A newly upgraded version of the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center software will go live on Monday, June 1, 2009.
While the main OhioLINK E-Book Center page found at http://ebooks.ohiolink.edu will not change, the upgrade allows for several improvements to the software that runs the Scholarly & Reference and American & English Literature Collections, including: Continue reading
All are on display in Langsam Library- stop by for a look!
Recommended by the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table. Continue reading
It has been a busy year for reference and instructional librarians. We have met a lot of students through library sessions, at the InfoCommons, and through e-mail and chat transactions. We hope to help everyone who needs our assistance this quarter! Please find links to various forms of personal assistance here.
A lot of useful information is available online. Please visit the instruction page for students, including course guides for specific classes and assignments, and check out the How Do I?.. pages.
Authors, Editors & Composers exhibit
A wide sampling of the publications from UC faculty in 2008 was celebrated at the 23rd annual Authors, Editors and Composers reception and program. Presented by the University of Cincinnati Libraries, the event was held Thursday, April 23, in the Russell C. Myers Alumni Center.
The Archives and Rare Books intern, Ms. Christina Cooper, is currently working on a perfect Springtime project, processing the Cincinnati Park Board Records. This rich body of materials dates to the 19th century and contains studies, reports, drawings, photographs, glass slides, scrapbooks and administrative records. Continue reading
UC’s year-long celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of “On the Origin of Species” presents John van Wyhe, founder of Darwin Online. He will discuss “Mind the Gap: Did Darwin Avoid Publishing His Theory for 20 Years?” April 16, 4 p.m., Engineering Research Center, Room 427. On April 17, 4 p.m., he will discuss “Charles Darwin: The True Story” at the Public Library’s Huenefeld Tower Room (800 Vine Street, 3rd Floor). More information is online.
Fifty-six volumes of The Cincinnatian covering the years 1894 through 1950, containing 16,000 pages will be scanned and made available to the public online via OhioLINK’s Digital Resource Commons. More information about this project is online.
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 at UC, “Authors, Editors & Composers” will pay tribute to the 2008 scholarly and creative works of UC’s faculty with a reception, presentation of selected works, a printed bibliography, and an exhibit.
Lorrie Moore was born in Glens Falls, New York and attended St. Lawrence and Cornell universities. She is the author of the story collections Birds of America, Like Life, and Self-Help, as well as the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams. A new novel, A Gate at the Stairs, is due out in September. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Yale Review and elsewhere. John Updike selected one of her stories for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She has been the recipient of the Irish Times Prize for International Literature, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the PEN/Malamud Award, the O.Henry Award, and a Lannan Foundation Literary fellowship. She is currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, where she lives with her son.
Jim Schiff, Professor of English, will conduct a public interview with Lorrie Moore the following day on Friday, May 8 at 2pm (location TBA).
Please see http://www.artsci.uc.edu/english/ for more information.
Did you know that Cincinnati’s Main Library downtown is “America’s Busiest Library”? It’s true! According to a Public Library Association statistical report, American’s Busiest Library is right here in downtown Cincinnati. Read more at the Public Library’s eLinks.