The Archives and Rare Books Library is proud to announce our partnership with the Cincinnati Museum Center. The Museum Center just announced their Shakespeare exhibit, which ARB is helping them prepare! Opening August 25th, the exhibit will be centered on Shakespeare’s First Folio (published 1623). The Folio is generously being lent to CMC by the Folger Shakespeare Library, which toured the work throughout the U.S. just last year. The exhibit will explore Shakespeare through time—how his works have adapted, what’s influenced new interpretations, and how appreciation of his work has evolved. There will be a focus on how Cincinnati has interacted with Shakespeare over time. Continue reading
African American Physicians in Cincinnati: Past, Present, & Future
The Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions and the University of Cincinnati Libraries are proud to sponsor the 2017 annual Cecil Striker Lecture and exhibit. This year the program is entitled African American Physicians in Cincinnati: Past, Present & Future and features an inter-generational panel discussing challenges faced in the early integration of all-White hospitals and medical colleges, holding those doors open for others, the current state of African American physicians, and many other topics.
A corresponding exhibit chronicling the history not only of African Americans in the health professions in Cincinnati, but also, the history of health care opportunities for African Americans in the city opens on the same date.
We hope you can make it for this enlightening discussion and exhibit. Click on the invitation at right for more information and to RSVP.
In the meantime enjoy some images from the exhibit.
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- Dr. Charles E. Horner was born in 1882 attended the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati. He began a practice in Newport where most of his patients were Caucasian. As stated in Dabney’s “Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens” in 1926, Horner was making a significant living as a physician in Newport.
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- The Shoemaker Clinic was an early healthcare facility for African Americans in Cincinnati. Image courtesy of Cincinnati Museum Center.
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- Image taken from Shoemaker Annual Report, 1926. Image courtesy of Cincinnati Museum Center.
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- Two Evangeline Booth Home and Hospital midwives, Cincinnati, OH, c. 1915. Image Courtesy of Red Cross Archives
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- Lucy Oxley (center) was the first African American to graduate from the UC College of Medicine in 1935.
‘Preserving the Past for the Future’ Exhibit Showcases Preservation Lab
Just in time for Preservation Week (April 23-29), a new exhibit, “Preserving the Past… for the Future,” showcases the services and mission of the Preservation Lab.
Beginning in January of 2012, the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (PLCH) and University of Cincinnati Libraries (UCL) began a long-term collaboration to provide conservation and preservation treatments in an equally-managed, staffed, and equipped preservation lab situated in UC’s Walter C. Langsam Library. Employees from both PLCH and UCL work on the general circulating and rare/special collections of each institution.
The exhibit, located on the 4th floor of Langsam Library, showcases the work of the lab as well as educates about the difference between preservation and conservation, what makes an item a “special collection,” and the techniques and tools used in the care of collections. The exhibit also features both before and after images of the treatment done to the objects and explains the process. The exhibit was curated by Holly Prochaska, preservation librarian, Ashleigh Schieszer, lab conservator, and Jessica Ebert, conservation technician, and was designed by Jessica Burhans, communications co-op design student. Continue reading
Service Note for ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan) Users
In order to keep interlibrary loan information as private as possible, we are purging all transactions from our ILLiad database that were submitted prior to January 1, 2013.
Currently, you could find a list of everything you ever requested through ILL by logging into your ILLiad account and clicking on View > All Requests (which includes items currently checked out) or View > History Requests. While this can serve as a useful record, in the future, if you want to keep a copy of your request history, you will need to download your requests using the instructions below. We will keep a rolling history of four complete calendar years and the current year. At this time we need to remove several years of records and future removal of records will occur in January of each year. Continue reading
LabArchives Electronic Lab Notebook
The Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, with funding from the University of Cincinnati’s Office of the Provost, is pleased to present the LabArchives Electronic Lab Notebook.
LabArchives has been selected as the Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) vendor of choice due to its ability to assist in maintaining compliance, and to capture, secure and control data.
LabArchives:
- Provides discipline agnostic tools and plugins to increase functionality, research efficiency, and management of laboratory data.
- Is compliant with Federal mandates including: Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Internet2 Guidelines, FDA- 21 CFR Part 11 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).
- Is a secure and intuitive cloud-based application enabling researchers to easily create, store, share and manage their research data.
- Provides a flexible, extensible platform that can be easily customized to match your lab’s workflow providing benefits to Principal Investigators, lab managers’ staff, post doctoral fellows and grad students.
- Can be integrated seamlessly with GraphPad Prism, MS-Office, PubMed, Box, Learning Management Systems and other software tools that are used extensively by Academic Health Center and university wide researchers.
- Works on multiple platforms and devices including Mac, Windows, Android and iPad, allowing researchers to store and access their data virtually from anywhere with Internet access.
LabArchives has a platform in place that will provide UC researchers with tremendous data management capabilities and research efficiency.
- An enterprise-wide license with LabArchives has been obtained for the Academic Health Center (AHC), which includes the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health Sciences and Pharmacy. This provides an unlimited amount of licenses to members of the UC AHC.
- An additional 100 licenses have been reserved for non-Academic Health Center UC affiliates, and each of these additional licenses will be distributed on a first-come, first-served method.
For more information about LabArchives: http://www.labarchives.com/
To sign up for a LabArchives Electronic Lab Notebook, please use the following campus links:
East Campus LabArchives Sign-up: https://mynotebook.labarchives.com/
West Campus LabArchives Sign-up: https://redcap.research.cchmc.org/surveys/?s=CP8D39PAH4
Contact Tiffany Grant, PhD, Research Informationist at the Harrison Health Sciences Library if you have questions. 558-9153 or joffritm@ucmail.uc.edu.
Please be aware that the total cost of the trial is paid through December 2017. Earnest efforts are being made to solidify continued funding. If funding is not obtained, users of the notebook may be asked to pay $124 per notebook per year after this date if they wish to continue use. Should researchers choose not to continue use, notebook contents can be downloaded for archival purposes.
Facts & Comparisons eAnswers – New Redesigned Interface
Facts & Comparisons eAnswers has moved to their new redesigned interface!
For tips on how to use the new interface and enhanced content and tools, check out training videos and the quick reference guide also available from the lower right-hand corner of the Facts & Comparison eAnswers home page.
Winners of the Clermont College Library’s 6th Annual Haiku Contest
Clermont College Library received 73 exceptional haiku entries from 31 students this year.
First place winner, Treva Noakes-Miller, won a $50 gift card and all winners will be published in the East Fork, Clermont’s online literary journal.
1st Place
Our footsteps were wild
Untamed, sporadic. Underneath,
The grass breathed heavy
Treva Noakes-Miller
2nd Place
Humid air I choke,
The swelter of summer mist,
I cough up rain clouds.
Julia Wahle
3rd Place
I have never seen
ever more than one heron,
is it the same one?
Benjamin Ward
Honorable Mentions
Buy the neighbors land,
you go to take down the fence,
a tree grows through it
Benjamin Ward
They found the perfect soldier,
I could’ve followed them to hell and back,
and maybe I did.
McKenzie Bracco
In the dead of night
She suffered and was born dead
Through love she breathed
Christine Campbell
That night he held me
Fireflies were candlelight
And my ribs, a cage
Treva Noakes-Miller
Wrinkled sky, ripped clouds
Creases where you leaned in, drowned.
Ripples without sound
Treva Noakes-Miller
My art is something
raised by howling packs of wolves
drawing little lambs.
Jillian Cofskey
Penny McGinnis
Technical Services Manager
Dean’s Corner: Spring 2017 Dean’s Advisory Council
The spring meeting of my Dean’s Advisory Council (DAC) focused on the fourth pillar of UC Libraries’ Strategic Plan: Data to Information to Knowledge. The heart of this pillar is library collections and new forms of scholarship. In order to provide a holistic view of the multi-faceted work we do at UC Libraries curating, preserving, and digitizing our collections, I invited three UCL librarians to come discuss their work with the council: Eira Tansey, digital archivist and records manager; Gino Pasi, archivist and curator for the Winkler Center of the Health Professions; and Sally Moffitt, reference librarian and bibliographer. Our fourth presenter was the new director of the University of Cincinnati Press, Liz Scarpelli.
UCBA Library Concludes a Successful National Library Week 2017
The UCBA Library enjoyed celebrating National Library week with our students, staff and faculty. Visitors had the chance to relax with a little coloring therapy throughout the week and sweet treats were shared on Thursday Continue reading
UCBA Library Exam Hours
UCBA Library Hours
Exam Week 2017
Saturday, April 22 through Thursday, April 27
Sat. April 22 – noon-4p
Sun. April 23 – noon-4p
Mon. April 24 – 7:30a-9p
Tue. April 25 – 7:30a-9p
Wed. April 26 – 7:30a-9p
Thur. April 27 – 7:30a-9p
Remember – shuttle service starts at 7:15a Monday through Thursday! Visit the Shuttle Service page for more information.
Break Hours
Friday, April 28th through Sunday, May 7th
Monday – Thursday: noon – 5p
Friday: noon – 4p
Closed Saturdays and Sundays
Summer Semester Hours
Monday, May 8th through Saturday, August 5th
Monday – Thursday: 8a – 6p
Friday: 8a – 5p
Closed Saturdays and Sundays
For more information and additional holiday closures, visit the UC Blue Ash Library Hours.