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Pie chart: Around 33% of US video game players are believed to be disabled
  • David S Carter
CVGA student resident Joseph Heger makes a plea for better integration of adaptive technology and options in major game releases.
A Game Boy Color and original Game Boy dominated the center of the photo, with a box for Frogger for Game Boy Color on the left and an array of Game Boy cartridges in cases across the top.
  • David S Carter
CVGA student resident Kiki Verdun reflects on her experiences this summer around the digital archiving of cartridge-based games.
The front cover of a Burmese language book and the bibliographic cataloging description of the book rendered in MARC format
  • Win Kyaw
From mid-May to mid-July this summer, I joined the U-M Library’s International Studies team as their Southeast Asian studies librarianship intern. I applied to the inaugural internship program, hoping to build upon my previous work experiences in metadata and cataloging services at three different academic libraries in California and Massachusetts. As a student copy cataloger and a part-time assistant, I mainly proofread certain parts of bibliographic records that are considered crucial (e.g. book titles, page numbers, etc.) and transferred records from a shared online database to a local one used by the U-M Library. In other words, I did what is called copy cataloging and other entry-level tasks involved in processing new library materials. In short, I arrived in Ann Arbor with the goal of expanding my understanding of librarianship, which was limited to a few library jobs I have had. 
A collection of adaptive gaming tech in the CVGA
  • David S Carter
CVGA student resident Shiryn Anissa Noor Affendi reflects on her experiences investigating adaptive and accessible gaming technology.
Book covers of Against White Feminism, Unruly Bodies, How We Get Free, and Abolition. Feminism. Now.
  • Rion Berger
Each year, the United States celebrates Women’s Equality Day on August 26th in recognition of the anniversary of women’s suffrage. This is an excellent opportunity to reflect on the strengths and shortcomings of women’s movements in the U.S. through the lens of intersectionality, which calls on us to understand the interweaving impact of all of our identities on how we experience the world.
Shapiro Design Lab Winberg Media Production Room. There is a soundbooth in the background with a student inside speaking into a microphone and in the foreground another student sitting at a computer monitoring their recording.
  • Erica Ervin
The Design Lab will be hiring 2-3 enthusiastic undergraduates for the 2023-24 academic year. The application deadline is Thursday, August 31 and all applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Fill out the google form and upload CV/resume using the link located at the bottom the post.
Silhouette of a person walking from a dark tunnel into a bright light
  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
Part two of our ongoing series on getting our dark repository back up and running. This post outlines our approach to moving forward.
Cover of Shutter by Ramona Emerson
  • Vicki J Kondelik
Shutter is a thrilling, suspenseful novel about Rita, a Navajo woman who is a forensic photographer and who can see and talk to ghosts. Her unique ability helps her when investigating crime scenes, but she has to keep it secret. The ghost of a murder victim haunts Rita and insists that she find her killer, or she will make Rita's life a misery. The murder story is interspersed with the story of Rita's childhood on the Navajo Reservation and her relationship with her grandmother.
Book covers of Little Fires Everywhere, The Dispossessed, Autobiography of Red, and The Book of Form and Emptiness
  • Rion Berger
With the start of the school year just under 4 weeks away, it’s a great time to sneak in those last summer reads before recreational reading takes the back burner to school-related reading this fall. What better way to find your next summer book than this list of books that U of M Librarians, UMSI students, and famous authors love to read?
Iraqi artist, Dr. Mohammed Karem, with his paintings. He is surrounded by various other items in a crowded room.
  • Zainab A Hakim
  • Serena Safawi
The Shadow and Light project seeks to memorialize Iraqi academics who were assassinated between 2003 and 2011. This summer we worked on curating the Shadow and Light materials to be displayed in Hatcher Graduate Library and creating an accompanying online exhibit.