Join us Mon. Mar. 30 at 1:00 PM in the Gorno Library for a concert by 1997 CCM graduate (DMA in piano) Esther Wang featuring music of Louis Couperin, Mozart, Opel, Thomas, and Poulenc. View program.
Nathan Tallman to Attend ILEAD USA
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.
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):
Full record display (after clicking on article title):
Welcome to the Dean’s Corner
Welcome to my new blog – a subsite of LiBlog!
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
Music in the Gorno Library Thurs. Mar. 12, 2015
Join us Thurs. Mar. 12 at 1:00 PM in the Gorno Library for Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire. View program (pdf). One of a series of performances of the iconic work by this CCM student ensemble. You can read more about the concerts in The Village News blog.
UC Libraries Seeks Edible Books Creators for Annual International Festival
Know 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
Faustian Ghosts and Redemptive Masculinity in an American Baseball Story
By: Kevin Grace
There’s too much snow, too much cold, and too many gray skies, so we need to refresh ourselves a bit. After all, the Reds are in spring training out in Arizona, and Opening Day is just a month away! So let’s talk baseball and a little Cincinnati baseball story published 130 years ago.
In 1885, a quirky little tale was published in a Cincinnati humor tabloid called Sam the Scaramouch (SpecCol RB F499.C5 S16). The anonymously-written story is entitled “O’Toole’s Ghost” and its plot centers around a young immigrant by the name of Mickey McGonigle who dreams of becoming the best baseball player ever seen. Late one night, he is visited by the ghost of a deceased pitcher by the name of Barney O’Toole, who offers to fulfill this dream on one small condition: never argue with the umpire. McGonigle accepts the offer, and for a brief time he is indeed the greatest player in the land. But during one game, he forgets that agreed upon condition with the ghost, violates it, and sees his prowess quickly and publically stripped away. He spends the rest of his days consumed with regret and humiliation. Continue reading
“Life of the Mind” Lecture Series Returns March 26 with Dr. Jeffrey Whitsett Presenting
UC President Santa J. Ono will moderate the discussion on the theme of “Technology and Innovation in Medicine.”
Life of the Mind, interdisciplinary conversations with UC faculty, will return March 26, 4-5:30pm in TUC 400ABC with a lecture by Jeffrey Whitsett, MD, professor of pediatrics in the College of Medicine, as well as co-director of the Perinatal Institute and chief of neonatology, perinatal and pulmonary biology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Life of the Mind is a semi-annual lecture series that features a distinguished University of Cincinnati faculty member presenting his or her work and expertise. A panel of three responds to and discusses the lecture from diverse perspectives. The series includes intriguing insights from diverse perspectives and encourages faculty and students from across UC to engage in further discourse. The presentation is not simply a recitation of the faculty member’s work but promotes an informed point of view. Continue reading