Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan Terr’y. Published by Pendletons Lithography in Boston in 1835, probably for Nathaniel Brown.
This map shows a thriving town site. The only problem was that it was a complete fiction. The real Ionia, Michigan, Seat of Ionia County, had been placed two miles west of this site in 1833.
At the time the map was made in 1835, half of the square-mile section had been purchased by Chicago-based land speculator Nathaniel Brown. The other half was still owned by the Federal Government. Brown had the idea of a sawmill anchoring a community that...
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Map reading/navigation workshop 9/19
Aerial photography with kites 9/27
QGIS Workshop 1 Introduction to QGIS: Vector Data 10/3
QGIS Workshop 2: Georeferencing 10/10
QGIS Workshop at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station 10/8
Geocoding 10/24
3D Printing Terrain Maps (part of GIS Week!) 11/15
Map reading/navigation workshop
Location: Map Library CTL and Outdoors
9/19/2016 3:30:00- 4:30:00 PM
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Continue reading "Fall 2016 Workshops"...Beginning in the nineteenth century, immigrants to Michigan massively changed the landscape through logging, farming, draining wetlands, building roads, cities, and planting managed landscapes. Prior to that Native Americans used fire and other methods to alter the landscape, though on a much smaller scale. When you stand in your front yard, the 'natural' vegetation you see is likely quite different from what stood in 1800 especially if you live in the southern part of the state. So what kinds of trees or other landcover naturally grew in your area long ago? A group of scholars teamed...
Continue reading "What is the natural vegetation in your neighborhood?"...The Statewide GIS User Group provides bimonthly networking and educational opportunities for GIS professionals across Michigan. The meetings are open to everyone from students through seasoned professionals and feature a range of technical and non-technical topics.
The next meeting is Thursday, August 4, 2016 at the MSU Main Library. We will be offering a remote conferencing option using our campus site license to zoom.us for the morning session only starting at 10:00am. You may connect audio-only using a phone or may...
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From 1850-1856, James Jesse Strang (image below) lived on Beaver Island as a self-appointed king among the Mormon adherents who declared allegiance to him after the death of Joseph Smith. Strang commanded a loyal following from his congregants but it often brought the Strangite Mormons into conflict with the judiciary in Mackinac. These disagreements drove the Mormons to seek local and state political office and culminated in the election of Strang as a state legislator. It was through this office that Strang would seek to change the fortunes of his community and alter the geography of...
Continue reading "Mormonism and Michigan's County Formation"...Few. Now you see it : simple visualization techniques for quantitative analysis. Analytics Press © 2006. Call Number: TK 7882.I6 F48 2009
Flora of North America Editorial Committee. Flora of North America : north of Mexico. Oxford University Press ©1993- Call Number: QK 110 .F55 1993 v.6
Kumano. Freshwater red algae of the world. Biopress ©2002. Call Number QK 569 .R4 K86 2002
Bremer. Using R at the bench : step-by-step data analytics for biologists. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press ©2015. Call Number: QH 324.2 .B74 2015 c.2
Roskams and Rodgers. Lab ref : a...
Continue reading "New Books"...This three hour workshop gives participants the opportunity to learn QGIS, the free and open source geospatial software package. The workshop content revolves around solving a research/planning question using data about Detroit. Skills included in the workshop are making a color-shaded choropleth map, sub-setting data, using census data, geocoding within QGIS, joining datasets, creating buffers and more. If you have taken other library workshops on QGIS, this workshop will review and build on your skills. If you are totally unfamiliar with QGIS this workshop will give you a solid ...
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William C. Gast was a compassionate businessman who believed in bringing the high ideals he lived by to the family-run business he managed for more than 40 years. A leader in the southwestern Michigan business community, Mr. Gast led his company to prosperity by following the simple tenets of life's most basic rule - treat others as you might hope to be treated.
Mr. Gast was a student at Michigan State University when, in 1925, his father called him home to help oversee the family's growing manufacturing business. Mr. Gast would eventually see the company through 40 years of...
Continue reading "Do you know where the Gast Business Library gets its name?"...We are hosting two more fun and useful workshops this semester!
Finding Geospatial Data This workshop will describe places and strategies for finding geospatial data of various types, with an emphasis on free, public resources as well as library resources. There will be time at the end to answer questions, conduct individual searches and brainstorm about individual project needs. Monday March 21st 3-4:30 PM in the Main Library 3 West No registration needed.
Create a 3D Historical Map Flythrough Using ArcScene Learn to use the ArcGIS 3D Analyst tool ArcScene to create a 3D...
Continue reading "Geospatial Workshops, Spring 2016"...A lucky few, however, have found diamonds in the Great Lakes area. Michigan’s most notable find was Frank Blackmond’s 11-carat diamond found in 1894 near Dowagiac in southwest Michigan. Several...
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