T. M. Berry Project: A Few Words for Sarge and Berry's WWII Service

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Letter from Sargent Shriver

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Written by Laura Laugle, Berry Project Archivist

I’d like to start out this post with a few words for a man with whom Theodore Berry worked closely during his tenure at the Office of Economic Opportunity, R. Sargent Shriver Jr. During the upheaval accompanying the creation of the program and amid controversy over lost memoranda, Shriver stood by his choice of Berry as director of the Community Action Program and continued to be a friend and supporter of Berry’s long after they had both left Washington when President Nixon took office. Shriver was not only the first director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, but was also the first director of the Peace Corps and helped his wife, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, develop and found the Special Olympics in 1968. Shriver died last Tuesday, January 18, 2011 in a Maryland hospital at the age of 95 and was remembered at his funeral on Friday, January 21 by his five children, his nineteen grandchildren and a horde of celebrities and dignitaries from all over the world as a loving family member and friend and a true statesman. Continue reading →

City of Cincinnati Birth and Death Records

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City of Cincinnati birth and death records from 1865 to 1908 with surnames beginning with the letter “A” through the surname “Bach” are now available online. The remaining records are being loaded as quickly as possible. Please continue to check the Digital Collections and Archives and Rare Books Library websites for further updates.

The University of Cincinnati Libraries was awarded a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant from the State Library of Ohio to digitize the records. Read more about the project online.

– By Janice Schulz

T. M. Berry Project: The UC Connection

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Newspaper Article - "Negro is Winner of Jones Prize"

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By Laura Laugle

Up to now, I have explained to you some (very little actually, but we’ll get there) of what made Berry an important figure. If you’ve been reading regularly, you’ll know that Ted Berry was an attorney, a civil rights activist, a local politician and a key player in “The War on Poverty.” What you would not know, because I have thoughtlessly neglected to tell you, is why he is so important to the University of Cincinnati in particular. The short answer is that he was an alumnus. The complete answer is that he was an important part of UC’s community and he has become part of the University’s history.

While at UC, Berry received many honors, both local and national. Perhaps the most outstanding of which is the Jones Oratorical Prize which he won in 1928 for his speech entitled “The Significance of the Minority.” In that speech Berry, then a senior undergraduate at UC, challenged America “… to live by the principles of the founders of our democracy, and to practice a new ideal of human understanding and fair dealing.” Continue reading →

New eBooks Now Available!

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New Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health ebooks are now available!   Almost 100 new ebooks have been added to the Health Sciences Library’s ebook collection.  Check out the ebooks via the online collections R2 Digital Library http://www.r2library.com/default.aspx and MD Consult http://www.mdconsult.com/ .   In each collection you have the ability to search the entire collection or go directly to a title to browse the contents.

If you’re off campus, log into the proxy server or the VPN at http://libraries.uc.edu/hsl/reference/remoteaccess.cfm , then click on the eBooks link from the menu on the left.  On the eBooks page, at the top of the page, click on either MD Consult (direct link) or R2 Digital Library to go directly to the collections.

Here’s a short sample list of some of the new ebooks:

Medical Speech-Language Pathology http://www.r2library.com/contents/content_resource_frame.aspx?ResourceID=1846&Library=AlliedHealth

Clinical Audiology: An Introduction http://www.r2library.com/contents/content_resource_frame.aspx?ResourceID=1499&Library=AlliedHealth

Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management http://www.r2library.com/contents/content_resource_frame.aspx?ResourceID=2138&Library=Nursing

Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice http://www.r2library.com/contents/content_resource_frame.aspx?ResourceID=2198&Library=Nursing

Ansel’s Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systems http://www.r2library.com/contents/content_resource_frame.aspx?ResourceID=1962&Library=AlliedHealth

Patient Assessment in Pharmacy Practice http://www.r2library.com/contents/content_resource_frame.aspx?ResourceID=1166&Library=AlliedHealth

Jones: Netters Neurology http://www.mdconsult.com/books/linkTo?type=bookHome&isbn=978-1-929007-06-6&eid=4-u1.0-B978-1-929007-06-6..C2009-0-35778-5–TOP&uniq=230353056-8

Rutherford: Vascular Surgery http://www.mdconsult.com/books/linkTo?type=bookHome&isbn=978-1-4160-5223-4&eid=4-u1.0-B978-1-4160-5223-4..X0001-7–TOP&uniq=230353056-8

Plotkin: Vaccines http://www.mdconsult.com/books/linkTo?type=bookHome&isbn=978-1-4160-3611-1&eid=4-u1.0-B978-1-4160-3611-1..X5001-6–TOP&uniq=230353056-8

Yanoff: Ocular Pathology http://www.mdconsult.com/books/linkTo?type=bookHome&isbn=978-0-323-04232-1&eid=4-u1.0-B978-0-323-04232-1..X0001-2–TOP&uniq=230353056-8

You will be able to link to the individual titles in the Library Catalog http://uclid.uc.edu/ or from the library’s eBook page http://libraries.uc.edu/hsl/reference/elec/Etext.cfm in the near future.

Questions?  Please contact Edith Starbuck at 558-1433 or edith.starbuck@uc.edu

50 Minutes-One Book

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The Archives & Rare Books Library announces a new monthly lunch-time series that will focus on one item from the collections to talk about its history and importance.  Relaxed and informal, these presentations are set for one Thursday each month through the academic year, and will be held in the Schott Seminar Room, 814 Blegen Library at 12:00 noon.

The first talk is on Thursday, January 27, and will feature ARB’s anthropodermic binding (that is, human skin!).  Find out how these bindings became curiosities of the book world, particularly in the 18th century; why most major research libraries have at least one example of the morbid things and how UC obtained its copy; and, the process involved in determining its authenticity. Continue reading →

T. M. Berry Project: Remembrances

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Theodore Berry as a child

By Laura Laugle

I have lately been going through a variety of files marked “T. M. Berry Biography.” A few are from the Theodore M. Berry collection and one came here to Archives and Rare Books rather serendipitously when Public Information was cleaning out alumni biography files. As a result, I have learned a great deal about Berry’s life as a whole, what he did before and after his public life, who he was as person and how that influenced his political career. One of my first finds in these files, and possibly my favorite of the entire collection thus far, was an envelope stuffed with old photographs. I can now say, with absolute certainty, two things which would never have occurred to me previously: Ted Berry made an adorable little cowboy and fedoras and spats are definite style “dos.” Continue reading →

Dinosaur Sculpture Looms Large in Langsam Library

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Langsam Library is the new home for Triceracopter – an impressive half triceratops, half helicopter 30-foot sculpture.

Created in 1977 by artist Patricia A. Renick to commemorate the U.S. Bicentennial, Triceracopter: The Hope for the Obsolescence of War combines the form of a triceratops dinosaur with an Army OH6A Cayuse combat helicopter flown in Vietnam. Although a triceratops and a helicopter are unlikely candidates for a single sculpture, the artist has combined them to invite wonder and nudge reflective thinking.

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T.M. Berry Project: Trouble in Anti-Poverty Paradise

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By Laura Laugle

Thus far in the archival project of Theodore Berry’s papers I have found almost no controversy surrounding him or his career. This surprises me not only because he was a politician, a member of a group of people who seem completely unable to keep themselves out of trouble for any length of time, but also because he was an African-American holding high office in an already controversial federal agency, the Community Action Program, during the mid-late 1960s. That is, I’d found no controversy until I came across this article.

"Shriver Wasn't Told of War On Poverty Memo" Continue reading →

University of Cincinnati Health History Center Receives $100,000 Grant from the John Hauck Foundation

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The University of Cincinnati’s Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions has received a $100,000 grant from the John Hauck Foundation. The grant puts the University of Cincinnati Libraries beyond its total fundraising goal for the completion of the construction project critical to the preservation of Cincinnati’s rare and fragile medical collections.
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T.M. Berry Project: Mod In The Mountains

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By Laura Laugle

Much of my time lately has been spent buried deep in the remnants of the everyday business of the Office of Economic Opportunity, where official government policies and memoranda abound. Though all of it is informative, to say that I find every item I come across riveting would be untrue. Luckily, a few striking photographs caught my attention and cried out for a closer look.

A young family pictured in their new home in Berea, KY. I’m especially fond of the kitchen. Those robin’s egg blue appliances would probably sell for thousands in an upscale vintage shop. Très mod-chic!

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