Librarians are used to getting any kind of questions and requests at the InfoCommons. However we were pleasantly surprised when one day student Ashley Kraus approached us with a question about UC Libraries. She wanted to get all kinds of facts and numbers about libraries. Ashley explained that she needed to do a visual project for a class assignment. We were delighted that with any topic in the world to choose from, Ashley chose to demonstrate the value of libraries. Following is more about her work. Continue reading
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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
UC Libraries Receive Grant to Digitize Historic Cincinnati Subway and Street Project Photographs
The University of Cincinnati Libraries were awarded a $60,669 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant from the State Library of Ohio to digitize and make freely available on the Web the photographic collection of Cincinnati’s subway and street changes archive. Continue reading
CampusGuides Access Slow
Please note that our vendor for CampusGuides, Springshare, is experiencing issues with their servers that are causing our Subject/Research Guides to load very slowly if at all. Springshare is working to remedy the problem as soon as possible.
You can keep up with updates via their Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/springshare
Ireland Trip Launches an International Research Network With Key Ties to UC
By: Dawn Fuller
Photos By: Provided by the Archives & Rare Books Library
Re-posted from UC News: http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=15817
A UC Libraries collection – and efforts to make it available to scholars around the world – will be presented this month at an international conference.
Irish theatre critic William John Lawrence (1862-1940) was considered a major figure in documenting the history of Irish theatre.
| William J. Lawrence |
Yet, dozens of his notebooks on Irish theatre history from the 17th-to-20th centuries were never published. Efforts and outreach to make collections stored at the University of Cincinnati and at other institutions accessible worldwide will be presented at the 4th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries. The conference takes place May 22-25 in Limerick, Ireland, and brings together librarians from around the world as they explore best practices on making their resources available for research.
Kevin Grace, head of the UC Archives and Rare Books Library, will present at the conference. Grace says 99 of Lawrence’s unpublished notebooks are stored in UC’s Archives & Rare Books Library. They were purchased from the estate of William Smith Clark II, a former UC English professor and theatre historian, who acquired the notebooks in the 1940s. The notebooks have been housed in the Archives & Rare Books Library since the late 1960s. Continue reading
E-Book Collection of IET now available
The e-book collection of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is now available. This collection is part of the IET Digital Library and contains more than 300 e-books dated 1979 through 2011. These e-books are also discoverable through the UC Library catalog (series IET Digital Library) and the Summon search system.
Content covers twelve major areas:
- Circuits, Devices and Systems
- Control Engineering
- Electrical Technology
- Electromagnetic Waves
- History of Technology
- Manufacturing
- Management of Technology
- Power and Energy
- Professional Applications of Computing
- Radar, Sonar, Navigation and Avionics
- Renewable Energy
- Telecommunications
These e-books are downloadable in PDF format as either individual chapters or the entire book.
Cincinnati Looks to the Skies: The Cincinnati Observatory Records and the Paul Herget papers
The Cincinnati Observatory is a local historical treasure and holds what was once one of the world’s largest telescopes. Throughout its history, the observatory has served as a source of weather forecasts, official Cincinnati time, and a site of scientific discovery. It also has a long connection with the University of Cincinnati. The Archives and Rare Books Library holds many observatory records along with the papers of long-time director Paul Herget.
The Cincinnati Observatory in Mt. Lookout, 1943
Netwellness Collection Now Available in ARB
By Lauren Fink
What is hemochromatosis?
Do children get migraines?
Why is sleep loss linked with obesity?
What are the holiday blues? And do I have them?
Finding valid answers to these medical questions is easier, and closer to home, than you might think…
Over 15 years ago, a government grant allowed the University of Cincinnati to create the Ohio Valley Community Health Information Network (OVCHIN) which later evolved into NetWellness. NetWellness, then a collaboration between UC, The Ohio State University, and Case Western Reserve University, is a non-profit consumer health website devoted to high quality, unbiased, scientifically sound information. Professionals from all three universities create and evaluate all of information found on the website and offer an “Ask the Expert” feature, as well as descriptions of and links to myriad health and research topics.
Researching Student Life at the Archives & Rare Books Library
From the 1955 Cincinnatian
By Janice Schulz
While students enter college with the goal of gaining a formal education, a good bit of learning also occurs outside of the classroom. A university campus is in many ways like a self-contained community, providing students a place to live, study, work and socialize. Much of this lifestyle is student-driven, allowing students to build leadership, organizational, social and even political skills for use in life after university. At the same time, students react to and are affected by the wider world outside of the university.
The Archives and Rare Books Library has compiled a guide to its holdings that can be used to research student life at the University of Cincinnati. Research ideas are endless, but can include topics such as: Continue reading
CECH Library Creates New E-Library Guides
Early Childhood Education, Instructional Design & Technology, Special Education, Teaching English as a Second Language, Sign Language Interpreting: not only does CECH have programs in these areas, the CECH Library has created new online library guides to assist you as you navigate the CECH and UC Library websites.