by Kellie Tilton
As many may know, the University of Cincinnati contains 13 awesome libraries amongst the three campuses of Uptown, Clermont and Blue Ash. As a librarian at the UCBA Library on the Blue Ash campus, I’ve been to Langsam Library numerous times and have visited a few others due to various meetings. In the two and half years I’ve worked for UC, however, I hadn’t really had the opportunity to really explore many of these collections. Over spring break, I had the chance to get the behind-the-scenes tour in eight of the 13 libraries.
By walking ten minutes across (and up!) the Uptown campus, I went from delighting over the DAAP Library’s vast snowglobe collection to admiring one of the Archive and Rare Books Library’s pre-printing press manuscripts. The resources available to all UC students, faculty and staff in the UC collections are vast, fascinating and one of the many great things about the University of Cincinnati.
If you have a chance, be sure to go seek out the many gems in the UC Libraries! To see some of my adventure, check out the photos below!
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- Seek and ye shall find the legend of the Holy Grail in the Archives and Rare Books Library!
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- One of the Archives and Rare Books’ pre-printing press manuscripts. This one is titled “Spurious and Doubtful Works.” Sounds really uplifting.
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- In the CCM Library, you will find thousands of scores. Tens of thousands. All the scores. Or, at least, a good number of them.
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- Is vinyl more your style? Check out CCM’s vinyl collection!
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- The CCM Library holds drawers and drawers of cast recordings, orchestras and symphonies. Hours upon hours of happiness.
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- The Chemistry-Biology Library’s current display is a fascinating one about historic synthetic dyes. Don’t let the glare from the case fool you, this rainbow of thread and dye is both gorgeous and like something from Harry Potter.
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- Deep in the basements of the Classics Library sit these gorgeously bound editions on the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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- The DAAP Library hosts a variety of unique items, including the snow globe collection and the Material Connexion collection.
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- The DAAP Library has a number of sewing machines available to use, you just have to B.Y.O.T. (Bring your own thread.)
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- This amazing Armstrong Collection display just went up at the Engineering and Applied Science Library.
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- SCIENCE! The Geology-Mathematics-Physics Library’s redesigned space is filled with fascinating maps, globes and books.
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- The Geological-Mathematics-Physics Library also has some crazy fascinating books. (See also the Geo-Math-Phys book “Magic at Home!”)
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- The CECH Library is currently under construction, but the amazing resources (teaching kits! poster printing! ellison dye cuts!) are still available! (And are still awesome.)
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- Classics Library
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- The Engineering and Applied Science reading room isn’t only an amazing place to study, it also has absolutely gorgeous murals and a great view of the Uptown Campus.
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- Books in the Oesper Collection are not only super old (the bottom book was written in the 17th century) but incredibly intriguing.
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- The Oesper Collection also holds a number of historical Chemistry equipment and chemicals!
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- Okay, this isn’t from inside a library. But it is from outside Blegen, which houses Classics, CCM and ARB. And who am I to deny you a squirrel eating pizza?!?
