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 fourth of these lectures will take place on March 29, 2014 and will be led by Michael Hennessey. This workshop will examine creative opportunities for poets and others writers.
Elliston Alumni Fiction Reading, March 7, 2014, Joseph Bates and David James Poissant
The next reading in the Elliston Reading Series will be by alumni authors Joseph Bates and David James Poissant.
March 7, 2014, 4:00 PM, Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library
Joseph Bates is the author of Tomorrowland: Stories and The Nighttime Novelist. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such journals as New Ohio Review, Identity Theory, South Carolina Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Shenandoah. He teaches in the creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
David James Poissant’s first story collection, The Heaven of Animals, will be published by Simon & Schuster in March 2014. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Playboy, One Story, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, New Stories from the South, and Best New American Voices. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida and is at work on a novel, Class, Order Family, also forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.
Look for recordings of this presentation soon in the digital collection, The Elliston Project: Poetry Readings and Lectures at the University of Cincinnati.
Learn more about Events sponsored by the Elliston Poetry Fund.
What is digital humanities anyway?
What Is Digital Humanities?
Jason Heppler, Academic Technology Specialist in the Department of History at Stanford University and historian of the North American West, created a project/website simply called whatisdigitalhumanities.com. It’s goal is simple: To provide perpetual answers to the perpetual question.
“Digital history provides historians new ways to think about historical causation and events through new research methods and visualizations (http://jasonheppler.org/digital/)”.
Hi, I’m Jason.
The Thing Quarterly
Issue 13/The Thing
THE THING Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It’s like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published on a useful object.
Each issue is reproduced, wrapped, and shipped to the subscribers.
Recently, the DAAP Library became a subscriber to THE THING Quarterly and in doing so, we also ordered all back issues. We’ll soon unveil the entire collection in a cool, participatory performance event will entail our filming of our unwrapping each issue and collaborative construction of an exhibition of the entire collection. You don’t want to miss this. Stay tuned…
Jennifer Krivickas~Head of the DAAP Library
NEW Library Research Process Guide
Research Process Guide: Your Step-by-Step Approach!
by Lauren Wahman
The new Research Process guide is now available! This guide provides a step-by-step approach to library research and moves you from topic to determining the quality of sources. You’ll also find a Citing Sources tab with links to citation resources and a Build Your Project tab where you’ll find contact information for experts at UC Blue Ash’s academic support centers and labs.
Students & librarian focus on collections in UC Forward Class!
Documenting a Fashion Icon: The UC Bonnie Cashin Collection is a ‘test kitchen’, hands-on course that incorporates transdisciplinary inquiry and discourse, student crowdsourcing 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, The UC Bonnie Cashin Collection.
The primary goal of the class: To actively engage UC students in transdisciplinary inquiry and discovery and enable innovation through collaboration AND to provide the global community of designers, historians, curators, students, and design-minded lay people with free and open access to visual and textual information about The UC Bonnie Cashin Collection, a collection with international research potential.
Students who complete this course will understand how to conduct formal, historical, and structural analysis of objects; the historical and cultural value of objects and collections; the principles of collecting and the curation of both physical and digital objects, textile conservation and proper handling techniques, and forms and variables related to physical and digital preservation. Students will learn how to conduct object analysis, interpret information, and prepare succinct, written descriptions of objects; the basics of database and website design; metadata and standardized descriptive language; and finally, how to organize, market, and execute a successful, multidimensional event (an exhibition & opening).
For more information about the class, see our course website! http://libraries.uc.edu/blogs/bonnie-cashin/
~Jennifer Krivickas, Head of the DAAP Library
Publication from Local Photographer, Tom Schiff, Explores Columbus, Indiana
Cincinnati panoramic Photographer, Tom Schiff, is well-known for his colorful,oblong books of panoramic photographs. Often, the subject of Schiff’s photographs are the visually interesting landmarks, buildings, and places in and around Cincinnati and Ohio. Schiff’s newest photo book project, Columbus, Indiana: Midwestern Modernist Mecca (Skira Rizzoli, 2013), takes the reader/viewer on a wonderful tour around the little town in Indiana that has some of the most extraordinary examples of modernist architecture you’ll ever lay eyes on. Schiff not only offers readers/viewers a glimpse inside of beautiful places, such as the Miller House by Eero Saarinen (1957), but his unique style and craft allows us to see things in a different way. Whether you are traveling for research or leisure, Schiff’s new book, available for check out at the DAAP Library, is a wonderful resource for preparing for your next architectural pilgrimage to Columbus (Indiana).
~Jennifer Krivickas, Head of the Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
Elliston Fiction Reading, February 21, 2014, Erin McGraw
The next reading in the Elliston Reading Series will be by author Erin McGraw.
February 21, 2014, 4:00 PM, Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library
Erin McGraw is the author of six books of fiction, most recently the satiric novel Better Food for a Better World. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, STORY, The Kenyon Review, Allure, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Good Housekeeping, and many other magazines and journals. She teaches fiction writing at the Ohio State University, and with her husband, the poet Andrew Hudgins, divides her time between Ohio and Tennessee.
Look for recordings of this presentation soon in the digital collection, The Elliston Project: Poetry Readings and Lectures at the University of Cincinnati.
Learn more about Events sponsored by the Elliston Poetry Fund.
Web of Knowledge Now Web of Science
The Web of K
nowledge has a new name and a new design. The Web of Science continues to have all the same features and functions as in earlier versions of the product, but has been streamlined for faster and easier use.
A few of the new features are:
- More “Sort” options (A-Z or Z-A by first author, source title, conference title, relevance, times cited and more)
- A direct link to the journal’s impact factor in the Full Record view
- A list of how many times an article has been cited and in what Web of Science databases in the Full Record view
Another change is that the UC Article Linker button is only visible after you click on “Full Text”.
See a quick tour of the new design here: http://youtu.be/Ulfu0njSZN0
Access the Web of Science from the Health Sciences Library home page under Express Links in the center of the page. Questions? Contact Edith Starbuck at 513-558-1433 or edith.starbuck@uc.edu
Surviving the Zombie Attack at the Library
We can’t blame those were too scared to attend last Friday’s event and confront the zombies. However those who dared to come had a lot of fun. See what happened at the library after 4…
