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Looking for Historical Business Data?

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In June 2014, The DAAP Library invested in Historical Business Data, Infogroup’s geo-referenced database of historic company records. Data comprises company name, mailing address, SIC and NAICS codes, employee size, sales volume, latitude/longitude and many more variables about each company.

Dr. Xinhao Wang, professor in the School of Planning in the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP), and Jennifer Krivickas, head of the Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art & Planning, are exploring the possibility of working with the UC’s Technology Commercialization Accelerator (an internal unit that provides seed funding, commercialization expertise and business connections to launch potentially high-impact entrepreneurial initiatives) to develop a proprietary discovery layer that would help researchers search, analyze and visualize data. Stay tuned for more.

Check Out the Latest Issue of Source, UC Libraries’ Newsletter

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SourceRead the online newsletter to learn more about the news, events, people and happenings in UC Libraries.

This latest issue of Source includes an Interview with Dean Xuemao Wang about UC Libraries’ evolving global initiatives, as well as an announcement of the return of the Life of the Mind UC lecture series. The next speaker in the Digital Humanities Speaker Series is announced as well as a Save the Date for the annual Cecil Striker Lecture. There is an article highlighting the Libraries expanding digital collections, as well as two articles about collaborations that brought more attention to the work of two pioneers in their respective fields — one in urban planning the second in the study of anatomy. Read these articles and much more.

Source is available on the web at http://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/source/ and via e-mail. To receive Source via e-mail, contact melissa.norris@uc.edu to be added to the mailing list.

Libraries Closed during UC’s Winter Season Days

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UC Libraries will be closed during UC’s Winter Season Days beginning December 25 through January 4. The libraries will reopen with regular hours on Monday, January 5.

The UCit@Langsam computer and study lab on the 5th floor of Langsam Library will also be closed.

The Langsam Library book drop will be available for books and videos only. (Please note – equipment must be returned in person when the library is open again on January 5).

For more on UC’s Winter Season Days, visit uc.edu/winterclosure.

DELETING DULL at the DAAP Library

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Introducing the DAAP Library’s new Fatboys! Who are these Fatboys who delete dull you ask?

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According to  http://www.fatboyusa.com/about/, ‘Fatboy’ is an imaginative lifestyle brand that excels in thinking outside the box. Fatboy has been challenging the concepts of lifestyle product since 2002, when the company set out to create the perfect lounge chair designed for fashion, for comfort, and tailored for an unmatched lounging experience. Fatboy claims that their designs bring energizing comfort and smiles to people.

Indeed, it’s true. Smiles at the DAAP Library are at an all-time high.

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Fatboy’s style = European design + creative spirit +  humor and their tagline and mission is “Deleting Dull”. The DAAP Library has never been so not dull.

Thank you fatboy!

UC Forward Course Takes Hands-on Approach to Teaching and Learning about a Fashion Icon

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By Jennifer Krivickas

ucforward1First offered in the fall of 2013 and then again in spring 2014, “Documenting a Fashion Icon: The UC Bonnie Cashin Collection” is a ‘test kitchen,’ hands-­on course that incorporates trans-disciplinary inquiry and discourse, student crowd sourcing power, and Millennials’ innate love for technology, social media and images, to investigate, interpret, digitize and widely disseminate authoritative information about an important collection of garments (from the DAAP Historical Garments Collection) designed by Bonnie Cashin.

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Peter Zumthor: Buildings and Projects, 1985-2013

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Peter Zumthor: Buildings and Projects, 1985-2013 by Thomas Durisch is a five volume set that explores the architect’s entire award-winning body of work from 1985 through 2013. This set is beautifully illustrated and designed with plenty of color photographs, drawings, sketches, plans, as well as Zumthor’s own writings. From the well known St. Benedict’s Chapel in Sumvitg, Switzerland, to the lesser known Field Chapel for Brother Klaus near Mechernich, Germany. The fifth volume contains a chronological list (1968-2013) of Zumthor’s work, both large and small.

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