College of Nursing Records Now Available in ARB

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By Janice Schulz

Nursing Classroom 1978

Instruction in the College of Nursing and Health, 1978

The Archives and Rare Books Library has completed processing an 81 box collection of College of Nursing Records from 1940-2004, and it is now available for research. The highlight of this collection is a large number of curriculum records dating from 1980-2003, documenting the development of the program and the changing face of nursing education during a 20+ year period. These curriculum records include syllabi, course outlines, handouts, presentations, and textbook lists. Development of the PhD program during the 1980s and 1990s is also documented. The Archives and Rare Books Library encourages all academic departments to transfer historic curriculum for inclusion in the University Archives Collection. Continue reading →

Now Available: City of Middletown City Council Meeting Minutes and Various City Board Minutes, 2001-2008

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By:  Alyssa Roberts, ARB Student Assistant

Curious about what was going on in Middletown, Ohio, from 2001-2008? Our newest collection at the Archives & Rare Books Library includes minutes from the Middletown City Council meetings between January 2001 and December 2008. Additionally, the collection includes minutes from the city’s various boards, committees, and commissions from 2005 and 2006. You can discover the inner-workings of this Southwestern Ohio community’s Park Board, Golf Course Commission, or Tree Commission. Interested in Butler Country’s Middletown Regional Airport? You can now read the 2005 and 2006 minutes from the Airport Commission.  A finding aid for the collection is available through the OhioLink Finding Aid Repository.

We’d love to see you at the ARB, where you can view everything from this collection to collections from the City of Cincinnati to our rarest of rare books.  Visit ARB’s website at  www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb for more information on ARB’s collections or call 513-556-1959 or email archives@ucmail.uc.edu.

Getting Around = Adventures in the Subway and Street Improvements Digitization Project

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By Angela Vanderbilt

In keeping with the neighborhood theme of last week’s blog, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the neighborhoods through which the collection of subway and street improvement photographs passes. The collection is a fantastic study of Cincinnati’s urban development as the city grew in those early decades of the 20th century and some neighborhoods expanded and others were established. Many of the streets and boulevards that bounded the neighborhoods of the collection have changed over time, with expansion as well as other city infrastructure improvements.

The collection begins its journey in downtown Cincinnati along “Canal Street”, known today as Central Parkway. The earliest photographs in the collection focus on subway construction work between Walnut Street to the east and Plum Street to the west, as well as street improvement work around the downtown area and along the riverfront. Using the information written on the negatives, we are able to identify the specific location of the majority of photographs on a map. However, some of the streets and alleys named in the photographs in this section of downtown no longer exist. High-rise office buildings, convention centers, and sports arenas now occupy the spaces through which they once ran. Continue reading →

The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: National Medal of Science 50th Anniversary

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National Medal of Science (front)The National Science Foundation (NSF) is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Medal of Science with a new online exhibit. In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation creating the National Medal of Science. President John F. Kennedy awarded the first medal to Theodore von Kármán in 1963. This new exhibit features some of the 476 men and women who have been recognized for “their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences,”[1] including our own Dr. Albert Bruce Sabin. Continue reading →

UC Faculty & Library Staff: Submit Your 2012 Published Works to Authors, Editors & Composers

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aeclogowebOn Tuesday, April 9, 2013, the University of Cincinnati Libraries will once again recognize the publishing and creative accomplishments of UC’s faculty at the annual “Authors, Editors & Composers” event. Scheduled for 3:30pm in the Russell C. Myers Alumni Center at UC, “Authors, Editors & Composers” will include a reception, presentation of selected works, a printed bibliography, and an exhibit. Continue reading →

CEAS Library celebrates National Engineers Week (EWeek)

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EWeek display in Reference Area

Celebrate Awesome!  is the 2013 theme for National Engineers Week, also known as EWeek.  The College of Engineering and Applied Science Library is celebrating EWeek with some special displays.

 

Enjoy a variety of books on engineering careers, on display in our reference area.

EWeek display

 

 

EWeek display

 

 

 

 

 

For even more resources, refer to our Reference Guide on careers in engineering: http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/engineeringprofession

CEAS Student Tribunal is hosting a number of fun and informative events this week: http://tribunal.uc.edu/eweek/events or on Twitter: @UC_EWeek

The Southwest Ohio Folklore Project Is Now Available

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By Molly Gullett

Over the last four months I have had the privilege to work with and organize the contents of what is now the Southwest Ohio Folklore Collection. Created by Edgar Slotkin, professor emeritus of English, as student assignments for his folklore courses, the SWOFC has documents from as early as 1974 and as recently as 2011.  It features over six hundred papers on topics as diverse as nursery rhymes and epitaphs as well as prison slang and love songs. The collection also features a handful of photographs, scanned images and booklets. Housed in the Urban Studies archive of the Archives & Rare Books Library, the SWOFC is made up of an array of collections from a wide span of ethnic groups and cultures.  With the impetus provided by Professor Slotkin’s donation, this body of folklore is viewed as a dynamic, sustainable collection that will be augmented in the years to come.  As such, the contents make it a valuable resource for researching the diverse cultures of southwestern Ohio.

The Southwest Ohio Folklore Collection is now available for use in the Archives and Rare Books Library. A web exhibit and finding aid is also online: . http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/exhibits/swofc/index.html.

For more information about the collection, the Urban Studies archive, or other holdings of the Archives & Rare Books Library, please visit us on the 8th floor of Carl Blegen Library, email us at archives@ucmail.uc.edu, telephone us at 513.556.1959, or view our website.