Student Art Spotlight at Clermont College Library

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Penny McGinnis

This semester the library is proud to exhibit the art of Terri Teague. Ms. Teague, who serves as lab manager for the Fine Arts programs at UC Clermont, has been a friendly fixture around our campus for many years. In fact, she’s helped to install many of the beautiful art exhibits around our campus, including those in the art gallery and the library.

Ms. Teague’s exhibit includes fourteen individual portraits in a variety of mediums—pencil, watercolor, acrylic, and pastel. In her artist statement, she credits the gifted teachers at UC Clermont with teaching her to draw and paint, “open[ing] my eyes to a new way of looking at the world.”

Come check out Terri Teague’s work in the library’s Student Art Spotlight through December 2017. And, as always, we thank Fine Arts faculty Kelly Frigard and Kim Taylor for their dedicated support of the Student Art Spotlight since 2015.

Katie Foran-Mulcahy
Library Director

Take our textbooks anywhere

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Penny McGinnis

Great news – our textbooks are now available for checkout beyond the library’s walls!

The library purchases core textbooks for Clermont College classes, and they’d previously been available for 2-hour checkout inside the library only. We’ve relaxed our policy, so now students can take them ANYWHERE for 2 hours. Take your book to class, take your book outside, take your book to Subway – whatever floats your boat.

If you have any questions about our textbooks, please contact the library’s Public Services Manager, Natalie Winland.

Let’s make fall 2017 a great semester, together!

We’re back… See you soon!

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Penny McGinnis

Friends,

We’re so happy to be able to serve you once again in the Clermont College Library’s typical location, Peters-Jones 120. And after being temporarily relocated to the Snyder Building to make way for plumbing, mechanical, and electrical upgrades, I like to think we’re also better than ever before!

Let’s make fall 2017 a great semester, together!

Sincerely,
Katie Foran-Mulcahy

Library Director

6-Week Clermont College Library Relocation This Summer: We’ll See You in Snyder!

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Penny McGinnis

The Clermont College Library will be relocated for 6 weeks this summer, from June 19^th until August 1^st. During this period, the building that houses our campus library, the Peters-Jones Building, will undergo extensive upgrades to its mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.

Clermont College Library

6 week relocation

June 19-August 1

to Snyder 164

For those 6 weeks, library services and staff offices will migrate to the Snyder Building. Our temporary service point (shared with the IT HelpDesk) will be located in Snyder 164. The open computer lab will be located in Snyder 162. Staff offices will relocate to Snyder 166. The library will maintain some group study and lounge space for students in S164 as well.

The majority of library services will remain available during the relocation, including:

library instruction
reference assistance
textbook and course reserves
technology checkout (iPads, laptops, charging cords)
holds fulfillment from other libraries

Aside from our physical relocation, there are two major changes I want to make you aware of – library hours and library collections. Hours will adjust to Monday-Thursday 7:30-5 and Friday 7:30-4 during the relocation, but the lab in S162 will remain open until 7pm. We’ll also be unable to access collections during the closure. If you need an item, we can still order it from other UC or Ohio libraries.

Please contact me if you have any questions. Please know that we aim to do everything possible to make this temporary relocation as seamless as possible for our campus community.

See you in Snyder,

Katie Foran-Mulcahy
Library Director

Clermont College, The Main Event

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Penny McGinnis

Join us May 12th at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites – Eastgate for our 2nd annual fundraiser and auction for student scholarships, 21st century library transformation and new fine arts classroom.

This Clermont event is a great time for a great cause. Can’t wait to see you all there!

Best wishes,

Katie Foran-Mulcahy

Library Director

Winners of the Clermont College Library’s 6th Annual Haiku Contest

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Penny McGinnis

Clermont College Library received 73 exceptional haiku entries from 31 students this year.

First place winner, Treva Noakes-Miller, won a $50 gift card and all winners will be published in the East Fork, Clermont’s online literary journal.

1^st Place

Our footsteps were wild

Untamed, sporadic. Underneath,

The grass breathed heavy

Treva Noakes-Miller

2^nd Place

Humid air I choke,

The swelter of summer mist,

I cough up rain clouds.

Julia Wahle

3^rd Place

I have never seen

ever more than one heron,

is it the same one?

Benjamin Ward

Honorable Mentions

Buy the neighbors land,

you go to take down the fence,

a tree grows through it

Benjamin Ward

They found the perfect soldier,

I could’ve followed them to hell and back,

and maybe I did.

McKenzie Bracco

In the dead of night

She suffered and was born dead

Through love she breathed

Christine Campbell

That night he held me

Fireflies were candlelight

And my ribs, a cage

Treva Noakes-Miller

Wrinkled sky, ripped clouds

Creases where you leaned in, drowned.

Ripples without sound

Treva Noakes-Miller

My art is something

raised by howling packs of wolves

drawing little lambs.

Jillian Cofskey

Penny McGinnis
Technical Services Manager

Author J.D. Vance Coming to Clermont

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Penny McGinnis

Author J.D. Vance will be speaking at UC Clermont in Krueger Auditorium on Friday, May 19 at 7pm about his #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.

This special event is sponsored by Clermont County Public Library and is free and open to the public. No RSVP required.

Mr. Vance writes about his Appalachian, working-class roots and his personal journey – from Middletown, Ohio to the Marines to Yale Law School. The Wall Street Journal calls Hillbilly Elegy “a beautiful memoir but it is equally a work of cultural criticism about white working-class America….[Vance] offers a compelling explanation for why it’s so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to make it…a riveting book.”

No RSVP is required for Vance’s 7pm speaking engagement, but seating is first-come, first served.

Katie Foran Mulcahy
Library Director

Rebecca Morgan Frank to Visit Clermont College

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Penny McGinnis

On Thursday, April 6, Rebecca Morgan Frank, our National Poetry Month guest, will share about her journey as a poet. Join her for a Q & A from 9:30am-10:30am in Snyder 142, followed by a poetry workshop from 11am-noon, also in Snyder 142.

Later in the afternoon from 2pm-3pm, Clermont College Library will host a reading, signing, and reception with Dr. Frank. Thanks to Professor Phoebe Reeves and the ELF Department for organizing this great event.

We’re excited to celebrate poetry month in April. Please join us for all of the activities.

Penny McGinnis
Technical Services Manager

Want to Haiku at Clermont?

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Penny McGinnis

In honor of National Poetry Month, the Clermont College Library is sponsoring its 6^th Annual Haiku Contest.

You must be a Clermont College student to participate. Write up to 3 haiku and submit them for a chance to win a $50 gift card. Professors Phoebe Reeves and Cassie Fetters will serve as our judges.

Read the complete contest guidelines: http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/clermont-poetry/haiku

Submit haiku here: Haiku submissions

The entry deadline is April 12^th.

Go forth and haiku!

Penny McGinnis
Technical Services Manager

Irish Writers and Culture

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Penny McGinnis

Q: What do Oscar Wilde, Bono, and St. Patrick have in common?

A: They’re all Irish!

Check out your Clermont College Library for all things Irish, including books by Irish writers, plus books and videos (and streaming-specific video) about Ireland. If we don’t have what you need, we can find it for you. Click the authors’ names below for a listing of UC Libraries holdings.

Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849