Friends of the Michigan Tech Library
All proceeds benefit the university library and archives
Come join us for our annual Winter Carnival book sale on Saturday, February 11 from 11am to 4pm. Hundreds of books at low, low prices: HB $2, PB $1; children’s books 50¢! All fiction half price. We also have lots of old MTU yearbooks for sale at a special price of $1 each!
A small bookstore with used books, coffee and some baked goods at 528 Quincy St., right across the street from Finlandia University. See their Facebook page for hours and more.
As we realized that we had a long time between book sales, when we didn’t do anything in the fall, and two of them in the spring, we decided to try a one day sale in the library this fall.
Friday, October 7 was also the day of an all-campus “First Friday” social that also happened to be sponsored by library so we set up from 10 to 4 in the lobby. All in all, it was a great success, so expect more of the same each fall.
Thanks to always for all out volunteers, customers, and especially the library (and for taking cards at the service desk, which facilitated about 1/3 of the sales!).
The spring 2022 issue of the newsletter is now mailing to members’ mailboxes.
Download the PDF version here: FMTL Views 27.2 (Oct. 2022).
The spring 2022 issue of the newsletter is now mailing to members’ mailboxes.
Download the PDF version here: FMTL Views 27.1 (Mar. 2022).
After a hiatus due to covid, FMTL is pleased to announce the resumption of its Travel Grant program for 2022.
Applications will be due on April 15 with a decision made shortly thereafter to facilitate summer travel.
For more information, please see the application page at the Library.
Books, Books, Books! Make room for new books on your shelves by donating your old books to the Friends book sale. All proceeds go to help the Michigan Tech Van Pelt and Opie Library.
There are, however, things we do not take, because they just won’t sell:
If you have items that are deeply vintage (>50 years old), please contact us.
If you have only a few book sale donations, you may drop them off in the shiny new donation box located in the Library vestibule (between the glass doors to the left as you enter).
If you have a box or bag of books, you may unload them at the Library loading dock. Call a Library staff member at the Service Desk at 906-487-2508 to have someone meet you at the back door to help.
If you need help getting your book sale donation books to the Library and would like someone to come to your house to pick them up, call Steve Walton at 906-487-3272 or email Susan Martin at srmartin@mtu.edu.
We hope that 2022 finds you well and prospering. Just a small update on our plans for the year:
The Friends were pleased to hear a talk by Faith Morrison on her new book, Uncertainty Analysis for Engineers and Scientists: A Practical Guide (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021).
Watch a video of the presentation below:
The Friends of the Michigan Tech Library will hold their 2021 Annual Meeting on Thursday, 21 October 2021 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. on Zoom. All are encouraged to attend.
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The FMTL Annual Meeting will consist of a very short business meeting followed by a presentation by speaker Faith A. Morrison who recently retired from Michigan Tech after 30 years of teaching, scholarship, and service.
Morrison’s presentation at the Annual Meeting centers on issues addressed in her recent book Uncertainty Analysis for Engineers & Scientists (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Measurements form the backbone of scientific and engineering discovery and understanding, but no measurement value is known with 100% confidence: equipment limitations, random events, and calibration issues all conspire to make it difficult sometimes to interpret the meaning of a measurement. Uncertainty analysis is the process by which data-takers face, assess, and continuously improve the reliability of their measurements. Knowing at least a little bit about uncertainty analysis would be good for everyone—it would help us to better understand decisions made with numbers, such as those used to determine the healthfulness of what we eat and drink or the efficacy of medicines and vaccines.