8th Annual Kresge Food Drive - Update

The 8th Kresge Annual Food Drive has come to a close and was a success. Together we collected over 33 boxes of food for Washtenaw County charities! We wish to thank everyone for your generous donations.

Fair Use Week @ U-M Library

From March 19 to 21, the U-M Library Copyright Office invites you to join us in celebrating Fair Use Week with a line-up of events that are free and open to the public. 

• Fair Use Week: Copyright Bingo - March 19, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
• Fair Use and Universities:  25 years of publishers fighting over the use of excerpts - March 20, 2019, 3:00 to 4:00 pm
• Fair Use Week: ‘Fair Use, What’s the Big Idea?’- Thursday, March 21, 12pm-1pm

Brought to you by the U-M Library Copyright Office and Fair Use Week!  If you have any questions about the event, please contact copyright@umich.edu. 

Trademark Workshops

The Art, Architecture & Engineering Library presents a series of three workshops from the US Patent & Trademark Office, led by Managing Attorney Craig Morris from the Office of the Commissioner for Trademarks.

Trademark Basics Program - Session 1
Tuesday March 26th
6:00pm - 7:30 pm
This workshop will cover how trademarks, copyrights, patents, domain names, and business name registrations all differ.
Also covered:
-what to do if another trademark owner sends a "cease-and-desist" letter
-how to apply to seek federal registration and the role of the USPTO
-how to avoid "scams" perpetrated by companies that request fees for services not required by the USPTO
-the importance of doing a complete search and whether or not to use an attorney

Where: RM 1180 Duderstadt Center
University of Michigan North Campus
2281 Bonisteel Blvd
Ann Arbor MI 48109-2094

Please register here

Trademark Basics Program - Session 2
Wednesday March 27th
9:30am-11:00 am
This workshop will cover how trademarks, copyrights, patents, domain names, and business name registrations all differ.
Also covered:
-what to do if another trademark owner sends a "cease-and-desist" letter
-how to apply to seek federal registration and the role of the USPTO
-how to avoid "scams" perpetrated by companies that request fees for services not required by the USPTO
-the importance of doing a complete search and whether or not to use an attorney

Where: Ann Arbor SPARK
SPARK Central Innovation Center
330 E. Liberty St, Lower Level
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Please register here

USPTO’s Outreach Program for Graphic Designers
Wednesday March 27th
2:00pm-3:00 pm
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is looking to partner with colleges and universities that offer programs in graphic design, in order to present informational lectures on trademarks and copyrights. Graphic designers will learn the fundamentals of both trademarks and copyrights and the potential pitfalls of infringement. This program highlights how success as a graphic designer has as much to do with legal and ethical considerations as it does about being creative.

Where: Stamps Common Room 2440
Stamps Schools of Art & Design
University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Ann Arbor MI 48109-2069

Please register here

Market Data Added to Ad$pender

Data on advertising spending for over 100 US markets has been added to the Ad$pender database. Search for spending by market for brands, products and companiesn by media type. Market Data is available through December 31, 2019 thanks to research funding from the Economics Department.

Ad$pender is available on the Library's A-Z Database page

8th Annual Kresge Food Drive

From Tuesday March 5th through Friday May 24th, 2019 Kresge Library Services will be hosting our 8th annual food drive for Washtenaw County food banks.  Each year during our food drives,  we have collected over 50 boxes of food thanks to the generosity of the Ross Community.  Donations include: 

• Non-perishable food products 
•  Contained in factory-sealed containers
• Currently not expired products
• Not in glass containers (most food banks avoid these as they can break in transit)
• Sealed, non used personal products (razors, tooth paste, diapers, shampoo, soap etc)

Please drop off donations on the Kresge Library Services suite (K4521) on the 4th floor of Kresge Hall, or at the front desk in the Winter Garden. 

Kresge Library Reduction in Services Wednesday & Thursday

Due to the University's emergency reduction in operations, the Kresge Library will be closed Wednesday, January, 30, 2019 and Thursday January 31, 2019. 

During this time there will be no course materials pick up or assignment/exam review.  

Reference services will be available via chat and email from 9am-9pm on both Wednesday and Thursday.

More information on the University's emergency reduction in operations  is available from the UM DPSS site.

Kresge Website Services Outage - February 8

Due to a vendor scheduled data center migration, the following services on Kresge Library website will be unavailable from 8pm Friday, February 8 through 8pm, Saturday, February 9:

• Kresge Library Articles, eBooks Search
• Journal Locator 
• Citation Linker
• Kresge Database Search

The Library's A-Z databases will be unaffected.