Snapshots in Time

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A new exhibit, on display on the 5th floor of Langsam Library, features monthly calendars produced by the Strobridge Lithography Company.

Ranging from 1897 to 1917, the calendar cards are exquisite examples of Art Nouveau design in America, showing the artistry and printing skills of the company. The cards functioned as “home advertising” for the firm and were meant to be displayed on a kitchen or office wall. The color separations are remarkable, and the vivid beauty of the illustrations perfectly captures the collaboration between artist and craftsman.

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Welcome New Student Orientation

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UC Libraries are welcoming new students to the university with a library orientation session in Langsam Library from 9:30-10:30am, June 29 through August 12.

During this time, new students tour the library, learn about the Libraries website, how to print in the libraries, watch a short video in the STRC, and visit UCit@Langsam.

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New Point of Care Resource

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JBI COnNECT

Check out JBI COnNECT+ (Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics) at

http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://connect.jbiconnectplus.org/

JBI COnNECT is designed to provide service providers, health professionals and consumers with the best available international evidence at the point of care.

Find:

  • Information on topics such as acute care, burns, diagnostic imaging, infection control, mental health, and wound healing and management.
  • Summarized research including Systematic Reviews, Best Practice Information Sheets, Evidence Summaries and Evidence Based Recommended Practices.
  • Resources to help assess the quality of single research papers.

Brought to you by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) which is an international collaboration involving nursing, medical and allied health researchers, clinicians, academics and quality managers across 40 countries in every continent.

Bookmark this URL or go to the Health Sciences Library home page at http://libraries.uc.edu/hsl/ and click on JBI COnNECT under Express Links.

If you have any questions, please contact Edith Starbuck at 558-1433 or edith.starbuck@uc.edu.

System Upgrades: Tuesday, June 15, and Thursday, June 17. Interlibrary Loan and Databases affected.

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Illiad, the UC Libraries Interlibrary loan system, will be offline all day, on Thursday, June 17, for a system upgrade. (Note, this is a change from the previously announced date of June 16). Additionally, on Tuesday, June 16, hardware updates must be made to server systems. This may result in intermittent outages of certain applications for a brief period Tuesday morning.

Center for Peace Education Records Available in ARB

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Peace Camp, 2003

Peace Camp, 2003

Listen to others. Communicate your feelings. Think before you act.  The Center for Peace Education taught these and other skills for conflict resolution, peer mediation, and effective communication.  The work of this organization with Greater Cincinnati schools and through their own programs helped children to learn to resolve their differences without fighting.  A collection of the records of the Center for Peace Education was recently acquired by the Archives and Rare Books Library and contains training materials, photographs of events, brochures, office files, and other documentation of the work of the Center for Peace Education. Continue reading →

College of Applied Science (CAS) Library Closing to Merge with Engineering Library

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Effective June 11, the College of Applied Science (CAS) Library will be closed to the public so that the CAS Library collections and services can be merged with the existing Engineering Library (to be called the CEAS Library), located in Baldwin Hall.

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