To meet the university’s needs for increased Internet bandwidth, UCIT will perform an upgrade to the Cincinnati Education Research Fiber-loop (CERF) ring during Labor Day weekend. The CERF ring is the backbone providing Internet and Internet2 connectivity for UC, Xavier, and Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. The upgrade will begin at 6:00 p.m., Friday, September 2 and is expected to be complete by 1:00 a.m. Sunday, September 4. Users should expect intermittent service interruption to the Internet during this window, however there is a possibility for intermittent Internet outages during the entire maintenance period.
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Historical City of Cincinnati Birth and Death Records Now Available Online
The City of Cincinnati Birth and Death Records from 1865 to 1912 are now fully online and available for research and study at http://digitalprojects.libraries.uc.edu/Births_and_Deaths/.
Extra! Extra! UC Student Newspapers in the University of Cincinnati Libraries
A new exhibit on display on the 4th floor of Blegen Library traces the development of student newspapers at the University of Cincinnati from the publication of the first paper in 1880 to today.
The exhibit features a timeline of events in the history of student newspaper production, highlighting the run dates, a short description, and the groups behind the various publications. Examples of each newspaper are displayed.
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: Reports from a Scientific Meeting
Attendees of the Second International Conference on Live Poliovirus Vaccines pose for a group photograph.
Another photograph from our collection can be seen here. It was taken during the Second International Conference on Live (Attenuated) Poliovirus Vaccines, which was held in June 1960 at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization, the World Health Organization, and the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation. According to the back of the photo, participants came together “to discuss [the live polio vaccine’s] present status, trends and possibilities for use of this type of vaccine to delineate guidelines for conduct of further work and field programs.” Dr. Sabin was in attendance. Can you spot him in the crowd? Continue reading
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: Another Honor
What do Betty White, George Bush, Pope John Paul II and Whoopi Goldberg all have in common with Dr. Albert Bruce Sabin? They were all named Kentucky Colonels!
Card given to Dr. Sabin by the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, 1963
In Dr. Sabin’s archives is a letter and membership card from the Honorable Order of the Kentucky Colonels. I found these documents to be interesting, especially since one of my colleagues working on the Sabin grant, Linda Newman, is also a Kentucky Colonel. The mission statement of this exclusive organization is “[t]he Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, Inc. is irrevocably dedicated to and is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes…” The Colonels support many different causes, such as purchasing wheelchairs and books for children, in order to support their mission. Continue reading
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: Connecting Collections
Letter from Dr. Walters to Dr. Sabin, March 6, 1960
Among some of Dr. Sabin’s general files is a letter exchange between him and Dr. Raymond Walters, who was President of the University of Cincinnati from 1932 until 1955. These two short letters, dated March 1960, discuss an upcoming engagement where Dr. Sabin was speaking. These letters piqued my interest because the Archives and Rare Books Library on the University of Cincinnati campus has President Emeritus Walters’s manuscript collection (UA-73-20). I thought it would be interesting to take a look at some of Dr. Walters’s diaries to get an outside perspective on Dr. Sabin. Continue reading
HSL Website Switching to HTML
On Wednesday August 17th at 9 am, the Health Sciences Library website is switching from using Cold Fusion to HTML.
What does this switch mean?
It means that the URL extensions for HSL web pages will switch from .cfm to .html. For example:
http://libraries.uc.edu/hsl/reference/elec/Etext.cfm
will switch to
http://libraries.uc.edu/hsl/reference/elec/Etext.html
It also means that if you have bookmarked any HSL internal web pages, you will need to update your bookmarks.
There may be a brief period during the transition when HSL web pages are unavailable. Once the page redirection is in place, access should return to normal. We will be checking behind the scenes for access issues throughout the day and the rest of the week.
If you have any questions or discover an access issue, please contact Edith Starbuck at 513-558-1433 or edith.starbuck@uc.edu.
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols Now Available
The Cold Spring Harbor Protocols journal is now available at http://cshprotocols.cshlp.org/
A definitive source of research methods in cell, developmental and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, computational biology, immunology, neuroscience and imaging, each monthly issue provides new and well-established techniques.
Access Cold Spring Harbor Protocols via the eJournals page, the Library Catalog or bookmark it at http://cshprotocols.cshlp.org/ today.
If you’re accessing Cold Spring Harbor Protocols from off campus, remember to log into the proxy server or the VPN first. If you have Windows 7, log into the VPN via your computer’s Start button.
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: Ripped from the Headlines!
Throughout his career, Dr. Sabin was featured in many headlines and articles. Many of his friends and colleagues sent him copies of these newspaper clippings over the years, which Dr. Sabin saved. I wanted to highlight some of them here, in order to give you some perspective as to what he was involved in over the years.
This article on the swine flu vaccine appeared in The News and Courier, July 21, 1976.
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: Lost in Translation
Being both a well-known scientist and a world traveler, Dr. Sabin’s collection of correspondence reflects many different parts of the world with letters in Russian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, and more. As we move into the next phase of the Sabin digitization project, I will begin to look at the correspondence more closely, determining the important messages within each letter and assigning descriptive data (also known as metadata) to the letters so researchers can more easily search the material. In order to do this, I may need some help with those letters in foreign languages.
Here’s a recent example of a letter in a foreign language, as well as its background:
Letter from Dr. Hallauer to Dr. Sabin, 1957