The students participated in fun and interactive activities such as writing on the information chalkboard, watching a video about the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC), located library resources in the catalog, and taking a walking tour of the 5th floor of the library where they found a book in the stacks and learned about UCit@Langsam, the 24-hour computer and study area.

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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.

The free mobile device charging kiosk located in UCIT@Langsam allows students, faculty and staff to securely charge Apple and Android devices for free.

UC Information Technologies (UCIT) has partnered with the Office of the University Architect, Student Government and UC Libraries to place a mobile device charging station in UCIT@Langsam, the 24-hour computer and study space located on the 5th floor of Langsam Library.

The free-standing charging kiosk offers a total of nine key-coded lockers that provide the security of leaving phones or tablets while they charge. Seven lockers are compatible with Apple iPhones and Android phones, and two accommodate iPads or Android tablets.

“With nearly 38,000 devices accessing our wireless network every day, there is a significant demand to keep mobile devices charged up on-the-go,” said Nelson C. Vincent, vice president for information technology and CIO. “UCIT aims to meet this demand to keep all of our partners on campus –students, faculty and staff—charged and connected to the important work they do to propel the institution’s education and research agenda forward into UC’s third century.”

UCIT plans to install another kiosk in the Tangeman University Center food court in the coming weeks.

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 University of Cincinnati is one of six original OhioLINK members along with Miami University, Bowling Green State University, Central State University, Wright State University, and Case Western Reserve University. Throughout its 20 years, UC Libraries have been active partners in the various OhioLINK endeavors and we look forward to many more collaborations.

Yesterday, the Ohio Board of Regents issued the following press release marking OhioLINK’s 20 years of service:

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OhioLINK Celebrates 20^th Anniversary of Shared Services
State’s Library and Information Network Benefits Students, Teachers, Researchers    

COLUMBUS, OH, Nov. 1, 2012 – In today’s economy, the concept of shared services is more important than ever, but it’s been the backbone of OhioLINK for 20 years.

OhioLINK, the Ohio Library and Information Network, today celebrates 20 years of pooling resources to provide more than 600,000 college and university students, faculty and staff with access to millions of books and other library materials. OhioLINK is a consortium of 88 Ohio college and university libraries, plus the State Library of Ohio, that work together to provide information for teaching and research. OhioLINK’s membership includes 16 public/research universities, 23 community/technical colleges, 49 private colleges and the State Library of Ohio.

OhioLINK, a venture of university libraries and the Ohio Board of Regents, was created to provide a competitive advantage for Ohio’s higher education community by cooperatively and cost-effectively acquiring, providing access to and preserving an expanding array of print and digital resources, and by centrally hosting digital content. Together, OhioLINK and its member libraries provide access to 46.5 million books and other library materials, more than 100 electronic research databases, more than 81,000 e-books, thousands of images and videos, and millions of electronic journal articles.

“I can think of no better example of shared services than what OhioLINK has been doing for the past 20 years,” said Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro. “Shared services are vital to keep Ohio thriving, and OhioLINK clearly shows how the sharing of Ohio’s vast scholarly resources can give our students, teachers and researchers the tools to excel.” 

OhioLINK grew out of a 1987 recommendation by the Board of Regents’ library committee that the State of Ohio “implement, as expeditiously as possible, a statewide electronic catalog system.” In 1992, six universities installed OhioLINK systems and began the ongoing process of building the central catalog. In 1996, OhioLINK began offering services through the World Wide Web.

For more information or to use OhioLINK, log on to http://www.ohiolink.edu/.

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