The National Book Foundation has a new blog up to celebrate it’s 60th anniversary. The Blog features 77 fiction novels that have won their National Book Award. Notice something strange?
“The National Book Foundation, celebrating its 60th anniversary, is running a series celebrating the 77 novels that have won its fiction award — or rather, awards. Because obviously somebody got fancy in there if they ended up with 17 more winning books than there have been years.”
Welcome New Student Orientation
Langsam Library is playing host to new students 10-11am, June 30-Aug 13.
UC Libraries Orientation Volunteers are giving new students a taste of what’s available in the Libraries. While visiting Langsam, the new students spend time in the Info Commons to learn about the UC Libraries Web site, printing in the libraries, and to take their turn at trying to stump a peer mentor on their trivia knowledge.
Early American Fiction- now accessible via the UC Libraries Indexes & Databases list.
The direct URL is: http://ebooks.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ch/
This new resources is described as:
“Early American Fiction contains 440 works of 80 novelists and short-story writers, 1774-1850. Continue reading
The new exhibit on display in Langsam Library’s 5th floor display case highlights pop-up and mechanical books in UC Libraries.
Our new Blog allows us to feature some new resources that might be of interest to the Library community.
The following titles were recently added to the OhioLINK EJC (Electronic Journal Center):
A new digital collection is available at the University of Cincinnati Libraries Digital Projects Web site.
C. Szwedzicki: The North American Indian Works , is a collection of 364 images and texts showcasing North American Indian art. Continue reading
On June 15-19 a group of UCL librarians presented the 2009 Early Summer Institute for faculty. The instructional technology institute funded by the Faculty Development Council has become a good tradition in recent years. This year’s topics and applications included Dreamweaver, RefWorks, image and video editing software as well as a wide spectrum of Web 2.0 technologies ranging from Google applications to Twitter. 20 faculty members from 5 colleges attended the Institute and found the experience very vaulable. Here are some of their comments:
We look forward to hearing how our alumni intergrate what they learned at the Institute into their teaching.
A newly upgraded version of the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center software will go live on Monday, June 1, 2009.
While the main OhioLINK E-Book Center page found at http://ebooks.ohiolink.edu will not change, the upgrade allows for several improvements to the software that runs the Scholarly & Reference and American & English Literature Collections, including: Continue reading
All are on display in Langsam Library- stop by for a look!
Recommended by the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table. Continue reading
It has been a busy year for reference and instructional librarians. We have met a lot of students through library sessions, at the InfoCommons, and through e-mail and chat transactions. We hope to help everyone who needs our assistance this quarter! Please find links to various forms of personal assistance here.
A lot of useful information is available online. Please visit the instruction page for students, including course guides for specific classes and assignments, and check out the How Do I?.. pages.
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