Welcome to the Multi-Ethnic Information Exchange Website!
MIX is a student-run organization at the University of Michigan's School of Information! MIX is organized to address three issues: Research, Recruitment, & Relationships:
For more information, use the site contact form or email mixleadership2009@umich.edu!
MIX and CIC present: The Diversity Difference
The Diversity Difference: Providing Information Services to Multicultural Audiences”
Join a panel of information professionals to learn more about directing and implementing access to information and services for broad audiences on Friday, October 16, 2009 in 311 West Hall from 11:30-1:00. This event is part of the SI-575 Community Information Corps seminar fall speaker series.
Terry Soave, Manager of Outreach and Neighborhood Services; Lucy Roehrig, Access and User Services Librarian; Eli Neiburger Associate Director of IT and Production, all of the Ann Arbor District Library, and Vivian Schnitzer, U-M’s Hispanic Communications Manager will speak about their roles in providing services to multicultural and diverse users.
Lunch will be provided.
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Vivian will speak about creating and maintain the University’s Spanish-language website, the Portal en Espanol. The portal provides admissions and academic information to prospective students and their families and distributes press releases, research, and health news, and produces videos for iTunes University. Eli is responsible for AADL's IT, events, and marketing efforts, which include multilingual print brochures and integrated machine translation for AADL's online presence. In addition, AADL runs a Drupal-based international game tournament management website called gtsystem which has built-in support for human translation of terms and data structures. Lucy ensures that Ann Arbor’s increasingly multicultural population has access to library services and resources. The AADL has books in over 20 languages for adults, teens, & children and encourages reading no matter the language. The AADL also provides materials to learn other languages and to assist people in learning English to broaden our understanding of each other. Terry works to build relationships and facilitate partnerships with trusted community leaders, groups, and individuals from a variety of different cultures in order to raise awareness and access to AADL services and spaces. Having more than seventy different languages represented in our district requires she employ many different methods, both onsite and off, to reach the broadest audience possible.
MIX Meet & Greet Recap
MIX held a Meet & Greet on 9/11 at 4:30p in West Hall 405A/B. Here's a short recap for those who missed:
(1)New members have been added to the mixmembers@umich.edu listserv. This list can be used for any announcements.
(2)We will be meeting every other Friday at 4:30p and our next meeting is 9/25.
(3)MIX is cosponsoring an event with the Community Informatics program on 10/16 at 11:30. This event will feature four panelists who will speak on the topic of changes in information services as a result of multiculturalism. We will have information needed for marketing the week of 9/16 and we can discuss marketing strategy at/before our 9/25 meeting.
(4)We are currently brainstorming speaker and program ideas for the Winter semester. We would like to hold one event in conjunction with the MLK symposium and another event at some other point.
(5)We would like to revive our research and recruitment initiatives this year and we are looking for members who will take on these leadership positions for the year.
(6)We hope to have a fundraiser this year. Ideas include an etiquette dinner and a hunger banquet. Ideally, the fundraiser could help pay for a conference to be hosted by MIX in the 2010-2011 or 2011-2012 school year.
Thanks to all who came and we hope any other interested parties will join us on 9/25.
