April 12th to 18th is National Library week and we are celebrating by encouraging students to take a selfie in Langsam and tag #uclibraries on Instagram.
In addition, visit Langsam Library Wednesday from 1pm to 4pm for lemonade and cookies.
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Study 24/7 in Langsam Library During Exams
Cramming for an exam? Need a safe, quiet place to study?
Langsam Library space will be opened 24/7 beginning noon on Sunday, April 19 through Wednesday, April 29. Regular hours will resume 8am on Thursday, April 30.
To enter the library after regular hours, students must do so via the 5th floor UCit@Langsam card-swipe entrance (a valid UC ID is required). Continue reading
UC Libraries Hosting First THATCamp University of Cincinnati May 4-6
Join UC Libraries for THATCamp University of Cincinnati, an unconference, which is an open meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels and interests gather to learn and to build together in sessions proposed on the spot. By practice, THATCamps are open and online. Participants make sure to share their notes, documents, pictures and other materials from discussions before and after the event on the Web and via social media. Continue reading
Hungry?! Come to the Edible Books Festival April 1
Once again, the University of Cincinnati Libraries will celebrate the International Edible Books Festival with an event scheduled for Wednesday, April 1st from 1-2 p.m., on the 5th floor lobby of Langsam Library.
At the event, nearly 20 participants will present their edible creations that represent a book in some form. There are few restrictions in creating an edible book – namely that the creation be edible and have something to do with a book. Submitted entries include edible titles such as Lemons: A Global History. Classic books Fahrenheit 451 and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer are represented along with nonfiction works with Commentaries on the Laws of England and Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box. Contemporary fiction such as Wild and favorite children’s books Where the Wild Things Are, Green Eggs and Ham and Click, Clack Moo are among other literary greats at the festival. Continue reading
Next Up in the Digital Humanities Speaker Series: Dr. Alex Gil
Alex Gil
UC Libraries is thrilled to welcome Dr. Alex Gil to campus Monday, April 6, 2015 as the second expert in our Digital Humanities Speaker Series. He will present a series of talks, all free and open to the public, to be held in 480 Langsam Library.
- 10:00-11:30am: “Setting up Playgrounds for the Digital Humanities: Strategies to Foster and Support Digital Humanities Activities and Communities” (followed by a lunch reception)
- 12:45-1:45pm: “Breaking the Code: The Developing Librarian Project at Columbia University Libraries” (targeted for library faculty and staff, but all are welcome)
- 2:00-3:30pm: Keynote: “Hacking Light, Crossing Borders: Building Transnational Communities in Digital Scholarship and the Case of GO::DH” (reception to follow in 480)
Accounting for an Historic Text: A Census of Andreas Vesalius’s Fabrica
The following article first appeared in Source, UC Libraries newsletter.
Andreas Vesalius
The life of a book can be as interesting and long lasting as the contents within. Such is the tale of the historic text The Fabric of the Human Body by anatomist Andreas Vesalius. Recently, Dr. Stephen N. Joffe, a retired UC professor of surgery and medicine, and Veronica Buchanan, archivist in the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of Medicine, embarked on a project to account for the locations in the United States of both the first (1543) and second editions (1555) of this seminal work whose author was among the first to accurately depict the human body and to illustrate anatomy in a visual way. Continue reading
Music in the Gorno Library to Feature Pianist Esther Wang
Join us Monday, March 30, in the Gorno Library Reading Room, 6th Floor, Blegen Library, 1:00 p.m. for the next “Music in the Gorno Library” concert. This concert will feature the pianist, Esther Wang, associate professor of piano at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.
Ms. Wang will be playing pieces from composers Louis Couperin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Doug Opel, Augusta Read Thomas and Francis Poulenc. A full program is available online.
Ms. Wang is a College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) alumna and former student employee in the CCM Library while she was studying for her degree from CCM under Frank Weinstock. Her full bio is here: https://gustavus.edu/profiles/ewang2
Esther will be playing the library’s historic Steinway piano. The Music in the Gorno Library concert series are free and open to all.
Library Catalog Unavailable March 17
Service Note: On March 17, during Spring Break, the Library Catalog will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Once the work is complete an all clear will be issued. In the meantime, electronic journals, databases and indexes will remain available via the library website and the OhioLINK Catalog will remain available.
Pipe Repair in Langsam Library Beginning March 14
Starting this Saturday, March 14 maintenance and contractors will be in Langsam Library in various locations repairing a pipe that caused a leak on the 4th floor of the library. This is a massive repair and will take a week to fix completely. There will be a number of 4ft x 8ft sections of ceiling tiles that will be removed and piping and insulation will be removed and replaced. Please excuse the mess.
Nathan Tallman to Attend ILEAD USA
Nathan Tallman
Nathan Tallman, digital content strategist and assistant librarian for digital collections and repositories at the University of Cincinnati Libraries, has been selected as one of 13 future library leaders to participate in ILEAD USA – Ohio 2015.
Sponsored by The State Library of Ohio, ILEAD USA is a multi-state program designed to help library staff understand and respond to user needs through the application of participatory technology tools. Ohio participants will join others from Wisconsin, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Dakota, New York, Maine, Illinois and Utah in this national initiative. Participants are organized into teams, mentors and instructors for the year-long program. Tallman and his team members, Jillian Carney (Ohio History Connection), Shannon Kupfer (State Library of Ohio) and Elizabeth Allen (Bexley Public Library), successfully submitted a proposal for a team focused on digital preservation of Ohio cultural heritage materials. Continue reading