Flavia Bastos’ students enliven the DAAP Library with their lovely creations. Come and see their work on exhibit in the DAAP Library through December!
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The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) has developed a survey to understand user perceptions of the value and performance of libraries with government documents collections. The University of Cincinnati Libraries is a participating library in the FDLP. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HSLCRRB.
A quick reminder that most UC Libraries will be closed on Thursday, November 10, 2010 for Veteran’s Day.The Health Sciences Library will be open from 9-5pm.
Check the library website or library location for exceptions or changes to the listed hours. [List of all Libraries with links]
The STRC is a student-centered service area located on the 4th floor of Langsam Library. This area features specialized software and equipment that enable students to work on digital assignments.
Students can create webpages, edit video and audio files, convert file formats, create CDs or DVDs, scan images, create presentations in PowerPoint or Flash, and receive assistance in preparing Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Adobe products such as PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, InDesign, Premiere, and more are available.
Illiad, the UC Libraries Interlibrary loan system, will be offline all day, on Thursday, June 17, for a system upgrade. (Note, this is a change from the previously announced date of June 16). Additionally, on Tuesday, June 16, hardware updates must be made to server systems. This may result in intermittent outages of certain applications for a brief period Tuesday morning.
In the News:
The University of Cincinnati has excellent resources available for those seeking information about the flu. These include the following:
The National Book Foundation has a new blog up to celebrate it’s 60th anniversary. The Blog features 77 fiction novels that have won their National Book Award. Notice something strange?
“The National Book Foundation, celebrating its 60th anniversary, is running a series celebrating the 77 novels that have won its fiction award — or rather, awards. Because obviously somebody got fancy in there if they ended up with 17 more winning books than there have been years.”
Early American Fiction- now accessible via the UC Libraries Indexes & Databases list.
The direct URL is: http://ebooks.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ch/
This new resources is described as:
“Early American Fiction contains 440 works of 80 novelists and short-story writers, 1774-1850. Continue reading
Our new Blog allows us to feature some new resources that might be of interest to the Library community.
The following titles were recently added to the OhioLINK EJC (Electronic Journal Center):