Create Community Art in Langsam!
Join UC Libraries for the first “Langsam Connect: Fun, Food, and Library Finds” event of the year.
Thursday, September 18th ~ 3 pm @ the Triceracopter (4th floor)
Author Archives: Melissa Cox Norris
Scopus Analysis Tool Enhancements
Three Scopus analysis tools have been redesigned to provide a more consistent experience across Scopus. Improved and renamed, the tools that analyze search results, author output and journals now include new features such as the option to export charts and graphs. Continue reading
UC Libraries Participates in IT@UC Showcase
Today, UC Libraries participated in the first-ever IT@UC Showcase, a free event open to the UC community and beyond. IT@UC Showcase is being held in TUC’s Great Hall from 10am – 2pm. More details, a full schedule, and the list of booths at http://www.uc.edu/ucit/about/itatuc.html.
B-E-A-R-C-A-T-S and UC Libraries
Looking for a Good Book? New Popular Reading Collection in Langsam Library
Have you read the latest Stephen King novel? Are you excited for the Gone Girl movie and want to reread the Gillian Flynn best seller? Now you can check out these popular titles and more in Langsam Library courtesy of the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County.
Welcome Bearcats
Dean Xuemao Wang (center) with UC students.
UC’s Welcome Weekend kicked off Wednesday, August 20 as new students began moving in. UC Libraries is part of the weekend festivities.
Stop by Langsam Library Saturday and Sunday, August 23 & 24 from noon-5pm for lemonade & cookies AND a free print of your class schedule.
Visit any of our 10 library locations August 21 through September 7 and enter your name in a drawing for a chance to win 1 of 10 flash drives. Entry forms are available at the public service desks in each library.
Welcome to UC Libraries.
UC Libraries Welcome International Students
This year UC Libraries were honored to participate in UC’s first International Conference for incoming international students. Planning for the Conference was a huge collaborative effort and we enjoyed working with many 
campus partners under the leadership of UC International. Graduate students Holly Zhang and Yu Mao and UC Alumna Ankita Singh, who have been active users of libraries and wanted to let new students know how libraries can enhance their academic success, prepared a great interactive PowerPoint presentation. Even though the library session was offered at the same time as the sessions on internships, housing, being a TA, and other important topics, we got a great interested audience, who actively participated and asked good questions. More students stopped by the Libraries’ table at the Resource Fair. They got to meet librarians Rosemary Franklin and Olga Hart and doctoral student Holly Zhang, introduce themselves, and ask questions in an informal setting. Some students used our interactive exhibit to learn more about plagiarism and finding help with plagiarism avoidance.
On August 18 Langsam Library hosted a fun, hands-on orientation session for international undergraduates. The students were pleasantly surprised to hear Dean Xuemao Wang’s welcome in English and Chinese followed by greetings in various languages from the UC international community. Led by friendly and energetic SOLs, the students learned a lot about UC Libraries in just an hour and a half.
We hope that UC Libraries will be home away from home for our international students. Once again, welcome! We are very happy to see you at UC and looking forward to helping you with your learning and research. We also hope to see you at library events.
Many people from UC Libraries and beyond contributed to making the library orientation for international students a success. Lots of thanks to everyone to everyone who helped! This brief video shows how much we had. Please join us next year!
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Olga Hart
SSL VPN and Junos Pulse
On August 11, 2014, SSL VPN will be modified so that the Junos Pulse client is presented when you log into the SSL VPN.
Mobile users (iOS, Android, etc.) have used the Junos Pulse client for several years and now UC is transitioning the SSL VPN to present Junos Pulse as the default client for SSL VPN connections.
This change will primarily only affect “new” SSL VPN users, users that have the “Network Connect” client installed will still be able to connect using the “Network Connect” client.
Click here to see Junos Pulse installation and setup instructions. These instructions will also be available from the HSL Off Campus Access page.
If you have any questions or problems with setting up the Junos Pulse client, please contact UCIT Help Desk at 556-435.
(SSL VPN connectivity information provided by Bruce Burton, Director, Network and Telecommunication Services, UCIT Enterprise Shared Services.)
An Afternoon with Henry Heimlich, MD
By: Veronica Buchanan and Alexander Badue
Dr. Henry Heimlich, wearing the same
aviator sunglasses he used
while stationed in China
On July 17, Assistant Dean of University of Cincinnati Libraries and Executive Director of the Henry R. Winkler Center, Stephen Marine, and Christa Bernardo of the UC Foundation met with Dr. Henry Heimlich, his daughter Janet, and granddaughter Maxine at his home in Cincinnati.
Among many items discussed, one thread seemed to connect throughout the entire discussion, Dr. Heimlich’s connection with SACO, the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, an unprecedented military partnership between China and the United States during World War II. Heimlich displayed one of his personal treasures from his time in China, the aviator sunglasses that he continues to wear to this day, complete with their original storage case.
From the Archives: Benjamin L. Askue Collection
By: Laura Meece
Born in Ashtabula County, Ohio in 1833, Benjamin Askue was a nurse during the American Civil War. He did not, however, go the traditional educational path. Instead, he studied under the hand of a local doctor and eventually became a practitioner of homeopathic medicine.
Ambrotype of Benjamin Askue ca. 1860
Askue joined the Union Army in 1861, serving for the 23rd Ohio Volunteers Infantry (O.V.I.). Under the leadership of future President Rutherford B. Hayes and William S. Rosencrans, Askue eventually became a field nurse for the O.V.I., putting his medical training to use. While in the army, Askue was captured several times by the Confederacy and even hid in the forest of West Virginia to avoid capture on one occasion, but he always managed to escape. His brother, Oscar Askue, had also been a soldier in the Union Army, and when Oscar was killed in battle, Benjamin Askue escaped the Confederates and made his way to the battlefield where his brother’s body lay. Upon arrival, he had his brother shipped back to Ohio.