When you visit the Geology-Math-Physics (GMP) Library this fall, you may notice big space changes that are now in progress. As an early step to open up space, several map cases and cabinets that once lined the eastern and southern walls (entry level) have been moved to remote storage (UC Fishwick facility). Cases of maps for the Tri-state region (Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky), highly used for teaching and research, remain onsite and have been consolidated in the library’s southwest corner.
To access maps, we highly recommend that you seek a digital version of any map. One great resource for digital maps is the USGS, particularly for topographical maps. If you need help locating digital maps, email the libraries’ Research & Data Services team at askdata@uc.edu.
For more information on print maps, including those which remain at GMP Library and those which are now located in remote storage, please review our research guide page on the map collection. Please visit the GMP Library for assistance with any map located onsite. To request a map in remote storage, please complete this form and a member of the Science and Engineering Libraries team will contact you and help with your needs.
UC’s science libraries – GMP Library and Chemistry-Biology Library – are undergoing major space changes and consolidation in light of the demolition of Crosley Tower, including the Chemistry-Biology Library space, in late 2025. In preparation for this, the Chemistry-Biology Library will close after spring semester 2025 and its research collections will relocate to GMP Library over time. We look forward to realizing a long-term vision for a combined science library.
Thank you to Marcia Johnson for the June 2024 image.
CECH Spotlight highlights recommended books in the the UC College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services (CECH) Library.
Imogen, Obviously / written by Becky Albertalli (2023)
“True belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world. Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.” – Brene Brown
Becky Albertalli, most well known for her novel Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, has written multiple novels that explore different yet positive LGBTQ+ experiences. Her latest novel Imogen, Obviously, focuses on the lived experience of realizing one’s own identity. It follows Imogen Scott, a high school senior who is so sure that she’s straight, at least that’s what everyone tells her. It’s not until she visits her best friend at college, and begins meeting her friends (who all happen to be Queer) that Imogen begins to rethink her identity.
Albertalli intimately explores the process of self-acceptance, and the anxiety of feeling enough. Imogen, Obviously is a love letter to those who are on their journey of learning to understand their identity. This novel shouts, “You’re enough, you matter, you belong!” For the first time in a long time, I felt the power of seeing myself in the media.
The 2024-25 Season began with a live broadcast of Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony on Friday, 24 August. This concert will soon be available in the archive.
The season continues with a live broadcast on Saturday, 7 September, of a program conducted by Jonathan Nott, including Peter Eötvös’s Cziffra Psodia for piano and orchestra (German premiere), with Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano). and Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 4.
All the season’s concerts will be broadcast live in the Digital Concert Hall and then will be available in the archive.
If you like to access the Berlin Phil Digital Concert Hall, you should have no problem finding the site, either 1) on the CCM Library home page, through “Top Resources” > “Online Video”, OR 2) look it up through the UC Library’s A-Z list of databases.
When accessing the Berlin Phil Digital Concert Hall, UC users have two options: 1) Direct Access without setting up an account OR 2) Login by creating a personal account that will enable additional features like playlists and email notifications. BOTH OPTIONS WORK for UC users.
UC Libraries is running a trial for Sage Campus, a platform for online learning of skills and research methods. To access the trial, please visit the Campus trial information page: Univ of Cincinnati and Sage Campus Trial Information Page. The trial will run from August 19 to November 22, 2024.
Courses cover topics such as:
Research Planning
Getting Started with Data
Collecting Managing Data
Analyzing Data
Report Findings
Getting Published
Information Literacy
Check out the courses offered, share with your students, and let us know what you think of this resource. Email askdata@uc.edu to share your feedback.
Welcome Back, Bearcats! Celebrate a new academic year with the College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services and IT (CECH) Library by visiting our location at 300 Teachers Dyer Complex and participating in one of the many fun activities going on now through August 30th.
How well do you know UC Libraries? Test your knowledge with a library scavenger hunt. Follow the clues through the CECH Library to discover more!
Explore our newly refreshed MakerLab with our MakerLab BINGO boards! Try out our equipment and make something fun, crossing off squares as you go. With this self-guided activity, you are always the winner!
Just passing through? Don’t forget to visit our Welcome Week info table with free UC Libraries swag.
We hope to see you soon!
On behalf of the CECH Library, Rachel Hoople, operations supervisor
At the next event, scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 4:30pm, three poets will read their original work:
Armando Romero, poet, narrator, literary critic and UC Charles Phelps Taft Emeritus Professor. He belonged to the initial group of Nadaism, literary avant-garde in Colombia. He has lived in numerous countries in both America and Europe. Armando has published numerous books of poetry, fiction and essays. In 2022 his book No era aquí. Álvaro Mutis: faces and traces of Maqroll el Gaviero, appears in Madrid published by the Center of Modern Art. His anthological book of prose poems, Poeta di Fiume, is published this year by the Fili D’Aquilone publishing house, Rome, Italy. Armando will be accompanied by his wife, Constance Lardas, who will read English translations of his poems.
James O’Bannon is a Black writer from Cincinnati, Ohio. His writing reflects on grief, Black mental health and how we engage with our own memory. James owes everything to his grandmother, who instilled a love of reading and language in him from a young age. James is a Tin House Workshop Alumna, and a finalist for the Ghost Peach Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Waxwing Literary Journal, Nomadic Press as part of the Nomadic Ground Series, Triquarterly, Northwest Review, among other journals.
Erin Noehre is a poet currently writing and studying at the University of Cincinnati, where she is an Albert C. Yates Fellow. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University where she was a 2020-2021 June Jordan Teaching Fellow. Her work has been featured in Pigeonholes, Sonora Review, Passages North and elsewhere.
As the University of Cincinnati Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library welcomes the 2024-25 College of Medicine students and faculty back to the academic calendar, they are greeted by the new installation of MEDSTEPS. The sculpture is the work of renowned artist and scientist Wolfgang Ritschel (1933-2010). It is located on the G-level of the Health Sciences Library.
Dr. Ritschel described MEDSTEPS as:
Stairs may have different purposes and meanings. Essentially, they are a means to reaching different levels, both literally and figuratively speaking. This sculpture uses stairs or, rather steps on a ladder, as a metaphorical form of expression in paying tribute to the development and advancement of medicine from its beginnings at the dawn of time – including Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, and Native American medicine with their symbols as shown in the stained-glass panels – to computerized medicine, along with corresponding “step-by-step” technological progress in diagnosis and therapy. Medicine and the arts were always intertwined, as is suggested by the common expression “medical arts.” In fact, in 15th-century Europe, physicians, pharmacists and artists all belonged to the same guild, a development which presumably originated with the use of mortar and pestle as a grinding tool for both pharmaceutical substances and pigments. I like to think of this as part of my personal and artistic statement in sculptures with a medical theme.
The sculpture is composed of stainless steel, gold leaf, stained glass, lead, polymer, paint, wood and measures 91” x 51” x 22”.
Did you know that students at UC Clermont can check out some course textbooks from the library?
Every semester the library receives a textbook list from the bookstore and we work to put items on course reserve here. We identify course textbooks that are over $100 and try to buy those from the bookstore, our vendors, or by other means if we can. If we happen to have a course book that is under $100 that is already in our existing collection, we will also put those items on course reserve when we find them. Unfortunately we aren’t able to buy some textbooks even if they’re over $100 because they are custom, loose leaf, subscription, or rental only, but we do our best! As of last year, we default to ordering an eBook copy if it is available. If no eBook copy is available for library purchase and circulation, then we will buy a physical copy.
The reserves we have can be seen organized by instructor name at this link. They can be seen organized by class name/number at this link.
Physical reserves check out for four hours and can be used in the library, some are available as ebooks and can be accessed online any time. Visit UC Clermont Library’s front desk to check out physical reserves.
If you have any questions about course reserves or are an instructor that would like for us to add an item to reserves for any of your courses, please contact the library at clermontlibrary@uc.edu.
