Mardigian Library

Make your own Valentine's Day card

admin — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:27:14 +0000

Make your own Valentine's Day card admin Fri, 01/24/2025 - 16:27

Need a Valentine's Day card for someone special? We'll provide the supplies to make your own card at this drop-in event!

2025-02-12T10:00:00-0500 to 2025-02-12T12:00:00-0500

Mardigian Library Lobby
United States

Office of Student Life

ademp@umich.edu

Mardigian Library

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10943711

Zotero Workshop

admin — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:27:14 +0000

Zotero Workshop admin Fri, 01/24/2025 - 16:27

Join us for a workshop all about getting started with Zotero!

What’s Zotero? it’s a free tool that helps you collect and save articles, books, and websites so that you’re able to annotate them, cite them, and create whole bibliographies with the click of a button!

2025-02-20T09:00:00-0500 to 2025-02-20T10:00:00-0500

Mardigian Library Room 1211
United States

Office of Student Life

ademp@umich.edu

Mardigian Library

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10943573

Zotero Workshop

admin — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:27:14 +0000

Zotero Workshop admin Fri, 01/24/2025 - 16:27

Join us for a workshop all about getting started with Zotero!

2025-02-10T08:00:00-0500 to 2025-02-10T09:00:00-0500

Mardigian Library Room 1211
United States

Office of Student Life

ademp@umich.edu

Mardigian Library

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10943572

Zotero Workshop

admin — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:27:14 +0000

Zotero Workshop admin Fri, 01/24/2025 - 16:27

Join us for a workshop all about getting started with Zotero!

2025-02-10T08:00:00-0500 to 2025-02-10T09:00:00-0500

Mardigian Library Room 1211
United States

Office of Student Life

ademp@umich.edu

Mardigian Library

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10943571

Blind Date with a Book

admin — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:57:11 +0000

Blind Date with a Book admin Fri, 01/24/2025 - 15:57

Looking to meet a new book? Let the library set you up with a perfect match! Stop by the library information desk February 10-21 for some surprise books for you to check out and read!

2025-02-10T07:00:00-0500 to 2025-02-21T09:00:00-0500

Mardigian Library Information Desk
United States

Office of Student Life

ademp@umich.edu

Mardigian Library

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10943215

MLK Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

admin — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:27:13 +0000

MLK Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon admin Thu, 01/09/2025 - 14:27

Join us for a hands-on Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon focused on expanding and improving entries related to the Civil Rights Movement. Participants will learn how to research and add valuable information to underdeveloped articles, helping to preserve and share this important knowledge!

2025-01-20T05:00:00-0500 to 2025-01-20T08:00:00-0500

Mardigian Library Room 1212
United States

Office of Student Life

ademp@umich.edu

Mardigian Library

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10832648

MLK Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

admin — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:27:13 +0000

MLK Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon admin Thu, 01/09/2025 - 14:27

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2025-01-20T05:00:00-0500 to 2025-01-20T08:00:00-0500

Mardigian Library Room 1212
United States

Office of Student Life

ademp@umich.edu

Mardigian Library

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10832595

MLK Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

admin — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:12:25 +0000

MLK Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon admin Thu, 01/09/2025 - 14:12

2025-01-20T05:00:00-0500 to 2025-01-20T08:00:00-0500

Mardigian Library Room 1212
United States

Office of Student Life

ademp@umich.edu

Mardigian Library

Social Activism

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10832513

��-Dearborn is developing a new comprehensive campus plan

lblouin — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:54:05 +0000

��-Dearborn is developing a new comprehensive campus plan lblouin Tue, 07/11/2023 - 05:54

Executive Director for Facilities Operations Carol Glick says developing a new 10-year plan for the ��-Dearborn campus, sometimes referred to as a master plan, has been on her team’s radar for the past seven years. But a series of events prompted them to hit the pause button a few times. Back in 2017, Dan Little announced his retirement as chancellor, so Glick said it made sense to wait until the new chancellor, Domenico Grasso, could weigh in. Soon after starting at ��-Dearborn, Grasso spearheaded a campuswide strategic planning effort, so again, it was advantageous to wait on the comprehensive campus plan so we could build around the strategic plan’s core themes. Then COVID hit. Then the University of Michigan got a new president — who is now overseeing a strategic planning and campus planning effort in Ann Arbor, with hopes that we can sync our campuses’ visions, especially when it comes to sustainability goals.

Now, though, all the stars have finally aligned for Glick to dig into a task that’s a “dream project” for her and her team’s architects, designers and project managers. In the end, she says all the delays were fortuitous, because so much of the broader visioning that informs how we design spaces has already been completed as a result of ��-Dearborn’s strategic planning process. “We’re really looking at this campus planning as an outcome of the strategic plan,” Glick says. “Our campus community has come up with all these ideas and goals and now it’s a question of how we can best design our physical spaces to achieve those goals. And because we engaged extensively with our campus stakeholders in the strategic planning effort, we can build the plan around their vision and their voices.”

So what can you expect in the new campus plan? Glick says look for two themes to take center stage. First, her team will be focusing on establishing a new center of gravity for campus around the Renick University Center and the Mardigian Library, which will both get extensive renovations in the coming years. The goal for both buildings is to consolidate core student services that are currently somewhat scattered across campus. Continuing a theme we’ve seen emerge over the past few years, the RUC will become the hub for everything related to student life, university events and enrollment services, including the One-Stop, student organizations, the food pantry, Student Government, Global Engagement, International Affairs, Veterans Affairs and Experience+. The library will become the center for core academic services, including Academic Success, Disability and Accessibility Services, ITS, as well as typical library access services. Both buildings will get several new social spaces that Glick calls “living rooms,” where students, faculty, and staff can hang out, work and collaborate.

One of the other cool parts of this project is a plan to transform the underutilized space between the buildings into a parklike setting for studying, socializing, relaxing, eating, tabling and community events. Glick says this outdoor renovation — plus a brand new main library entrance facing the RUC — will help connect the two buildings, giving the campus a central hub it’s never really had before.

The second major theme of the campus plan revolves around the changing nature of work and education. With more hybrid and online classes, as well as hybrid and remote work, Glick says we’re simply not using as much space as we used to, and the general approach for the plan is to consolidate uses into a denser footprint. Glick says this has two major payoffs. First, half-empty buildings still demand full-time heating, cooling and maintenance, so consolidating spaces helps the university’s fiscal and sustainability goals. “Also, when we spread our population around a larger space than we’re occupying, our campus loses that sense of vibrancy and activity,” Glick says. “And I think all of us want a place that feels engaged and energized by a community.”

Glick is plenty aware that talk of consolidating spaces can be a tricky subject for a workplace. “What we’re talking about really is a massive cultural shift. How we work and learn is changing dramatically,” she says. In general, Glick says they’re planning to develop space in ways that align to current and future needs rather than history. If you’re a staff member whose role demands being on campus every day, then you might not see anything change. But if you only come in three times a week, you might expect to share an office and coordinate schedules with a coworker. If you only come in once a week, your “office” might be a pack-in, pack-out hoteling space. In addition, she says buildings that house multiple units will have more shared communal and meeting spaces, to accommodate days when a supervisor wants everybody in the office on the same day. “The idea is that we’d have space so units could ‘peak’ on certain days, but not all units in the same building would peak on the same day,” Glick says.

One thing that’s a little different about this campus plan is that it’s being developed in a time of uncertainty. COVID taught us new ways to work, but what work looks like now is still something universities and workplaces are sorting out. Appetites for hybrid, remote, asynchronous and project-based courses continue to evolve too. And, of course, most Michigan universities are expecting to face enrollment challenges for many years due to a variety of factors, including shrinking classes of graduating high school seniors. As a result, Glick says her team is building the plan with more flexibility than they might otherwise. “We’re actually planning for multiple scenarios. So if we get a few years down the road, and we’re seeing more of a trend in a certain direction, we can adjust as needed,” she says.

"Campus planning is an essential process for any campus to examine the physical footprint, identify priorities and strategies, and develop long-term plans,” says Bryan Dadey, ��-Dearborn’s chief financial officer and vice chancellor of business affairs. “The campus plan is a key component for long-term financial management of the university to understand the campus needs balanced against our financial resources.”

Glick says the planning process is now in the data-gathering phase. There’s also a new campus planning website that will keep the campus community informed about the progress of the planning efforts and provide opportunities for community input. The goal is to have a final, regents-approved version by spring 2024.

Sustainability

University-wide

Facilities Operations

Facilities Planning

Mardigian Library

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Tue, 07/11/2023 - 09:53

The changing nature of work and education are prompting the university to rethink ways to optimize its physical spaces.

Recent renovations in the Renick University Center are a preview of what's coming in the new comprehensive master plan.

��-Dearborn hosted its first public ‘Zero Waste’ event

lblouin — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:05:07 +0000

��-Dearborn hosted its first public ‘Zero Waste’ event lblouin Wed, 01/25/2023 - 14:05

The opening of the new exhibition at the Mardigian Library’s Stamelos Gallery Center looked much like past opening nights. But if you looked closely, you’d have noticed a few noteworthy differences. The hors d'oeuvres menu was carefully planned to exclude packaging, like cupcake wrappers and dessert cups. Public trash bins were nowhere in sight, though recycling and compost receptacles were abundant and clearly marked. Hovering near each of those bins, six volunteer “waste goalies” stood guard to help folks direct their food scraps and recyclables to the right spots.

These subtle upgrades were part of an effort to make the exhibition opening the very first public Zero Waste event on campus. ��-Dearborn’s new Sustainability Programs Coordinator Grace Maves notes that Zero Waste events typically aren’t as absolutist as the name suggests. Understanding that a small amount of waste may not be recyclable or compostable, the target is often to divert more than 90 percent from the landfill. Even hitting that mark requires some careful planning. For the exhibition opening, for example, Maves, Art Curator and Gallery Manager Laura Cotton and Library Director Jean Song, who’s been looking for creative ways to make the library more sustainable, started by auditing all the consumables they’d have at the event. They picked menu items that emphasized fresh rather than prepackaged foods. They worked with the university’s longtime catering partner, Picasso Restaurant Group, to make sure they were covered on compostable cutlery, dinnerware and wine glasses. They double checked that the cream for coffee would be served in reusable pitchers rather than individual, unrecyclable creamer cups, and that the wine they chose had recyclable metal caps instead of corks. They even verified that the specific brand of dinnerware at the event could be handled by the compost facility they had contracted with. Song says the fact that Picasso already emphasizes reusable and compostable items made planning a breeze.

Maves says the other big part of pulling off a Zero Waste event is making sure that the waste that people are producing throughout the night ends up in the right spot. “Publicly accessible compost bins are not very common, so a lot of times, people may just not know what items are compostable and which are recyclable,” Maves says. “So, for example, compostable forks, those feel like plastic, so most people want to automatically put that in the recycling.” To help folks out, they made announcements at the event and included lots of educational signage. The waste goalies were the last line of defense. “I would say our volunteers were absolutely necessary,” Maves says, noting that folks needed direction “pretty much every time” they headed toward the composting and recycling bins.

Maves gives the first Zero Waste event high marks. The team succeeded in diverting 96 percent of the waste away from the landfill, and they didn’t run into any unexpected snags. Coming off that success, she hopes to support several more public Zero Waste events on campus this year, and produce a “how-to kit” for campus units that, say, want to make their next office party Zero Waste. Maves notes that food-based events present an especially good opportunity, as food scraps that end up in landfills break down to form methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Want to learn more about making your next campus event Zero Waste? Sustainability Programs Coordinator Grace Maves would love to hear from you. If you’re interested in other things you can do to make campus — and your life — more sustainable, you’ll also want to check out the Planet Blue Ambassador program, which recently launched on the ��-Dearborn campus. Story by Lou Blouin.

Sustainability

University-wide

Facilities Operations

Mardigian Library

Stamelos Gallery Center

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Wed, 01/25/2023 - 19:04

The recent exhibition opening at the Stamelos Gallery Center diverted 96% of total waste from the landfill.

��-Dearborn’s new Sustainability Programs Coordinator Grace Maves (center) was part of the team that organized the first public Zero Waste event on campus. Photo by Rudra Mehta

Mardigian Library

Make your own Valentine's Day card

Zotero Workshop

Zotero Workshop

Zotero Workshop

Blind Date with a Book

MLK Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

MLK Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

MLK Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

������-Dearborn is developing a new comprehensive campus plan

������-Dearborn hosted its first public ‘Zero Waste’ event

��-Dearborn is developing a new comprehensive campus plan

��-Dearborn hosted its first public ‘Zero Waste’ event