The first volume of Grimms’ Fairy Tales contained 86 stories, including such classic tales as Cinderella, Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, and Hansel and Gretel, among others. The second volume, published in 1814, contained 70 tales. Four more volumes would follow with fairy tales added and subtracted until the seventh, and final, volume was published in 1857, which held 211 tales.

Adapted countless times over the two centuries since its first publication, Grimms’ original fairy tales are much darker than the Disney versions popular today. The original Grimms’ Fairy Tales were widely criticized at the time for containing subject matter not suitable for children.

Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), were German academics, linguists, and authors who together collected folklore. They are among the most well-known storytellers of European folk tales.

The exhibit, titled “The Brothers Grimm: 200 Years of Grimms’ Fairy Tales,” includes information on the Grimms’ legacy, their collaborative works, and the various versions and interpretations of the fairy tales. The exhibit was curated by Olga Hart, reference and instructional librarian, and designed by Communications’ Department student worker Alixandria Wolfe, a junior DAAP design student. A selected bibliography is available online and at the exhibit.

The exhibit is part of UC’s International Education Week festivities. A full event schedule is online.

The Paul Revere Awards for Graphic Excellence are announced each June by the Music Publishers Association. Established in 1964 in honor of the 200^th anniversary of the first music engraving in America by the famous silversmith, Paul Revere, these awards were initially given as a means of alerting the music industry to the advantages of providing the best possible publication from the viewpoint of engraving, graphic arts, and production standards. At that time, the music typewriter was in its infancy and not a thought had been given to computerization.

Each year 25-30 publishers submit entries, and awards are given to about 30 of the 125-130 publications received. The judging panel usually includes a well-known music editor or musical personage, a graphic designer and a music librarian. Award certificates are given not only to the publisher but, where applicable, to the engraver, cover designer, book designer, production coordinator and printer. As is fitting with the choice of the namesake Paul Revere, the cartouche used on the award certificates is one which was designed by Revere himself.

The Music Publishers Association was founded in 1895 and is the oldest music trade organization in the United States, fostering communication among publishers, dealers, music educators, and all musicians and lovers of music. The non-profit association addresses itself to issues pertaining to every area of music publishing with an emphasis on the issues relevant to the publishers of print music for concert and educational purposes.

More information about the 2012 Paul Revere Awards is available online.

As the school year comes to a close today so does my internship at the Archives & Rare Books Library.  Throughout my internship I have had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects and have truly come to appreciate the role the Archives & Rare Books Library plays in documenting Cincinnati’s history.  Not originally from this town, through processing the Nelson and Florence Hoffman Cincinnati Post Card Collection and The Gaylord Oscar Shepherd Collection of Strobridge Lithography Company Calendar Cards, I was able learn about Cincinnati’s rich past and all of the events and people that gave rise to the present culture of the city.

My current project, on sleep and dreams in ARB, has just wrapped up and is available for viewing here: http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/exhibits/Dreams/.  I must admit that though this project was directly in line with my interests and was of my own devising, I was overwhelmed with where to start and what to include in the exhibit.  My main inspiration came from a book that I came across while browsing ARB’s extensive Native American Collection entitled The Dream Seekers by Lee Irwin.  In it, Irwin discusses the role of dreams and visions in Native American society and religion.  He explains how, for the Native Americans, dreaming and waking life were not two separate entities; experience was enfolded within itself and all experiences were revered equally.  Inspired by this book, I wanted to explore how dreams had shaped other cultures and genres of writing.  I quickly found, however, that most of ARB’s books related to sleep and dreams were from the perspective of Western science.  Treatises from the 1800s, through Freud’s papers, to UC’s faculty publications abound, but finding books related to dreams in other cultures was quite difficult.  I didn’t want to expand too far into the realm of fiction because then the mass amount of relevant books would be endless – Dante’s Inferno, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and so on.  In the end I chose to focus on more scientific writings and to refer to other ARB collections as they related to the special topics I had chosen.  I hope that my web exhibit will provide viewers with a glimpse of all that ARB has to offer and how ARB’s holding can be tailored to suit anyone’s specific interests.

My experience this year at ARB has not only influenced my summer plans, but also the projects I have completed for various classes. For instance, part of my final project for my percussion literature class was to compose a piece inspired by the 20^th Century graphic notation we had studied in class. I chose to use a passage from Irwin’s text for this project and, because I have learned how to use Microsoft Publisher during my internship, was easily able to transform Irwin’s text into a format readable from any direction (in the style of Earl Brown).  Because Irwin’s text refers to the enfolded nature of lived and dreamed experience I chose to represent sound with colors and shapes that would hopefully mirror this multi-dimensionality.

Though I will be taking the summer off to work on the John Cage/Van Meter project and to do Parkinson’s research in a neuroscience lab on medical campus, I will be back at ARB in the fall and am looking forward to all that I will discover here next year.

From the exhibit, “Lynne’s sketches of organic forms become three-dimensional, one-of-a-kind constructions in precious metals and other materials such as leather, suede, and precious gemstones. Lynne, in her Pendleton Street, Cincinnati art studio, handcrafts each piece. Each sculpture is intended to emphasize the beauty of the wearer.”

Visit the exhibit to imagine yourself as a piece of art.

Al Early, CECH Library Head of Circulation, has created a display that showcases selected recent publications of CECH faculty.  Drawn from the Authors, Editors & Composers program presented by the University of Cincinnati Libraries, the display presents print copies of a sample of School of Education and School of Human Services works.

Here is a selection of the works exhibited:

• Aicher, T.J., and G.B. Cunningham.  Organizational Culture and Leader Sex Impacts Leader Prototypicality and Effectiveness.  International Journal of Sport Management.  12.3  (2011): 344-360.
• Brydon-Miller, Mary, Ariane Berthoin Antal, Victor Friedman, and Patricia Gaya Wicks. The Changing Landscape of Arts and Action Research.  Action Research.  9.1 (2011): 3-11.
• Ickes, M., and M. Sharma.  Does Behavioral Intention Predict Nutrition Behaviors Related to Adolescent Obesity?  Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition. 3 (2011): 38-48.
• Raider-Roth, Miriam.  The Place of Description in Understanding and Transforming Classroom Relationships.  The New Educator.  7.3 (2011): 274-286.
• Zydney,J., A. deNoyelles, and K. Seo.  Creating a Community of Inquiry in Online Environments: The Effect of Protocols on Interactions within Asynchronous Discussions.  Computers & Education.  58 (2011): 77-87.

Come to the CECH Library on the west end of the fourth floor of Teachers College.  The display is on your left as you enter the library.  If you have questions, contact Al Early at 556-1307.