As we celebrate Information Literacy Awareness Month, we challenge you to demonstrate your skills as an image detective.
There are a
lot of amazing picture posted on the web, but many of them are real and others are not – there are so many ways to alter images or pass them for what they are not by adding a misleading caption. Let’s see how good you are at spotting fakery!
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Online Contest: Image Detective
The University of Cincinnati Libraries are celebrating National Information Literacy Awareness Month by offering our students an opportunity to demonstrate their research and critical thinking skills and win prizes by participating in an online contest.
We challenge you to demonstrate your skills as an image detective.
There are a lot of amazing picture posted on the web, but many of them are real and others are not – there are so many ways to alter images or pass them for what they are not by adding a misleading caption. Let’s see how good you are at spotting fakery!
Coming Soon: Online Contest to Celebrate National Information Literacy Awareness Month
During the month of October the University of Cincinnati Libraries join other libraries nationwide in celebrating National Information Literacy Awareness Month.
Information literacy is a very important life-learning skill. It involves finding, evaluating, interpreting, managing, and using information to answer questions and develop new ones; and creating new knowledge through ethical participation in communities of learning, scholarship, and practice.
Table Tennis Anyone? This Friday.
Attending the Table Tennis Tournament on Friday in Langsam?
The tournament playoff will be held at the Rec Center, 1st floor, Court 1 at 4pm. When they are down to the final round, at around 5 pm, the final four will be playing at Langsam Library, 4th floor, against the Library team led by the Dean and University Librarian Xuemao Wang.
It is important that anyone who will attends the Rec Center game bring their UC ID for admittance.
Come and cheer on your fellow Bearcats.
Coming Soon: Celebrate National Information Literacy Awareness Month and Win Prizes
During the month of October the University of Cincinnati Libraries join other libraries nationwide in celebrating National Information Literacy Awareness Month.
Information literacy is a very important life-learning skill. It involves finding, evaluating, interpreting, managing, and using information to answer questions and develop new ones; and creating new knowledge through ethical participation in communities of learning, scholarship, and practice.
The University of Cincinnati Libraries will celebrate National Information Literacy Awareness Month by offering our students an opportunity to demonstrate their research and critical thinking skills and win prizes by participating in an online contest.
Detailed information about the contest will follow soon.
Fun, Food, & Library Finds: Langsam Makeover
Have you heard about Langsam Connect, a series of fun events at Langsam Library on the third Thursday of each month? Students had a great time in September creating collages of the book jackets that now wrap the columns in Langsam Library. See for yourself how much fun we had!
Hope you will join us for our upcoming event “Library Makeover: Langsam Edition” on Thursday, October 16, at 3 PM at Langsam Library by the Triceracopter. Over afternoon snacks we’ll brainstorm the future of library design from the student perspective.
Please contact Pam Bach if you have any questions.
See on Thursday at 3 by the Triceracopter!
Need to Checkout an iPad?
Checking out an iPad at TheDesk@Langsam
In partnership with UC Student Government, UC Libraries now has iPads available for checkout by UC students.
The Desk@Langsam has 10 iPads available for checkout. Students can call to book an iPad (513) 556-1424 or visit The Desk@Langsam on the 4th floor of the Walter C. Langsam Library to request one. Booking in advance is highly recommended to ensure availability. The iPads can be checked out for five days, with one renewal if the iPad is not requested by another user.
The iPads are 16GB and Wi-Fi enabled. An Apple ID is recommended, but not required for use. The iPads are pre-loaded with several UC and other productivity apps, including UC Mobile, Mobile Learn (Canopy) and VMware View (access to UC Virtual Lab). In addition, the iPads can be populated with personalized apps via any user Apple ID.
Visit TheDesk@Langsam today to checkout an iPad.
Table Tennis Anyone?
Join UC Libraries and the UC Table Tennis Club for an open tournament to be held on the fourth floor of the Walter C. Langsam Library, Friday, October 17, 4-6pm.
Both participants and spectators are welcome. To sign up to play, email rosemary.franklin@uc.edu.
Open to all. Refreshments and fun will be provided.
UC Libraries Launch Source Online
Newsletter, first published in 2002, contains the latest news and happenings from UC Libraries.
UC Libraries is transforming technology, people, space and information resources to “become the globally engaged, intellectual commons of the university – positioning ourselves as the hub of collaboration, digital innovation and scholarly endeavor on campus.”
It is in this spirit of transformation that we are changing the way in which we deliver Source to our readers. The online newsletter will still contain the latest information about the organization, people, places and happenings in UC Libraries, but will no longer be produced in print. By moving Source online, we are able to reach a greater number of readers on various devices – computers, phones, tablets and more.
Treasures of the Winkler Center: 1843 Botanico-Medical College Diploma of Dr. Henry Randolph Higgins
Through the generosity of Jerry L. Higgins, the Henry R. Winkler Center received an interesting artifact depicting Cincinnati’s rich history of institutions of medical education. This framed diploma from the Botanico-Medical College of Ohio was awarded to Jerry L. Higgins’ ancestor, Dr. Henry Randolph Higgins, and serves as the only artifact in the Winkler collection from the institution.
From left to right:
Allison Higgins, Jerry L. Higgins, and Becky Higgins
(Photo courtesy of Dan Davenport, UC AHC Public Relations)