The UCBA Library will have extended exam week hours on Sunday, December 7 from 12p-4p.
Happy studying and good luck with finals!
UC Libraries Presents Food for Fines
Now through December 19th, donate food items for the Freestore Foodbank and reduce your library fine up to $5!
One good deed deserves another…
For each non-perishable food item brought to a participating UC library location (see list below), $1 will be subtracted from library fines (up to $5).
ARB's "50 Minute Talk" in January
Fresh back from the holidays, the 50 Minute Talk series in the Archives & Rare Books Library will kick off 2015 with a presentation by Eira Tansey on Lois Lowry’s classic dystopian novel, The Giver on Thursday January 8. Later in the month, UC professor Bob Miller will talk about the World War II years at the University of Cincinnati. Please join us for these informal noon get-togethers. Bring your lunch, invite a friend, and enjoy some good conversation and opinions.
Emma Lucy Braun: Pioneer Plant Ecologist
By: Iman Said, ARB Intern, 2014-2015
The University of Cincinnati has had many incredible individuals pass through its doors. There have been outstanding athletes, such as Oscar Robertson and Ron Bonham, and incredible researchers such as Albert Sabin. One such researcher was E. Lucy Braun, who created a research program in vascular plant floristics focusing on deciduous forests.
E. Lucy Braun was born in Cincinnati in 1889. She graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1914 with a Ph.D in botany and went on to found the Wildflower Preservation Society of North America in 1917. The Society is still well and thriving today and hosts several different events including an annual Hardy Souls’ Hike at Mt. Airy Forest and lectures on various fungal infections and wild orchids. That same year, she began teaching botany at her alma mater, growing through the University to become a professor of plant ecology in 1946. In addition, she became the first female president of the Ohio Academy of Science. Continue reading
Support UC Libraries during Giving Tuesday
Support #UCLibraries on #GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back. Those who give $10 or more to UC today will receive the limited edition 2014 ornament. Make your gift now – uc.edu/givingtuesday
Stress Less Fest @ Langsam
While studying for exams in Langsam Library, take a moment to breath and recharge with “Stress Less Fest” brought to you by the Student Wellness Center, Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS), Learning Assistance Center (LAC), Campus Rec Center, Residence Hall Association (RHA), and Disability Services.
Oesper News: Museum Booklets on the History of Chemical Apparatus
Dr. William B. Jensen introduces his new series:
Like most museums, only about 25% of the holdings of the Oesper Collections
in the History of Chemistry are on public display at a given time. In order to make the remaining 75% available in some form, it was decided to initiate a series of short museum booklets, each dedicated to a particular instrument or laboratory technique of historical importance to the science of chemistry.
Each booklet would include not only photographs of both displayed and stored museum artifacts related to the subject at hand, but also a short discussion of the history of the instrument or technique and of its impact on the development of chemistry as a whole. Several of these booklets are expansions of short articles which have previously appeared in either the bimonthly series Museum Notes, which is posted on the Oesper website, or the series Ask the Historian, which appeared in the Journal of Chemical Education between 2003 and 2012.
You can access the booklets by clicking here.
Check Out the Latest Issue of Source, UC Libraries Newsletter
Read the online newsletter to learn more about the development of UC’s digital repository, why UC’s colors are red and black, and more news from UC Libraries.
This latest issue of Source includes updates on the Libraries’ Strategic Plan, with an overview of digital humanities and news on the development of UC’s digital repository, which makes accessible, enables re-use, stores, organizes and preserves the full range of the institution’s intellectual output, including scholarly, historical and research materials. Also featured are stories about providing access to the Libraries special collections, a new exhibit highlighting the top illustrated children’s books, and the librarians, staff and students of UC Libraries giving thanks.
Source online is available on the web at http://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/source/ and via e-mail. To receive Source online via e-mail, contact melissa.norris@uc.edu to be added to the mailing list.
UCBA Library Thanksgiving Holiday Hours
The UC Blue Ash Library closes at 5pm Wednesday, November 26th and will re-open with normal operating hours on Monday, December 1st.
Hours details are listed on our website at http://www.libraries.uc.edu/ucba.html.
by: Heather Maloney
An Early View of the Stands
By: Janice Schulz, Former ARB Library staff member
The University of Cincinnati is in the midst of a major renovation of Nippert Stadium that will turn it into a state-of-the-art athletic complex, but at one time our gridiron heroes played on what were simply a field and a chain of stands. According to the 1904 Cincinnatian the “much-needed and long-looked for” athletic field was completed in that academic year. The field was later named after UC alum, medical school faculty member, and UC director Archibald I. Carson. As a medical school student (Class of ’89) Carson organized the first UC football team. The stands were first erected in 1912 at a cost of $50,000 and then added to in 1920 and again in 1924, when the stadium was dedicated in memory of Jimmy Nippert. In 1935 the Works Progress Administration sponsored a $135,000 project to add the press box. Shank Pavilion was added in 1954 and a major renovation came in 1991 at a cost of $13,500,000.
