This summer, Langsam Library was a busy place as over 4,000 incoming students participating in UC New Student Orientation visited and learned about all that UC Libraries has to offer. While here, they engaged in activities designed to be entertaining while at the same time informative about the various research resources, assistance, and library services they can take advantage of when they return in the fall.
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June Lunch & Learn Series
The Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library invites you to join us for our June Lunch & Learn instruction series, Thursdays, June 13 – 27, 12:10-12:50pm, in the Health Sciences Library Classroom (MSB G005G).
Bring your lunch and learn during these quick information sessions. Come to one session, a few, or them all! Seating is limited, so registration is recommended.
Schedule:
Thursday, June 13 iPad 101
Thursday, June 20 Excel Tips
Thursday, June 27 Free Screencasting Tools
View the complete Lunch & Learn schedule below. See descriptions and register online at http://webcentral.uc.edu/hslclass/
Snow Globes in the DAAP Library
Jenell Walton of Channel 9’s “The List” recently visited the Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) and met with librarian Jennifer Krivickas to talk about the library’s snow globe collection. The snow globes will appear on “The List” sometime in July. For those who want to know more about the snow globes before the show airs, below is more information about the fun collection.
Digitized Correspondence and Photographs of Albert B. Sabin Available on the Web
The University of Cincinnati Libraries have completed a three-year project to digitize the correspondence and photographs of Albert B. Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine and distinguished service professor at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Research Foundation from 1939-1969.
The collection is freely and publicly available via the Albert B. Sabin website at http://sabin.uc.edu/ and includes approximately 35,000 letters and accompanying documents totaling 50,000 pages of correspondence between Sabin and political, cultural, social, and scientific leaders around the world. Also included are nearly 1,000 photographs documenting the events and activities worldwide that were part of Sabin’s crusade to eradicate polio. Continue reading
APhA PharmacyLibrary Collection
The APhA PharmacyLibrary collection features authoritative Pharmacy textbooks, NAPLEX® review, case studies, and primary literature abstracts from JAPhA in one comprehensive search platform. Continue reading
New (Free) Medical Guidelines App for Students and Clinicians
Apple is advertising a new iPhone/iPad Guideline Central app that provides over 2,700 free guideline summaries that cover all of the main specialties.
A few of the features:
- Official recommendations from respected medical associations
- Key points, treatment, management, prevention, and more
- Well illustrated algorithms, charts, medical tables
- And much more…
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: Remembering Hilary Koprowski
By Jeff O’Flynn, Sabin Student Assistant
Telegram from Hilary Koprowski to Albert Sabin, indicating he would be unable to attend a polio conference.
Hilary Koprowski is considered by many to be equally important as Salk and Sabin in the quest to eradicate poliomyelitis. When Koprowski passed away last month, his illustrious career was recounted in his obituary and included such notable achievements as the development of a live-virus polio vaccine, improvement of the rabies vaccine, and directorship of the world-renowned Wistar Institute in Pennsylvania. His interest in the live-virus polio vaccine caused his career to overlap with Albert Sabin’s work regularly. The obituary details the competition between Sabin and Koprowski for the eventual triumph of their various polio vaccines.[1] Letters in the Albert B. Sabin archives indicate that the two great scientists often shared material and data though, unfortunately, they did not have an entirely conflict-free relationship. Continue reading
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: New Lesson Plans Available
Dr. Albert B. Sabin
Sabin project student assistant Katie Pintz created a couple of lesson plans to encourage the use of the the newly digitized materials in the Albert B. Sabin Archives. They are:
- “Albert Sabin and the Cold War” – which is a lesson plan for high school United States history classes.
- “Albert Sabin and Bioethics” – which is a lesson plan for high school biology classes.
We look forward to hearing what you think about these lesson plans. Please give us feedback either here on the blog, or you can send your comments to chhp@uc.edu.
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Service Notice: Library Catalog Unavailable Beginning 1pm April 29.
On Monday, April 29, at 1:00pm the Library Catalog will go offline for a planned software migration. It is estimated that the catalog will be back online and ready for use at 10:00pm on April 29.
In the meantime, the OhioLINK catalog is available.
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: An Unsolved Mystery
Albert Sabin and Basil O’Connor pose with Dr. Sabin’s bust, sculpted by Edmond Romulus Amateis.
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) recently launched, and, of course, I wanted to see if there was anything Sabin-related in the collection. Doing a quick search for Albert Sabin revealed a bust which resides at the National Portrait Gallery. According to the DPLA, this bust, a 1966 cast after 1958 terra cotta original, was originally sculpted by Edmond Romulus Amateis.[1] This bust was originally created for the Polio Wall of Fame in Warm Springs, Georgia. We have a photograph in our collection of Dr. Sabin and National Foundation President Basil O’Connor posing with the bust created by Amateis. Continue reading