The navigation and content within the newly redesigned UC Blue Ash College Library Website has changed considerably. This short tutorial outlines the new layout and shows you how to easily navigate the site.
New Book on the LaSalle Quartet
The LaSalle Quartet : conversations with Walter Levin (Boydell Press, 2014) has just arrived in the CCM Library. The LaSalle Quartet was in residence in Cincinnati from 1953 to 1987 and is renowned for its performances and recordings of music of the Second Viennese School, championing of the music of Alexander Zemlinsky, and for commissioning new works from composers Lutosławski, Ligeti and Nono and others. Read more.
Meet the UC Libraries’ Science Informationist
Hello! I am Amy Koshoffer, the new UC Libraries Science Informationist.
I am one member of a team of informationists working to provide research data services and instruction to the UC research community. My primary focus will be on researchers in Engineering and the Sciences, including Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology, Geography, Mathematics, and Physics. The informationist team includes others based in the Health Sciences Library (East Campus), including Tiffany Grant, a Research Informationist who is focusing on services to biomedical researchers.
New Health Sciences Distance Learners Guide
Below today’s hours and the enhanced location maps on t
he left-side of the redesigned Health Sciences Library website are three images that link to a new guide for health sciences distance learners, a list of workshops offered by UC Libraries, and a list of UC eJournals. The list of workshops and eJournals are familiar features of the HSL website but the Health Sciences Distance Learners guide is new with the website redesign. Continue reading
UCBA Fun Facts: Favorite reading place?
Question: What’s your Favorite place to read?
Heather Maloney, Library Director: On vacation….anywhere.
Michelle McKinney, Reference/Web Services Librarian: I like to read in bed or in my favorite lounge chair.
Kellie Tilton, Instructional Technologies Librarian: I prefer to read on vacation (a random dream vacation is one dedicated JUST to reading), but more often than not, I read in bed.
Lauren Wahman, Instruction Librarian: Vacation, couch, bed…just about anywhere except the car.
Rachel Lewis, Technical Services Manager: No favorite place, but I tend to read in my bed before I fall asleep.
Tammy Manger, Public Services Manager: I like to read in bed. That’s why I can’t make it through more than two pages.
Chris Marshall, Public Services Assistant: Poolside in the summer is the best!
From the Archives: William A. Altemeier, MD Collection Discovery
We received an addition to the William A. Altemeier, MD collection from Dr. Altemeier’s son, William Altemeier III, MD, at the beginning of February. For those of you unfamiliar with the name, Dr. Altemeier is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Altemeier became the Christian R. Holmes Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery in 1952 and served in that position for twenty-six years. His surgical expertise and research led to hundreds of publications on surgical infections and he counted the over one-hundred chief residents which he trained during his tenure with UC as his greatest contribution to medicine.
While many of us remember Dr. Altemeier’s stellar reputation as an educator and a surgeon, we don’t always think of another of his interests – baseball. Included among the items in the recent donation was a Goldman brand baseball score book dating from the mid-1920s. It appears to be a league of local business teams, for which Dr. Altemeier played catcher. These included Fischer Radio and City Transit (see score page below).
UCBA Librarians Serve
UC Blue Ash librarians, Heather Maloney and Michelle McKinney, took part in the UC Serves pilot event on Friday, May 2, 2014. The event was sponsored by Emerging Leaders in Student Affairs and the Center for Community Engagement and brought together over 100 UC faculty and staff volunteers for painting, cleaning, landscaping and clerical projects throughout the city.
Heather Maloney and Michelle McKinney with the UC Bearcat at the UC Serves Kick-Off event.
Heather Maloney served with colleagues in Clifton and had a blast! In the morning, the group worked with Keep Cincinnati Beautiful to remove graffiti and stickers from public spaces along Calhoun and McMillan Avenues, and in the afternoon, they worked with Spring in Our Steps to clean trash and debris from a historic alley-way near campus as way to enhance pedestrian spaces. Maloney truly appreciated the opportunity to serve the community alongside colleagues, and she can’t wait until next year!
Heather Maloney and fellow UC colleagues show their school spirit. Photo by Michela Buccini via Twitter.
Heather Maloney on graffitti patrol with a few other volunteers.
The Volunteers of America paint crew.
Michelle McKinney, armed with a paintbrush, helped to spruce up the Veterans of America facilities in Mt. Healthy. She was moved by how appreciative the resident veterans were of their efforts and plans to make volunteering for UC Serves a regular part of her year.
UC Serves was a great opportunity to work with UC colleagues from across the university as well as participate in the amazing work of organizations within our communities.
UCBA Fun Facts: One book or several?
Question: Do you prefer to read one book at a time, or several at once?
Heather Maloney, Library Director: Several at once and lately not so much luck with finishing….
Michelle McKinney, Reference/Web Services Librarian: Accidentally re-reading books. I’ll borrow a book from the library and realize a few chapters in that I’ve read it before.
Kellie Tilton, Instructional Technologies Librarian: I TRY to read one at a time, but I’m easily enticed by new, shiny books.
Lauren Wahman, Instruction Librarian: I’ve got a better shot at finishing it if I stick with one.
Rachel Lewis, Technical Services Manager: If I am in the mood for reading it will only be one book at a time.
Tammy Manger, Public Services Manager: I read one book at time. Otherwise I tend to get lost and find myself looking back in the book to figure out what I’ve already read.
Chris Marshall, Public Services Assistant: I usually read just one book at time. I can enjoy the characters more reading just one at a time.
The Marsh Test for Arsenic : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 26, May/June 2014
Reproduction of a Marsh apparatus
The 26th issue of Museum Notes deals with the historic Marsh test for arsenic and its role in both the history of forensic chemistry and detective fiction.
Click here for all other issues of Notes from The Oesper Collections and to explore the Jensen-Thomas Apparatus Collection.
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.
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.