UCBA Library Fun Facts: Bad Book Habits

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Question: Do you have a bad book habit?

HeatherHeather Maloney, Library Director: Getting too many and letting them pile up on my bedside table. I try to answer all of life’s quandaries with a different book.

 

MichelleMichelle 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 Kellie Tilton, Instructional Technologies Librarian: Using the dust jacket flaps as a bookmark. Not as bad as earmarking the page, but still not as good as an actual bookmark.

 

LaurenLauren Wahman, Instruction Librarian: Finding too many good ones and running out of time to read them all.  And, occasionally, picking up one that I’ve already read!

 

Rachel Rachel Lewis, Technical Services Manager: Not at all!

 

 

 

TammyTammy Manger, Public Services Manager: Falling asleep only after two pages…I hate that!

 

 

ChrisChris Marshall, Public Services Assistant: Earmarking the pages.  Bad Habit!

 

Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library Ranked 14th Most Impressive Medical School Library

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HSLThe Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library was ranked 14th amongst “the 25 most impressive university medical school libraries in the world” according to The Best Master’s Degrees Reviews and Rankings, a public site that explores and ranks the vast world of Master’s degrees in all the disciplines.

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Culture of Books and Reading Students Deposit A Ghost Story in the Archives

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By:  Kevin Grace

Recently returned from a study tour to Edinburgh, Scotland over spring break, the students in the University Honors Program seminar “The Culture of Books and Reading” added one of their assignments to the ARB website – a story entitled “The Sin-Eaters Ghost.”  A group project written by each student contributing a page, the story is just one of the assignments for this course in which the traditional and emerging reading habits and the heritage of books are explored in cultures around the world.

Edinburgh Skyline

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Join Us for the Annual Cecil Striker Society Annual Lecture

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The Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions and the Cecil Striker Society for the History of Medicine will host the Cecil Striker Society Annual Lecture Thursday, April 10.
The evening will include a reception from 4-5 p.m with an exhibit on John Shaw Billings in the Lucas Room. At 5 p.m., Dale Smith, PhD, will present, “John Shaw Billings and the Medical College of Ohio: Shaping Twentieth Century Medicine,” in Kresge Auditorium.

A Poem in Your Pocket All Month Long

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pocketpiece-01April 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.

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ARB's Final Lunchtime Lecture for 2013-2014

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By:  Kevin Grace

McCay Little NemoThe 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 →

The Dichromate Cell : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 25, March/April 2014

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Examples of surviving half-liter Grenet cells

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.

The Elliston Project Digital Archive Technology Workshop, April 5, 2014

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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.

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Spring 2014 Issue of Records Quarterly Now Available

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 By Eira Tansey

Spring 2014 Records QuarterlyThe 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.

Documenting India: Day 7

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day7dOver 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.