The Sanford Guide is Now Available

The “gold standard” reference for the treatment of infectious diseases, the Sanford Guide is now online.

Updated monthly, the Sanford Guide provides health care professionals with comprehensive, evidence-based, point of care treatment recommendations for bacterial, fungal, mycobacterial, parasitic, viral and retroviral infections.

Navigate the entire Sanford Guide collection with just one click using the menu structure.

Access the Sanford Guide directly or find it under Core Resources on the home pages of the Pharmacy Resource Guide and the Biomedical Resource Guide .

New Digital Collection: The Elliston Project: Poetry Readings and Lectures at the University of Cincinnati

The Elliston Project holds over seven hundred recorded readings and lectures given under the auspices of the University of Cincinnati Department of English and Comparative Literature and the U.C. Libraries since 1951. Material includes readings and lectures on poetry by those who have served as George Elliston Poet in Residence, among whom are Robert Frost, Denise Levertov, Louise Glück, Thom Gunn, and C.D. Wright. Other major figures, including Czeslaw Milosz, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Rita Dove, are also represented, as are many prose writers and a wide range of poets at various stages of their careers. Readings in this ongoing audio archive feature poets’ comments on their work; both complete performances and individual poems are accessible.
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Digitized Correspondence and Photographs of Albert B. Sabin Available on the Web

sabin1 The University of Cincinnati Libraries have completed a three-year project to digitize the correspondence and photographs of Albert B. Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine and distinguished service professor at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Research Foundation from 1939-1969.

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. Continue reading →

APhA PharmacyLibrary Collection

The APhA PharmacyLibrary collection features authoritative Pharmacy textbooks, NAPLEX® review, case studies, and primary literature abstracts from JAPhA in one comprehensive search platform. Continue reading →

Need A Caffeine Boost while Studying for Exams?

Understanding the need to refuel while studying in the library, UC Libraries have installed two coffee vending machines in Langsam Library. One is located by the main entrance on the 4^th floor of the library and the second is located in the UCit@Langsam 24/7 lab. Continue reading →

UC Libraries Donation Becomes a Sizeable Challenge in Preservation

By Dawn Fuller

UC Libraries will host a special reception to celebrate the installation of one of the most extraordinary urban maps in the Western world in the Archives & Rare Books Library. The reception will take place from 3-5 p.m., Monday, April 22, in the Reading Room of the Archives & Rare Books Library, located on the 8th floor of Blegen Library.

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Database Provides Access to Newspapers Published by or for African Americans

Through a partnership with the Taft Collections Committee, UC Libraries has added an important primary source for the study of African American history, life, and culture: African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 Connect . Continue reading →

New: AccessPediatrics, AccessPhysiotherapy, and AccessSurgery

Introducing AccessPediatrics, AccessPhysiotherapy, and AccessSurgery! Three new ebook collections brought to you by the UC Health Sciences Library.

As with AccessMedicine and AccessPharmacy, each ebook collection includes special features such as:

multimedia
drug information
ability to create personal accounts to access Board Review or NPTE review questions

Each collection also includes some unique features:

AccessPediatrics: calculators, algorithms, and a Clerkship Corner; textbooks, cases, and Q&A especially for medical students
AccessPhysiotherapy: topics by modalities and an interactive cadaver dissection experience in its Anatomy and Physiology Revealed section
AccessSurgery: images, videos, and descriptions of procedures.

Bookmark these new resources or go to the Health Sciences Library’s home page http://libraries.uc.edu/hsl/ and click on eBooks from the menu on the left under Quick Links or Point of Care eResources in the center of the page under Express Links.

If you have any questions, please contact Edith Starbuck at edith.starbuck@uc.edu or 558-1433.

Clinical Key: New Resource!

Check out Clinical Key, the latest new resource brought to you by the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library!

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New Addition to the Cincinnati Ballet Records

By: Lauren Fink, ARB Student Assistant

The Archives and Rare Books Library has recently processed a collection from the Cincinnati Ballet spanning the years 1970-2008. This collection, full of photographs, contact sheets, sketches, and notes, makes an excellent addition to our already extensive Cincinnati Ballet Records.

The new collection mainly includes visual materials related to The Nutcracker. Professional photographs, advertising campaigns, and community outreach programs are all documented. Above is a billboard advertisement, “One Size Fits All: This Year Give The Nutcracker.” Below is “Nut Man” who was very active in the Cincinnati community circa 1988. Contact sheets and action prints, as seen below, comprise an entire box of the collection. Continue reading →