Registration for the workshop can be completed here. | For more information, please contact Emma Jones (Emma.Jones@uc.edu)
What Fools We Mortals Be
By: Sydney Vollmer
We all remember Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. What a little imp. Well, actually, he isn’t quite an imp. He’s more of a hobgoblin. In fact, Puck is less a name than a species. Throughout mythology, “Puck” is interchangeable with “Robin Goodfellow.” The names come in different forms among various languages, but they all translate roughly to either “pixie” or “hobgoblin.”
Throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream, poor Puck is given orders to put spells on people he doesn’t recognize and things go awry. His willingness to perform, and then correct, shows his true obedience to King Oberon. However, if you aren’t King of the Fairies, a puck may not be as obedient. Pucks have a knack for being temperamental. It’s said that they’ve been known to do some minor household chores if they take a liking to you, but the helpfulness stops as soon as you offend them. Continue reading
Presidential Election 2016
Although some people may feel their vote really doesn’t matter, our 32nd president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, stated, “Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.”
(from “Quotations” From Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Washington, D. C.: Republican national committee, 1938.)
The UC Clermont College Library has election resources:
- Research Guide, Election Resources at UCBA will help with election information and locations, news and fact checking.
- Search UC’s news and magazine articles to learn about candidates or voting. Check out the New York Times Presidential Candidates page.
- Read an e-book or view media about the election process, political parties and more…from the library catalog:
- Taking our country back: the crafting of networked politics from Howard to Barack Obama, by Daniel Kress, (e-book)
- Websites
- Ballotpedia, a web resource that tries to present unbiased information of the candidates and issues.
- Another fact checker, PolitiFact, actually has a tab called “Pants on Fire”.
- If you are anxious about who to vote for, or just for fun, try one of the online quizzes such as http://www.quizrocket.com/political-party-quiz or https://www.isidewith.com
- You can’t go wrong with the US government website, usa.gov/voting.
Ask a librarian if you need help!
Kathleen Epperson
Reference Librarian
Jacobean-Jacobite? Dated and Confused
Sydney Vollmer, ARB Intern
I was so confused. For weeks, Kevin and I have been talking about the Jacobites. –Before I get into this conversation, it’s extremely important for me to note that neither my grade school nor high school spent very much time on the subject of history. We excelled in language arts, but not so much the stuff I would one day have to write about.— So, Kevin recently showed me a collection we received from Virginius C. Hall on the Jacobites. Not having any idea who they were, I looked them up. The internet gave me the gist of information I would need to know, so between that and our collection I have been able to piece some things together—until today.
Notes on Some Jacobite Beheadings
By: Sydney Vollmer
Among the items recently received from the Virginius C. Hall Jacobite Collection in the Archives & Rare Books Library is a watercolor of the “Beheading of the Rebel Lords on Great Tower Hill.” Unfortunately, the image is not one-of-a-kind. It is an incredible work, though. Depicted in this scene is an endless crowd surrounding a scaffold. On the platform, one man has his head down on the chopping block as an ax is raised over his neck. This execution took place in 1746 after the Jacobite Rising in 1745.
UC Libraries Closed July 4th
UC Libraries will be closed, Monday, July 4th for Independence Day. Normal hours will resume July 5th. Have a safe and enjoyable July 4th.
UCBA Librarians Attend ALA Annual Conference
by Heather Maloney and Kellie Tilton
UCBA Library Director, Heather Maloney and Instructional Technologies Librarian, Kellie Tilton headed to Orlando, Florida for the American Library Association Annual Conference.
Heather Maloney attended a pre-conference session on Transforming the Contributions of Student Employees in Your Library and thoroughly enjoyed listening to the passionate opening session speaker, Michael Eric Dyson. The exhibit floor was filled with the familiar and the new and probably a few too many giveaways…but how do you say no to a free book?!
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- Heather Maloney, UCBA Library Director
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- ALA celebrates it’s 140th birthday
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- ALA Annual Conference
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- Program for General Session speaker, Michael Eric Dyson
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- Heather’s conference swag.
Kellie Tilton spent a good chunk of time at ALA sitting in a, thankfully, air-conditioned hotel conference room for her super-secret Alex Committee meetings. She also managed to check out the fireworks at Epcot (sorry, IllumiNations) and had a blast wandering the exhibit hall. Swag she was most excited about? The Ruth Bader Ginsburg tote bag she will add to her collection.
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- Instructional Technologies Librarian, Kellie Tilton, at the American Library Association Conference. June 2016.
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- ALA in Orlando, FL
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- ALA Exhibits Hall
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- Library of Congress Exhibit Booth
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- Make Your Own Zine table
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- Disney Conference Ribbon
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- Librarians Step Guide
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- Fireworks at IllumiNations
New Students are Here!
by Lauren Wahman
Lauren Wahman talks with a student at the Resource Fair.
The UCBA Library is excited to be a partner once again in this year’s Summer Orientation Program. Each week, incoming freshman are arriving on campus Continue reading
DAAP Library to Host a Wiki Women Edit-A-Thon June 26
Join us on Sunday, June 26th from 1pm – 7pm in the Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) as we attempt to repair the gender imbalance of Wikipedia.
Inspired by the initiatives of Art + Feminism, we will be adding and editing Wikipedia pages of influential female artists, designers, architects, and interior designers. There will be free pizza (obviously) and free popcorn (duh). All are welcome! Join us for the full time, or stop by for an hour to help.
UC students Karyn Georgilis, Maggie Murphy and Hannah Sellers are all co-founders of the event as well as senior design students in DAAP.
Thanks to local sponsors: Kaleidoscope, Jack Rouse Associates, Madison Design, FRCH Design Impact, and the UC Women’s Center.
Dealt a Similar Hand: An Analysis Between Macbeth and House of Cards
By: Sydney Vollmer, ARB Intern
With our political choices today, we wish we could pretend that what’s going on is some twisted, comedic version of House of Cards. Unfortunately for all of us, it’s completely real. There’s no use in dwelling on it, so let’s just pretend it doesn’t exist by diving back into House of Cards while we (patiently) await the fifth season.
I’m not a big HOC buff, but I saw the majority of episodes each time my dad monopolized the couch after every season’s release. The series magnifies brutality and corruption, somehow getting its audience to root for unlikeable characters. Truly, there is no one on the show that you can look at as the underdog, or the person who deserves their prize. When you think about it, the show is a complete extension of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, if his characters hadn’t died at the end. I’m certainly not the first person to make this comparison—not by a long stretch—but I did come up with this realization without external influences. That means that the comparisons are so strong that multiple people individually have stood up and said “Frank Underwood is the modern-day American Macbeth.” And there is plenty of evidence to back this up; I’ll show you what I mean. Continue reading