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Space Updates 2024-2025 in Marcotte Library

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Since the Fall 2024 semester start, Marcotte Library has been making changes to its spaces based on student feedback. This year, the library has completed the following projects:

  • Installed new lighting on the 2nd floor
  • Added sound panels to soften sounds between study rooms on the 2nd floor
  • Replaced chairs in the study rooms on the 2nd floor to be more comfortable
  • Added videoconferencing options and room bookings for the 1st floor collaboration rooms
  • Relocated the Learning Commons from the 2nf floor Quiet Study to the 1st floor
  • Painted the stairwell door to the 2nd floor to help it stand out
  • Refreshed student artwork displays on the 1st floor
  • Added moveable laptop desks throughout the library
  • Upgraded a PC station on the 1st floor to support CAD software

There will be more exciting updates to come in the next year too! Be sure to stop in to enjoy these new features.

Announcing OneSearch, the new LSP user discovery interface

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The Library Services Platform (LSP) upgrade currently underway will include OneSearch, a new user discovery interface that students, faculty, researchers and other library patrons will use to find (and access) resources in the Libraries’ collections.

One Search tool
One Search preview

Note: OneSearch is under development. The previews shown here are subject to change.

The new user discovery interface will streamline search functions and access to local library resources and scholarly research. OneSearch will offer new and improved features and benefits including:

  • Faster searching – search electronic and print resources in one search,
  • Enhanced discovery – explore automatic recommendations, citation trails, availability in multiple formats and track requests, including finding resources across the OhioLINK network,
  • Personalized features – save preferences, searches, citations and export to citation management systems,
  • More intuitive user experience, and
  • Mobile friendly – a responsive user interface designed specifically for mobile devices.

OneSearch will debut June 25 with the LSP go live. For more information, the Libraries has created a LSP FAQ, or contact your subject librarian.

Important note on links:

Existing links to library resources in course syllabi, reading lists and Canvas pages will require updating to new links in the OneSearch discovery tool. The Libraries will develop materials to assist faculty teaching in the fall with any required adjustment to course links. Those teaching summer courses should note that any existing links may experience disruption. Contact your subject librarian with any questions or for assistance.

Job Posting: Head of the Classics Library

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The University of Cincinnati Libraries seeks a dynamic, strategic-thinking and collaborative leader to fill the position of head of the John Miller Burnam Classics Library, a 12-month tenure track position.  

The library head directs the work of the Classics Library and staff, and provides research services to the Classics Department, which includes 18 full-time faculty members, four research associates, two visiting scholars and 35 graduate students. Research materials cover history, archaeology, language and literature, art, numismatics, science and technology, papyrology, epigraphy and patristics. Please see the full job announcement to learn more and apply

Join us March 12 for Poetry Stacked…and Live Art!

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The University of Cincinnati Libraries and the Elliston Poetry Room announce the next roster of poets for Poetry Stacked, a semi-regular poetry reading series held in the 6th floor east stacks of the Walter C. Langsam Library.

At the next event, scheduled for Wednesday, March 12 at 4:30pm, three poets will read their original work:

  • Kari Gunter-Seymour is the Poet Laureate of Ohio and the author of three award-winning collections of poetry, including Dirt Songs (EastOver Press 2024) and Alone in the House of My Heart (Ohio University Swallow Press 2022). She is the executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of its anthology series Women Speak. Her work has been featured in a number of periodicals and journals including the American Book Review, Poem-a-Day, World Literature Today and The New York Times. Find her at www.karigunterseymourpoet.com.
  • Phoebe Reeves is professor of English at the University of Cincinnati Clermont College. She has three chapbooks of poetry, most recently The Flame of Her Will. Her first full length collection, Helen of Bikini was published in March 2023. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband Don, amidst her unruly urban garden.
  • Prince Bush is a poet from Nashville, TN whose poems appear in Cherry Tree, The Drift, The Cortland Review, Northwest Review and elsewhere. He received a fellowship from the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets while earning his BA in English as an Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar at Fisk University. Currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati as a Yates Fellow, Prince Bush earned his MFA in Creative Writing as a Truman Capote Literary Fellow from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
poets Kari Gunter-Seymour, Phoebe Reeves, Prince Bush
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Frederick A. Marcotte Library’s New Items and Timely Titles

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UC Clermont Library maintains several book displays across the UC Clermont campus: one that features new materials in the library and three other throughout campus that pertain to timely issues. We feature all of the materials available in these physical displays on our digital display website and on our New Books Blog so that you can explore what is on our physical display shelves from the comfort of your home, access electronic materials, and request items from each display. Our display topics for the month of February 2025 are Black History Month, the Great Backyard Bird Count, and World Day of Social Justice.

Quiet Floor Quest at UC Clermont

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In Fall 2023, the UC Clermont Learning Commons joined the Marcotte Library space on the 2nd floor. After a year and half of the collaboration, we’ve heard your feedback! The 2nd floor of the library will return to a quiet study space. Learning Commons activities and sessions will now be held on the 1st floor, which will make it easier to access and allow for the noise that accompanies group activities.

Open study space will still be available on the 1st floor. If space should be tight, the second floor will be available. Check in for Learning Commons activities will now occur at the front desk. To help increase visibility of the upstairs study space, UC Clermont will be hosting the Quiet Floor Quest through January 24.

 Locate 5 hidden bearcats in the library who each have secret word to share with you. Submit the hidden message in our online form to show you found each of the wily bearcats. Participants in the scavenger hunt will be in raffle for stuffed bearcat of their own with other UC swag.

Online Meeting? Reserve Clermont’s Video Conferencing Rooms

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UC Clermont’s Marcotte Library now has video conferencing rooms available to students. Two group rooms on the first floor now include a new mounted display with a built-in camera and microphone. You can sign in to the display using a mouse and keyboard available at the front desk or connect your laptops to the display to host your meeting. The rooms can be reserved online through our website or through the QR codes posted on the doors.

The rooms remain first-come, first-served when no reservations have been made at least 1-business day in advance. Just stop by the front desk to have the room unlocked!

Frederick A. Marcotte Library Digital Displays

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UC Clermont Library maintains three monthly displays that pertain to timely issues; one is inside the library and two are in display cases in the Snyder and Edith Peters Jones buildings. You’ve probably seen these throughout campus and maybe even checked out materials from one. For these physical displays we lay out books, DVDs, periodicals, and QR codes relating to a particular topic. We feature all the materials available in these physical displays on our digital display website so that you can explore what is on our physical display shelves from the comfort of your home, access electronic materials, and request items from each display. Our display topics for the month of September 2024 are Appalachian and Rural Studies, US Elections, and AI.

UC Clermont Marcotte Library, 2023-2024

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The last year was another great one. Some top highlights from the year:

  • Naming the library in honor of Frederick A. Marcotte, UC Clermont’s first librarian
  • Welcoming the Learning Commons onto the 2nd floor
  • Deploying a public access computer for community members to access online library resources
  • Offering a faculty workshop on integrating the libraries in Canvas with UC Blue Ash
  • Reviving pre-pandemic events, such as Pi Day and Edible Books.

For more highlights and photos on the Marcotte Library @ UC Clermont’s year, view our Sway report.

Fall 2024 Course Reserves at Clermont College’s Frederick A. Marcotte Library

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Did you know that students at UC Clermont can check out some course textbooks from the library?

Every semester the library receives a textbook list from the bookstore and we work to put items on course reserve here. We identify course textbooks that are over $100 and try to buy those from the bookstore, our vendors, or by other means if we can. If we happen to have a course book that is under $100 that is already in our existing collection, we will also put those items on course reserve when we find them. Unfortunately we aren’t able to buy some textbooks even if they’re over $100 because they are custom, loose leaf, subscription, or rental only, but we do our best! As of last year, we default to ordering an eBook copy if it is available. If no eBook copy is available for library purchase and circulation, then we will buy a physical copy.

The reserves we have can be seen organized by instructor name at this link. They can be seen organized by class name/number at this link.  

Physical reserves check out for four hours and can be used in the library, some are available as ebooks and can be accessed online any time. Visit UC Clermont Library’s front desk to check out physical reserves.

If you have any questions about course reserves or are an instructor that would like for us to add an item to reserves for any of your courses, please contact the library at clermontlibrary@uc.edu.