All UC Libraries locations, including Blue Ash, Clermont, Law and Health Sciences, are closed Monday, January 26 due to inclement weather.
See the UC alerts page for more information.
Stay safe and warm, Bearcats!
All nine University of Cincinnati Libraries locations will be closed Sunday, January 25 because of the impending winter storm.
Weiye is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Cincinnati. Originally from Shenzhen, China, he earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Land Resource Management at China University of Geosciences.
His research focuses on geospatial data science, socio-environmental sustainability, and health geography, with a particular interest in applying advanced modeling and algorithms to understand human–environment interactions. He has contributed to several projects including land management, nature-based climate solutions, and urban perception analysis using street-view imagery, and has presented his work at academic conferences such as the American Association of Geographers (AAG) annual meeting.
As a GIS Collab consultant, Weiye looks forward to supporting others while continuing to expand his analytical toolkit in GIS-related analysis. He can share information, offer advice, and even partner on certain projects (on a case by case basis).
The Data & GIS collab is located in 412 Langsam with the hours of
Monday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Tuesday: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Wednesday: 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Thursday: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Friday: 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
I recently had the unique opportunity to visit my child’s classroom on Career Day to talk about academic librarianship. The audience was a pod of nearly 100 third and fourth graders, and I had 15 minutes to make an impression.
To start, I shared a short time-lapse video of our library building, highlighting collaborative spaces, art installations, and our massive stacks. The kids seemed genuinely engaged. I talked about student employment opportunities in university libraries, which caught the attention of a few of the fourth-grade girls. From there, I moved into an age-appropriate lesson on information literacy—how to recognize fake information in (my son’s favorite) YouTube videos and across the internet more broadly.
I introduced Special Collections and explained just how old some of our materials are, hundreds of years old, in fact, which managed to impress even the hardest-to-impress third and fourth graders. My one misstep was mentioning the artist of our very cool Tricercopter: The Hope for the Obsolescence of War sculpture, requested that their ashes be placed inside the piece after their death. I immediately knew I’d gone too far when a student raised their hand to ask, “What are ashes?”
In all honesty, this was a challenging presentation. Academic librarianship is incredibly broad; how do you choose what to share when your goal is to inspire future librarians? With the rapid introduction of new technologies like artificial intelligence, our work is becoming even more critical. We’re facing yet another overwhelming flood of information and are tasked with understanding how it’s created, building ethical and moral guardrails for its use, and, of course, identifying what’s fake. If current trends are any indication, we are going to be drowning in AI-generated content very soon, if we aren’t already.
This is core librarian work. We have been organizing, evaluating, and understanding information since the dawn of recorded knowledge. To keep up, we must continually adapt our foundational frameworks to meet challenges we haven’t yet experienced or even imagined.
This is an exciting, and some might say transformational, time for librarianship and higher education. I hope I was able to convey that excitement to those bright third and fourth graders, because we’re going to need their help.
The University of Cincinnati Libraries and the Elliston Poetry Room announce the next roster of poets for Poetry Stacked, a semi-regular poetry reading series held in the 6th floor east stacks of the Walter C. Langsam Library.
At the next event, scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 18 at 4:30pm, three poets will read their original work:
Tuesday, January 20, the renovated College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services (CECH) Library Reading Room reopened. Located on the 4th floor of the Teachers-Dyer Complex, and totaling more than 3,000 square feet, the reading room is accessible via the staircase in the CECH Library or directly with a Bearcat ID.
Bathed in natural light, the renovated reading room features flexible, soft seating arrangements in the room’s south and north ends, and in the center of the room four large study tables with integrated lighting (coming soon) and power access. An inclusive, reservable study room (400B) features adaptive lighting and study and focus tools.
Artwork and print collections line the perimeter of the room and include materials that support the entirety of CECH, including the School of Education, School of Criminal Justice, School of Human Services and School of Information Technology. Quick access to additional print collections is available across UC Libraries and the high-density storage facility at Fishwick.
The renovation of the CECH Library 4th floor Reading Room was a joint effort between UC Libraries and CECH. Prior to his retirement in 2023, CECH dean and professor emeritus Larry Johnson teamed up with dean and university librarian Liz Kiscaden to plan for the revitalization of the space. The college expanded its support of the revitalization when CECH dean Lisa Huffman came aboard. The re-imagined reading room prioritizes student access and space, while preserving the room’s historical architecture. The redesigned space also offers improved access, re-opening direct entry from level 4 and adding an additional “front door” to the CECH Library.
Visit the CECH Library and check it out.
The University of Cincinnati Libraries will be closed Monday, Jan. 19 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The Libraries will resume normal hours on Tuesday, Jan. 20.
The Marcotte Library is hosting both new and returning events this spring! Join us to connect with friends and colleagues, learn new things, destress, eat food, and more, all at your Clermont College library.
While our full event calendar is posted to GetInvolvedUC and Bearcats Landing, here are a some highlighted events where we’d love to see you:
To find out more about our events or to register for them, be sure to visit the full event calendar on GetInvolvedUC or Bearcats Landing. We hope to see you at some of these!
The University of Cincinnati Libraries is again offering the popular series of workshops on systematic reviews. Through these students, staff, and faculty can learn about and work through various components of the review process – from protocol to data extraction – with the support of experienced librarians. Attendance at each session is not required, so pick those that best fit your need! More information and registration can be found at OneStop.
Recordings and PowerPoints will be shared with all those that register. Please let us know if you have any questions!
The Health Sciences Library provides access to hundreds of resources – from journals and books to flashcards and test banks.
It can be difficult to find and access these resources (we know our website is a bit clunky) so our librarians have created libguides to provide easy access to popular and subject specific resources. Be sure to bookmark the links that are relevant to your areas!
If you are interested in exploring all databases, check out the A-Z database list.
Contact the HSL if you encounter any issues finding, accessing or using the library’s resources!