Nathan Tallman to Attend ILEAD USA

Nathan Tallman

Nathan Tallman

Nathan Tallman, digital content strategist and assistant librarian for digital collections and repositories at the University of Cincinnati Libraries, has been selected as one of 13 future library leaders to participate in ILEAD USA – Ohio 2015.

Sponsored by The State Library of Ohio, ILEAD USA is a multi-state program designed to help library staff understand and respond to user needs through the application of participatory technology tools. Ohio participants will join others from Wisconsin, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Dakota, New York, Maine, Illinois and Utah in this national initiative. Participants are organized into teams, mentors and instructors for the year-long program. Tallman and his team members, Jillian Carney (Ohio History Connection), Shannon Kupfer (State Library of Ohio) and Elizabeth Allen (Bexley Public Library), successfully submitted a proposal for a team focused on digital preservation of Ohio cultural heritage materials. Continue reading

American Institute of Physics (AIP) e-journals active

E-journals hosted on the American Institute of Physics’ Scitation platform, including titles from AIP and other professional societies related to physics, are once again active.

See the full list of subscribed titles and years of coverage.  Access these titles at http://scitation.aip.org/content/publications.

With this new local subscription, UC researchers can now access the full package of AIP journals and conference proceedings, including new-to-UC titles such as Biomicrofluidics.  UC users also have access to selected journal titles from other societies, such as Medical Physics and journals of the Acoustical Society of America and AAPT.

Contact Ted Baldwin with questions: Ted.Baldwin@uc.edu or 513-556-4211.

An Irish Journalist in the Queen City: Lafcadio Hearn and the Cincinnati Demi-Monde

By Kevin Grace

From the Cincinnati winter of 1874, over 140 years ago:

 It is in all times a rugged road to the Place of Nameless Graves – a road running over rolling ground, where vehicles rock from side to side like ships in a gale and groan in all their timbers. “Rattle his bones over the stones, He’s only a pauper whom nobody owns.”  Hundreds of paupers’ bones are rattled over that road every year: the Undertaker always sending out three or four at a time in a covered wagon, with frightfully stiff springs.  And as the dismal vehicle rolls along the coffins rattle and bump one against the other fearfully from side to side, and bump horribly against the thinly-lined walls of those long and ghastly boxes.

Hearn

This article, “Golgotha, A Pilgrimage to Potter’s Field”, was written for the Cincinnati Enquirer on November 29 that year by an odd, bulging- eyed Irishman by the name of Lafcadio Hearn.  Hearn, who would chronicle the lowlifes, ghosts, and murderers of Cincinnati for several years before moving on to New Orleans, eventually settled in Japan where even today he is revered as a major literary figure.  He made his journalistic mark in Cincinnati because he explored the alleys and tenements and riverside settlements that housed the city’s worst and most colorful citizens.  He explored the lives of criminals and addicts, of mediums and flim-flam men, and of those who dealt with the underbelly of Cincinnati society.  And he did it by letting them tell their stories, by involving himself in his own reporting, by writing in the authentic dialect of the storytellers, and by thrilling his readers nearly every day with a world in which they seldom visited. Continue reading

SciFinder: Use “Other Sources” link to locate full-text

New name for full-text link in SciFinder

Important tip & update for SciFinder users! The database has changed its former “Full Text” links to the non-intuitive phrases “Other Sources” and “Link to Other Sources” on the brief and full record displays, respectively. The links still function the same as before, but are now represented by these new phrases.  Contact Ted Baldwin with questions, Ted.Baldwin@uc.edu or 513-556-4211.

 

Brief display (results list):
screen snap of other sources button

 

Full record display (after clicking on article title):
screen snap of other sources button

Welcome to the Dean’s Corner

Welcome to my new blog – a subsite of LiBlog!

Xuemao at Langsam Lunar New Year 2015 party

Posing with Lion Dancers at the Lunar New Year Event in Langsam Library

As Dean and University Librarian of UC Libraries, I am proud to be a part of this diverse and talented community.  I am excited to join them by sharing on LiBlog my experiences as Dean. I will post pictures and updates of my national and international travels and use this forum to discuss the libraries’ continued transformation through our Strategic Plan.

It is my hope to increase the library’s broader visibility and engage my peers, nationally and internationally, in the world of academic libraries.  I plan to open a new door of communication from me to the entire UC community and beyond.

Thank you for taking this journey with me.  Please visit back soon and often!

Xuemao

UC Libraries Seeks Edible Books Creators for Annual International Festival

imageKnow of a good book to eat?! Create an Edible Book for UC Libraries International Edible Books Festival

It’s time once again for the fan favorite International Edible Books Festival scheduled for Wednesday, April 1, 2015, from 1:00-2:00pm in Langsam Library’s 5th floor lobby. UC Libraries is seeking people interested in creating an edible book for the enjoyment (and consumption) of all in attendance. There are few restrictions – namely that your creation be edible and have something to do with a book – so you may let your creativity run wild.  Continue reading