Access to Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall is restored. UC patrons now have two options: “Direct Access” or to “Login” by creating a personal account that will enable additional features like playlists and email notifications. BOTH OPTIONS WORK for UC patrons. Please contact Jenny Doctor (jenny.doctor@uc.edu) or Paul Cauthen (paul.cauthen@uc.edu) with any questions or comments.
Tag Archives: New Digital Content
New Digital Content: UC’s First Thesis, Thomas Jefferson Letter, Hamilton County Morgue Records, News Record, UC Commencement Programs, and Preservation Lab Treatment Reports
After working through some storage limitations on the Digital Resource Commons, the UCL Digital Lab is pleased to publish several recently digitized items.
John Hough James Thesis and Thomas Jefferson Letter
In July 2016 the Eaton family donated two jewels from their family archive: the first thesis ever written at the University of Cincinnati in 1820 by John Hough James and a letter from President Thomas Jefferson, to whom James had written for additional source material on Poland.
Hamilton County Morgue Records
About three years ago, UC Libraries published a digitized collection of historical ledgers from the Hamilton County Morgue, documenting the circumstances of death for thousands of Cincinnatians. Somehow during this process, one of the volumes was missed. We have just published volume 11 of the Morgue Records, 1910-1911.
News Record
While most issues of News Record from the 1960’s and 70’s have been digitized over the past five years, we were missing seven volumes from the 1970’s. The UCL Digital Lab is pleased to publish the complete run from the 1970’s, each issue has been OCR’ed and full-text indexed.
Commencement Programs
We have recently published a digitized collection of 116 UC commencement programs, from 1878 to 1973. While most years only include the official program, some contain invitations to commencement-related events and even the text from commencement addresses. These programs have been OCR’ed and full-text indexed to make it easier to search for UC alumni.
The Preservation Lab Treatment Reports
The Preservation Lab has been publishing treatment reports and photographic documentation that are a record of conservation treatments conducted in the lab on special collections items held either by the University of Cincinnati Libraries or the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. The reports offer detailed bibliographic information and technical information on the construction of the materials. Several new reports have been added to both the UC Libraries and Public Library collections.
New Digital Content: Ambrose Bierce Letters, UC History Books and Reports, Indian Botany
The UCL Digital Lab has been busy over the past several months digitizing new content and collections. While we are still curating some of that content, we wanted to share a few things in the meantime.
Ambrose Bierce letters to Myles Walsh, 1895-1911
Ambrose Bierce
The collection of the letters of Ambrose Bierce to Myles Walsh consists of the correspondence to Elizabeth (Lily) Walsh and Myles Walsh from 1895-1911. Myles Walsh’s sister, Lily, was a protege of Bierce and during her illness–and after her death in 1895–in young adulthood, the two men began writing to each other.
The Archives and Rare Books Library created an online exhibition last year. The letters have now been added to the DRC as searchable PDFs.
University of Cincinnati Historical Books and Reports
We digitized several books and reports relating to UC. All are now available in the Digital Resource Commons. A complete list is presented below, in chronological order.
- In Memoriam James Gamble Nippert
- Christian R. Holmes: Man and Physician by Martin Fischer
- Memorial to Nevin M. Fenneman by John L. Rich
- Jottings in Japan: The Travels of Dr. Raymond Walters to Japan, 1949
- Dr. Raymond Walters, President of the University of Cincinnati, 1932-1955
- Report of the General College Committee, July 2, 1959
- Final report of the [UC] Athletic Program Evaluation Commission, September 1, 1974
- Final report of the [UC] Athletics and Recreational Facilities Long Range Planning Committee, 1978
- Final report of the [UC] Athletic Planning Committee, November 22, 1983
Indian Botany
I know what you’re thinking: Indian botany, where did that come from? UC Libraries has a fantastic collection, some of our items are rare and unique. Occasionally these rare and unique items are requested through Interlibrary Loan. Unfortunately, frequently, due to their rarity and condition, we are not always able to fulfill the requests. We’ve embarked upon an effort to, when possible, digitized this content and make it available to the work in digital form.
The first example of this is Some Wild Flowers of Kasmir by Emilia F. Noel. UC’s copy of this 1903 botanical exploration of Kashmir includes many penciled in annotations, believed to be in Noel’s own hand.
As we are able to publish more collections, we’ll make announcements here!