Recent Library Acquisitions

Angela Gooden, Head of the Geology/Physics Library, angela.gooden@uc.edu

ABC - An Alphabet Book by Jean Buescher, Digger Pine Press, Bloodroot Press, 1998. 
A wonderful alphabet book, each page with a letter (i.e. “V is for vanilla bean” with image of vanilla bean). The engravings are hand colored by Jean Buescher. Each letter and accompanying text is in a different typeface (i.e. “G” is in Granjon, “L” is in Koch Antiqua, etc). One of 20 copies, this title is hand numbered. The artist is a graduate of DAAP.
DAAP Artists Book Collection

Twelve Tulips by JoAnna Poehlmann. Milwaukee, WI, 1999.
One of only 10 copies, each signed and numbered by the artist printed on 12 accordian-fold pages. Each tulip is adorned with an insect, shell, frog or a piece of fruit. The book is housed in a glass-covered box with a ribbon lift to which is attached sealing wax. An altogether enchanting production.
DAAP Artists Book Collection

New Online Resources

The Engineering Library has access to two new databases from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts:

CSA Civil Engineering Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of serials literature in civil engineering and complementary fields, including forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics and computation. The database provides comprehensive international coverage with monitoring of over 3,000 serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications. Years covered: 1966 to the present.
Available online from <www.engrlib.uc.edu/selfhelp/civil.html>

CSA Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of serials literature in mechanical and transportation engineering and complementary fields, including forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics and computation. The database provides comprehensive coverage of international engineering literature with monitoring of over 2,600 serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications. Many of the more recent records in the database include fields containing cited references, corresponding author’s e-mail address, and publisher contact information. Years covered: 1966 to the present.
Available online from <www.engrlib.uc.edu/selfhelp/mechtrans.html>

University Libraries now has online access to The New York Times from 1851 through 1999. This is a ProQuest database and is described on their site as follows: The New York Times (1851-1999) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
The direct url for this database is:
<www.proquest.com/pqdauto?COPT=SU5UPTAmREJTPTFBQ0Q@>

New in Archives and Rare Books

Morley, William H. Description of a planispheric astrolabe, constructed for the Shah Sultán Husain Safaw¯i, King of Persia, and now preserved in the British Museum: comprising an account of the astrolabe generally, with notes illustrative and explanatory, to which are added concise notices of twelve other astrolabes, Eastern and European, hitherto undescribed.
This elephant folio is one of only 100 copies printed. It is exceptional for the precision and detail of the illustrations, produced through a complex series of transfers similar to lithography. It has been noted as the most scholarly work on the astrolabe ever published.
Archives & Rare Books QB85 .M67 1856 

The German-Americana Collection acquired several Thomas Mann items, including a letter signed by Mann on his personal stationery, with his California address: 1550 Remo Drive, Pacific Palisades, California. The letter, in German, is addressed to “Herr Wolff” and thanks him for sending Mann a book on the Bible. Mann’s letter sheds light on his Biblical interests, as he writes that the book “has occupied me much. It is an extremely captivating work, rich in knowledge and instruction, the possession of which I enjoy much.” Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning author, came to America in the 1930s, and became a U.S. citizen in 1944. The Thomas Mann items are also of particular interest for Cincinnati and the University, as Mann came to Cincinnati twice, in 1939 and 1944, during his annual lecture series, and was especially interested in Cincinnati because of the German heritage of the area. His 1944 lecture “The Coming Spiritual Renaissance” was presented at UC to an overflow crowd in Wilson Auditorium. He was introduced by Frank Chandler, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, as “the greatest literary figure of Germany, now an American citizen.” Archives & Rare Books Fick PT2625.A44 Z498 1952

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