During the month of October the University of Cincinnati Libraries join other libraries nationwide in celebrating National Information Literacy Awareness Month.
Information literacy is a very important life-learning skill. It involves finding, evaluating, interpreting, managing, and using information to answer questions and develop new ones; and creating new knowledge through ethical participation in communities of learning, scholarship, and practice.
Attending the Table Tennis Tournament on Friday in Langsam?
The tournament playoff will be held at the Rec Center, 1st floor, Court 1 at 4pm. When they are down to the final round, at around 5 pm, the final four will be playing at Langsam Library, 4th floor, against the Library team led by the Dean and University Librarian Xuemao Wang.
It is important that anyone who will attends the Rec Center game bring their UC ID for admittance.
Come and cheer on your fellow Bearcats.
J
oin us Thurs. Oct. 30 at 2:00 PM for the first concert of the 2014-15 Music in Gorno Library season for music of Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. View program (pdf).
By: Iman Said, Archives & Rare Books Intern for 2014-2015
Hello again! The past few weeks, I have written about student life at UC and various aspects of campus that provide students with a well-rounded college experience. But UC is just one part of a huge community of Cincinnatians. Much of the work that is done on campus by our students, faculty, and staff have a significant impact on the entire city, and even the entire country. Being a student at UC makes it easy to forget that our CCM graduates go on to be Broadway stars, our MBA graduates are CEOs, and our medical students create new medicines and practices. These students succeed because of the outstanding faculty and staff who work for the university, many of whom actually have their own impact on the community. Continue reading
Heather Maloney, Library Director: I read a book about Helen Keller’s life over and over when I was a kid — I was amazed by her grit and determination. I also loved learning the alphabet in sign language in the back of the book.
Michelle McKinney, Reference/Web Services Librarian: My high-school best friend had the entire Sweet Valley High book collection and would let me borrow each book until I read the entire series.
Kellie Tilton, Instructional Technologies Librarian: Oh, man. I loved the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows release night. I was in a wedding the night the book came out. We all went and got a copy in our bridesmaids dresses (including one for the bride). I stayed up all night reading and finished just in time to make the morning brunch.
Lauren Wahman, Instruction Librarian: Visiting the used bookstore in Raleigh, NC right on Hillsborough Street, close to NC State University. I walked there every summer when I would visit my grandparents. I usually made multiple trips during my visit and would stock up on the Nancy Drew mysteries.
Rachel Lewis, Technical Services Manager: My Aunt use to read to me when I was little during the time she lived with my family. My favorite book was the Bernstein Bears.
Chris Marshall, Public Services Assistant: Reading bedtime stories to my 3 kids when they were little. I miss it so much!
During the month of October the University of Cincinnati Libraries join other libraries nationwide in celebrating National Information Literacy Awareness Month.
Information literacy is a very important life-learning skill. It involves finding, evaluating, interpreting, managing, and using information to answer questions and develop new ones; and creating new knowledge through ethical participation in communities of learning, scholarship, and practice.
The University of Cincinnati Libraries will celebrate National Information Literacy Awareness Month by offering our students an opportunity to demonstrate their research and critical thinking skills and win prizes by participating in an online contest.
Detailed information about the contest will follow soon.
Have you heard about Langsam Connect, a series of fun events at Langsam Library on the third Thursday of each month? Students had a great time in September creating collages of the book jackets that now wrap the columns in Langsam Library. See for yourself how much fun we had!
Hope you will join us for our upcoming event “Library Makeover: Langsam Edition” on Thursday, October 16, at 3 PM at Langsam Library by the Triceracopter. Over afternoon snacks we’ll brainstorm the future of library design from the student perspective.
Please contact Pam Bach if you have any questions.
See on Thursday at 3 by the Triceracopter!
By Kevin Grace
Last week we wrote about the wonderful donation of an exterior wall plaque from the Conservatory of Music when it was located in the old Shillito mansion on Highland and Oak Streets. No sooner than that blog post run that we received a package from another person with a connection to the school.
Florence Lemke of Tucson passed along some memorabilia that had belonged to her late aunt, Rita Moore. Moore was a Conservatory student in the early 1920s and had a classmate by the name of Minnie Leah Nobles. Mrs. Lemke sent us the 1921 Senior Annual, which her aunt had obtained from Nobles, along with a class photo. In the picture, Nobles is the tallest woman in the back row and Moore is in the back row as well, third from the right. It’s a wonderful image not only in how it depicts coed fashion at the time, but in its look at the Conservatory entrance as well. Continue reading
Scheduled maintenance has completed and the UC Digital Resource Commons (DRC) is available — drc.libraries.uc.edu. Please contact ucdp@uc.edu with any questions. Thank you.
By: Kevin Grace
This time of year 100 years ago, the “Bear Cat” made its first appearance in a student newspaper cartoon that celebrated a UC football victory over the University of Kentucky. UK had its “Wildcats” but with the red and black backfield boasting the likes of Leonard “Teddy” Baehr, the cartoonist, Paddy Reece, showed a bear-like creature chasing after a wildcat. It wasn’t until a few years after that gridiron win that the term “Bearcat” came to be commonly used as the University of Cincinnati’s mascot, but now a century later, it’s an integral part of our campus identity.
