Celebrating the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library

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The University of Cincinnati reached a milestone this summer with the opening of the splendid Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library. This library is situated in the midst of a soaring, light-filled space that joins the new Center for Academic and Research Excellence (CARE)/Crawley Building with the existing Medical Sciences Building on UC’s Academic Health Center campus.

The library is named for Donald C. Harrison, M.D., Senior Vice President and Provost for Health Affairs from 1986-2002, whose vision and generosity brought this project to fruition. His professional experience includes 23 years at Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford University Hospital where he was chief of cardiology and the William G. Irwin Professor for 20 years. When the UC Board of Trustees named the library for Dr. Harrison, he said, “The library is a critical component of the education, research, and clinical care mission of the Academic Health Center. It provides a service that is absolutely essential. It lies in the heart of our new building and, in many ways, acts like the lifeline for UC’s up-and-coming physicians, scientists, and health professionals.”

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Students study in the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library

The new Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library is designed to meet the research needs of the students, faculty, and staff of the College of Medicine, the College of Nursing, the College of Allied Health Sciences, and the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy. It also serves health sciences professionals of affiliated institutions, including University Hospital and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, as well as national and international scholars and researchers.

The library encompasses 44,872 square feet with a 90-seat computer lab, electronic classroom, and comfortable study spaces. Its collections include over 200,000 print volumes on site, over 600 online databases, 60,000 electronic journals, and 392,000 e-books. It is home to the Center for the History of the Health Professions. The library’s Web site is www.libraries.uc.edu/hsl.

Recent Library Acquisitions

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New in the Cohen Enrichment Collection…

The Cohen Enrichment Collection is located on the fourth floor of Langsam Library. The collection contains books in all subject areas including cooking, popular fiction, history, and art. It is designed to “enrich and strengthen the educational experience at the University of Cincinnati” with special shelving for the books that encourages browsing and comfortable seating.

The Collection is funded by a gift in 1978 from Julie Cohen in memory of A. B., Dolly, and Ralph Cohen, her father-in-law, mother-in-law, and husband.

Cohen Fiction

Over and UnderOver and Under by Todd Tucker. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2008.
A bitter 1979 labor strike at southern Indiana’s Borden Casket Company serves as the volatile backdrop for this haunting coming-of-age novel from nonfiction writer Tucker. With their fathers on opposite sides of the dispute, Andrew Jackson Gray and Thomas Jefferson Kruer, both 14, learn there is more to life than exploring caves, shooting targets with their prized M-6 Scout rifles and sneaking out on starry nights to run through the woods.
Langsam Cohen PS3620 .U33 094 2008

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng. Weinstein Books, 2008.
This remarkable debut saga of intrigue and akido flashes back to a darkly opulent WWII-era Malaya. Phillip Hutton, 72, lives in serene Penang comfort, occasionally training students as an akido master “teacher of teachers.” A visit from Michiko Murakami sends him spiraling back into his past, where he grows up the alienated half-British, half-Chinese son of a wealthy Penang trader in the years before WWII.
Langsam Cohen PR9530.9.E54 G54 2008

Cohen Non-Fiction

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt. Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the everyday activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological, and technical factors that explain how traffic works, why we drive the way we do, and what our driving says about us.
Langsam Cohen TL152.5 .V36 2008

The Toothpick: Technology and Culture by Henry Petroski. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Contents include: The oldest habit — Artifacts and texts — Sucksacks and whiskers — Poor goose! — The nasty instrument — Woodpeckers and other dispensers — Talking round a toothpick — The fatal martini — Improving on perfection — The butler did it — and more.
Langsam Cohen GT2952 .P48 2007

Look for these soon-to-be-released titles…

The Little GiantThe Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker. Grand Central, 2009.
In an upstate New York backwater town, Truly, massive from birth, has a bleak existence with her depressed father and her china-doll–like sister, Serena Jane. Truly grows at an astonishing rate—her girth the result of a pituitary gland problem—and after her father dies when Truly is 12, she is sloughed off to the Dyersons, a hapless farming family.

The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee. Viking, 2009.
Former Elle editor Lee delivers a standout debut novel dealing with the rigors of love and survival during a time of war, and the consequences of choices made under duress. Claire Pendleton, newly married and arrived in Hong Kong in 1952, finds work giving piano lessons to the daughter of Melody and Victor Chen, a wealthy Chinese couple. While the girl is less than interested in music, the Chens’ flinty British expat driver, Will Truesdale, is certainly interested in Claire, and vice versa.

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UC Faculty: Submit Your 2008 Published Works to “Authors, Editors & Composers”

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On Thursday, April 23, 2009, 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, “Authors, Editors & Composers” will celebrate the 2008 scholarly and creative works of UC’s faculty with a reception, presentation of selected works, bibliography, and exhibit.

To submit works published in 2008 for inclusion in “Authors, Editors &
Composers,” faculty should complete the online form at
www.libraries.uc.edu/information/aec/.

Faculty may submit multiple works, but are limited to three submissions per category including: books or book chapters, scholarly articles, musical scores, original works in electronic or digital media, service as editor of a journal, photographs, artwork, etc.

All submitted works must have been published in 2008. The deadline for submissions is Friday, February 27, 2009.

If you have questions regarding the criteria or the submission form, contact Melissa Cox Norris at melissa.norris@uc.edu or by phone at (513)556-1558.

Information about last year’s “Authors, Editors & Composers,” as well as a bibliography of the submitted works, is available online.

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World Digital Library Set to Launch on April 21

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From Library Journal:

This sounds interesting:

The Library of Congress (LC) said this week that the World Digital Library (WDL) , an online partnership between LC, UNESCO, and 32 partner institutions to share cultural materials, will launch on April 21. A reception will be held that day at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters for partners and other special guests attending the semi-annual meeting of UNESCO’s executive board.

LC officials said the first edition of the site will include a wealth of manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, and prints and photographs, all available free to the public, browseable and searchable in seven languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish) but with content offerings in “dozens of languages.”