For 100 years, the Arlitt Center has been a cornerstone of early childhood education, founded as one of the nation’s first laboratory preschools and continuously championing the rights and potential of young children. The center was founded by Ada Hart Arlitt, PhD, University of Cincinnati faculty member and a prominent figure in early childhood psychology and the child study movement.
An exhibit on display on the fourth floor of the Walter C. Langsam Library celebrates the past, present and future of the Arlitt Center. Included in the exhibit are images from the Archives and Rare Books Library and a bibliography of published works by Ada Hart Arlitt.
The Archives and Rare Books Library holds the Ada Hart Arlitt Papers, containing correspondence related to her professional activities as a faculty member in the Department of Child Care and Training at UC, as well as her involvement with the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. A finding aid about the collection is available.
The exhibit was a collaboration between with Arlitt Center and UC Libraries. Reece Guthier, communication design co-op student, designed the exhibit.
The University of Cincinnati Libraries and the Elliston Poetry Room announce the next roster of poets for Poetry Stacked. At the event, scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 5pm in the Student Wellness Center located at 480 Steger Student Life Center, three poets will read their original work:
Rebecca Lindenberg is the author of three books of poems: Love, an Index, The Logan Notebooks, and most recently, Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible. She’s the recipient of an NEA literature grant, an Amy Lowell poetry fellowship, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize, and has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She’s a member of the poetry faculty here at the University of Cincinnati where she also serves as Poetry Editor for the Cincinnati Review.
Marcus Donaldson is a writer with a lot of questions. Their work has appeared in The Burr Magazine, The Cincinnati Review’s miCRo Series, and is forthcoming in Oxeye Reader. Marcus lives with their family in Cincinnati, Ohio, and teaches American literature at a local high school.
Jo Wallace is a poet from Indiana. She received an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and she is the editor of Bad Lineage. Her poems appear in Conjunctions, Image, Seneca Review, New American Writing, the Minnesota Review and other places.
This special session of Poetry Stacked is a collaboration with UC’s Student Wellness Center and will focus on mental health. It will include an open mic after the initial reading. Those in the UC community interested in reading their original poetry, can sign up to share a 2-3 minute performance of poetry they’ve written about their mental health journey.
The evening will conclude with a reception open to all in attendance.
A semi-regular poetry reading series, the mission of Poetry Stacked is to celebrate poetry and raise awareness of the collections of both UC Libraries and the Elliston Poetry Room.
Each reading engages audiences via exposure to contemporary poetry and increases appreciation for both the talents of UC and community poets, as well as for poetry itself. Poetry Stacked is free and open to all to attend. Following each reading, guests are invited to tour the Elliston Poetry Room.
The University of Cincinnati Libraries is launching a new series of workshops focused on systematic reviews where researchers can work through the review process with the support of our experienced librarians.
Systematic reviews are large projects that are rigorous, multi-faceted, and lengthy undertakings. We have designed these workshops to be accessed as a series or independently so that researchers can tailor their learning to their current progress from research question to publication.
If you are interested in conducting a systematic review or other type of comprehensive review, join us for one or more of the workshops by registering on Faculty OneStop.
The Library Services Platform (LSP) upgrade included OneSearch, a new user discovery interface for finding and accessing resources in the Libraries’ collections.
Need help using OneSearch?
OneSearch Drop-in Hours in Langsam: UC Libraries is hosting two drop-in sessions in Langsam Library where students, faculty and staff can learn about the new system and get assistance with any questions. Drop by on Monday, Aug. 25 and/or Tuesday, Aug. 26 between 12pm and 2pm where librarians will be on hand to demo OneSearch and answer any questions.
The new user discovery interface streamlines search functions and access to local library resources and scholarly research. OneSearch offers new and improved features and benefits including:
Faster searching – search electronic and print resources in one search,
Enhanced discovery – explore automatic recommendations, citation trails, availability in multiple formats and track requests, including finding resources across the OhioLINK network,
Personalized features – save preferences, searches, citations and export to citation management systems,
More intuitive user experience, and
Mobile friendly – a responsive user interface designed specifically for mobile devices.
Last November, the University of Cincinnati Libraries announced the award of an Archives Grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to the Libraries’ Archives and Rare Books Library (ARB). This grant supports the archival processing of records related to the lawsuit Bronson v. Board of Education of the City School District of the City of Cincinnati maintained by the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and donated to the University of Cincinnati in the 1980s.
History of alternative programs and schools
Alternative programs and schools in Cincinnati Public Schools existed prior to the Bronson v. Board of Education lawsuit and continued to grow in numbers as the case proceeded. These programs were designed to give students more opportunities in the classroom compared to the standard taught subjects. These were voluntary programs and open to students of all ages.
Field research is an exciting time, filled with travel, discoveries, and hope of breaking new ground. I recently traveled southwest Michigan, visiting four repositories in four days to research an event known as the Kentucky Raid, an attempt in 1847 by slavecatchers to kidnap African Americans residing in Cass County, Michigan thwarted by nonviolent resistance. This was a successful effort thanks to strong preparation and planning that allowed for thorough research of many resources.
First off, what was the Kentucky Raid? It remains little known or documented outside of Cass County. Kentucky plantation owners and bounty hunters sought to kidnap escaped slaves residing in a county that was also a hotbed of the Underground Railroad. However, the alarm was raised, free African Americans and whites confronted the slavecatchers and forced them through a hurried court trial to release the victims.
To start, I determined what I was going to research: not what happened but how memories and histories have shaped perspectives of the raid. This may appear simple, but it determined what repositories to visit, what collections to research, and what information to look for. This made for a more efficient effort on limited time.
This was especially important as records relating to the raid are scattered across southwest Michigan. Establishing the research goal allowed me to narrow the search to four repositories: the Cass District Library Local History Branch, the James E. Bonine House, the Lemmen Library & Archives at Grand Valley State University, and the Regional History Collections at Western Michigan University.
Before visiting any repositories came several steps. The first was presenting the goal and receiving supervisor permission. These helped secure funding for travel, meals, and living arrangements. Once they were approved and funded, I developed a schedule to ensure I used my limited time efficiently. As I was traveling every day between sites, I selected a hotel with a location central to them and a rental car for travel. One last step prior to visiting was contacting each repository a month in advance to give staff sufficient time to search collections for the necessary records.
The volumes of records yielded in these searches varied among the repositories. Which was why I had to decide on whether I had time to research them or make copies to research later. Two repositories had fewer records than the other two, giving me time to research them. The volume of records at the other two forced me to focus less on research and more on looking for records that could be worth researching and marking them for reproduction.
All these efforts served to make this a successful research trip in hope of showing how perspectives have changed of the Kentucky Raid over time. Yet all this would not have been possible without setting that goal, doing proper preparation, and determining where to visit and what to research.
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Citation Managers
The library supports Zotero (a free open source option) and EndNote (a subscription based option). Zotero is free for everyone, while EndNote is available for free to all individuals at the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Allied Health Sciences. Individuals outside of these colleges are required to purchase EndNote. Citation managers help you to easily save and organize your references. They also provide a write and cite feature with a plug in for Word, Pages, or Google Docs. Learn more at: https://guides.libraries.uc.edu/citation
Covidence
Online tool that streamlines the process of literature intense research projects (such as systematic and scoping reviews).
We are excited to share that Julia Carr-Trebelhorn has joined UC Libraries as the Service Coordinator for the Oesper Collections in the History of Chemistry. Julia earned a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology in 2023 from the University of Oxford. In addition, she holds a BA (English Literature) and MA (Art History) from the University of Kentucky, where she also completed courses in Materials Science, Ceramic Engineering and Chemistry.
Julia brings a wealth of experience in the history of science, special collections and museums that will benefit both the Oesper Collections and UC Libraries more broadly, including experiences in operations and collections management. As the Service Coordinator, her duties include: facilitating public operating hours for the Oesper Collections, coordinating tour requests, assisting with compiling statistics and stories on engagement with the collections, collaborating on displays and digital projects and much more. In the Science and Engineering Libraries unit, Julia will also have responsibilities in supporting the CEAS Library collections and operations.
Last November, the University of Cincinnati Libraries announced the award of an Archives Grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to the Libraries’ Archives and Rare Books Library (ARB). This grant supports the archival processing of records related to the lawsuit Bronson v. Board of Education of the City School District of the City of Cincinnati maintained by the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and donated to the University of Cincinnati in the 1980s.
Image from Cincinnati Enquirer, November 14, 1978
The struggle of busing
During the legal proceedings of the Bronson case, one of the examples of discrimination within Cincinnati schools cited by the NAACP was the policy of busing students to school further away rather than allowing them to attend a much closer school in order to prevent integration at particular schools.
