Recovering Lost Local History: The Daily Record Project

This practitioner perspective describes a collaboration between students and teachers at three middle schools, along with community partners, to recover and digitize news stories from The Daily Record, an African American owned newspaper that was attacked and burned in the 1898 Wilmington coup d’état

Let\u27s Not Jump to Conclusions: Approaching Felon Disenfranchisement Challenges Under the Voting Rights Act

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 invalidates voting qualifications that deny the right to vote on account of race or color. This Article confronts a split among the federal appellate courts concerning whether felons may rely on Section 2 when challenging felon disenfranchisement laws. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals allows felon disenfranchisement challenges under Section 2; however, the Second and Eleventh Circuits foresee unconstitutional consequences and thus do not. After discussing the background of voting rights jurisprudence, history of felon disenfranchisement laws, and evolution of Section 2, this Article identifies the points of contention among the disagreeing courts. The crux of this Article is that both sides of the debate have erred. Both sides wrongly assume that the consequences of accepting these vote denial challenges are predictable. However, because a standard approach to vote denial challenges under Section 2 does not currently exist, no court can foresee the results of allowing such challenges to felon disenfranchisement laws. Therefore, predicting the constitutional implications of accepting these challenges without first identifying an appropriate analysis is impossible. This Article concludes by proposing an analysis for consideration. The proposed approach is a tailored version of sliding scale scrutiny--an analysis that the United States Supreme Court following Burdick v. Takushi, now applies to constitutional voting rights claims. Using this adapted approach, the Supreme Court can resolve the current split in authority and find that Section 2 is a viable vehicle for challenging racially-discriminatory felon disenfranchisement laws

A brief history of the Open Discovery Initiative

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/135969/1/leap1078.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/135969/2/leap1078_am.pd

Connecting Libraries and Learning Analytics for Student Success (CLLASS)

This talk will discuss the IMLS National Leadership Grant, "Connecting Libraries and Learning Analytics for Student Success" [LG-97-18-0209-18, awarded to Syracuse University], including the library profiles developed for the Caliper specification and the ways we are addressing privacy concerns at different libraries.IMLS LG-97-18-0209-18, awarded to Syracuse Universityhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154115/1/CLLASS Report for ER&L 2020.pdfDescription of CLLASS Report for ER&L 2020.pdf : Slides as presente

Information Resources: Justifying the Expense

Presented as part of the NISO Virtual Conference: Justifying the Library - Using Assessment to Justify Library Investments, http://www.niso.org/news/events/2016/virtual_conference/apr20_virtualconf/Discovery layers have changed the landscape of resource use for many libraries through their goal of centralizing access to distributed content through a single interface. Yet, for many libraries, services like Google, Mendeley, and others, provide the access point for much resource use. In this presentation, Ken Varnum will discuss assessment tools such as COUNTER and the Open Discovery Initiative that libraries can use to understand resource usage, as well as discuss emerging efforts to evaluate the impact of that use through broader campus-wide learning analytics processes.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/117585/1/Information Resources - Justifying the Expense.pdfDescription of Information Resources - Justifying the Expense.pdf : PDF of presentation slide

A maverick writing course : English 1-2 at Amherst College, 1938-1968.

James Berlin, Stephen North, and other leading historians of composition have implied that nothing very interesting happened in composition classrooms before 1960. To counter that assumption, I offer my description of English 1-2 at Amherst College, an innovative and challenging freshman writing course directed by Theodore Baird from 1938-1968. Although no one published much about this course while it was a going concern, several members of its staff, including Walker Gibson and William E. Coles, Jr., later wrote about similar courses they designed elsewhere. My observations about English 1-2 are based on interviews with its faculty and graduates and on a study of materials now held in the Amherst College Archives. English 1-2 was taught collaboratively by a staff of eight or ten men who devised a new and demanding sequence of 33 assignments each semester, calling on students to write from experience. The instructors, who otherwise used no text, mimeographed their students\u27 papers and made these the focus of classroom discussions. The instructors invited students to explore the relation between language and reality and to view themselves as makers of meaning. Paradoxically, English 1-2 seems both to have generated a potentially disempowering mystique and to have enabled many students to claim new measures of authority over language

An anti-inflammatory glycoprotein, CD200, restores neurogenesis and enhances amyloid phagocytosis in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) in the brain and intraneuronal hyperphosphorylated tau. Microglia in the brain adopt M1 (pro-inflammatory) or M2 (anti-inflammatory) phenotypes similar to peripheral monocytes. M1 microglia negatively affect neurogenesis and have reduced phagocytic capabilities whereas M2 microglia can enhance neurogenesis and support phagocytosis. Cluster of Differentiation-200 (CD200) is an anti-inflammatory glycoprotein physiologically expressed on neurons and lymphocytes, and its receptors (CD200R1 and CD200R3) are expressed on glia. Both AD patients and mouse models of AD show an age-related or Aβ-induced reduction in neural CD200 that may contribute to M1-skewing of microglia in AD. We hypothesize that CD200 skews microglia to an M2 phenotype, and that genetic over-expression of CD200 in transgenic mice expressing the Swedish familial AD mutation of human β-amyloid precursor protein (APP mice) can restore neurogenesis and enhance Aβ clearance in the hippocampus. In this study, we constructed a tetracycline-controlled transactivator-inducible adeno-associated virus serotype 2/1 expressing full-length CD200 (AAV2/1-CD200) or green fluorescent protein (AAV2/1- GFP). These were bilaterally injected into the hippocampi at 6 months of age, and mice were sacrificed at 12 months of age. AAV2/1-GFP-injected APP mice showed a reduction in number of proliferating neural stem cells (NSCs) by 65.0% and differentiating NSCs by 70.5% in the dentate gyrus compared to wild-type controls. AAV2/1-CD200 restored these neurogenic deficits to those of wild-type mouse levels. AAV2/1-CD200 reduced diffuse Aβ plaques in the hippocampal region by 65.5% compared to AAV2/1-GFP-injected APP mice, but did not alter thioflavin-S-positive compact plaques as measured by protein and immunohistochemical assays. In vitro studies demonstrated that CD200-stimulated microglia co-cultured in transwells increased differentiation and complexity of neural stem cells. CD200 also directly enhanced Aβ phagocytosis by microglia. CD200 enhanced expression of the adaptor protein TYRO protein tyrosine kinase binding protein (TYROBP), suggesting this may be the mechanism by which CD200 enhances phagocytosis of Aβ. Overall, the data presented here indicate that CD200 is a plausible therapeutic agent in patients with AD to enhance neural differentiation and microglial-mediated clearance of Aβ

We Started a Library Analytics Program. You'll Never Believe What Happens Next.

Presented at the LITA Forum, Fort Worth, Texas, 18 November 2016.The University of Michigan Library, a top ten academic research library in North America, updated its privacy policy to enable tracking of usage data in spring 2016. We began a process of identifying research needs, selecting and logging appropriate data, and linking data to services. Learn how our library developed policies and procedures around data collection and what research we are currently undertaking. Initial reports on some online system use will be included.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/134504/1/LITA Forum -- Library Analytics.pdfDescription of LITA Forum -- Library Analytics.pdf : Presentation slides (PDF Format

Planet Trial and Error: A Student\u27s Guide to Film Preproduction

This article highlights the importance of preproduction to the filmmaking process and provides a series of steps and guidelines meant to aid student filmmakers in the preproduction phase of their own films. The research was gathered from various filmmaking textbooks of note and from the personal experiences of the author during the making of his capstone film project

Open Discovery Initiative — What Libraries Can Do to Contribute

An overview of the NISO Open Discovery Initiative, with a focus on how libraries can help drive the provision of ODI conformance statements from vendors who contribute metadata and full text to discovery services. Presented at the 2018 BTAA Academic Libraries conference, Champaign, Illionois.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143856/1/BTAA ODI Introduction for Deep Blue.pdfDescription of BTAA ODI Introduction for Deep Blue.pdf : Presentation slides and notes (PDF