The collection is freely and publicly available via the Albert  B. Sabin website at http://sabin.uc.edu/ and includes approximately 35,000 letters and accompanying documents totaling 50,000 pages of correspondence between Sabin and political, cultural, social, and scientific leaders around the world. Also included are nearly 1,000 photographs documenting the events and activities worldwide that were part of Sabin’s crusade to eradicate polio.

“This is what every biographer dreams of – so easy to use and complete,” said Charlotte Jacobs, MD, emerita professor of medicine at Stanford University and an accomplished biographer.

The project, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a “We the People” initiative designed to encourage and strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture through the support of projects that explore significant events and themes in our nation’s history and culture and that advance knowledge of the principles that define America.

The Sabin digitized correspondence and photographs are of great relevance to the research efforts of historians, social and political scientists, ethicists, biomedical researchers, and physicians, as well as students and scholars worldwide. Marguerite Rose Jimenez, a postdoctoral fellow at American University researching Sabin and his polio eradication efforts in the Americas, commented, “[T]he archives just keep getting better and better! The search functions and  thoroughness of the searches generated is really amazing and so incredibly helpful! I’ve found all sorts of things using key search terms that I never  would have found searching through the documents as hard copies.”

The correspondence and photographs are part of the Hauck Center for the Albert B. Sabin Archives. Sabin’s wife, Heloisa, donated his papers, medals, and other artifacts to the University of Cincinnati upon his death in  1993. They reside in the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health  Professions where they have been organized and preserved with the support of the John Hauck Foundation.

In addition to providing easy access to the 50,000 pages of digitized correspondence and photos, the Albert B. Sabin website includes a biography and timeline of Sabin’s life and career, a section about the vaccination program referred to as “Sabin Sundays,” and information about the complete Sabin Collection, which encompasses 400 linear feet and consists of correspondence, laboratory notebooks, manuscripts, photographs, audio and video recordings, and other research papers generated by Sabin during his long and active medical career from 1930-1993. Also included on the website are lessons plans created to encourage high school teachers to use the Sabin digital collection in their classrooms.

For more on the Hauck Center for the Albert B. Sabin Archives and the digitization of the correspondence and photographs, contact the Winkler Center at (513) 558-5120 or by e-mail at chhp@uc.edu. In addition, a blog was kept by Stephanie Bricking, Sabin archivist, as she worked on the collection. The blog, available at www.libraries.uc.edu/liblog/topics/albert-b-sabin-archives/,  provides insight into Sabin’s life and accomplishments. Stephen Marine, UC Libraries’ associate dean for special collections and the project’s principle investigator, adds that the blog is also, “a gold mine of potential research topics for medical historians, historical epidemiologists, medical ethicists, historians of the Cold War, public health officials, and many others.”

A 12oz cup only costs $1.50.  The machines will accept Bearcat Cards, cash, and coin for payment. They are serviced and maintained by the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission.

Drink Options

Starbucks French Roast

Decaf

Hot Chocolate

French Vanilla Cappuccino

Café latte

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Join UC Libraries at two upcoming concerts to be held in the Albino Gorno Memorial Music (CCM) Library Reading Room.

Wednesday, April 3 at 8:00 pm:  UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) Philharmonia Orchestra will perform Haydn’s Symphonies 6, 7, and 8  (“Morning, Noon and Night”) conducted by CCM graduate student Aik Khai Pung.

Sunday, April 14 at 2 pm:  The inaugural concert on the CCM Library’s 1888 Steinway Parlor Grand piano will feature music arranged by Clara Schumann, edited by CCM faculty member Jonathan Kregor, associate professor of composition, musicology, and theory. The music will be performed by students of CCM’s Michael Chertock, associate professor of keyboard studies, and Awadagin Pratt, associate professor of keyboard studies. Dr. Kregor will give remarks about the music.

Free and open to the public, the concerts are part of the “Music in the Gorno Library” series. The Albino Gorno Memorial Music (CCM) Library is located on the 6^th floor of Blegen Library. Seating is limited, so come early.

Each day, April 15^th through 19^th a question will be posted on the UC Libraries
blog and on the Langsam Library chalk boards. Users can submit their answer to the research question on the blog via an online form or via a paper form, which will be available next to the chalk boards.

Contest Rules:

• Participants must submit the answers, list the tool(s) they used to find the answers, their name, and email address.
• Both paper and online forms must be submitted by 10 PM.
• Only those who submitted complete and correct answers will be eligible for the prize drawing.
• Participants who submit complete and correct answers to the daily challenges (5 overall) will be eligible for the Grand Prize.
• Participants may NOT use reference services to get the answers, but are welcome to use library tutorials and help pages of the search tools.

Prizes will be drawn daily.

Daily challenge prize: a UC Libraries T-shirt.
Grand Prize: a 25-dollar Visa gift card.

In addition, all winners will have the opportunity to be featured in a READ poster.

Users can brush up for the contest by using library online tutorials and guides:

• Catalog Search Tips
• Research Help Campus Guides
• Tutorials. handouts, and guides

Correct answers and names of the daily challenge winners will be posted on the blog and chalkboards the following day.

Comments? Questions?  Please contact Olga Hart (email: Olga.Hart@uc.edu.
Phone: (513)556-1850).

May the odds be ever in your favor.

At the event, nearly 20 participants will present their edible creations that represent a book in some form.

There are few restrictions in creating an edible book – namely that the creation be edible and have something to do with a book. Submitted entries include such edible titles as The Lonely Carrot and Blackberry Winter. The 2012 200th anniversary of the first printing of Grimms’ Fairy Tales inspired multiple entries this year including Hans Christian Anderson’s The Princess and the Pea, Rapunzel, and Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Contemporary fiction such as She’s Come Undone and favorite children’s books such as Charlotte’s Web, among other literary greats, will also be represented. This year, for the first time, there will be a remote entry with Emily Waisanen’s The Book Monster.

As in years past, entries will be judged according to such categories as “Most Literary,” “Most Edible,” “Long Overdue,” and “Most Gruesome.” In addition, the “Top Student Entry” will receive a $25 Visa gift card. After the entries are judged they will be consumed and enjoyed by all in attendance.

According to the International Edible Book Festival Web site, the edible book was initiated by librarian and artist Judith A. Hoffberg during a 1999 Thanksgiving celebration with book artists. It became an international celebration in 2000 when artist Béatrice Coron launched the Books2Eat Web site. Traditionally, the event is celebrated on April 1st (April Fools’ Day) to mark the birthday of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), a French lawyer and politician who became famous for his book, Physiologie du gout (The Physiology of Taste). You can see images of the 2012 edible books on the Libraries Facebook page.

The Libraries International Edible Books Festival is free and open to the public. Come to celebrate (and eat) “books good enough to eat.”