Recent Library Acquisitions

Nicknames of Places: Origins and Meanings of the Alternate and Secondary Names, Sobriquets, Titles, Epithets and Slogans for 4,600 Places Worldwide by Adrian Room.
Of course everyone knows that the Big Apple is synonymous with New York City but which city was nicknamed America’s Paris? Which two Midwestern cities share the title Porkopolis? This dictionary catalogs nearly 4,600 such names worldwide. Still wondering about the aforementioned nicknames? 1)Cincinnati 2)Cincinnati and Chicago
G105 .R65 2006 Geology-Mathematics-Physics Library

Coffee Table Book (from the stamp collection) by JoAnna
Poehlmann.
This assemblage of quotations about coffee is one of 25 hand-made books signed and numbered by the author. The beautifully created book is appropriately coffee-colored and includes color copies of postage stamps. It contains hand lettering and real coffee beans on the back cover.
DAAP Artists Books

Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food by Andrew W. Smith.
This work contains hundreds of essays and a timeline on historical and current topics, such as carhops, mad cow disease, and marketing food to children. Well-known favorites such as Baby Ruth, McDonald’s, and Slurpee are placed within a broader historical and sociological context.
TX370 .S63 2006 College of Applied Science Library

The Best of Technology Writing 2006, ed. Brendan I. Koerner.
The latest volume of this annual series features the best journalistic writings on current technology. The essays are highly imaginative and describe surprising ways in which the Wikipedia, digital music, cloning, and other innovations are impacting the human experience.
T11 .B463 2006 College of Applied Science Library

NEW ONLINE RESOURCE

DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)
DRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing CD-quality audio files, complete and original liner notes, and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI), Albany, and other labels. Currently, there are over 1,200 CDs (7,500 compositions) in the database.
http://dram.nyu.edu/dram/

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NEW FROM ARCHIVES AND RARE BOOKS

Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Records, 1979-2006.
The MTNA records contain minutes, correspondence, conference programs, student competition records, and programs. The MTNA is a Cincinnati-based professional
society. This recent accession joins these records with previous holdings dating back to 1876. The materials document the growth and development of music education in the United States, both in a pedagogical and a collegial sense.
Accession Num. US-06-04 Archives & Rare Books Library

The Book of English Trades, and Library of the Useful Arts.
London: Richard Phillips & Co., 1823.
With the coming of the Industrial Revolution, the urbanization and mechanization of production moved into high gear. This volume was a new edition of a manual that underwent more than a dozen editions and printings in the first decades of the 19th century. There was a growing need for practical manuals of this sort, and more than 70 trades are arranged alphabetically with a woodcut illustration and text illuminating the basics of the job, from typefounding and bookbinding to stone masonry and music instrument making. At the end of the book is a list of 500 questions designed to test the reader, or student, who used the book. This particular copy is unique in that it also contains a fore-edge painting by the notable book artist and collector John Beers. Beers’ painting, which is evident when the book is closed, is entitled “Crispin and Crispinian,” and shows four figures demonstrating different trades of the merchant class.
Spec Col RB T47.B73 1823 Archives & Rare Books Library

The Fore-Edge Paintings of John T. Beer: A Biographical and Historical Essay by Jeff Weber.
In this fine-press book, Weber, an expert on fore-edge painting, catalogs and discusses the works of 19th-century merchant, artist, and collector John Beer and how his work relates to the history of the book during the Victorian era. Fore-edge painting is a book illustration technique in which the text-block is decorated with a painting. The subject matter varies, from pastoral and urban scenes to domestic life, and often the painting may have little or nothing to do with the book’s subject matter. When closed, the book typically looks blank, but when the pages are fanned out, a colorful painting is revealed. Along with his late father, Carl, Weber is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on fore-edge paintings. The Beers volume includes a detailed list of Beers’ library and a description of technique and form. Weber’s slip-cased treatise is one of only seven copies beautifully-bound in full Morocco with marbled endpapers.
Spec Col RB ND2370.W43 2005 Archives & Rare Books Library

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