A new digital collection is available at the University of Cincinnati Libraries Digital Projects Web site.
C. Szwedzicki: The North American Indian Works , is a collection of 364 images and texts showcasing North American Indian art. Continue reading
A newly upgraded version of the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center software will go live on Monday, June 1, 2009.
While the main OhioLINK E-Book Center page found at http://ebooks.ohiolink.edu will not change, the upgrade allows for several improvements to the software that runs the Scholarly & Reference and American & English Literature Collections, including: Continue reading
All are on display in Langsam Library- stop by for a look!
Recommended by the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table. Continue reading
On Thursday, April 23, 2009, the University of Cincinnati Libraries will once again recognize the publishing and creative accomplishments of UC’s faculty at the annual “Authors, Editors & Composers” event. Scheduled for 3:30pm in the Russell C. Myers Alumni Center at UC, “Authors, Editors & Composers” will pay tribute to the 2008 scholarly and creative works of UC’s faculty with a reception, presentation of selected works, a printed bibliography, and an exhibit.
Lorrie Moore was born in Glens Falls, New York and attended St. Lawrence and Cornell universities. She is the author of the story collections Birds of America, Like Life, and Self-Help, as well as the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams. A new novel, A Gate at the Stairs, is due out in September. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Yale Review and elsewhere. John Updike selected one of her stories for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She has been the recipient of the Irish Times Prize for International Literature, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the PEN/Malamud Award, the O.Henry Award, and a Lannan Foundation Literary fellowship. She is currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, where she lives with her son.
Jim Schiff, Professor of English, will conduct a public interview with Lorrie Moore the following day on Friday, May 8 at 2pm (location TBA).
Please see http://www.artsci.uc.edu/english/ for more information.
Did you know that Cincinnati’s Main Library downtown is “America’s Busiest Library”? It’s true! According to a Public Library Association statistical report, American’s Busiest Library is right here in downtown Cincinnati. Read more at the Public Library’s eLinks.
Up until now, UC’s Central Login Service enforced the 8 character minimum and the requirement that at least one number be used for passwords, but it was not enforcing the use of both upper- and lowercase. Because of this, many people at UC have been logging in to CLS systems and Blackboard with an all-lowercase version of their password. Continue reading
The hours and locations of the UC Libraries are available online.
With this service, once a course page is made visible to students, any library electronic reserves material will be visible on that page, providing one-stop access to these course materials through Blackboard. Information on how to add electronic reserves to Blackboard is available online.