All University of Cincinnati Libraries locations are closed Monday, Sept. 2 for Labor Day. The Libraries will reopen as scheduled Tuesday, Sept. 3.
Have a safe and relaxing holiday.
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Join us Sept. 11 for an afternoon of poetry at the next Poetry Stacked event
The University of Cincinnati Libraries and the Elliston Poetry Room announce the next roster of poets for Poetry Stacked, a semi-regular poetry reading series held in the 6th floor east stacks of the Walter C. Langsam Library.
At the next event, scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 4:30pm, three poets will read their original work:
- Armando Romero, poet, narrator, literary critic and UC Charles Phelps Taft Emeritus Professor. He belonged to the initial group of Nadaism, literary avant-garde in Colombia. He has lived in numerous countries in both America and Europe. Armando has published numerous books of poetry, fiction and essays. In 2022 his book No era aquí. Álvaro Mutis: faces and traces of Maqroll el Gaviero, appears in Madrid published by the Center of Modern Art. His anthological book of prose poems, Poeta di Fiume, is published this year by the Fili D’Aquilone publishing house, Rome, Italy. Armando will be accompanied by his wife, Constance Lardas, who will read English translations of his poems.
- James O’Bannon is a Black writer from Cincinnati, Ohio. His writing reflects on grief, Black mental health and how we engage with our own memory. James owes everything to his grandmother, who instilled a love of reading and language in him from a young age. James is a Tin House Workshop Alumna, and a finalist for the Ghost Peach Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Waxwing Literary Journal, Nomadic Press as part of the Nomadic Ground Series, Triquarterly, Northwest Review, among other journals.
- Erin Noehre is a poet currently writing and studying at the University of Cincinnati, where she is an Albert C. Yates Fellow. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University where she was a 2020-2021 June Jordan Teaching Fellow. Her work has been featured in Pigeonholes, Sonora Review, Passages North and elsewhere.
Poetry Anthology, Vol. 1 on sale now!
Buy your copy today for $50+tax. Available via the University of Cincinnati Press web site.
The Poetry Stacked Anthology, Volume 1 features the work of the poets, artists and dancers of the 2022-23 series. Accomplished poets featured in the Poetry Anthology, Volume 1 include University of Cincinnati faculty members Alecia Beymer, Elijah Guerra, Aditi Machado and Felicia Zamora, along with current and former University of Cincinnati students Hussain Ahmed, Taylor Byas, Casey Harloe, Asher Marron, Nicholas Molbert, Dior Stephens and Connor Yeck. Community poets bring a vibrancy to the Poetry Anthology with Manuel Iris, Violeta Orozco, Caroline Plasket, Kristen Renzi and Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour.
Art, dance and poetry coalesce in the Poetry Anthology highlighting the UC College-Conservatory of Music students Sydney D’Orso, Emilia Mieczykowski and Gracie Zamiska and College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning artists Kyle Angel, Kelsey Linder and Pedal Miranda.
The Anthology is a true artist book. Printed on bright pink paper with a four-part insert on colorful paper, its structure is an accordion fold that reveals each part upon opening. The first three parts include poems, artwork and illustrations from the featured 16 poets of the 2022-23 Poetry Stacked reading series. The fourth part features an Editor’s Note from student editor Grace Guy and biographies of the poets, artists and dancers.
The reverse side includes a list of the poets, the Poetry Stacked branding and two pockets – one containing the Poetry Stacked sticker and another for the book’s owner to fill.
The Anthology was a collaboration between the Elliston Poetry Room, University of Cincinnati Libraries, the Preservation Lab and the University of Cincinnati Press. The Anthology was edited by Grace Guy, Ben Kline and Michael Peterson.The form was created by Holly Prochaska with Melissa Cox Norris designing the layout and cover art. Jessica Ebert, Catarina Figueirinhas, Hyacinth Tucker and Holly Prochaska assembled the Anthology.
A semi-regular poetry reading series held in the 6th floor east stacks of the Walter C. Langsam Library, the mission of Poetry Stacked is to celebrate poetry and raise awareness of the collections of both UC Libraries and the Elliston Poetry Room.
Each reading engages audiences via exposure to contemporary poetry and increases appreciation for both the talents of UC and community poets, as well as for poetry itself. Poetry Stacked is free and open to all to attend. Following each reading, guests are invited to tour the Elliston Poetry Room.
Service Note: Library Catalog unavailable August 14 for maintenance
The University of Cincinnati Libraries’ catalog server will be offline for maintenance beginning at 9:00 a.m. August 14th. A server migration will be performed and is expected to take up to 8 hours.
Web connections to uclid.uc.edu, the library catalog, will be unavailable during this time. The Libraries website and other online services will still be available.
Thank you for your understanding while we perform maintenance.
Welcome Classicists to Academic Year 2024-25!
Classics Library: Student Assistant Positions Available — Apply Now!
The John Miller Burnam Classics Library is looking to hire energetic, hard-working, and responsible student assistants.
The UC Classics Library is the premier classics library in the country thanks to its world-class collections and it is a destination library for national and international students and scholars.
We are seeking highly motivated student workers for fall semester openings. We offer employment of c. 10-15 hours a week. Unlike most jobs, we work around your class and exam schedules when planning the work schedule for each semester. Thanks to the variety of responsibilities and the excellence of the collections, working in the Classics Library can improve your research and library skills which are important for academic success as well as add to your CV and list of references.
In addition to being a valued member of an international and vibrant scholarly community and a distinguished library, you will be trained in varied and detail-oriented tasks ranging from staffing the circulation desk to shelving books, searching book lists against the library’s catalog, scanning documents, checking for broken web links, dusting shelves, and anything and everything a large and modern academic research library requires. We guarantee that you will not be bored, but because of our library’s important responsibilities and your limited work hours, you will be required to focus on the many tasks of the job rather than on personal social media or homework.
Because of the highly specialized nature of the Classics Library, we prioritize students with a background in Classical Studies and the Humanities in addition to students with western foreign language training, especially in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek in addition to in ancient Greek and Latin. Also, because of a limited budget, we prioritize students on a federal Work/Study grant although we do hire non-work/study students as well.
If this sounds like a good fit for you, please contact us to learn more and to set up an interview at your earliest convenience. Please submit your CV and application form (copy and paste the form into word) to:
Rebecka Lindau, head, rebecka.lindau@uc.edu
The library is located on the 1st floor of the Blegen Library building.
UC Libraries closed July 4th
The University of Cincinnati Libraries will be closed, Thursday, July 4 for Independence Day. Normal hours for all library locations will resume Friday, July 5.
Have a safe and enjoyable 4th of July.
Read Source, the online newsletter, to learn about the news, events, people and happenings in UC Libraries.
Read Source, the online newsletter, to learn about the news, events, people and happenings in UC Libraries.
In this issue of Source, Liz Kiscaden, dean and university librarian, writes about Building our Foundation. A photo montage of highlights from 2023/2024 celebrates the past academic year. A booklet housed in the Archives and Rare Books Library recounts “details of scandalous Hix-Snook Murder Trial.” The intricate dynamics of data in today’s digital age, with a special focus on research data produced in the academy, were explored in a spring semester course taught by librarians Amy Koshoffer and Mark Chalmers. A collection from the Winkler Center about the 25th General Hospital is featured, along with a shout out to Health Sciences Library namesake, Donald C. Harrison, who made a recent visit to the library. A library spotlight informs readers on the Geology-Mathematics-Physics Library.
Read these articles, as well as past issues, on the website. To receive Source via e-mail, contact melissa.norris@uc.edu to be added to the mailing list
UC Libraries closed Wednesday, June 19th in observance of the Juneteenth holiday
All University of Cincinnati Libraries locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19 in observance of Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Regular library hours for all locations will resume Thursday, June 20.
In observance of the holiday, learn about “Not Racist” vs. “Anti-Racist” Ideologies as part of week three of R.E.S.P.E.C.T.’s annual 21-Day Anti-Racism Challenge — a three-week long, self-guided learning exercise that focuses on different aspects of systemic racism, and how we can all fight against it. And join us Thursday, June 20th from 10:30AM-11:30PM for a Zoom discussion on the challenge, what was learned and how participants can take further action. Join the meeting here, or through the link found on the LibGuide.
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. (Racial Equity Support & Programming to Educate the Community Team) is a UC Libraries committee charged with developing external programming that explicitly addresses the negative role that systemic racism plays in our society.
Check out two new exhibits on display in the DAAP Library
On display in The Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP) are two exhibits showcasing different collections.
The Joy of Humanistic Design:
Drawings and Objects by Michael Graves
(circulation desk case)
This July, American architect Michael Graves would have turned 90 years old. He was an educator, a prominent figure who contributed to American postmodernist architecture, and an alumnus from the College of Applied Arts at the University of Cincinnati. To celebrate his legacy, DAAP Library is proud to showcase some of the items from its collection that are designed by Graves. With this exhibit, the DAAP library aims to show that good design is a necessary aspect of the user experience and makes the design process democratic in nature. Thinking about design through this lens led Graves to create thoughtful, appealing and affordable products for the masses. Read more about the exhibit on the DAAP Library web site.
A House for an Art Lover: Charles Mackintosh’s Vision of Scottish Vernacular with a Modern Spirit
This summer, DAAP Library is showcasing drawings by Scottish architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which were part of a competition entry for a house for an artist. Produced within a deadline of only a few weeks, these drawings provide insight into the greatest contribution that Mackintosh made to the architecture discipline – the blending of structural and the ornamental elements of a building into a cohesive work of art. For more information, visit the DAAP Library web site.