A Note from the Dean |
 The
pace of this Fall Quarter has been brisk indeed! It seems as if it was
only last week that we welcomed new and returning students with ice cream
treats a few days before classes began. All indications point to increased
use of all of our libraries this fall, both on-site, especially in our
various Info Commons areas and Student Technology Resources Center, as
well as in the digital space of the Libraries’ Web site, most notably “Chat
with a Librarian” and E-Reserves.
In this issue of Source, you will see an emphasis on library collections. We are excited about the introduction of online access to four outstanding digital resources: ARTstor, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Classical Music Library, and Naxos Music Library. We know that all of these rich additions will have a positive and wide impact across the curriculum. I think it is fair to say that in adding these new digital collections we are experiencing some of that same satisfaction in acquiring new knowledge sources that obviously motivated the collectors Don Heinrich Tolzmann describes as Cincinnati’s “Book Barons” in his article at the center of this issue. Two library collection milestones clearly deserve the celebratory events we have planned for them this month. On November 5, University Libraries marked the 75th anniversary of our designation as a Federal Depository Library with a day of meetings and programs. On November 16, all UC Libraries joined together for a program to share our pride and sense of accomplishment in acquiring the 3,000,000th volume for the University of Cincinnati community. These two library collection landmarks reflect the commitment of decades of UC administrators, librarians, faculty, and staff to create a research library system that can indeed enable us to achieve our UC|21 aspiration of “defining the new urban research university.” |
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