Join UC Libraries this Friday at 4pm, for Across Nations: Diversity Speaks. Interact with other students, enjoy refreshments and utilize library resources to explore cultures worldwide. Continue reading
Fact or Fiction: Celebrating National Information Literacy Awareness Month
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by Lauren Wahman During the week of October 28, 2013, the UC Blue Ash Library posed a question of the day asking students, faculty, and staff to think about what they knew about urban legends.
Service Note: Library Catalog Maintenance November 11th
Please note that the Library Catalog (UCLID) will be offline on Monday, November 11, 2013 from 7:00 am to 12:00 pm for scheduled maintenance. All applications will be offline, the Online Public Access Catalog and Sierra.
Users can connect, via OhioLINK to access UC online resources.
A Display of Human Rights and Human Wrongs
In celebration of International Education Week, the Marx Law Library and UC Libraries collaborated on a display in support of UC’s First-Year Student Common Reading Program and the book Justice. The display, titled “Justice Around the World: Human Rights and Human Wrongs,” features the College of Law’s Human Rights Quarterly and the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Both are edited by Bert Lockwood, Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights. The display, on view through the end of the semester, is located on the 4th floor lobby of Langsam Library. Continue reading
Neil Armstrong: Engineer, Pilot, Astronaut, Teacher; the Neil Armstrong Commemorative Website
Neil Armstrong teaching at the UC College of Engineering, in 1974
Did you know that Neil Armstrong was a professor at the University of Cincinnati after being the first man to walk on the moon?
To further preserve Armstrong’s accomplishments and specifically celebrate his years from 1971-1979 as a professor and researcher in aerospace engineering at the university, the UC Libraries created a dynamic commemorative website.
Librarian Spotlight: Kellie Tilton
Kellie Tilton, Instruction Technologies Librarian, is the newest member of the UC Blue Ash Library faculty. Kellie comes to us from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In her current role, she leads the development of new online tutorials and learning objects. She also works closely with the Art & Visual Communication, Behavioral Science, Electronic Media and History, Philosophy & Political Science departments to provide library instruction, collection support and research assistance.
Kellie at the very end of the Homer spit, in Homer, Alaska.
The Bunsen and Grove Cells : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 23, November/December 2013
An actual surviving example of the Grove cell and a spare ceramic spacer.
The 23rd issue of Notes from The Oesper Collections highlights the famous Grove nitric acid cell and its later modification by Robert Bunsen which made it into a standard commercial and laboratory source of electrical energy for more than 50 years.
Click here for all other issues of Notes from The Oesper Collections and to explore the Jensen-Thomas Apparatus Collection.
The Right Thing to Do: Maintain Academic Honesty
During the month of October designated as National Information Literacy Awareness Month UC Libraries invited students to think about scenarios that have to do with the ethics of using information. At the end of the month we posted the following scenario:
A few responses suggested reversing the time. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to do that?! While we are waiting for the invention of the time machine (if you are working on it, please let us know), let’s look at some other suggestions. Continue reading
Myth Manor: See It to Believe It
Enjoy Music in the Gorno Library November 14
The next concert in the Music in the Gorno Library series will take place on Thursday, November 14 at 5 pm in the Albino Gorno Memorial Music Library Reading Room, 6th floor of Blegen Library. Presented by UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and UC Libraries, the concert will include works by Wagner and Schoenberg.