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Fordism in the Hospital: Albert Kahn and the Design of Old Main, 1917–25
The 1917–25 planning and construction at the University of Michigan of a new University Hospital, later dubbed Old Main, offers a noteworthy case study of the formal convergence of hospital and factory in early twentieth-century America. Designed by Albert Kahn, the architect responsible for Ford Motor Company's archetypal automobile plants, and located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, less than forty miles from Detroit's burgeoning factory landscape, Old Main was well positioned to reflect the values of industry in both appearance and operation. The building's outer surface represents a striking departure from the historicism that characterized several other hospitals of this period, while plans for the building's novel diagnostic unit demonstrate unique operational parallels to the assembly line model of production. Ultimately, Old Main's industrial design similarities cast it as a precociously modernist hospital, relating streamlined form to function more explicitly than many of its contemporary institutions.
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Bringing users back to the library: a case history
Purpose - To provide a description of renovation and promotional efforts applied by the Michigan State University Libraries during the 1990s in an attempt to bring users back into the physical library.Design methodology approach - A number of specific steps taken by the Michigan State University Libraries to reorient and refurbish the first floor of its main library are described in detail and supported with evidence from other studies and library renovation projects. Each section focuses on a different aspect of the renovation: relocating reference, adding a café, adding new carpeting and furnishings, expanding library hours, providing alternatives for coming to the library, and greatly increasing computer technology.Findings - Provides information about each step taken in the renovation project, along with considerations for taking each action. Recognizes that these actions may not ultimately alone result in increased patron usage of the library's physical location, but have increased patron activity and numbers in the MSU main library and have made it a more welcoming environment.Practical implications - Provides very useful information for university library administrators who may be facing the challenges of declining library usage and looking for ways to encourage users back into the library through renovation or promotional means.Originality value - This paper fulfills a need for practical solutions to administrators of large university libraries looking to make building improvements to increase both the usage and aesthetics of their library's physical space.
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“Silence and Cowardice” at the University of Michigan: World War I and the Pursuit of Un-American Faculty
In September 1915, Minne Allen traveled from her native Germany to the United States, where her new husband Edward was set to begin a position as math instructor in the University of Michigan's College of Engineering. Although Minne was nervous about moving from cosmopolitan Berlin to a small college town and worried about the war ravaging Europe, she was excited to begin her married life. Four years later, the University of Michigan Board of Regents initiated dismissal proceedings against her husband, alleging that he had supported Germany in the recently concluded war. Even before Edward's removal, Minne had grown tired of the constant suspicion and surveillance that the university and her hyper-patriotic neighbors forced her and her husband to endure. She wrote to her mother:
The unwillingness to subscribe voluntarily to the purchase of war bonds was and is still enough to dismiss an employee, especially if he is an independently thinking and acting employee who dares openly to criticize and to make suggestions for an honorable government policy and to work for peace and reconciliation…. Forced by many considerations, the educational institutions, which should have the greatest freedom of thought, have become places of silence and cowardice.
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The Archivist as Educator: Integrating Critical Thinking Skills into Historical Research Methods Instruction
Archivists are increasingly developing workshops and courses in order to help students better understand and use archival materials. The incorporation of critical thinking skills into these instructional programs can significantly enhance them and improve the ability of students to analyze and interpret primary sources. This article first provides an introduction to critical thinking instruction and then describes how the university archivist successfully implemented critical thinking skills into a historical research methods course at Northern Michigan University.
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The Internet public library: an intellectual history
The ideas and work behind the Internet Public Library are described, from the original conception and initial set of projects through to current endeavors. Emphasis is given to questions asked about the nature of librarianship in a digital environment and projects and services that attempt to answer those questions.
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Past Discrimination and Diversity: A Historical Context for Understanding Race and Affirmative Action
This article examines the specific historical experiences of minority students at the University of Michigan from 1970 to the late 1990s, in order to provide a context for understanding and appreciating the ways in which affirmative action remedies should address patterns of past discrimination
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Merit: Who, What, and Why
This article looks back at the innovations and ingenuity, trials and tribulations that went into the marketing of Merit Network, Inc., Michigan's pioneering Internet provider. Merit was one of the first organizations in the nation to attempt what was then a daunting task: to link the computing facilities of three universities by a common network. Initially formed in 1966 to provide services to its then-three member institutions-Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University (Detroit)-Merit subsequently became a major service provider and manager of \"the Internet.\" Today, Merit is serving as the GigaPoP organization for its two current Internet2 members, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, and will provision a vBNS connection for Wayne State University. The more things change, the more Merit's role remains strategically focused.
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Continuing a legacy: collecting for a special collections library
A description of the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan, that began in 1911, with a sizable donation from Joseph A. Labadie, an anarchist and printer, and has continued to develop as a special collection of materials on \"social protest\".
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