian Emeritus Peter Berg, and Associate Professor of History and Director of Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Rehberger.The almost $350,000 NEH grant will allow the team to modernize and expand Feeding America, one of the most-used digital resources on food history. Dr. Berg was one of the directors of the original project, which launched in 2003. Feeding America is comprised of 76 American cookbooks spanning the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. “Feeding America is already an important resource for food studies scholars,” Veit said. “Now, with America in the Kitchen, we’ll be creating a beautiful new website that’s even larger and more user-friendly. We’ll not only be able to expand the number of cookbooks in the collection, but we’ll also push the collection’s chronology up to 1960 and emphasize how many different Americans have created and used cookbooks.” The team at Matrix will create the new America in the Kitchen website, while the MSU Libraries team will be digitizing the cookbooks. The finished website will also include short author biographies and photographs of historic cooking tools, among other resources. “Besides expanding the availability of historic American cookbooks online, this NEH grant will also allow us to provide context so that users can better understand where each cookbook came from and why it’s significant,” Veit said. “Our goal is to create a place where people can learn more about food history, American history, and humanities ideas.” The website is aimed at scholars, researchers, students, cooks, and lifelong learners of all ages.“The MSU Libraries is thrilled to receive this grant, which will be significant in helping us broaden the digital presence of our robust Cookery & Food Collection,” said McRoberts. “The Feeding America digital repository is already a fabulous resource for researchers seeking out these important and influential American cookbooks, and we are so excited to soon be able to offer additional access to cookbooks through 1960, thanks in large part to these NEH funds. We are proud as well that these publicly available collections can help support MSU’s position as a top-tier research institution by allowing researchers to browse our cookbooks across the globe.”Berg said, “One of the wonders of the digital age is the opportunity to bring the resources of a world-class special collection of books to people throughout the state, nation, and world who otherwise could not afford to make a trip to East Lansing to see the cookbooks. While the means to deliver our knowledge and resources may be modern, our work remains traditional as part of the land grant mission, the founding principle of MSU.”All cookbooks will come from the Murray & Hong Special Collections at the MSU Libraries, which has more than 40,000 cookbooks and food-related works and is one of the largest American culinary collections in the world.The team behind America in the Kitchen previously created the What America Ate project, a digital archive and interactive website on food in the Great Depression also funded by the NEH. Veit noted that she hopes the new website will entice people to cook from historic cookbooks as well as to read them. “We all have strong feelings about food, and it’s a great way to get people asking bigger questions about why things happen and how culture works,” she said. This story was originally published on the College of Social Science website.Contact: Leslie McRoberts and Elise Jajuga View All News Articles
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EAST LANSING, Mich., Feb. 2025 – This month the Michigan State University Libraries, MSU College of Arts and Letters and MSU College of Law are partnering to celebrate the birthday of Frederick Douglass with an event focused on helping to transcribe the Library of Congress’ African American Perspectives Collection.This is the second year that MSU will be hosting the Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon as part of the nationally celebrated Love Data Week. This year’s celebration of Douglass Day at MSU Libraries will commemorate the legacy of the renowned 19th century abolitionist by inviting the public to help transcribe the more than 800 titles included in the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress. This collection offers a wide-ranging look at Black history and culture through prominent figures like Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Booker T. Washington. The collection has been digitized and transcriptions will be made available through collaborations with the Library of Congress and its By the People platform.MSU Libraries African and African American Studies Librarian Erik Ponder emphasized the opportunity for community engagement this event brings on both a campus and more global level. “This is the second year MSU Libraries will be hosting the nationally held Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon, and we are looking forward to not only engaging with the University community but also with the broader community,” Ponder said. “This event is a perfect Black History Month activity for both old and young scholars. This year we will be working with the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress. Come and engage with the materials, have fun discovering new historical voices and learn more about this great collection.” Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thons have been held annually since 2017. As part of this year’s nationwide effort to transcribe the over 9,000 pages within the Library of Congress’ African American Perspectives Collection, MSU Libraries, CAL’s Digital Humanities program, and COL’s Kelley Institute of Ethics and the Legal Profession will be offering students, instructors and community members the opportunity to connect through an event that brings together thousands of participants at more than one hundred simultaneous events.Justin Simard, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Kelley Institute for Ethics and the Legal Profession, shared his excitement for the Kelley Institute’s support of the event. “Although Douglass was not a lawyer, he was a brilliant legal thinker who recognized both the ethical potential of the law and its limitations in practice,” Simard said. “The College of Law hosted its own event last year. Working with the Libraries and CAL this year allows us to host a larger event, emphasize more aspects of Douglass’ legacy and bring together people from across campus to transcribe important documents in Black history.”Douglass Day was established in 1897 by the founding president of the National Association of Colored Women, Mary Church Terrell, to celebrate Frederick Douglass’s legacy on his chosen birthday of Feb. 14. This was clarified by Terrell in the Mary Church Terrell Papers published between 1866 and 1953 held at the Library of Congress in a letter she wrote to the Star in Washington, D.C. Following the Jan. 12 1897 meeting where she motioned to establish Douglass Day, the Star had attributed the credit for creating the day of remembrance to “a young man in the teacher’s corps.” Terrell set the record straight by informing the editor of the Star that “I have done very few things of which I am proud, but I am proud of the fact that it was entirely through my suggestion and motion that the trustees voted to set aside a portion of the afternoon of Feb. 14th in which to honor the memory of one of the greatest men this country has ever produced.” Douglass Day was quickly adapted by schools across the country, eventually helping to give rise to Black History Month, which was officially recognized by former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford in 1976. The African American Perspectives Collection being transcribed on this year’s Douglass Day includes some of Terrell’s papers.Associate Director of Digital Humanities Kristen Mapes shared her enthusiasm about the commemorative event. “We are excited to bring Black history and culture to students, faculty and community members by working together to read the words and see the work of people who made a difference in their communities from not that long ago,” Mapes said. “We get to do that as part of a national event, through the opportunity of technology and grounded in our human experience, in celebration of Douglass’ chosen birthday and immense legacy.”The transcribe-a-thon will take place from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Feb. 14 in the Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Lab classroom with a live stream available on YouTube. The in-person event will include lunch from Eastside Fish Fry & Grill and Gregory’s Soul Food, as well as a cake in honor of Douglass’s chosen birthday from Sweet Encounter, with options for a variety of dietary needs. While registration for this event is not required, participants are encouraged to register on the Libraries’ event page.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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