Many UC Systems down Friday night; Libraries Unaffected

A maintenance outage has been scheduled for Friday, June 17,2011 beginning at 11:00 P.M. Systems should be down for 5 hours.
Impacted Systems/Applications:

  • Blackberry Enterprise Server
  • Blackboard
  • CMS (Collage & CQ)
  • COEUs
  • Darwin Semester Testing
  • Darwin Production App & Db
  • Directory Services Web Server
  • Exchange Archive
  • Kronos
  • SharePoint (UCIT Hosted sites)
  • SAP PBF
  • UC Calendar
  • UC Flex
  • UC Mobility
  • All UCIT hosted File Shares
  • Any website/application residing on the uc.edu domain.

From the Dean

As you will see in this and earlier issues of Source, the Libraries are making significant headway in attracting grants to digitize our unique collections. This initiative makes what are often
fragile, one-of-a-kind publications, historical records, documents, photographs—and even a 16th century choir book—readily accessible for use by researchers around the world.

The Cincinnatian, the student yearbook dating back to 1894, offers fascinating insights about the university as well as Cincinnati history over the course of 12 decades. When the project to digitize the correspondence and photographs of Albert B. Sabin is completed in 2013, it will be possible to explore the work of this major figure in ways that greatly surpass current access to this collection.

The good news is that we have many more special collections in the queue that both warrant preservation in their original form yet are excellent candidates for this new world of digital
collections.

University of Cincinnati Health History Center Receives $100,000 Grant from the John Hauck Foundation

The University of Cincinnati’s Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions has received a $100,000 grant from the John Hauck Foundation. The grant puts the University of Cincinnati Libraries beyond its total fundraising goal for the completion of the construction project critical to the preservation of Cincinnati’s rare and fragile medical collections.
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