Are you in election withdrawal? Don’t know what you will do without those election commercials? Even if you are still celebrating the fact that you can turn on the TV and listen to a commercial that does not talk about Republicans, Democrats, unemployment, or debt, you may still enjoy this exhibit by the Museum of the Moving Image. “The Living Room Candidate” holds presidential campaign videos from every presidential election since 1952. It provides an interesting look at the issues of each of those elections and the changes in presidential campaigning since the mid-20th century. For example, look at the cartoons and catchy tunes used in the commercials of John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower, and then the references to violence in the commercials of both Nixon and Humphrey in 1968. See how the families of candidates have been used in campaign commercials over the past sixty years, and make sure to look for any television or movie stars who might show up in a commercial.
Procrastination? Trouble finding just what you need? We have a book for that!
During the Information Literacy Awareness Month we used chalkboards in Langsam to learn more about our patrons and how they use the library and information sources. A couple of weeks ago we asked you to tell us what your biggest challenge is when doing research.
We got a variety of responses ranging from difficulty getting organized and pulling yourself away from Facebook or Pinterest to problems related to putting the results on paper and getting the research findings published.
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To help our patrons to address some of these problems we put together a virtual exhibit Tips for Effective and Efficient Library Research. The exhibit features current e-books and print books from the UC Libraries’ collections related to various aspects of library research projects, from finding and evaluating sources to presenting your research results and getting them published. It also includes resources on successful management of your research projects.
While the books on finding sources are targeted primarily to undergraduates, books in other categories might be useful to broader audiences, including graduate and doctoral students and faculty.
We hope to expand this exhibit in the future by adding more online resources in a variety of formats. Please help us by using the Comments link to to share tutotials, books, and websites that helped you to improve your research skills. Let us know what libraries can do to help you to find, evaluate, and use information more effectively.
A Grimm Exhibit
The year 2012 marks the 200th anniversary of the first publishing of Kinder und Hausmarchen (Children’s and Household Tales), a collection of German folk tales published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and commonly referred to as Grimms’ Fairy Tales. In celebration of this monumental book, an exhibit is currently on display on Langsam Library’s 4th and 5th floor lobbies celebrating the Brothers Grimm and their many contributions to the world of fairy tales. Continue reading
The Best Show In Town
By: Angela Vanderbilt
The construction of the subway seems to have been something of a spectator sport in Cincinnati, with groups of onlookers crowding along the banks of the old canal and hovering over the rails of bridges, watching as workmen dug out the canal bed to build the framework for tracks and tunnels.
ARB Celebrates the John Cage Centennial Festival
By Lauren Fink
After approximately 18 hours of straight playing on Monday, Erik Satie’s Vexations kicked off CCM’s John Cage Centennial Festival. The Archives and Rare Books Library would like to contribute to the festivities by sharing images and information about its collections of and related to John Cage.
Since John Cage was a composer-in-residence at CCM during the 1966-67 academic year, we have writings and images of him in our University Archives. Of special note are the Van Meter Ames Papers – which document the friendship between Cage and UC philosophy professor Ames (the pair most likely bonded over their shared passion for Zen Buddhism) – and the biography files of both Cage and Ames. Continue reading
Tammy Manger Receives UCount Award
by Heather Maloney
We are very proud to announce that Tammy Manger, UCBA Library Public Services Manager, was recently distinguished Continue reading
Remembering the Who Tragedy
By Kevin Grace
This week I’m reading Pete Townshend’s recently published autobiography, Who I Am, and it brought to mind how we document part of his life here in the Archives & Rare Books Library. It was nearly 33 years ago that The Who played Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati on December 3, 1979 and eleven people were killed in a stampede for festival seating.
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: Letters of Thanks
While processing some Sabin material to add to the current finding aid, we came across an interesting box. In 2004, the Winkler Center received a large box full of letters that Dr. Sabin received while he was in the hospital. These letters, and many more, poured into Dr. Sabin’s address at the National Institutes of Health because of an article written by Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene titled, “Rx: Don’t forget Sabin on Sunday.” I wanted to share a bit about this column, as well as some letters found in that box. Continue reading
Introducing Lynda.com
www.lynda.com offers you the ability to learn a new software program or to get just that one answer to a question. Lynda.com offers thousands of videos on hundreds of topics. Learn 3D animation using AutoCAD, Revit, and SketchUP. Or how about brushing up on your photography skills?
Master flash photography, create documentaries, and use Photoshop easily. Or maybe you want to learn some software that will help you design a magazine cover, Website, or portfolio? Try your hand at InDesign, Illustration, and Painter. All this can be accessed on your smartphone too! Check it out and see what you think.
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Library Services for UC Health Employees
Thanks to a recent agreement between UC Health and the University of Cincinnati, UC Health employees now have access to health sciences and research-level library collections and services through UC Libraries’ Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library.
To access library resources and services, UC Health employees need only to register online at http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/uchealth. This web site will also serve as UC Health employees’ gateway to the information resources and services provided by the Health Sciences Library and UC Libraries.
For more information about the library resources and services available to UC Health employees, or to schedule an instruction session, contact:
Leslie Schick, Associate Dean, UC Libraries and Director, Health Sciences Library
(513) 558-4321 leslie.schick@uc.edu
Kristen Burgess, Information Services Librarian
(513) 558-3071 kristen.burgess@uc.edu