Welcome to the Redesigned UC Libraries Website

While the starting web address of our site remains the same – www.libraries.uc.edu, the navigation and content within the site has changed considerably, so please update any links or bookmarks you may have to the site.

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Homepage

Some of the new features and upgrades of the UC Libraries website redesign include:

  • updated look and feel and an uncluttered homepage with most content viewable without scrolling;
  • user-requested features such as the posting of today’s hours, enhanced location maps and a prominent link to Off-Campus Access from the homepage;
  • new content around the growing subject of digital scholarship has been added, as well as a website dedicated to the Libraries’ Special Collections;
  • core services such as reserves, workshops, interlibrary loan, multimedia equipment lending and the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC) are prominently featured;
  • a tabbed search box, available on the left-side of the homepage and throughout on many secondary pages of the site, will allow users to search for articles, books, journals, databases and much more quickly and easily. Users can also access via the homepage research guides available by subject.

Included in the redesign are all college and departmental (C&D) library websites from the Archives to Rare Books Library to the Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions, as well as the UC Blue Ash College Library website.

Tell us what you think of the redesigned website. Send comments and questions to http://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/main/contact/feedback.php.

Redesigned CEAS Library Website!

On May 6, the CEAS Library and other UC Libraries unveil completely redesigned websites.

CEAS-homepage

New CEAS Library website

The new CEAS website will be found at the shorter URL of libraries.uc.edu/ceas. The new website is easier to read and navigate with an updated look and feel, a less cluttered homepage with most content viewable without scrolling, and contains new information and streamlined navigation. Through user testing, the redesign also features: posting of today’s hours, enhanced location maps, and a prominent link for Off-Campus Access Login.

Also featured prominently on the site are links to CEAS Research Guides, workshops, New Books, e-Textbooks, and frequently-used Engineering and Applied Science resources.

The tabbed search box, available on the left-side of the homepage and throughout on many secondary pages of the site, will allow users to search for articles, books, journals, databases and quickly and easily.

New content is available, including the growing area of Data Management Planning assistance, Digital Scholarship, and more.

For those viewing the site on a tablet or mobile device, the redesign is responsive and adjusts to individual screen sizes.

The website redesign does not impact the Library Catalog or online databases.

Feedback is welcome as the CEAS Library website is a work in progress and will continue to develop over the summer.

Watch for more information about the newly redesigned CEAS Library site !

Online Chat and Text Service Ending May 6th

UC Libraries will no longer offer online Chat or Text services as of May 6, 2014.

If you need online help, you can:

  • Visit the UCBA Research Guide at http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/ucba-researchhelp to ask an online question or schedule a Research Consultation for Students or Faculty.
  • If you need immediate help, you can always call us at 513-745-5710 or visit us in Muntz 113 during regular business hours.

ARB’s "50 Minutes" Series Returns in August

By:  Kevin Grace

The Archives & Rare Books Library will usher in its 5th year of the “50 Minutes” lunchtime talks this August with “The Coffee Chronicles: Accounts and Descriptions in Rare Books.” The talk is scheduled for Wednesday, August 27, at 12 noon in 814 Blegen and as always, the “50 Minutes” presentations are very informal and conversational.  Bring your lunch, relax, ignore the clock on the wall which is invariably an hour behind, and enjoy a look at the history and culture of this global commodity.

50 Minutes One Book August Talk For the 2014-15 academic year, the days on which we hold the presentations will vary but will always be at noon.  Other slated talks are: Winona Hawthorne, class of 1878, the first female graduate of the University of Cincinnati; The British Enlightenment; Saint Paul and the Bible; Irish Poets and the Great War (this topic is a presentation marking the centennial of the war.  ARB exhibits of “UC during World War I” and “The City of Cincinnati and the Great War” will be mounted as well); The McNamara Brothers: Cincinnati Labor Radicals and the 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times; Global Efforts in Developing Reading and Libraries; And more! Please join us in August and the following months throughout fall and spring semesters.  

Redesigned Health Sciences Library Website Coming Soon!

HSLhome

On May 6, the Health Sciences Library along with all UC Libraries will unveil a completely redesigned website.

Available at http://libraries.uc.edu/hsl/ (same URL as current site) the new website is easy to read and navigate with an updated look and feel, an uncluttered homepage with most content viewable without scrolling, new information and streamlined navigation. User-requested features such as the posting of today’s hours, enhanced location maps and a prominent link to Off-Campus Access from the homepage are included in the redesign.

New content around the growing subject of digital scholarship has been added, as well as a website dedicated to the Libraries’ Special Collections. Also featured prominently on the site are links to HSL Research Guides, a Distance Learning guide, workshops, eJournals and frequently used Health Sciences resources.

The tabbed search box, available on the left-side of the homepage and throughout on many secondary pages of the site, will allow users to search for articles, books, journals, databases and quickly and easily.

For those viewing the site on a tablet or mobile device, the redesign is responsive to adjust to individual screen sizes.

The website redesign does not include the Library Catalog or online databases.

Feedback is welcome as the Health Sciences Library website is a work in progress and will continue to develop over the summer.

Watch for more information about the newly redesigned HSL site!

 

 

National Library Week Wrap-Up

The UCBA Library enjoyed celebrating National Library week with our students, staff and faculty.

There were several opportunities to win gift cards and UCBA gear. Here are the happy winners:

Caitlin Toler Bookstore GC winner

Library Director Heather Maloney with Caitlin Toler. Caitlin won a $10 Gift Card to the UCBA Bookstore by participating in the UCBA Library survey.

Librarian Michelle McKinney with Kayla Matthews. She won a $10 Bleecker Street Gift Card for answering a Question of the Day.

Librarian Michelle McKinney with Kayla Matthews. She won a $10 Bleecker Street Gift Card for answering a Question of the Day.

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Chat Service Ending

UC Libraries will be ending the OhioLINK KnowItNow chat service as of May 6.  If you would like to ask an online question you can

  • email a subject librarian
  • fill out the “Ask a Reference Question” form
  • for immediate assistance you can use the public library chat service via your local public library or the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (http://www.knowitnow.org/).

Thank you very much.

Posted by Debbie Tenofsky

 

Historic Cincinnati Subway and Street Images Available on New Website

b53_f25_p001The University of Cincinnati Libraries have created a website and digital archive that provides access to the historic Cincinnati subway and street images, a collection of over 8,000 photographic negatives and prints taken as part of a failed subway development project in the 1920s, and photographs documenting various street projects from the 1930s through the 1950s.

Available at http://digital.libraries.uc.edu/subway/, the “Cincinnati Subway and Street Improvements, 1916-1955” website includes construction images as well as both interior and exterior shots of private residences and city scenes. In addition to providing access to the historic prints and photographs, the website also documents the story of the failed subway project and includes a construction map with linked images.

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