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Frederic Tuten
Selected Readings
OSU Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr.
Tuesday, May 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Frederic Tuten is the author of the novels The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, Tallien: A Brief Romance, Tintin in the New World, Van Gogh’s Bad Cafe and The Green Door, in addition to many stories and essays. Tuten is a professor in the graduate fiction-writing program at the City College of New York and guest lecturer at The New School. Tuten is also executive editor of Smyles & Fish. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing and was given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Tuten’s literary archives are part of the Contemporary American Literary Manuscripts of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library.
The reading will begin at 7 p.m. in the Faculty Club Alphabet Rooms. For more information, call (614) 292-5938.
April 28th, 2008
Metacognition and Monitoring
Web Seminar offered by OSU Libraries and TELR
Monday, May 5
1-2 p.m.
Sullivant Library, Room 244A.
Hear more from Marsha Lovett, who gave the keynote address at the Spring OSU Academy of Teaching Mini Conference.
Lovett, Associate Research Professor and Associate Director Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University, is featured speaker for this Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) web seminar: Metacognition and Monitoring: Understanding and Improving Students’ Skills for Learning.
As educators, Lovett says, we tend to focus on teaching students “content,” but we also want to help students develop as learners. Metacognition–thinking about one’s own thinking and reflecting on one’s own learning–is essential to achieving learning outcomes and to help students gain metacognitive skills.
An opportunity to discuss ways to integrate practices and strategies to improve student learning follows. The seminar is free. Read more at http://www.educause.edu/eliweb085
April 23rd, 2008
Peter Brantley
Executive Director, Digital Library Federation
Wednesday, April 2, 3:30 p.m.
Refreshments begin at 3:15 p.m.
Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr.
Peter Brantley is currently director of strategic technology for academic information systems in the University of California’s Office of the President. He has 20 years’ experience in systems development and management, including academic computing services at UC Berkeley and academic information systems management and digital library development at UC San Francisco and New York University. He also served as director of technology for the California Digital Library. He has been active in the Digital Library Federation, participating in the Digital Library Federation Services Framework initiative and co-managing the Digital Library Federation Developers’ Forum.
The series is sponsored by the OSU Libraries and the Office of Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (TELR), with support from the Friends of the OSU Libraries. For information call 614-292-2503 or 614-292-5875.
March 28th, 2008
“The Black Dress,” with author Valerie Steel
Monday April 28
Campbell Hall, 1787 Neil Ave.
5:30 p.m., refreshments, Columbia Gas Lounge
6 p.m., lecture, Campbell 200
7 p.m., book signing
The black dress has been the foundation of a woman’s wardrobe for centuries. The allure of the black dress has captured the imagination of generations of couturiers and artists and served as the signature of society’s most enviably dressed women. With an essay and images selected by Dr. Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, this book features page after uniquely designed page of some of the most compelling dresses in the history of fashion. The presentation is in conjunction with the current exhibit, “The Little Black Dress: Fashion Icon.”
March 28th, 2008
William G. Thomas, III is the next speaker in the “2020 Vision: The Future of Scholarship and Publishing,” series. Explore scholarship and publishing in the digital age. National leaders in digital scholarship will consider the topic through diverse lenses such as scholarly communication, academic publishing, and intellectual property in an age where the lines between scholarly and popular discourse are becoming blurred. Jensen will make his presentation on Tuesday, March 4, at 3:30 p.m. at the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr. Refreshments begin at 3:15 p.m.
Thomas is the John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has served as Director and co-founder of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia where he led research in the field of digital humanities scholarship. His digital research initiatives have included The Valley of the Shadow, Race and Place: African American Community in the Jim Crow South, Television News of the Civil Rights Era, and The Roots of Modern America. Thomas shared, with Anne Rubin and Edward Ayers, the Lincoln Prize in 2001 from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for the Valley of the Shadow project, and the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association in recognition of the project as an outstanding contribution to the teaching of history.
For information, call 614-292-2503.
March 1st, 2008
“Reading ReMix,” a quarterly book group without commitment, is preparing for its inaugural meeting at 7:30 p.m. on February 21 at The Knight House (104 E. 15 Ave). The group will be discussing “Boombox” by Gabriel Cohen. If you would like to attend, please register online before January 23. The group is currently available only for students.
The key differences between Reading ReMix and traditional book clubs are price and commitment. Because of the generosity of Friends of the OSU Libraries, all of the books will be completely free for group members. Additionally, members can attend as few or as many discussions as they like without negative consequences. For more information, please contact Melissa at miller.2676@osu.edu.
January 17th, 2008
Michael Jensen, director of web communications for the National Academies and director of publishing technologies at the National Academies Press, is the next speaker in the “2020 Vision: The Future of Scholarship and Publishing,” series. Jensen will make his presentation on Thursday, January 31, at 3:30 p.m. at the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr. Refreshments begin at 3:15 p.m.
Michael Jensen has been at the interface between digital technologies and scholarly/academic publishing since the late 1980s. In 2002 Jensen was appointed Director of Web Communications for the National Academies. He remains Director of Publishing Technologies at the National Academies Press, which makes more than 3,600 books (more than 600,000 pages) from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council fully browsable and searchable online for free. This site receives more than 1.5 million visitors per month, and boasts of some of the most advanced search and discovery tools available on any publisher’s site, most of which were initially developed by Mr. Jensen. In 2001, Jensen received the National Academies’ “President’s Award,” its highest staff honor. Jensen, with the Academies, is also currently technical partner of the History Cooperative, which makes the works of the most prestigious journals in History available online to subscribing institutions. He is also the inventor of WordXS puzzles, and editor of the Sustainable Personal Agriculture and Energy collection.
The “2020 Vision” series explores issues of scholarship and publishing in the digital age with national leaders in digital scholarship. “2020 Vision” is sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries and Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (TELR), and supported by the Friends of the Libraries.
January 4th, 2008
Public Libraries/Public Health: Two Historic Case Studies
The Professorial Lecture of
Gerald Greenberg, Education Subject Specialist
Tuesday, January 22, 3:30 p.m. (Refreshments begin at 3:15 p.m.)
Faculty Club Grand Lounge
181 S. Oval Dr.
Columbus, OH
December 27th, 2007
Juan R. I. Cole, Professor of History, President of the American Global Institute, University of Michigan, is the next speaker in the “2020 Vision: The Future of Scholarship and Publishing,” series. Cole will make his presentation on Monday, December 3, at 3:30 p.m. at the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr. Refreshments begin at 3:15 p.m.
Cole is author of the popular blog “Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion,” and is President of the Global Americana Institute. He is also Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the History Department of the University of Michigan. He has written extensively about modern Islamic movements in Egypt, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia. His current research focuses on two contemporary phenomena: 1) Shiite Islam in Iraq and Iran and 2) the “jihadi” or “sacred-war” strain of Muslim radicalism, including al-Qaeda and the Taliban among other groups. Cole speaks Arabic, English, Persian and Urdu and reads some Turkish, knows both Middle Eastern and South Asian Islam, and lived in a number of places in the Muslim world for extended periods of time.
The “2020 Vision” series explores issues of scholarship and publishing in the digital age with national leaders in digital scholarship. “2020 Vision” is sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries and Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (TELR), and supported by the Friends of the Libraries.
November 30th, 2007
Student Involvement in Planning & Furnishing Library Learning Spaces
Thursday, November 8, 9 a.m.,
Ackerman Library, 600 Ackerman Rd., Room 5826
Crit Stuart, Program Director for Research, Teaching, and Learning for The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) will present a session on bringing students into the planning process for library learning spaces. The fundamental mission of this new position is to develop and implement imaginative and practical strategies that promote and facilitate the integration and use of research library resources and services throughout the research institution. Prior to his appointment with ARL this past spring, Stuart was Senior Associate Director for Public Services for the Library and Information Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech, Stuart has most recently worked to coordinate the evolution of “library as place,” emphasizing enhancements to spaces, technologies, and services that support student productivity and success in a 24-hour environment.
October 29th, 2007
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