The UCBA Library will be CLOSED in observance of Labor Day:
Monday, September 4, 2017
Regular library hours will resume on Tuesday, September 5, 2017
What I Did On My Summer Vacation, Part II
by Kellie Tilton
Hi, again! Kellie Tilton, UCBA Librarian, back to give you part two of my Summer Vacation Library Adventures. If you miss the first one, it is available here!
Our very official EduLearn portrait.
In July, I was fortunate enough to travel to Barcelona, Spain to present at the 2017 EduLearn Conference with Becky Leporati, my colleague in the Langsam Library. We had submitted two presentations for consideration and both were accepted. The first, A Flipped Classroom is an Inclusive Classroom, was about incorporating Universal Design into eLearning projects and the second, Format Choices are Content Choices, involved selecting the right format to design eLearning projects.
The conference itself was an international, with 80 countries represented. I met educators from the UK, South Africa, Sweden, Australia and more and was able to learn so much about the similarities and differences in our approach to technology in education.
It was also my first trip to Spain and it was absolutely beautiful. I took a few days of vacation so I was able to visit Madrid and Toledo, as well. All three cities were awe-inspiring, the people were friendly and welcoming and taking in the culture and heritage of Spain there only made me want to go back again.
It was an amazing experience and I am so grateful I was able to present and attend!
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- Our badges not only identified our name and institution, but also what country we were from.
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- Conferring with our amazing Session Chair, Maria Susy Rogers, from the University of New South Wales.
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- Becky and I outside the conference hall! We made it!
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- Looking down a Barcelona street.
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- The Toledo Cathedral at night.
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- Outside Casa Batllo in Barcelona!
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- While I was in Barcelona, I had to grab the Catalan version of Harry Potter for my collection!
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- If you read, say you read!
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- I stumbled on a public library in Madrid!
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- My time coincided with World Pride 2017 in Madrid.
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- Inside the Royal Palace of Madrid.
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- Inside Barcelona’s La Sagrada Familia!
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- The city of Toledo, where everything inside the wall is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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- In Toledo, I climbed the Cathedral’s tower, which let me pose for this awesome photo with the largest bell in Spain.
Health Sciences Library – Frequently Asked Questions about Access
We want your access to and interaction with resources at the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library (HSL) to go as smoothly as possible. The following tutorials and Guides address some of the most frequently asked questions about access.
Tutorials:
- How to Access Health Sciences Library Resources from Off Campus
- How to Access Full Text Articles via the UC Article Linker Button
- How to Register for InterLibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services
- How To Request Full Text Articles Not Available at UC
- How to Access UC eBooks – Focus on UCLID
- How to Access UC eBooks – Focus on AccessPharmacy
Guides:
Need additional assistance?
- Phone: 513-558-0127
- HSL IT Support: 513-558-4173
- IT@UC Help Desk: 513-556-4357 or 866-397-3382
Student Art Spotlight at Clermont College Library
This semester the library is proud to exhibit the art of Terri Teague. Ms. Teague, who serves as lab manager for the Fine Arts programs at UC Clermont, has been a friendly fixture around our campus for many years. In fact, she’s helped to install many of the beautiful art exhibits around our campus, including those in the art gallery and the library.
Ms. Teague’s exhibit includes fourteen individual portraits in a variety of mediums—pencil, watercolor, acrylic, and pastel. In her artist statement, she credits the gifted teachers at UC Clermont with teaching her to draw and paint, “open[ing] my eyes to a new way of looking at the world.”
Come check out Terri Teague’s work in the library’s Student Art Spotlight through December 2017. And, as always, we thank Fine Arts faculty Kelly Frigard and Kim Taylor for their dedicated support of the Student Art Spotlight since 2015.
Katie Foran-Mulcahy
Library Director
Job posting: Digital Lab Manager, University of Cincinnati Libraries
The University of Cincinnati Libraries is seeking a Digital Lab Manager (a 3-year renewable position). The successful candidate will direct the operations of a digital lab in a university research library, including digitizing rare books, manuscripts and special collections, managing digitization projects and workflows, maintaining equipment and software, providing quality control, and supervising student assistants. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and diverse organization in a great university, great city, with high potential for interesting technical work.
Evaluation of candidates begins on September 21, 2017. The University of Cincinnati is an EE/AA employer. For more information and application instructions see: https://jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Digital-Lab-Manager-OH-45201/425512200/.
GIS Learning Community – First Meeting for 2017-2018
GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems. GIS has applications for both teaching and research across many disciplines.
Do you need to visualize your spatial data but don’t know how? Do you have spatial data but don’t know how to map it? Are you looking for guidance or have expertise to share regarding the analysis of spatial data? Are you an ArcGIS, Q-GIS or other GIS program user and want to connect with other people who use these programs? Are you simply curious about GIS and want to learn more?
The GIS Learning Community can help you address these and other questions. The goal of the community is to be a user-driven forum for novice and expert practitioners to come together and discuss tools, resources, projects and solutions surrounding the spatial aspects of their data. We invite interested individuals across all of UC to join us in building this community. The community is open to All Faculty, Staff and Students, as well as interested parties from outside of UC. Please share with your colleagues and students.
The Details –
Date: September 6, 2017
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 pm
Place: (VENUE CHANGE 480 Langsam)
Light refreshments will be served
RSVP and Join the GIS LC at https://form.jotform.us/72324913145149.
If you are interested in the GIS Learning Community and are not able to come to the first meeting, RSVP or email ASKGIS@UC.Edu to be added to the GIS LC email list. Future invites will go to the GIS LC email list only.
More information is available on the GIS LC page on the GIS research guide: http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/GIS/GISLC
Take our textbooks anywhere
Great news – our textbooks are now available for checkout beyond the library’s walls!
The library purchases core textbooks for Clermont College classes, and they’d previously been available for 2-hour checkout inside the library only. We’ve relaxed our policy, so now students can take them ANYWHERE for 2 hours. Take your book to class, take your book outside, take your book to Subway – whatever floats your boat.
If you have any questions about our textbooks, please contact the library’s Public Services Manager, Natalie Winland.
Let’s make fall 2017 a great semester, together!
Classics Students: Welcome to a New Academic Year!
New releases of guides and tutorials this fall include:
- “The Classics Library Guide” which in addition to highlighting the history of the Library and some of its works of art, offers a detailed description of the circulation policies in the Classics Library and advice on how to search the Library Catalog. https://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/liblog/2017/08/classics-library-guide/
- “A Virtual Tour of the Library” which offers a brief introduction to the physical layout, collections, and staff of the Classics Library. Because virtual tours are expected to be kept to a minimum length, there is much that had to be left out including additional physical locations and collections, but this virtual tour may at least offer some basic understanding of how the materials are organized as well as offer a somewhat lighthearted presentation accessible to classicists and non-classicists alike. https://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/liblog/2017/08/classics-tour/
- “A Research Guide for Classics Majors” is a tutorial chiefly directed at undergraduate students: however, beginning grad students may also benefit from learning something about the Library Catalog and some of the digital resources in the Library. http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/classics-research
Following a survey conducted among classics grad students in the spring, the Classics Library has enacted a few additions and changes: Continue reading
New and Returning Library Student Assistants Are Ready To Serve
The UCBA Library is pleased to welcome five new student assistants for the 2017-2018 school year. They are joined by five returning student assistants. Together, they assist students, staff and faculty by answering general questions about the library and its policies, checking materials in and out, facilitating study room usage, and providing instruction on how to use the various tools and resouces available in the library.
UCBA Library Student Assistants