The University of Cincinnati Libraries will be closed Monday, Jan. 20 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The Libraries will resume normal hours on Tuesday, Jan. 21.
Martin Luther King, Jr. from LIFE Magazine
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we invite you to join the Libraries Racial Equity, Support & Programming to Educate the Community Team (RESPECT) in commemorating this civil rights legend by checking out these library resources. In addition, just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about Martin Luther King, Jr., History.com has compiled a list of 10 surprising facts that you probably didn’t know. For example, Martin Luther King, entered Morehouse College at the tender age of only 15!
The Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library announces the opening of The Anatomy Learning Lab to enhance the study of the human body. Located on the E level of the library, the 10 specimens placed throughout the space provide the opportunity for close study of torsos, a hand, foot, kidneys and other body systems. The specimens coupled with the Sectra Virtual Anatomy Table, also located in the space, provide an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the structural and functional complexities of the human body.
To celebrate the opening of The Anatomy Learning Lab, the Health Sciences Library is holding two events:
Open House
Thursday, January 16, 3:30-5pm Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library – E Level
Brief remarks by: Dr. Gregory Postel, senior vice president of health affairs and dean of the College of Medicine; and Liz Kiscaden, dean and university librarian
Lunch & Learn
Human Anatomical Models: History & Development of Plastination
Thursday, January 23, 11:30am Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library – The Anatomy Learning Lab, E Level
Dr. Efrain Miranda, CEO of Clinical Anatomy Associates, Inc. will review the history of three-dimensional models to study anatomy, including wax models, paper mâché models and other techniques and materials, culminating with the present, utilizing 3D computer-based systems and plastination.
Both events are open to all to attend in the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, 231 Albert Sabin Way.
Join UC Libraries and the Elliston Poetry Room for a hands-on discussion and workshop about creating Cento poetry.
Thursday, Nov. 14, 6:30pm
Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library
Katie Foran-Mulcahy, librarian and head of the College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services Library, will begin the event with an overview of library collections. She will instruct how to navigate the stacks and then give directions on how to proceed with a scavenger hunt to find resources to collect lines from various texts.
Dior Stephens, poet and PhD graduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences, will then lead participants in a workshop to create their own Cento poem. Dior will introduce the Cento form, its history and creative potential, and explain that participants can use lines from any genre of books they find in the stacks to create their own poems.
The event is free and open to all to attend. Come to learn about and create a Cento poem.
Attendees to the Open House can enjoy refreshments and door prizes as they view collection highlights, recent acquisitions and “spooky” books. Library staff will be on hand to meet and greet and ARB’s growing digitization space will be available for viewing.
The Archives and Rare Books Library acquires, processes, preserves and provides access to the University’s Rare Books collection, University Archives, Local Government records, Urban Studies collection and German-Americana collection.
Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, a graphic novel, documentary and historical fiction can all be found in the Staff Picks exhibit on display on the 4th floor lobby of the Walter C. Langsam Library. Highlighting the collections of UC Libraries, the exhibit gives recommendations and blurbs from library staff and includes such titles as: “The Feather Thief,” “Being Human,” “Lincoln in the Bardo,” “Monarch,” “The Glass Hotel” and so much more.
A bibliography is available for pickup at the exhibit and displayed below.
Staff Picks was curated by Melissa Cox Norris, director of library communication, and designed by communications design co-op student Lexi Davis.
At the next event, scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 4:30pm, three poets will read their original work:
Brett Price is the author of “Ordinary Dissonance” (Midwestern Press, 2019). He lives and writes in Cincinnati, OH, where he does various kinds of home renovation and handy-work, teaches at The Art Academy of Cincinnati, hosts readings occasionally at his house and plays in the band, The Actual Fuck.
Mauricio Espinoza, poet, translator and researcher. He is associate professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Cincinnati. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Literatures and Cultures from The Ohio State University. He has published the poetry books “Nada más que silencio,” “Respiración de piedras,” which won the 2015 University of Costa Rica Press Poetry Prize; and “Pez de fieltro.” His poetry also appears in “The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States” and in journals such as barzakh and Rio Grande Review.
Lili Alimohammadi studies psychology and creative writing at UC, where they’re curatorial intern for the Elliston Poetry Collection and president of the undergraduate poetry club, Cincinnati Poetry Collective. They’ve received awards for their poetry, fiction, essays, paintings and textiles, and they edit the quarterly zine Braids.
This session of Poetry Stacked will also feature three composers who have created and will perform original musical pieces to accompany one of the poet’s readings:
John Stork has been a staff member of UC Libraries since 2000 and currently works primarily with interlibrary loan. After taking years of piano lessons in grade school, he picked up the guitar in high school, eventually attending CCM as a classical guitar performance major for three years. While he moved to other interests academically (graduating from UC with a degree in classics), he has kept playing for enjoyment and can be seen playing ‘non-classical’ guitar in the band Jack Burton Overdrive.
Siyuan Kang composes music inspired by folk songs and arts. Her work was performed in Toronto by Untitled Ensemble; piano solo work performed by Mingfei Li in Chicago in May. She holds a diploma from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and is now pursuing a DMA degree.
Andrew Strawn is an established young composer whose talent and dedication has already gained attention and respect within the musical community. His music is known for its romantic expression and highly polished orchestration, with topics often drawn from visual art and literature. He currently studies music composition at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) with Douglas Knehans, Michael Fiday, and Ellen Harrison; and saxophone performance with James Bunte and Carly Hood.
The UC DATA Day keynote speaker is Kira Bradford, co-lead of the Data Management and Consultancy Group for the NIH HEAL Data Stewardship Group. The HEAL project, or Helping to End Addiction Long-term® Initiative, is a large-scale project focused on ending opioid addiction through basic science research and data sharing. The project brings together scientists, community members, the private sector and multiple levels of government and is a model for researchers navigating the new NIH data management and sharing policy.
In addition to the keynote speaker, the DATA Day schedule will include student lightning talks, workshops and a resource fair. A more detailed schedule is available on the DATA Day website. DATA Day is free and open for all to attend and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost through a universal provider grant. Lunch will be provided for registrants. Register today!
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.
Among the joys of the spring season at the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions is the annual Cecil Striker Society Lecture. On May 7, 2024 the esteemed Joseph P. Broderick, MD, medical director at the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute and professor of neurology in the UC College of Medicine addressed the assembly at Kresge Auditorium for the 15th Striker Lecture.
Dr. Broderick’s Cincinnati Neurology: From Astute Human Observations to Life-changing Therapies chronicled the leadership of the Department of Neurology & Rehabilitation Medicine, the vast advances in neurological science and treatments.Through an examination of history and subtle humor, Dr. Broderick took the audience on an epoch journey of brain science discoveries that have transformed neurological science during his esteemed career. He enlightened that in the 1950s and 1960s neurological conditions and diseases most often led to patient death, while today with the advances in neurology there is much hope for patients and their families.
