Streaming audio from the Music in the Gorno Library Concert from March 11, 2014 is now available in the CCM Recordings Archives in the Digital Resource Commons (accessible on campus and off-campus to UC patrons only)
UCBA Fun Facts: Favorite Cookbook?
Question: What’s your favorite cookbook?
Heather Maloney, Library Director: Any of Ina Garten’s books…haven’t come across a bad recipe yet!
Michelle McKinney, Reference/Web Services Librarian: The Cake Mix Magic series…all the recipes start with a box of cake mix.
Kellie Tilton, Instructional Technologies Librarian: America’s Test Kitchen! (And anything that shows step-by-step with photos. I am an awful cook.)
Lauren Wahman, Instruction Librarian: Can’t remember the last time I read a biography…
Rachel Lewis, Technical Services Manager: No favorite, but The Joy of Cooking is an essential and classic cookbook. I normally give it as wedding gifts.
Tammy Manger, Public Services Manager: Gooseberry Patch Cookbook “Super-Fast Slow Cooking”. I love this book…simple and fast!
Chris Marshall, Public Services Assistant: Campbell’s Soup cookbook. “Best Loved recipes”
UC Libraries Closed July 4th
UC Libraries will be closed, Friday, July 4th for Independence Day. Normal hours will resume July 5th.
Have a safe and enjoyable July 4th.
UC Forward Course Takes Hands-on Approach to Teaching and Learning about a Fashion Icon
By Jennifer Krivickas
First offered in the fall of 2013 and then again in spring 2014, “Documenting a Fashion Icon: The UC Bonnie Cashin Collection” is a ‘test kitchen,’ hands-on course that incorporates trans-disciplinary inquiry and discourse, student crowd sourcing power, and Millennials’ innate love for technology, social media and images, to investigate, interpret, digitize and widely disseminate authoritative information about an important collection of garments (from the DAAP Historical Garments Collection) designed by Bonnie Cashin.
Sidney Rossiter Benedict : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 27, July/August 2014
A circa 1928 Bock-Benedict colorimeter
The 27th issue of Museum Notes tells the story of a UC graduate who, inspired by his undergraduate chemistry teacher, went on to become a nationally prominent physiological chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Click here for all other issues of Notes from The Oesper Collections and to explore the Jensen-Thomas Apparatus Collection.
Exhibit in the Winkler Center – Dr. John Shaw Billings
Currently featured in the Stanley J. Lucas, MD Board Room is a display about Dr. John Shaw Billings, MD, which was completed in conjunction with the Henry R. Winkler Center’s 5th annual Cecil Striker Society lecture. Dr. Dale C. Smith was the guest speaker for the event and his lecture was entitled “John Shaw Billings and the Medical College of Ohio: Shaping Twentieth Century Medicine.”Dr. Billings was an 1860 graduate of the Medical College of Ohio, a precursor to the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
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Maintenance Will Impact Libraries Web News, Hours and Directory
UC Libraries will be performing routine maintenance Sunday, June 29, from 7:00 am to 12:00 pm.
The following services will be offline during maintenance:
- Off Campus Access (proxy services)
- Ilib.libraries.uc.edu (intranet)
- Libapps server:
- Library Blogs
- UC Libraries staff directory on website
- A-Z Database List on website
In addition to these services being unavailable, users may see an error on the website in the News, Hours and Staff Directory areas while this maintenance is being performed. All other areas of the UC Libraries website and Library Catalog will be unaffected.
Join UC Libraries June 30 for a Presentation on Digital Humanities in China
Xiaoguang Wang
Digital Humanities is a new academic term for most Chinese scholars, though computer and information technologies have been used widely in many research projects by scientists and humanities in China for several decades, from computational linguistics to historical GIS and digital art. In this presentation, to be held Monday, June 30 from 2-3:30 p.m. in Langsam Library 480, Professor Xiaoguang Wang will provide a brief introduction to the emerging field of digital humanities in China. He will showcase some well-known digital humanities research projects in China and a survey of key academic grants for humanities and social sciences. The Digital Humanities Center in Wuhan University and some ongoing projects will be introduced and presented.
UC Libraries Welcomes New Bearcats
Orientation participants learn about how to print while in the library
This summer, Langsam Library is a busy place as over 4,000 incoming students participating in UC’s New Student Orientation visit and learn about the Libraries. While here, they engage in activities designed to be both entertaining and informative about the various research resources, assistance and library services they can utilize when they begin classes in the fall.