Read Source, the UC Libraries newsletter for faculty, students, staff, and friends.
The latest issue highlights the CEAS Library, new digital collections such as The Cincinnatian Online, and the most recent UC Libraries Quality Service Award Winners. You can also read about staff news, recent acquisitions in the Geology-Mathematics-Physics Library, and more. Source is available in print around the various libraries and online.
Wanting to use the library during break? The UC Libraries have special Break Hours. A list of all hours are posted online.
The John Miller Burnam Classical Library will be closed September 13 through 15 so that staff may complete the relocation of the library to newly renovated space on the fourth floor of Blegen Library.
Try Lexis/Nexis’s new user interface for their Academic product. The new user interface is easy to use. The results default to relevance rankings, but users can change this to publication date to reverse chronological. Features include: Easy Search, Power Search, a Tip that provides assistance in using the interface, as well as search categories, and a Help section.
The UC Libraries will be closed Monday, September 6, Labor Day except the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, which will be open 9am-5pm.
The University of Cincinnati Libraries have received a $61,287 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to process the papers of Theodore Moody Berry (1905-2000), a civil rights pioneer, community activist, and elected official from Cincinnati.
The newly digitized JAMA & Archives Backfiles offer online access to historical medical and clinical research. Pivotal articles that helped shape the last century of medical research, clinical practice, and public health are now just a few clicks away.
The JAMA & Archives Backfiles feature:
Go to the eJournals list to find current holdings as well as the new backfiles. Search for the title you’re interested in. If you don’t see the backfiles listed for that journal, follow the link to the current journal holdings and click on Past Issues to access the backfiles.
Backfiles included:
The University of Cincinnati Libraries have been awarded a $15,900 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Minigrant from the State Library of Ohio to digitize copies of The Cincinnatian, UC’s yearbook, for the period of 1951-2006.
A previous LSTA grant provided for the digitization of The Cincinnatian from 1894-1950, viewable on the Web at http://digitalprojects.libraries.uc.edu/cincinnatian/. This second project will complete access to all issues of the yearbook via the Web.
Medical College, University of Cincinnati
Before the May 26, 2010 meeting of the “new” Cecil Striker Society for the History of Medicine, the Society had last met in 1980, shortly after Dr. Striker’s death. Recently, as the latest phase of the Winkler Center’s own history began to blossom, the idea of resurrecting the Society made eminent sense. Cincinnati’s medical history is the envy of most cities, large and small, but with the passing of a generation of physicians and historians who knew and understood their community’s prominent role in medical history, appreciation of this illustrious history began to pass with them.