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Item Data Management Needs Assessment - Surveys in CLA, AHC, CSE, and CFANS(2015) Hofelich Mohr, Alicia; Bishoff, Josh; Johnston, Lisa R; Braun, Steven; Storino, Christine; Bishoff, CarolynResearcher's data management needs were assessed at four colleges with in the University of Minnesota: The College of Liberal Arts (CLA), the Academic Health Center (AHC), the College of Science and Engineering (CSE), and the College of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS). The initial survey was designed in CLA and featured a branched design that presented researchers one of two versions of the questions based on how respondents described the products of their scholarship - as "data" or "research materials". The survey was then customized for the other colleges, adding or editing questions based on feedback from disciplinary experts, while maintaining comparability across surveys. Surveys were run between September 2013 and and February 2015.Item Exhibit Catalog for, "SEM, GiGi, and Caricature," February 3 - April 19, 2015(2015) Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Keating, Lindsay; Otten, NikkiThe exhibition, "Sem, GiGi, and caricature," celebrates the new thirty-foot long acquisition, "Sem au Bois," accompanied by other special collection materials contextualizing caricature during la Belle Epoque in France, and as expressed in the comedic novella, "GiGi," written by the French author Colette. On display are late 19th and early 20th century illustrated journals, books, prints, and newspapers from the University of Minnesota Special Collections, in particular, the Francis V. Gorman Rare Art Book Collection.Item Exhibit Guide for, "Paradise and Purgatory," February 14 - April 4, 2008(2013-05-31) Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Freeman, Travis; Wong, MichaelTwo art exhibits—one of works by University of Minnesota graduate students, and one of images from the University's Gorman Rare Art Book Collection—explore themes of salvation and damnation in art. Work ranging from the 4th century to the present informs viewers of possible routes to spiritual redemption and the disasters that might befall moral transgressors.Item Exhibit Guide for, "Visual Spaces, Literacy Places," March 11 - May 5, 2011(2013-06-06) Sienkiewicz, Emily; Wertheim, Laura; Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Klug, Shannon; Terpstra, Darren; Peters, JenSelections from the Francis V. Gorman Rare and Special Art Book Collection have been highlighted in annual exhibitions since 2003. These exhibitions have focused on themes such as celebrity culture, graphic design, the history of exhibition catalogs, and the ritual of reading, to suitably and beautifully reveal the rare materials in the collection. By extending the curatorship to especially appointed graduate students, the exhibits serve as a scholarly and collaborative opportunity between faculty, students, departments, and the Libraries. These curatorial contributions will be showcased in this year's retrospective.Item Mathematicians' Views on Current Publishing Issues: A Survey of Researchers(2011-07-15) Fowler, Kristine K.This article reports research mathematicians’ attitudes about and activity in specific scholarly communication areas, as captured in a 2010 survey of more than 600 randomly-selected mathematicians worldwide. Key findings include: • Most mathematicians have papers in the arXiv, but posting to their own webpages remains more common; • A third of mathematicians have published papers in Open Access journals, with speed of publication being seen as the primary advantage over traditional journals, but there is substantial philosophical opposition to OA journal models that charge author fees; • Tenure and promotion criteria influence publishing decisions even among most tenured faculty members; • Mathematicians want to keep more rights to their publications than they’ve been allowed, but they have a high success rate in negotiating with publishers for more; • Online collaboration tools, such as Google Groups, are not yet widely used for research but their use is expected to rise in the near future. Reasons behind the mathematics culture of openness were also explored.Item Monuments of Trash Art Project (MoTAP)(2013-05-28) Gravening, Tanya; Boudewyns, Deborah K. UltanTanya Gravening makes art that focuses on the problems caused by plastic pollution. Monuments of Trash Art Project (MoTAP) is a series of paintings, sculptures, and functional art objects to raise consciousness of plastic pollution. The creative process of MoTAP includes an opportunity for people to participate in the project by collecting plastic trash, which is then used to construct the art work.Item Seeing by Drawing: A Memorial Exhibition for Michael Plautz(2014) Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Plautz, Michael; Keating, Lindsay; Klug, ShannonThe Art of Michael Plautz. Architects design buildings, of course, and Michael Plautz did that beautifully. But architects do something else: they see relationships and make connections that others overlook – and Michael Plautz did that beautifully as well, evident in the many paintings and drawings he created over his career. This work shows what intense, focused perception can produce and how art – like architecture – enables us to see relationships among things that might otherwise escape our eye. Through his art, Michael Plautz helped us view the world anew. His favorite medium – watercolor – also says something about how man architects think. Just as architecture consists of voids in the solids of a building, watercolor starts with the white space of the paper and builds the solids of the painting around it. Watercolor, like architecture, teaches us to see what isn’t there as much as what is, to recognize absence as well as presence. And once we grasp that paradox, so apparent in Michael Plautz’s work, we never see the world quite the same again. -Thomas Fisher College of DesignItem Tale Spins: Water, Animals, and Ruins(2013-05-28) Boyd Brent, James; Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Klug, ShannonArtist and professor, James Boyd Brent’s new work —intaglios, incisions in rock, and drawings— is about ancillary narratives and half-stories. It illustrates moments that may or may not actually be stories, as such, but which allude to the way the mind concocts a world for itself, among worlds. This idea echoes the work of wood-engraver Thomas Bewick, best known for the small vignettes that he made to adorn the end of chapters, and which denote a sense of a story without the story ever actually being spelled out. Abound in his imagery are stories, but they do not necessarily correspond with the main text. In each, the viewer is drawn to look into a small, distinct and illuminated world. Tale-pieces: water, animals, and ruins points at the multilayered nature of existence, and is an invitation to ponder how consciousness lies between one thing and another—water and land, animals and people, growth and decay.