Tuesday Reception

The reception on Tuesday evening, May 23, will be held in the Reference Reading Room on the second floor of Hatcher Graduate Library on the University of Michigan campus. Hatcher Graduate Library is located on the Diag (see the central campus map in the maps section of this Web site).

Dr. James Hilton will be giving a brief welcome at the reception on Tuesday evening, following the IASSIST President. He is the Associate Provost for Academic, Information and Instructional Technology Affairs, as well as the Interim University Librarian, and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Hilton is responsible for activities related to instructional technology, academic computing, intellectual property and copyright and the associated legal issues, as well as a wide array of academic issues that fall under the purview of the Provost's Office.

About the Reading Room

The Hatcher Library Reference Reading Room has undergone a number of transformations. It is graced with distinctive stained glass windows created by by Nicola d'Ascenzo. D'Ascenso was born in Toricella, Italy in 1871, and came to the U.S. in 1882. He created windows for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, National Cathedral, and the west window of Princeton University Chapel. In September of 1906 Theodore W. Koch, Librarian, gave four stained glass windows by Nicola D'Ascenzo to the Library. The Reading Room murals "The Arts of Peace" (west wall) and "The Arts of War" (east wall), by Gari Melchers, were originally painted for the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building at the Chicago World's Fair in 1892-93 and were given to the University of Michigan in 1895.