Dean of University Libraries, Xuemao Wang
Over two years ago, recruitment began for my Dean’s Advisory Council, an advisory group comprised of individuals from different industries and backgrounds with a tremendous passion for higher education and lifelong learning, global experience, digital technologies and a commitment to UC and the mission of UC Libraries. This group met recently to discuss and explore the issues and goals of library space. Continue reading
by Julie Robinson
UCBA Library Hours – Exam Week 2016
Remember – shuttle service starts at 6:45a Monday through Thursday!
Sat. April 23 – noon-4p
Sun. April 24 – noon-4p
Mon. April 25 – 7:30a-9p
Tue. April 26 – 7:30a-9p
Wed. April 27 – 7:30a-9p
Thur. April 28 – 7:30a-9p
Fri. April 29 – noon-4p
Break hours begin Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 8th. The library will be open Closed Saturdays and Sundays during that time and open Monday through Thursday from noon-5p and Friday from noon-4p. We will reopen Monday, May 9th under our Summer Semester hours, Monday through Thursday from 8a-6p and Friday from 8a-4p, and Closed Saturday and Sunday. Please check out our website to plan your visit,http://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/cgi-bin/calcium/Calcium40.pl?CalendarName=UCBA&EventID=142&Date=2016%2F4%2F22
The UCBA Library wrapped up National Library Week 2016 with Whiteboards & Wine. Faculty came out to relax in the midst of end-of-semester activities with light snacks and wine. Faculty enjoyed coloring with artwork from various library collections, answered some fun, reading related questions and viewed the library’s NLW #librarytransforms video.
Many thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate National Library Week!
In celebration of National Preservation Week, the Preservation Lab will host its annual open house on April 29 from 1:30-3:30pm.
Located on the 300 level of Langsam Library, the Preservation Lab preserves and conserves the collections of UC Libraries and the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. At the open house, lab staff will demo some of the techniques and equipment used to repair and protect materials, as well as showcase some of their recent projects. In addition to the usual fun, this year visitors to the Preservation Lab will have an opportunity to make their own sheet of paper with plant fibers beaten with a Hollander beater.
We hope to see you then!
Clermont College Library celebrated National Poetry Month with the fifth annual Haiku Contest. Sixty-five students submitted 155 haiku. The poets came from a variety of majors including IT, history, and of course English.
Each morning during the entry period, I opened the portal and collected the poems. Haiku is a poetic form that is dependent on the experiences of the person writing. As I read each one, I admired the uniqueness of each poem.
After I read the haiku, I collected them in a document (sans the authors’ names) and sent them to our wonderful judges, Professors Cassie Fetters and Mike Hampton, who determined the winners.
Grand prize went to Meranda Balkema for:
Darkness cannot win
If I do not let it in
Spring’s sun, makes it run
Three honorable mentions were chosen:
Love, justice, freedom
Sometimes that which gives us life
Can tear us apart
– Tessa Moore
Serendipitous
One word with five syllables
That is pretty cool.
– Evan Tellep
I despise the foes
Who char marshmallows to ash
And say “edible”
– Julia Wahle
Thanks to all who entered. We look forward to the 2017 Haiku Contest.
Penny McGinnis
Technical Services Manager
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has partnered with Johns Hopkins Libraries to create a new search tool for understanding federal agencies response to the OSTP memo : http://datasharing.sparcopen.org/
The Clermont College Library is proud to present a trio of student artists and a trio of their works during the summer term — Samantha Padgett’s soulful still lifes in pencil, Ellen Taylor’s bold depictions of fire, water, earth, and spirit and Natalia Martinez’s manga-inspired meditations on love and death.
The exhibit will run through August. Thanks to Professors Kelly Frigard and Anthony Wolking for coordinating another fantastic collection of student art in our library.
Katie Foran-Mulcahy
Library Director
April 10-16 marks National Library Week. Show your support for UC Libraries by making a gift at uc.edu/give.
Read why students love UC Libraries…
The University of Cincinnati Library has provided me with a quiet learning environment and many resources to further my learning. It is important to me that the university and its libraries care about my education.
Abby Oakman, senior, Lindner College of Business, marketing
The UC libraries are important to me because they provide a place for me to focus when I have tons of homework. On top of this, the libraries provide a great environment for group study when I want to work on homework with my friends.
Emily Faler, sophomore, DAAP, graphic communication design
The library is important to me because it provides an easy, safe, reliable job that might be hard to find anywhere else.
Bailey Ogan, freshman, McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, exploratory
UC libraries are important to me because they provide a nice, quiet space where I am able to concentrate on my work, especially between my classes. The library is also a great place to work, since it is so close to where I live.
Ashley Gettelfinger, sophomore, McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, pre-pharmacy
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For more about UC Libraries giving opportunities, visit our web page.
by Michelle McKinney
Dean Cady Short-Thompson and Heather Maloney
Dean Cady Short-Thompson selected UCBA Library Director, Heather Maloney for the Dean’s Award for Faculty Excellence during the 2016 UC Blue Ash Silent Auction & Distinguished Awards. The newly created award, just announced on April 7th, is intended to recognize outstanding faculty members in each college who represent excellence in all its forms. These awards are for those individuals who deans feel have done an exceptionally outstanding job for their college or department in the past year. Each college may select up to two faculty members who will be recognized as the inaugural group of recipients and will receive $2,000 in discretionary funds to be used to support their teaching or research. These faculty development awards are meant to recognize their contributions to their respective colleges and to UC, as well as support their professional efforts.
It was a surprise to everyone last night at the awards ceremony as it was a recently created award and wasn’t listed on the program. Heather considers this a win for the UCBA Library and all of the amazing library staff too. Upon receiving the award, she noted that “all the good that comes out of the library is a result of the collaboration and talents of the library team.”
Congratulations to Heather and all of her fellow award recipients!
Visit the UC Blue Ash Facebook album to see more photos from the 2016 UC Blue Ash Silent Auction & Distinguished Awards.
In order for the University of Cincinnati Libraries (UCL) and IT@UC to provide the best research data support services, you are invited to participate in a brief survey regarding research data management, preservation, and sharing and High Performance Computing (HPC). We are interested in hearing from our faculty, staff, and students to learn what kind of data is being generated and how researchers are finding help in managing it.
Your participation will help us assess data management and HPC needs at the University of Cincinnati and will inform the coordination of services across campus, and specifically from UCL and IT@UC, to support effective data stewardship throughout the research life cycle.
The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete. Click on the following link to access the survey: UC Libraries Research Services and IT@UC: Research Data Management Survey
If the link above does not work, try copying the link below into your web browser: https://redcap.research.cchmc.org/surveys/?s=D4DJ8A7APE
If you have any questions or comments, please contact Kristen Burgess, Assistant Director for Research and Informatics, at kristen.burgess@uc.edu.