Read Source, the UC Libraries newsletter for faculty, students, staff, and friends.
The latest issue highlights the CEAS Library, new digital collections such as The Cincinnatian Online, and the most recent UC Libraries Quality Service Award Winners. You can also read about staff news, recent acquisitions in the Geology-Mathematics-Physics Library, and more. Source is available in print around the various libraries and online.
The following collections were acquired by the University Archives through the University Records Management Program. Each collection has been inventoried as is available for use by researchers.
College of Business Graduation Recognition Ceremonies, UA-10-13
Graduation ceremony records, including videos of ceremonies, 1993-2006
Public Relations Newspaper Clippings and Subject Files, UA-10-14
Newspaper clippings from Enquirer & Post, writers’ subject files, 2007-2008
http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/archives/collections/documents/UA-10-14PublicRelations.pdf
Resident Education and Development (RED), UA-10-15
Correspondence, committee files, minutes, and reports, 2003-2005
– Written by Janice Schulz
The Summer 2010 edition of Records Quarterly, the newsletter of University of Cincinnati Records Management, is now available on the records management website at http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/records_management/recordsquarterly.html. This issue features articles about the proper use of computer backups, upcoming UC electronic records management policies and procedures, and how to determine the administrative value of records.
Records Quarterly is distributed electronically via the Records Management website. Subscribers to the Records Management Listserv will receive notification of new issues automatically. You can sign up for the listserv by going to the subscription page, or by sending an email to Janice.Schulz@uc.edu. Please include your name and email address and use “listserv sign-up” in the subject line.
– Written by Janice Schulz
Wanting to use the library during break? The UC Libraries have special Break Hours. A list of all hours are posted online.
Josephine Simrall, Dean of Women from 1921-1933
A new two-box collection of records from the UC Woman’s Club is now available in the University Archives. Accessioned as number UA-10-12, the new collection contains meeting minutes, treasurer’s reports, newsletters, annual reports, and program records mainly spanning 1996-2003. Some of the program records go back to 1979. The collection also features membership rosters from 1970-1973. A complete inventory can be found at http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/archives/collections/documents/UA-10-12WomansClub.pdf. Continue reading
The John Miller Burnam Classical Library will be closed September 13 through 15 so that staff may complete the relocation of the library to newly renovated space on the fourth floor of Blegen Library.
Try Lexis/Nexis’s new user interface for their Academic product. The new user interface is easy to use. The results default to relevance rankings, but users can change this to publication date to reverse chronological. Features include: Easy Search, Power Search, a Tip that provides assistance in using the interface, as well as search categories, and a Help section.
The UC Libraries will be closed Monday, September 6, Labor Day except the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, which will be open 9am-5pm.
The University of Cincinnati Libraries have received a $61,287 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to process the papers of Theodore Moody Berry (1905-2000), a civil rights pioneer, community activist, and elected official from Cincinnati.