What a year it’s been! The CECH Library staff are delighted to share our 2025-26 Annual Highlights, a Microsoft Sway showcasing moments, milestones, and the impact of our work throughout the academic year.
This report highlights the many ways our library community learned, created, collaborated, and grew together. We invite you to take a look back with us and celebrate the achievements that made this year so meaningful.
As always, we’d love to hear from you. Please feel free to reach out with any feedback, ideas, or questions.
Team CECH Library Katie Foran-Mulcahy, Madeleine Gaiser, + Sarah True
Read Source, to learn about the news, events, people and happenings in UC Libraries. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the newsletter! To mark the occasion, Source underwent a design refresh to both the graphics and website to herald the publication into the next quarter century.
In this issue of Source, Liz Kiscaden, dean and university librarian, welcomes everyone back to the start of the academic year, while a photo slide show features early outreach activities welcoming Bearcats to campus. And don’t miss a list of Fall Events taking place throughout UC Libraries. The Source @ 25! article talks about some of the changes at UC Libraries documented by Source, and an interview with the Preservation Lab’s Jessica Ebert marks her upcoming 20th anniversary at UC Libraries. A new exhibit on display in the Archives and Rare Books Library explores Cincinnati’s growth and transit transformation from its founding in 1788 to the present day, and the CEAS Library launches a wellness collection. And for those who can’t travel to campus, UC Libraries digital collections are now available via Preservica for viewing online.
Read these articles, as well as past issues, on the website. To receive Source via e-mail, contact melissa.norris@uc.edu to be added to the mailing list. Happy reading.
The Marcotte Library MakerLab will be opening next month! While we promise it will be worth the wait, some equipment and materials are available for check out and use outside of the MakerLab.
Equipment and materials available for borrowing include the following:
Maker books,
Audiovisual equipment,
Canon EOS R100 Camera
Vlogging Kit
Podcast Kit
Green & White back screens
Yarn arts materials,
Looms
Knitting kits
Crochet kits
Vinyl cutting machines, and
Cricut
Silhouette
Sewing machine
These materials are available now and can be requested at the Marcotte Library front desk while waiting for the MakerLab to open.
Join the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the the Health Professions Tuesday, Oct. 20, NOON-1:30PM, in the Stanley J. Lucas, MD, Board Room, Health Sciences Library, for a lunch & learn to explore Medical Illustration: The American Civil War and Now. Speakers: Kris Ramprasad, MD, MA (history) and retired UC associate professor, Sydney Seeto and Sophie Laye, both second-year medical students at UC’s College of Medicine, will discuss the Daniel S. Young archives.
Dr. Ramprasad will discuss the varying injuries of the Civil War through his eyes and how these illustrations should be viewed, understood and appreciated now – updating our understanding of the care provided at that time. As co-presidents of the Medical Art and Illustration, Sydney and Sophie will discuss the modern process for creating a medical illustration, showcasing their own work and explaining plans for the Medical Art club for the upcoming year.
The lunch & learn is free and open to all to attend, but RSVP is requested.
Following the lunch & learn, attendees can view the exhibit on display in the library featuring the medial illustrations by Daniel S. Young.
Curious about the MakerLab equipment and creative opportunities available in the CECH Library? Join us for a fall MakerLab workshop!
These hands-on sessions are designed to help you explore MakerLab tools and technologies while creating something of your own. Participants will leave with a small takeaway item and new skills to build on.
The CEAS Library is excited to share the launch of a new Wellness Collection. Launched in partnership with the CEAS Tribunal, items in the collection include a sound machine, light therapy lamp, and more! All Wellness Collection items are available to check out for 7 days. Stop by the CEAS Library or visit the Wellness Collection guide to learn more.
Do you want to know more about working with spatial data? Attend the upcoming workshop “Introduction to ArcGIS Online” on October 7 from 1:30 om to 3:00 pm. Registration and workshop details are available in Faculty Onestop. The workshop is free and open to any Bearcat who wants to learn more about the Ersi Platform ArcGIS Online, how to get an UC Esri account, and how to find data with spatial attributes.
Workshop description: This introductory in-person workshop introduces the fundamentals of web mapping and spatial analysis using ArcGIS Online. No previous GIS or ArcGIS experience is required. ArcGIS Online runs directly in a web browser and is available to participants with a UC login.
The workshop will begin with an introduction to GIS and spatial data, followed by a guided tour of the ArcGIS Online interface. Participants will learn how to sign in, navigate Map Viewer, find and add spatial data, work with map layers and attributes, change basemaps and symbology, and explore geographic patterns.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have experience creating and interpreting a web map in ArcGIS Online and will have a foundation for applying GIS tools to their own research or projects.
The workshop will be facilitated by Le Tu, Research and Data Services GIS research consultant. If you want to explore spatial data and GIS resources deeper after the workshop, Le is available for consultations. Visit the GIS Services lab in 412 Langsam.
Join UC Libraries in celebrating International Open Access WeekOctober 19 to 23, 2026. During this week, there will be several opportunities to learn what Open Access means and how you can use UC Libraries resources to further the impact of your research. Join us for the many activities going on this week
Check out the Open Access display on the ground (4th floor) of Langsam Library
“Island Queen at Moonlight” postcard, undated. From the Nelson and Florence Hoffman Cincinnati Postcard Collection US-12-03, Archives and Rare Books Library.
“America 250: Cincinnati in Transit(ion)” is an exploration of Cincinnati’s growth and transit transformation from its founding in 1788 to the present day. Over the last two hundred and thirty-eight years, Cincinnati has journeyed from steamboats to railroads, to interstate highways, and to international airports. The exhibition can be viewed inside and outside the Archive and Rare Book’s Library Reading Room in Blegen Library.
How many times have you or a loved one been to the emergency room? Did you ever wonder how the emergency room procedures were established that you have observed in the hit dramas, The Pitt or ER? (The Pitt – WikipediaER (TV series) – Wikipedia) How do they make the quick decisions that save lives? Their scripts are based on authentic emergency room procedures established by the medical profession.
In the early 1980s a group of emergency medicine professionals at the University of Cincinnati provided this growing medical specialty with the seminal textbook Emergency Medicine concepts and clinical practice, published by The C.V. Mosby Company. Led by Senior Editor Peter Rosen, M.D., and Associate Editors Drs. Frank J. Baker, G. Richard Braen, Robert H. Dailey, and Richard C. Levy, they assembled a team of eighty-seven emergency medicine experts.
