One a recent July 4th holiday visit to Chicago, Michelle McKinney, UCBA Reference and Web Services librarian, made a brief stop at the Harold Washington Library Center (HWLC) of the Chicago Pubic Library (CPL). The main branch of CPL is located on 400 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60605 in the South Loop. The building is a site to behold. It is 10 stories high, 756,000 square feet, and takes up a full city block. Here are just a few photos from Michelle’s all-too-brief visit. Follow the links at the end of the post to learn more about the Chicago Public Library and the Harold Washington Library Center. Continue reading
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UC Libraries Closed July 4th
UC Libraries will be closed, Monday, July 4th for Independence Day. Normal hours will resume July 5th. Have a safe and enjoyable July 4th.
UCBA Librarians Attend ALA Annual Conference
by Heather Maloney and Kellie Tilton
UCBA Library Director, Heather Maloney and Instructional Technologies Librarian, Kellie Tilton headed to Orlando, Florida for the American Library Association Annual Conference.
Heather Maloney attended a pre-conference session on Transforming the Contributions of Student Employees in Your Library and thoroughly enjoyed listening to the passionate opening session speaker, Michael Eric Dyson. The exhibit floor was filled with the familiar and the new and probably a few too many giveaways…but how do you say no to a free book?!
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- Heather Maloney, UCBA Library Director
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- ALA celebrates it’s 140th birthday
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- ALA Annual Conference
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- Program for General Session speaker, Michael Eric Dyson
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- Heather’s conference swag.
Kellie Tilton spent a good chunk of time at ALA sitting in a, thankfully, air-conditioned hotel conference room for her super-secret Alex Committee meetings. She also managed to check out the fireworks at Epcot (sorry, IllumiNations) and had a blast wandering the exhibit hall. Swag she was most excited about? The Ruth Bader Ginsburg tote bag she will add to her collection.
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- Instructional Technologies Librarian, Kellie Tilton, at the American Library Association Conference. June 2016.
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- ALA in Orlando, FL
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- ALA Exhibits Hall
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- Library of Congress Exhibit Booth
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- Make Your Own Zine table
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- Disney Conference Ribbon
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- Librarians Step Guide
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- Fireworks at IllumiNations
New Students are Here!
by Lauren Wahman
Lauren Wahman talks with a student at the Resource Fair.
The UCBA Library is excited to be a partner once again in this year’s Summer Orientation Program. Each week, incoming freshman are arriving on campus Continue reading
UCBA Library Swag
Our library staff have been known to collect and gather library themed items. We thought we’d share a few of our favorite items with you. Click on an image to learn more.
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- Kellie Tilton’s Nancy Pearl Action Figure + Library Playset!
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- Lauren Wahman’s Librarian Action Figure
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- Michelle McKinney’s t-shirt collection
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- Lauren Wahman’s Personal Library supply box.
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- Heather Maloney’s law library gavel.
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- Kellie Tilton’s Librarian Rubber Duck
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- Michelle McKinney’s bookmark collection.
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- Michelle McKinney’s – Librarian Nut
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- Kellie Tilton’s collection of tote bags.
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- Lauren Wahman’s Tshirts
UCBA Librarians Lend a Helping Hand for UC Serves 2016
Michelle McKinney (L) and Lauren Wahman (R)
UCBA Librarians participated in the 3rd annual UC Serves day of service on Friday, May 6th. Instruction Services Librarian, Lauren Wahman’s Continue reading
Academy of Fellows for Teaching & Learning Launches Journal for Research & Practice in College Teaching
by Heather Maloney
The Academy of Fellows for Teaching & Learning at the University of Cincinnati has launched the inaugural issue of their peer reviewed, open access journal entitled Journal for Research & Practice in College Teaching [JRPCT]. The AFTL’s objective is to publish articles promoting student learning with themes around effective practices in teaching and learning. Ruth Benander, Brenda Refaei, Gene Kramer and Rita Kumar are the current editorial team. The JRPCT is a beta project for Journals@UC, a pilot initiative supported jointly by the UC Libraries and IT@UC. Journals@UC is designed to complement Scholar@UC and uses open source software developed by the Public Knowledge Project. For additional information about the pilot, please contact journals@uc.edu.
The inaugural issue of JRPCT can be accessed here: https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/jrpct/issue/view/49
UCBA Library Hours for Spring Semester Exam Week
by Julie Robinson
UCBA Library Hours – Exam Week 2016
Remember – shuttle service starts at 6:45a Monday through Thursday!
Sat. April 23 – noon-4p
Sun. April 24 – noon-4p
Mon. April 25 – 7:30a-9p
Tue. April 26 – 7:30a-9p
Wed. April 27 – 7:30a-9p
Thur. April 28 – 7:30a-9p
Fri. April 29 – noon-4p
Break hours begin Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 8th. The library will be open Closed Saturdays and Sundays during that time and open Monday through Thursday from noon-5p and Friday from noon-4p. We will reopen Monday, May 9th under our Summer Semester hours, Monday through Thursday from 8a-6p and Friday from 8a-4p, and Closed Saturday and Sunday. Please check out our website to plan your visit,http://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/cgi-bin/calcium/Calcium40.pl?CalendarName=UCBA&EventID=142&Date=2016%2F4%2F22
UCBA Library’s Whiteboards and Wine Event Wraps up NLW 2016
The UCBA Library wrapped up National Library Week 2016 with Whiteboards & Wine. Faculty came out to relax in the midst of end-of-semester activities with light snacks and wine. Faculty enjoyed coloring with artwork from various library collections, answered some fun, reading related questions and viewed the library’s NLW #librarytransforms video.
Many thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate National Library Week!
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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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- Coasters
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- Pam Ranky notes her favorite guilt-free book
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- Some favorite guilt-free pleasure reading?
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- A little wine, cheese, fruit, and photobombing.
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- Personal library collections
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- Eric Anderson’s desk…
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- Book organization
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- Tres Kutcher and Eric Anderson discuss current reads
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- Ruth Benander enjoys the coloring pages
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- Unwinding with Whiteboards and Wine
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- Ruth Benander in deep thought.
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- Favorite books read this year.
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- Favorite fictional villians
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- Current reads
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- As seen in the library…
Heather Maloney Receives the Dean’s Award for Faculty Excellence
by Michelle McKinney
Dean Cady Short-Thompson and Heather Maloney
Dean Cady Short-Thompson selected UCBA Library Director, Heather Maloney for the Dean’s Award for Faculty Excellence during the 2016 UC Blue Ash Silent Auction & Distinguished Awards. The newly created award, just announced on April 7th, is intended to recognize outstanding faculty members in each college who represent excellence in all its forms. These awards are for those individuals who deans feel have done an exceptionally outstanding job for their college or department in the past year. Each college may select up to two faculty members who will be recognized as the inaugural group of recipients and will receive $2,000 in discretionary funds to be used to support their teaching or research. These faculty development awards are meant to recognize their contributions to their respective colleges and to UC, as well as support their professional efforts.
It was a surprise to everyone last night at the awards ceremony as it was a recently created award and wasn’t listed on the program. Heather considers this a win for the UCBA Library and all of the amazing library staff too. Upon receiving the award, she noted that “all the good that comes out of the library is a result of the collaboration and talents of the library team.”
Congratulations to Heather and all of her fellow award recipients!
Visit the UC Blue Ash Facebook album to see more photos from the 2016 UC Blue Ash Silent Auction & Distinguished Awards.