UCBA Librarians Attend ALA Annual Conference

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Michelle McKinney

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?!

: Heather Maloney, UCBA Library Director

: ALA celebrates it’s 140th birthday

: ALA Annual Conference

: Program for General Session speaker, Michael Eric Dyson

: 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.

: Instructional Technologies Librarian, Kellie Tilton, at the American Library Association Conference. June 2016.

: ALA in Orlando, FL

: ALA Exhibits Hall

: Library of Congress Exhibit Booth

: Make Your Own Zine table

: Disney Conference Ribbon

: Librarians Step Guide

: Fireworks at IllumiNations

New Students are Here!

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Michelle McKinney

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

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Melissa Cox Norris

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

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Suzanne Reller

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 →

Check Out the Latest Issue of Source

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Melissa Cox Norris

Read Source, the online newsletter, to learn more about the news, events, people and happenings in UC Libraries.

This latest issue of Source includes an article announcing the new UC academic press, a Q&A about a new position in the Office of Research, and A Note from the Dean: IFLA Coming to Cincinnati. Updates to library websites are showcased in A New Look at Digital Collections and in an article about the Neil A. Armstrong display and website. There are two articles about recent awards – the Provost Technology Innovation Awards and Recognizing Library Student Workers. Read these articles and more.

Source is available on the web at http://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/source/ and via e-mail. To receive Source via e-mail, contact melissa.norris@uc.edu to be added to the mailing list.

UCBA Library Swag

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Michelle McKinney

Our library staff have been known to collect and gather library themed items. We thought we’d share a few of our favorite items with you. Click on an image to learn more.

: Kellie Tilton’s Nancy Pearl Action Figure + Library Playset!

: Lauren Wahman’s Librarian Action Figure

: Michelle McKinney’s t-shirt collection

: Lauren Wahman’s Personal Library supply box.

: Heather Maloney’s law library gavel.

: Kellie Tilton’s Librarian Rubber Duck

: Michelle McKinney’s bookmark collection.

: Michelle McKinney’s – Librarian Nut

: Kellie Tilton’s collection of tote bags.

: Lauren Wahman’s Tshirts

Update: All UC Libraries websites and online services now available.

Posted on June 18, 2016 by Glen Horton

Update to message posted earlier (9:17 am) today: Journals@UC is now available (as of approximately noon, EDT). All other library systems affected by the maintenance described in yesterday’s post were available by approximately 9 am this morning.

Most UC Libraries websites and online services now available.

Posted on June 18, 2016 by Glen Horton

The planned network maintenance announced for 3 am to 8:30 am this morning (June 18, 2016) is complete. All library systems mentioned in this earlier post are available, except Journals@UC. Staff are actively working to bring that system up and this blog post will be updated when this issue is resolved.

UC Libraries Websites & Other Online Services Unavailable June 18 from 3-8:30am.

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Melissa Cox Norris

The UC Libraries websites will be unavailable June 18 from 3-8:30am as IT@UC performs planned network maintenance.

All systems and devices house in the IT@UC Data Center will be unavailable from approximately 3-8:30 a.m. EDT, Saturday, June 18, for network maintenance. Student, faculty and staff email systems are not expected to be affected by the outage. Almost all other UC online systems will be affected, including all ‘uc.edu’ web sites, Canopy, Blackboard, Box at UC, Echo360, Kaltura, Catalyst (student information system), the central login system, WebEx, Microsoft Lync, the UC Virtual Private Network (VPN) and UC FileSpace.

Library systems that are affected include our websites – http://libraries.uc.edu, https://digital.libraries.uc.edu, Scholar@UC, Journals@UC, the Digital Resource Commons, and the Luna Image and Media repository.

We expect that the library catalog – https://uclid.uc.edu will be available during this time. OhioLINK resources will not be affected by this outage, except that off campus users who need to authenticate should use the Libraries Proxy Server instead of VPN.

A link to more information about this #ITUCUpdate is available at http://www.uc.edu/ucit/maintenance.html.

Arts and Crafts at Clermont

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Penny McGinnis

One way Clermont College Library supports our Art Department is by providing books on arts and crafts. We house books on drawing and painting as well as many hands-on crafts. The most recent course the art department added, Fundamentals of Metal Clay Jewelry, has resulted in some beautiful work by the students. I’ve had the opportunity to take Fundamental Concepts of Art and a course on felt making. In the fundamentals class, I created a book from handmade paper and learned printing techniques. The class is designed to give students a chance to work with two and three dimensional art.

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