April is National Poetry Month. In celebration of this, UC Libraries has mounted an exhibit on the fourth floor of Langsam Library celebrating poetry and poets.
Included in the exhibit is information about the Elliston Poetry Room, some Ohio poets, poets with a Cincinnati connection, and a sampling of UC poets including Armando Romero, Danielle Deulen, Don Bogen, James Cummins, John Drury and Nicasio Urbina.
By: Kevin Grace
The Archives & Rare Books Library will hold its final “50 Minutes-1 Book” presentation of the academic year on Thursday, April 17, at 12 noon in 814 Blegen Library. Greg Hand, associate vice president for Government Relations and University Communications, will talk about Winsor McCay, a recognized pioneer of American comic strips. McCay’s genius as an artist, cartoonist and animator has been hailed by Maurice Sendak and celebrated by a “Google Doodle.” His “Little Nemo In Slumberland” is recognized as the pinnacle of comic strip art and his “Gertie The Dinosaur” was unsurpassed until the Golden Age of Walt Disney and Chuck Jones. It is little known that McCay spent 13 years in Cincinnati. Continue reading
Examples of surviving half-liter Grenet cells (Jensen-Thomas Apparatus Collection). The cell on the right has its Zn anode raised.
The 25th issue of Museum Notes is the last installment of our series on historic voltaic cells and highlights the famous dichromate cell of Poggendorff and Warington.
Click here for all other issues of Notes from The Oesper Collections and to explore the Jensen-Thomas Apparatus Collection.
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 final of these lectures will take place on April 5, 2014 and will be led by Lori Emerson. This workshop will include training in a variety of digital tools for the productive use of digital audio archives.
By Eira Tansey
The Spring 2014 edition of Records Quarterly, a newsletter of the University of Cincinnati Records Management Program, is now available on the records management website. Articles in this issue include:
Introduction from UC’s New Records Manager — Meet Eira Tansey, graduate of UC, and the new Digital Archivist/Records Manager
Retention Schedule Revisions — If it’s been a while since your office revised its retention schedule, here’s what to expect during the process
Disposal Certificates — How and why to fill out disposal certificates when you dispose of records
You will also find announcements for the spring shredding event sponsored by the Office of Information Security, “Records in the News,” current events in legislation that could affect record keeping, and recent records transfers to the University Archives.
The next Introduction to Records Management workshop will take place on May 8 at 10am in Blegen Library, 8th floor. Anyone from the university community may attend, please RSVP by sending an email to eira.tansey@uc.edu
Records Quarterly is distributed electronically via the Records Management website and the Records Management listserv.
Over Spring Break, Jay Sinnard, manager of the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC), is traveling with a class to provide media support as they record testimonials as part of their class project.
Over the course of their trip, Jay and the students will share on this blog some of their observations, images and video from their travels. Check back often…
From Jay:
Lunch on the beach where I photographed one student, Courtney, enjoying drinking coconut water.
On the beach in Goa. At sunset.
We finished the day at the “Saturday night market” in Goa and had dinner at pink cafe.
Once again, the University of Cincinnati Libraries will celebrate the International Edible Books Festival with an event scheduled for Tuesday, April 1st from 1:00-2:00pm on the 5th floor lobby of Langsam Library.
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Over Spring Break, Jay Sinnard, manager of the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC), is traveling with a class to provide media support as they record testimonials as part of their class project.
Over the course of their trip, Jay and the students will share on this blog some of their observations, images and video from their travels. Check back often
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Over Spring Break, Jay Sinnard, manager of the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC), is traveling with a class to provide media support as they record testimonials as part of their class project.
Over the course of their trip, Jay and the students will share on this blog some of their observations, images and video from their travels. Check back often…