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New Exhibit, “Writing UC’s Past,” Combines Flash Fiction with Historic Photographs
From the Archives and Rare Books Library
A new exhibit on display on the 5th floor lobby of Langsam Library features original pieces of flash fiction describing historic images from the collections of UC’s Archives and Rare Books Library.
Flash fiction is a term to describe writing that is extremely brief, typically only a few hundred words or fewer in its entirety. The three pieces in the exhibit average only 300 words but are rich in content. Continue reading
And the Winners Are…Edible Books 2017
Best Overall – Capturing the List: The Birth of Photography by Ashleigh Schieszer
The University of Cincinnati Libraries celebrated the International Edible Books Festival for the 15th year on April 4, 2017.
Twenty-one students, librarians, and staff submitted entries that ranged from children’s books to literary classics to popular fiction and were made of cakes, cookies, candy, and even beans. Each entry was judged and awarded a bookmark. The winners are:
- Most Photogenic – Ten Little Ladybugs by Melissa Cox Norris
- Most Original – City of Bones by Michelle Burhans
- Most Humorous – How to Eat Fried Worms by Tate Snyder
- Most Whimsical – One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Sami Scheidler
- Most Creative – The Manual of Detection by Jenny Mackiewicz
- Most Beautiful – Uncle Monarch and the Day of the Dead by Elaine Ignatius
- Most Magical – Charlotte’s Web by Michelle Wagner
- Most Honorable – Lord of the Rings: One Ring to Rule Them All by Nicole Beletis
- Most Adorable – Green Eggs and Ham by Sara Mihaly
- Most Clever – The Creature from the Black Legume by Linda Newman
- Most Gruesome – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Jack Norris
- Most Deadly – Girl on the Train by Holly Prochaska
- Most Surprising – Twisted by Olga Hart
- Most Mysterious – Heart of Darkness by Ben Kline
- Most Scandalous – Fifty Shades of Grey by Jessica Burhans
- Most Checked Out – Pizza for Breakfast by Lorna and Jerry Newman
- Most Fun – Me Cookie by Sam Norris
- Best Overall – Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography by Ashleigh Schieszer
- Best Student Entry – I Spy by Tate Snyder
Attendees enjoying the treats at Edible Books
Congratulations to all the edible books creators. View the entries and the winners on the UC Libraries Facebook page. See you next year for Edible Books 2018!
UC Data Day 2017 Featured its First Student Poster Session
The major focus of UC Data Day is to build community around best practices for data and to provide a forum for discussion about challenges and opportunities in data management, data sharing, reproducible research and preservation.
At the first UC Data Day held in 2016, faculty panelists began the conversation and highlighted the diverse and broad approaches to these challenges. For the second UC Data Day, we wanted to include a student voice as well.
Welcome, Nick Wantsala, Technology and Equipment Specialist
We are pleased to announce that Nick Wantsala joined the Research, Teaching and Services (RTS) Department on March 27 as the technology and equipment specialist for The Desk @ Langsam.
Nick Wantsala
Nick comes to UC…from UC. Nick joined the old Circulation and Multimedia Services Department in 2011 as a student assistant. He was promoted to senior student assistant during his time with the department and helped many fellow student assistants throughout the strategic merge of departments that resulted in The Desk @ Langsam. Nick has interned at Fox19 and was the president of the UC African Students Association. After graduating in 2015 with a degree in communications, Nick joined RTS as a temporary student supervisor, then became the temporary employee for the old equipment assistant position.
As the technology and equipment specialist, Nick will manage daily operations of the circulating equipment collection and the Center for Excellence in eLearning’s faculty and staff mobile technology collection. His primary responsibilities will be the circulation, maintenance, inventory, and the education of and communication with users in relation to these materials. Nick will also be collaborating with librarians working on eLearning and digital literacy, as well as providing user services Monday-Friday at The Desk @ Langsam. He will work with staff in RTS, ILS, the STRC, Library IT, and CEeL to further investigate and curate new technologies and devices that will best aid our students as they engage in cutting edge learning.
Celebrating April with Poetry and Baseball
April is National Poetry Month and the start of baseball. With today being opening day in Cincinnati, what better poem to read than the classic “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. And check out this illustrated version. Continue reading
Music in the Gorno Library Thu. April 13, 2017
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oin us Thu. April 13 at 5:00 PM in the Gorno Library for a concert of sonatas for cello and piano by Beethoven and Brahms performed by Leah Plave and Fabio Menchetti. View program (pdf). The event is free and open to all.
A Few Calculators : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 43, March/April 2017
A circa 1930 American-made “Comptometer”
hand-cranked mechanical calculator.
Issue 43 gives a brief overview of some of the desktop and hand-held calculators used by chemists over the years and currently on display in the hallway outside of the Oesper Collections in Rieveschl Hall.
Click here for all other issues of Notes from the Oesper Collections and to explore the Jensen-Thomas Apparatus Collection.
Mozart in the Library: Act II
Ever wonder what people are playing while they are practicing the keyboard in Langsam and CCM Libraries? Jay Sinnard, manager of the Student Technology Resources Center, did so he asked one student if he could listen in.
Eliza Walsh, Spanish major.
Can you identify what she’s playing? Bach? Beethoven?
A collaboration between UC Libraries and the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), the keyboards are open to anyone wanting to play on a first come-first served basis, but bring your own headphone as they are required.
Provost Technology Innovation Award to Fund Data Visualization across Disciplines
The Provost Technology Innovation Award will fund visualization technology for faculty and students to communicate knowledge in graphical form.
Vendor supplied photograph of a data visualization wall.
The Office of the Provost has provided more than $1.3 million in funding to collaborating departments and groups across UC, helping each of them push the university community to new academic heights. UC Libraries, partnering with the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, the Carl H. Lindner College of Business and IT@UC was one of four Technology Innovation Award recipients recently announced with the successful proposal “Data Visualization Across Disciplines: Digital Literacy for the University of Cincinnati’s Third Century.” These partners will work together to invest in the development of an interdisciplinary undergraduate certificate in data visualization; training students to communicate complex data by placing it in a visual context. This cross-college program will incorporate coursework designed and team-taught by faculty, blending multiple perspectives on data visualization to a wide range of students. Data visualization is an emerging art and science that has changed people’s relationship with information. It harnesses new technologies to communicate knowledge in graphical form by merging aesthetic form with analytical function to present large and complex datasets in an intuitive and human-interpretable fashion.
From the Provost Office Announcement – As the University of Cincinnati moves toward its Bicentennial in 2019, the Office of the Provost supports academic and technological innovation keeping our university’s educational mission core to what we do and who we are at UC. This is the drive behind the Provost Technology Innovation Awards program, which funds projects developed by faculty and students who collaborate between colleges and discrete disciplines to support interdisciplinary projects that turn original ideas into reality. “At UC we have a strong, shared commitment to the continued modernization of the learning experience,” says Interim UC Provost Peter Landgren. “It is a pleasure to see the spirit of partnership change and improve the academic journey at the university through collaborative ideas like the ones funded through this program.”