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New E-Books in Engineering and Computer Science
The UC Science and Engineering libraries have recently added the newest collection of Morgan & Claypool’s Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science to its electronic resources. The books are on topics relevant to active research areas such as natural language processing and Human Computer Interaction.
Natural Language Processing for Social Media
This book reviews the current research on NLP tools and methods for processing the non-traditional information from social media data that is available in large amounts, and it shows how innovative NLP approaches can integrate appropriate linguistic information in various fields such as social media monitoring, health care, and business intelligence. The book further covers the existing evaluation metrics for NLP and social media applications and the new efforts in evaluation campaigns or shared tasks on new datasets collected from social media.
https://www-morganclaypool-com.proxy.libraries.uc.edu/doi/10.2200/S00999ED3V01Y202003HLT046
Arduino I: Getting Started
This book, Arduino I: Getting Started is written for those looking for a quick tutorial on the Arduino environment, platforms, interface techniques, and applications. Arduino II will explore advanced techniques, applications, and systems design. Arduino III will explore Arduino applications in the Internet of Things (IoT). Arduino I: Getting Started covers three different Arduino products: the Arduino UNO R3 equipped with the Microchip ATmega328, the Arduino Mega 2560 equipped with the Microchip ATmega2560, and the wearable Arduino LilyPad.
https://www-morganclaypool-com.proxy.libraries.uc.edu/doi/10.2200/S01001ED1V01Y202003DCS058
For the full list of recent books, click the “Continue Reading” link below.
Life of the Mind lecture re-imagined to include celebration of UC scholarship
Call for submissions from UC faculty and staff of 2019 creative and scholarly works by June 30.
The University of Cincinnati Libraries is collaborating with the Faculty Senate, the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost and the Faculty Enrichment Center to bring back the popular Authors, Editors & Composers event and exhibit last held in 2013 and incorporate it into the Life of the Mind lecture series.
The re-imagined Life of the Mind will create one event that will celebrate the achievements of UC’s artists, authors, editors and composers together with a presentation by a distinguished faculty member and panel discussion to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on an emergent theme.
Still named Life of the Mind, the event is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in the Faculty Enrichment Center. An exhibit of faculty and staff submitted works and compositions will be on display at the event and then moved the following day for public display in the Walter C. Langsam Library’s fourth and fifth floor lobbies. The organizers are prepared to move the event and exhibit fully online if circumstances dictate the necessity to do so.
To include 2019 creative and scholarly works, UC faculty and staff are invited to submit via an online form by June 30. Include only those works performed or published between January 2019 and December 2019. Submissions are limited to three per category per artist, author, editor or composer. Categories may include: books, book chapters, journal articles, editing, artwork, photography, plays, musical scores, CDs or DVDs.
It is from the submitted works that the Life of the Mind Steering Committee will select the featured faculty speaker to give the Life of the Mind lecture.
The mission of Life of the Mind remains to celebrate UC research, scholarship and creative output and to foster the free and open exchange of ideas and discourse.
Questions? Contact Melissa Cox Norris, (513)556-1558 or melissa.norris@uc.edu.
Clermont College Library Services
Remote and online classes this summer gives us more opportunities to enjoy some rays while getting work done. However, it also means there will be less access to our beautiful campus. The good news is that does not equate to fewer services from your Clermont Library.
Working for a Living. New online exhibit features Labor Collections in the Archives and Rare Books Library.
Labor history concerns the lives of workers and their various and diverse struggles for workplace democracy, improved working conditions, collective bargaining, and their relationship to changing forms of work and economic production. A new online exhibit features the University of Cincinnati’s Archives and Rare Books Library labor collections. Part of the Urban Studies Collection, the labor collections include records from Cincinnati’s AFL-CIO Labor Council, the Regional Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers, the Barbers’ Union Local 49, International Brotherhood of Painters & Allied Trades Local 308, and others.
The Working for a Living exhibit was curated by Eira Tansey, digital archivist and records manager in the Archives and Rare Books Library. It was designed by Emily Young, library communication design co-op student, and Melissa Cox Norris, director of library communication.
Faculty Research Lightning Talks: Meet Linda Wunderley
The UCBA Library’s 3rd Annual Faculty Research Lightning Talks on March 10, 2020 featured four presenters and their discipline-based research projects via short, 15 minute presentations. In our Meet the Presenters series, each presenter shares some insights into their research project.
Linda Wunderley | Assistant Professor, Adjunct | Business & Economics
Presentation: The Real Truth About What Determines Our Professional Performance
Linda Wunderley discusses her research.
Research Project
Today’s frenetic pace of market change and stressful organizational environments have the business world struggling with not only redesigning their professional development efforts to address this new normal, but also attempting to understand why past practices have repeatedly proven so ineffective! At the same time, Neuroscience research may have uncovered a critical correlation (between an individual’s significant life experiences and their repetitive thoughts, feelings and behavior) which could provide the very insight and direction needed for a professional development reinvention. But empirical data specific to the business world is needed. This research study is attempting to provide that data.
A slide from Linda Wunderley’s The Real Truth About What Determines Our Professional Performance presentation. Source: Linda Wunderley
What excites you most about your research?
Top management across the U.S. today, as well as the likes of Deloitte and McKinsey, report little or no behavior change on the part of the ‘trained’ or the ‘coached.’ But the need for improved soft skills such as better communication, persuasion, team building and creativity is huge and growing. This research could provide the empirical data for a potential sea change in our approach to such Professional Development.
What are your next steps with your research?
Continue to recruit participants to increase sample size.
Past Publication
Wunderley, L. J., Reddy, W.B. & Dember, W.N. (2006). Optimism and Pessimism in Business Leaders. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 28 (9) 751-760.
Additional Resources
* Library copy currently unavailable to request at this time
- *Dweck, C. S. (2007). Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. New York: Random Books.
- Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2017). The Talent Delusion: Why Data, Not Intuition, Is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential. Great Britain: Piatkus
- Felitti, V. J. et.al. (1998). Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. American Journal of Preventative Medicine. 14, 4, 245-258.
- Kellerman, B. (2012). The End of Leadership. New York: HarperCollins.
- *Lipton, B. (2005). The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House Publishers.
- Merzenich, M. (2013). Soft-Wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your Life.
San Francisco: Parnassus Publishing.
- *Pert, C. P. (1997). Molecules of Emotions: Why You Feel the Way You Feel. New York: Scribner.
- *Siegel, D. J. (2011). Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation. New York: Bantam Books.
- *Shapiro, F. (2012). Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy. New York: Rodale, Inc.
By Lauren Wahman
Henriette Davidis and Her Cookbooks in the German Americana Collection
Food always provides a familiar comfort for people. As anyone who has attempted to get baking supplies over the last few weeks may know, people have been turning to cooking for some solace and perhaps just something to do in these unusual times. If you are looking for any historic recipes or information on a historic cookbook author or just something to read, this blog post is for you!
Several years ago, I discovered a cookbook by the author Henriette Davidis in the German Americana collection at the Archives and Rare Books Library. Initially I was just looking for a sample cookbook and Davidis’ cookbook had a nice cover which would work well visually for showing a class. As I began researching the author, though, I found that this cookbook and its author had an interesting story. Continue reading
National Library Week – Flashback Friday
We’re wrapping up our National Library Week celebration with a Flashback Friday slideshow of our time spent in the UCBA Library, both old, temporary and new spaces, over the last several years. We can’t wait to reconnect in person again.
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- Michelle McKinney (L) and Heather Maloney (R) co-present a Poster Presentation on Working with Wiki at the 2007 Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Conference.
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- Lauren Wahman (L) and Heather Maloney (R) in the pre-renovation library space. October 2009.
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- Lauren Wahman teaching a library instruction session. April, 2011.
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- (L-R) Stephena Harmony, Lauren Wahman, Heather Maloney and Michelle McKinney on a hard-hat tour of the library space during the renovation. April 2013.
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- The Library Staff fully committed to the workout gear through the decades theme which includes a bookcart. October 2013
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- The Library may have been haunted for the college-wide Halloween celebration, but it’s never a scary place. October 2013.
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- Librarians Lauren Wahman and Heather Maloney take part in the 2015 Commenncement Ceremony.
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- Heather Maloney (left) and Michelle McKinney (right) posing with the Bearcat at the UC Serves Kick-Off. May 2014.
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- When the lights/power go out…take a librarian selfie. (L-R) Kellie Tilton, Michelle McKinney and Lauren Wahman. 2014.
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- Faculty members Heather Maloney, Lauren Wahman and Kellie Tilton during an Extraordinary Excellence workshop. 2014.
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- Library Director Heather Maloney and Student Assistant Stacey Marshall staff the library table during the Resource Fair. September 2015.
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- Heather Maloney and Kellie Tilton with their UC Serves team. May 2015.
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- Library Faculty celebrating National Library Week 2016 and serve as host to the library’s Whiteboards and Wine event.
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- The library staff get a bit stir crazy sometimes. April 2020.
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- UCBA Library faculty and staff celebrating National Library Week 2017.
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- Lauren Wahman with Rockdale Academy students during UC Smiles event. November 2017.
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- Pam Adler celebrates 20 years of service at UC. September 2018.
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- (L-R) Kellie Tilton, Heather Maloney, Michelle McKinney and Lauren Wahman take their meeting outdoors. May 2017
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- Heather Maloney (left), Director of the UCBA Library and Jen Ellis, Associate Professor of Nursing, pose with the items collected during our Spread the Warmth Drive. December 2017.
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- “I was told by the photographer that this is her view when she passes by my office. I am quite tall.” -Christian Boyles, February 2018.
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- Lauren Wahman and Christian Boyles and the Tournament of Titles and decked out in PJs for National Library Week’s Sleep In and Read theme. April 2018.
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- In honor of National Boss’s Day (October 16, 2018), the UCBA Library faculty and staff celebrates Heather Maloney, UCBA Library Director. She found her office door decorated and was presented with flowers and snacks to enjoy throughout the day. October 2018.
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- Artists and their spinart work (left to right): Christian Boyles, Lauren Wahman, and Michelle McKinney. August 2019.
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- The library’s newest team member, Elizabeth Hartlaub, has yet to fall victim to the team’s photo escapades so she shared this photo. She was featured in the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County’s “Worker Wednesday” that highlighted staff around the system. March 2019.
The Cooperative Engineer and The Great Depression
We are taught that the Great Depression started with the stock market crash on October 29, 1929 or what is called “Black Tuesday”. In The Cooperative Engineer magazine, the quarterly publication of the students and alumni of the College of Engineering with its focus on industry partnered education, the word depression was not used to describe the current circumstances of the day until the October 1931 issue. Over the course of 4 issues, starting in October 1931 and running through to the June 1932 issue, the editors ran a series of “Faculty Articles” dealing with that they termed “Present-Day Trends in Problems of Commerce and Industry” or what we would now call The Great Depression.
The first of the four Faculty Articles is a reflective piece titled “The Fourth Great Era” by Hermann Schneider, the then-current Dean of the College of Engineering and
known widely as the founder of cooperative education. Schneider reflects on a talk he heard at a meeting of the Institute of Politics where the speaker argued there were
three great eras throughout history, defined by equality of legal status, religious liberty, and political liberty. The fourth era would be equality of economic status where
individuals are equal in their ability to be “masters of their livelihood”. But Schneider values engineer’s deep understanding of philosophy, art, and psychology and thinks engineers must synthesize their well-rounded knowledge to lift their fellowmen. This last bit is something Schneider thinks is too often left out of the definition of what it means to be an engineer. Continue reading
UC Libraries Welcomes Madeleine Gaiser, Online Learning and Instruction Specialist at the CECH Library
Madeleine Gaiser, the new 0nline learning and instruction specialist in the College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services (CECH) Library, began (remote!) work at UC Libraries on Monday, April 20.
Madeleine is currently a Master of Science student at Indiana University (IU) in Bloomington, set to graduate in May 2020. Her studies and graduate employment have afforded her some impressive experiences in supporting instruction and online learning, including classroom teaching, creating online learning objects, performing an accessibility audit and building an extensive module in Canvas. Madeleine is also the winner of IU’s Ellen Jay Information Literacy Scholarship for the 2019-20 academic year. She holds a BA in history and religious studies from Gettysburg College. She hails from the D.C. metro area.
Welcome to UC Libraries, Madeleine!