Collection material from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival Records (1976)
Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections is pleased to announce the opening of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival records.
The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival was an annual international music festival for women by women. In 1976, Lisa Vogel, sister Kristie Vogel, and Mary Kindig organized a women-only event in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan where approximately 2,000 women congregated for a three-day music festival from August 20 to 22. From 1976 to 1981 the festival took place...
Continue reading "Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections Announces New Collection"...Robertson, Jones, Olguin, Alberts. Bioassays With Arthropods. CRC Press, ©2017 Call Number: QH 545.P4 R478 2017
Ibrahim. Bioinformatics--A Student's Companion. Springer, ©2017 Call Number: QH 324 .I27 2017
Bunnefeld, Nicholson, Milner-Gulland. Decision-Making In Conservation And Natural Resource Management: Models For Interdisciplinary Approaches. Cambridge University Press, ©2017 Call Number: QH 75 .D393 2017
Munshi. Fundamentals of Limnology. Daya Publishing House, ©2015 Call Number: QH 96 .M86 2015
Guisan, Thuiller, Zimmerman. Habitat Suitability...
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A state-of-the-art Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) that includes a 360-degree immersive visualization room, the first of its kind at any university in the United States, will officially open at Michigan State University’s Main Library on Monday, February 5, with several opening week events planned for February 5-9.
MSU Libraries and the College of Arts & Letters partnered to build the 10,000-square-foot Digital Scholarship Lab, which, besides the 360-degree immersive visualization room, will feature a virtual reality...
Continue reading "MSU’s Digital Scholarship Lab First of Its Kind in U.S."...During the fall semester 2017, Librarian Sara Miller was awarded the 2017 Ronald W. Wilson Endowed Teaching Award. The award was formally announced at the MSU College of Natural Science faculty meeting in November 2017, and a reception was held afterwards to celebrate.
This honor is typically reserved for faculty who teach ISB, ISE, or ISP courses, but the Center for Integrative Studies in General Science (CISGS) wanted to express their appreciation and highlight all of the important work that Miller has done to incorporate information literacy into their lecture and lab...
Continue reading "Librarian Sara Miller Awarded Ronald W. Wilson Endowed Teaching Award"...Jernelöv. The long-term fate of invasive species : aliens forever or integrated immigrants with time? Springer, ©2017 Call Number: QH 353 .J47 2017
Markel. The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek. Pantheon Books, ©2017 Call Number: F 574.B2 M36 2017 c.4
Eyles. Georgian Bay : discovering a unique North American ecosystem. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, ©2017 Call Number:QH 77.C3 E96 2017
Dietze. Ecological forecasting. Princeton University Pres,s ©2017 Call Number: QH 541.15.E265 D54 2017
Allison and Murphy. Routledge handbook of ecological and...
Continue reading "New Books"...We are offering five workshops this spring semester.They are free and open to anyone who wishes to attend.
If you have any questions about the workshops or topics you would be interested in seeing a workshop on please email Amanda Tickner, GIS Librarian at atickner@msu.edu
Introduction to QGIS: Make a Simple Map with Vector Data
Friday, January 19 • 3:00–4:00 pm
... Continue reading "Spring 2018 Workshops"...Prior to joining the MSU Libraries team in August 2017, Robin Ford earned her Bachelor of Arts degrees in German and International Studies as well as a minor in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Alaska Anchorage. She also studied Gender Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin during a Fulbright year and earned her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2017.
Ford worked as a Graduate Reference and Instruction Specialist at the University of Washington’s Engineering Library from 2015-2017. She has always been...
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LHS Students working on the History Unfolded project in the Beaumont West Instruction Room in the MSU Main Library.
In October 2017, Scott Durham’s World at War class from Lakeview High School (LHS) in Battle Creek, MI visited the Michigan State University Main Library to participate in a special research project related to the Holocaust. Margaret Lincoln, the LHS librarian, and Durham collaborated with Deborah Margolis, Middle East Studies & Anthropology librarian and liaison to Jewish Studies...
Continue reading "Lakeview High School Class Conducts Holocaust Research at MSU Libraries"...November is National Novel Writing Month! MSU Libraries can provide you with a multitude of resources to bring your novel to life. You can check out books to read for inspiration, get editing help at The Writing Center, attend a book design workshop, or even self-publish your novel with the Espresso Book Machine. Visit the Main Library to get started on your book-writing journey!
#1 The Art of People: 11 Simple People Skills That Will Get You Everything You Want by Dave Kerpen
Call #: HF 5548.8 .K4367
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Rating: 9/10
Whether we care to admit it or not, we could all probably use some work on our people skills. The Art of People by Dave Kerpen will help you brush up on those skills with a fast-paced, modern approach.
The short chapters make it easy for anyone to pick up and read. The book starts out by urging readers to take the provided...
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