Who Owns My Body, Capstone Event, GBR

Save the date for the 2010-2011 Go Big Read Capstone Event, Who Owns My Body and Where is it Now? April 15-16, 2011.

This free, two-day capstone event of discussions, lectures and films will explore questions surrounding the body as property, as well as the ways in which the current landscape has and hasn’t changed since the days of Henrietta Lacks. Visit this link to view the agenda. All sessions will take place at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Town Center.

Friday highlights include a keynote lecture from Ruth Faden, Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics on the controversies raised in the Skloot book and a showing of "Made in India" to be followed by a moderated discussion.

On Saturday, panelists Alta Charo, Pilar Ossorio and Norm Fost will explore whether Henrietta Lacks and her cells would meet with the same fate in today's environment. Vanessa Northington Gamble, University Professor of Medical Humanities at George Washington University, will deliver a keynote lecture, "Henrietta Lacks Beyond Her Cells: Race, Racism, and American Medicine."

Complete the registration form if you plan to attend either or both days.

The capstone event has been co-sponsored by the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, the UW Law School, the UW-Madison Libraries and WARF.

Science Expeditions 2011 (April 2)

Are you looking for something fun to do with friends and family this coming weekend? If so, then consider venturing out to Science Expeditions 2011 when UW-Madison hosts an exciting day of hands-on Exploration Stations and "Science Spectaculars"--special demonstrations and lectures.

All events are free and open to the public. This year, many of the events will be hosted at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery with free trolley shuttle to satellite locations.

This is a great way to check out campus science venues including the Geology Museum, the Botany Greenhouse and the Primate Center Learning Lobby, among others.

View the Science Expeditions schedule for the day and directions on how to get there.

See the press release.

Lights Out! Earth Hour 2011 (March 26)

Imagine what would happen if we all did it at the same time?! By participating in Earth Hour and putting out the lights, we can reflect upon the night sky and upon some strategies for how we can reduce and/or reinvent our energy consumption.

Earth Hour, as observed in the United States, will happen on March 26, 8:30PM local time.

The, go beyond the hour—and explore suggestions for taking action and reducing your energy use.

Edible Book Contest and Festival

Sink your teeth into a good book--an edible book, that is, with UW-Madison’s 4th Annual Edible Book Festival! The festival, which is free and open to the public, will be held, Tuesday, April 12 from 4:00-6:30 PM (Memorial Library, Room 460).

As part of the fun, the libraries encourage all aspiring food artists, (bakers and book enthusiasts) to participate by crafting their own edible books. An edible book is an entry made of edible materials, with the subject pertaining to books in shape or content. In the past, those participating have worked with cake, Jell-o, cheese, matzo and more. In addition to the Judges' Choice and People's Choice awards, prizes will be awarded in the following categories: best entry by a family, a group, a student, and an individual.

If you are interested in contributing an "edible book", please fill out and return the application form found on the festival page.

The deadline for submitting an application form is Monday, March 28; submit the form by email or mail to Kristina Glodoski.

Attn - Edible Books
Memorial Library
c/o Kristina Glodoski
728 State Street, Room 166c
Madison, WI 53706

This event is sponsored by UW-Madison's Memorial Library Public Relations Committee and Librarians’ Assembly.

Zotero Development Workshop (April 11)

Do you need to make Zotero work for you? And, as a Zotero user, would you like to contribute to the development community?
If so, campus libraries are sponsoring a Zotero Development Workshop, in several sessions, on Monday, April 11, 2011. (More information about Zotero).

Join Zotero community developer, Avram Lyon, to learn more about Translator Creation, Citation Style Language, the Zotero API, and using Zotero for your own scholarly endeavors.

Session times and locations:

Translator Creation, 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Room 126, Memorial Library

Translators allow Zotero to detect and pull in citation information from web sites, including library catalogs, databases...you name it. The great thing is that if you create a new translator or make changes to an existing one, these updates can be bundled with subsequent Zotero releases to help others with their scholarly endeavors. You can also use the translators you create locally on your computer.

Citation Style Language, 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Room 126, Memorial Library

CSL is an XML language that allows you to create new citation and bibliographic styles. Many of the styles you know and use now within Zotero are created by community developers. If you need one that is not currently present in Zotero's CSL library, you can create your own - and this portion of the workshop will show you how to do that.

Mashups using Zotero's API and Leveraging Zotero for new scholarly endeavors, 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Room 126, Memorial Library

This session will show talk about manipulating parameters to feed various items and collections into other applications like Omeka, Wordpress, Googlereader, or one you create yourself! Some neat possibilities with Zotero include the crowdsourcing of transcription, metadata creation or the cleaning up of "bad" metadata as a group project.

Prerequisites
In order to fully participate in these workshops, we ask that participants are comfortable with HTML.

Registration
Please email Anne (aerauh@engr.wisc.edu) if you plan to attend.

With thanks to Anne R for the content of this blog post.