During the month of October designated as National Information Literacy Awareness Month UC Libraries invites students to think about scenarios that have to do with the ethics of using information. A couple of weeks ago we posted the following prompt:
(These are just a few responses we received).
We have asked Dr. Cynthia Nitz Ris, Associate Professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, to comment on your responses. Here are her thoughts: Continue reading
Join the UC Blue Ash Library as we celebrate National Information Literacy Awareness Month in a variety of ways, including:
The next reading in the Elliston Poetry Room will be by poets Shara Lessley, Collier Nogues, Nathaniel Perry, and Marcus Wicker for The Cincinnati Review Emerging Poets Festival.
A panel will take place on November 8, 2013, 2:00 PM, in the Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library, immediately followed by a reading at 3:00 PM in the same location. Both the panel and the reading are free and open to the public.
In May of 2013, we received a UC Faculty Development Council Grant to run a series of five workshops in order to help us determine the best ways to use The Elliston Digital Audio Archive for instruction and research. The third of these lectures will take place on November 9, 2013 and will be led by Tanya Clement. This workshop will explore research opportunities for scholars of poetry and digital archives.
UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and UC Libraries present two upcoming concerts in the CCM Library – October 24th and November 14th. Both concerts will feature the library’s historic Steinway piano. More about the piano is available online.
In honor of what would have been Dr. Benjamin Felson’s 100th birthday on October 21st, the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine’s Department of Radiology hosted a “special edition” of the annual Felson lecture. In conjunction with this event, the Winkler Center is also remembering Dr. Felson through an exhibit on the history of radiology in the Stanley J. Lucas Board Room (MSB E005H) through December 31st.
Dr. Felson is seen here discussing an x-ray in 1978. (From the Benjamin Felson archival collection)
During the month of October designated as National Information Literacy Awareness Month UC Libraries invites students to think about scenarios that have to do with the way we use information and decide what is the right thing to do. Earlier this month we posted the following prompt:
As part of Research Week 2013, sponsored by UC Health and University Academic Health Center, the UC Health Sciences Library is planning a week-long library research series. Sessions will focus on funding, authorship issues, data management and datasets/tools.
All sessions listed in the Research Series below take place in the UC Health Sciences Library Electronic Classroom (MSB G005G).
Register for the sessions at http://webcentral.uc.edu/hslclass/home.aspx. Walk ins are welcome!
Show Me the Money
Monday, Oct. 21, 1 to 2 p.m.
Find out who funds research studies and trials and get tips for finding these sources.
Manage Your Research Identity
Monday, Oct. 21, 2 to 3 p.m.
Learn to manage your research identity using unique author identifiers. This course will provide an overview of ORCID, My ResearcherID, and the Scopus Author ID.
Data Management Planning
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1 to 2 p.m.
Get introduced to the importance of data management planning with tips for creating a data management plan and an overview of tools in the library to help with the process.
Discovering Datasets
Thursday, Oct. 24, 1 to 2 p.m.
Learn out about data repositories including government data sets, figshare and Dryad.
NCBI Tools
Thursday, Oct. 24, 2 to 3 p.m.
Get information and training on the use of biomedical and genomic information databases of the National Center for Biomedical Informatics (NCBI).
Featured country: Cambodia
A constitutional monarchy officially known as the “Kingdom of Cambodia,” Cambodia is located on the Indochina Peninsula, surrounded on three sides by Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. Ninety-five per cent of the nearly 15 million people in the country follow Buddhism, though historically Cambodia was greatly influenced politically and culturally by Hinduism. In fact, the nation’s most visited and revered monument of Angkor Wat was originally constructed by the Khmer king, Suryavarman II in the 12th century as a Hindu religious complex. Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument in the world, and is portrayed on the nation’s flag. In the 20th century, Cambodia achieved independence in 1953 from France, which had colonized the country since the mid-19th century. After the Vietnam War, a devastating genocide of over 2 million people occurred from 1975-1979 by the Khmer Rouge. Taking decades to recover, today Cambodia is experiencing some of the strongest cultural and economic growth in Asia through tourism to its beautiful heritage sites, textiles and the garment industry, and agriculture. And currently, the University of Cincinnati has two Cambodian undergraduate students on campus.
Source: CultureGrams
Featured library resource: Foreign Information by Country
Angkor Wat
