Explore the CCM Library in Its New Location

CCMLibraryHallwaywebExplore the Albino Gorno Memorial Music (CCM) Library in its new location on the 6th floor of Blegen Library.

Accessible via the grand staircase in Blegen Library, the renovated CCM Library includes a computer and listening lab, group study and microfilm rooms, areas for study and reading, and space for the library’s collections of books, periodicals, and scores.

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CCM Library Open in New Location

The Albino Gorno Memorial Music (CCM) Library is now open in its new space on the 6th floor of the Blegen Library building. While the move is not yet complete, they are able to provide most services, and expect to be completely “up to speed” later next week. In the meantime, the library is open on its regular schedule, including this weekend.

To reach the CCM Library in its new location, please use the grand staircase on the 4th floor of Blegen to come to the 6th floor, where you’ll find the CCM Library entrance. Staff phone numbers remain unchanged.

SERVICE NOTICE

UPDATE: All services have been restored.

Please note that on Saturday, December 19th from 6:00 am to 12:00 pm electric power to Langsam Library will be out for planned maintenance. This power outage will cause the UC Libraries Web site, the Library Catalog, and Interlibrary Loan services through ILLiad to be inaccessible during this time.

In addition, UCit@Langsam will be closed 5:00 am to 1:00 pm because of the power outage.

Thank you for your patience.

UC Libraries Make Cooperative Engineer Available Online

v17n02-1The University of Cincinnati Libraries have digitized Cooperative Engineer, a quarterly publication produced by students and alumni of UC’s College of Engineering from 1921 to 1975.

Accessible via http://digitalprojects.libraries.uc.edu/cooperative_engineer/, each scanned issue of Cooperative Engineer can be viewed in its entirety. The issues are also searchable by keyword and by phrase. In addition, viewers of the collection can browse by issue cover.

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UC Libraries Awarded a LSTA Grant to Digitize Cincinnati Birth and Death Records

One of the many filing cabinets filled with birth and death records.

One of the many filing cabinets filled with birth and death records.

Genealogists, social historians, epidemiologists, and public health historians will soon have a new extensive, online resource to assist them in learning about birth and deaths in the City of Cincinnati. The University of Cincinnati Libraries have been awarded a $140,437 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant from the State Library of Ohio to digitize 340,000 birth and death records of the City of Cincinnati prior 1908.  The records will be available on OhioLINK’s Digital Resource Commons beginning in August of 2010. Continue reading

Freedom without Walls! Exhibits to Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

bannerNovember 9, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In commemoration of this important world event, the University of Cincinnati Libraries have created two exhibits on display through fall quarter in the Walter C. Langsam Library.

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