Rare Cincinnati Pharmacy College Resources Now Available in UC’s Digital Resource Commons

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Melissa Cox Norris

This photo serves as a link to the work in our UC Library Catalog.

We are excited to announce that excerpts from Pharmaceutical Education In the Queen City : 150 Years of Service, 1850-2000 by Michael A. Flannery and Dennis B. Worthen, originally published in 2001, documenting the students and graduates who attended the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, Queen City College of Pharmacy, and the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy from 1850 through 2000 are now available in the UC Digital Resource Commons (DRC). The DRC started as an initiative of the OhioLink consortium of libraries to create a digital repository service that would help streamline access to unique collections and facilitate scholarly communication.

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The 25th General Hospital of WWII Experience: Airbase A-92 at Sint-Truiden

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Melissa Cox Norris

Modern photograph of Airbase A-92, Brustem.
Photo credit: Sue Carney.

By: Nathan Hood

While the University of Cincinnati’s 25^th General Hospital was departing for the World War II European Theater of Operations in the early 1940’s, Germany had already invaded Belgium and had secured a small, Belgian military airbase in the village of Brustem. Brustem remains today as a part of the Sint Truiden community (also known in French as Saint-Trond) and exists only a handful of miles North-West of the Belgian Caserne buildings in Tongres which were occupied by the University of Cincinnati 25^th General Hospital beginning in 1945.

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Shake it Up with Shakespeare This Weekend!

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Suzanne Reller

By: Sydney Vollmer

So what are you doing tonight? Tomorrow night? This weekend? Maybe you’ve already got your next few days filled up. That’s okay, because the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company will still have showings of Henry VI: The Wars of the Roses, Part 1 up through February 13^th! (And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with the cheating game on KISS107 in the mornings). This show is all about actual war. Continue reading →

Join us for Digital Humanities Speaker Dr. Élika Ortega

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Melissa Cox Norris

UC Libraries welcomes to campus February 29 and March 1 as the next expert in the Digital Humanities Speaker Series Dr. Élika Ortega, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas. Dr. Ortega will present a series of talks and hands-on workshops, all free and open to the public, in the Walter C. Langsam Library. Participants are encouraged to come to any or all sessions that are of interest to them and to their work.

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Scholar@UC Open for Self-Submissions

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Melissa Cox Norris

UC Libraries invites faculty and researchers to submit their research, creative and scholarly works to Scholar@UC, the university’s cutting-edge digital repository.

A digital repository makes accessible, enables re-use, stores, organizes and preserves the full range of an institution’s intellectual output, including all formats of scholarly, historical and research materials. Faculty and researchers can use Scholar@UC to collect their work in one location and create an Internet-enabled, durable and citable record of their papers, presentations, publications, data sets or other scholarly creations. With sponsorship from a faculty member, undergraduate and graduate students may also contribute their academic output, such as capstone projects, senior design projects, research data and other creative and scholarly works. Continue reading →

Darth Vader, WTFeth, Man?

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Suzanne Reller

By: Sydney Vollmer, ARB Intern

A brief moment ago, in a galaxy that is our own, Shakespeare has been reimagined. It is a time of artistic freedom and a lack of brand new ideas. Authors left and right are taking popular works and translating them into Shakespeare’s style. The remaining few are taking Shakespeare’s works and translating them into modern texts, literally. Star Wars is an empire that has befallen this fate. Iambic pentameter maketh Yoda sound yet wiser, and Han Solo a fairer knave. Thank thee Maker! Forsooth, never before have two groups with such extreme cult followings come together to create a new work! Shakespeare lovers and Star Wars fans alike can now come together. Continue reading →

Celebrate Black History Month with Kanopy

Posted on February 2, 2016 by hartod

Did you know that UC Libraries is offering thousands of streaming video titles with unlimited concurrent users for classroom or independent use? Through March 30th, UC Libraries is providing access to 26,000+ titles offered by Kanopy. When a title is accessed four times, a one year lease is automatically created. Contact a subject librarian with any questions.

Welcome to the New Entrance to the Geology-Mathematics-Physics Library

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Melissa Cox Norris

New exterior entrance.

When users of the Geology-Mathematics-Physics Library returned to campus for spring semester, they were greeted with a new entrance to the library. The more accessible and visible entrance is located on the exterior of Braunstein Hall across from the Old Chemistry Building and visible from the quad. It includes a book drop as well as a lounge space adjacent to the new entrance.

Over the next six months there are plans to improve the library’s upper level. First, the service desk and reserves will move across the room to be adjacent to the external entrance. In addition, more lounge and group collaboration spaces will be created, as well as a computing space to support GIS needs.

The new entrance will allow many people to discover, or re-discover, this library, and to make use of its resources.

View from the quad.

View of the interior and the lounge adjacent to the new entrance.

Poison!: Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 36, January/February 2016

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy

An overview of OSHA’s rating system for laboratory chemicals

Issue 36 provides a brief insight into the history of labeling chemical bottles.

Click here for all other issues of Notes from the Oesper Collections and to explore the Jensen-Thomas Apparatus Collection.

Dean Xuemao Wang to Join Steering Committee of SPARC

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Melissa Cox Norris

Dean of University Libraries, Xuemao Wang

The global coalition advocates Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.

Xuemao Wang, dean and university librarian, has been selected to serve on the Steering Committee of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

SPARC is a global coalition of 200+ academic and research libraries that works to enable open sharing of research output and educational materials in order to “democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery and increase the return on investment in research and education.” To achieve this mission, SPARC collaborates with authors, publishers, libraries, students, policymakers and the public to build opportunities and promote changes to make open access the default for research and education. Continue reading →