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Library Display: Celebrate Diversity!
By Lauren Wahman
This display showcases a selection of books (print/electronic) and streaming media available through the UC Blue Ash Library and includes a range of topics and authors. The display will be available until January 29, 2021 with physical items available to request via Click and Collect. Be sure to visit the Celebrate Diversity online display.
Resources for Faculty Research
by Lauren Wahman
Photo Credit: Pixabay
Whether it’s discipline-specific, creative, or a classroom-based research project, we’re getting you started with a newly redesigned Faculty Research Guide. To help with specific research needs, schedule an online research consultation with your department’s library faculty liaison. Or, find research-focused online workshops through the UC Libraries Calendar and the Faculty Enrichment Center’s Program Calendar. Finally, watch for a special 4th Annual Faculty Research Lightning Talks blog post in the spring that will showcase faculty scholarship.
Celebrating UC Blue Ash’s Artists, Authors, Editors and Composers
by Lauren Wahman and Heather Maloney
The Life of the Mind lecture and Artists, Authors, Editors & Composers combined event took place on September 22, 2020. As a follow up, the UCBA Library celebrates selected works submitted this year from UCBA faculty and staff. In case you missed it, please visit Life of the Mind for the online exhibit, bibliography, and event recording.
David Hartz | Associate Professor | Electronic Media Communications Department
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- David Hartz
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- Drawing Water series, overall view
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- Drawing Water series, detailed view
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- Drawing Water series, overall view
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- Drawing Water series, detailed view
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- Drawing Water series, overall view
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- Drawing Water series, detailed view
Description of My Creative Process: This new body of work is titled, “Drawing Water.” This series consists of drawings of various water sources I have seen in and around Ohio. I became interested in this subject matter after seeing Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings depicting how water moves around various objects. I am fascinated as to how water moves and how I could add values and depth to drawing this formless element. I study martial arts and this quote by Bruce Lee inspired me as well, “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water.” Water forms to whatever contains it. My intention with these drawings is to give, not only shape, but also value, shadow, highlight and playfulness to moving water.
All of these drawings are created in Procreate on an iPad Pro. I love the portability of the iPad and use it with my Urban Sketching group as well. It has replaced my sketchbook and pencils in many situations. I have found that it has a feature that no traditional media has. In this digital arena, the ability to zoom way into a piece of work is remarkable. As long as the resolution is high, you can zoom way into the art and provide details that would be near impossible with traditional media. I am making use of this feature in my current drawings in this “Drawing Water” series. This is the reason that I include detail shots in the submission of these drawings. Normally a detail shot is unnecessary in a 2D drawing, however, it is quite necessary to show the full detail that are involved with these works. Each drawing has two views: one is the overall view of the water that, at first, has a photographic look. The second view is the detailed view of the work as you move in close to it and see the hieroglyphic mark making process. Continue reading
UCBA Library Closed in Observance of Labor Day Holiday
The UCBA Library will be CLOSED in observance of Labor Day on Monday, September 7, 2020. Continue reading
From the desk of … Kellie Tilton
Hi! Welcome to my apartment! It’s small and I share it with an opinionated cat, but I’m enjoying taking advantage of the natural light, the nearby caffeine sources and the ability to use different setups depending on my mood!
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- This is my “office” at home, which is actually just a nook. But it fits my desk and has a window to the right, so I don’t mind!
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- A perfect space for me to work from home!
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- The similarities of my work desk and work from home desk are threefold: all the tech, all the tchotchkes, and a chandelier. (Some of these tchotchkes are from my work office, though! Couldn’t leave Bob Ross!)
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- Always have a chandelier in your office, I say. Even if it’s a tiny one! (This is a take on the Met’s famous Sputnik chandeliers!)
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- I’m finding for most of my meetings, I like the ability to stand. So I’m using my kitchen counter accordingly. Grey Cat insisted on the ability to do the same. (Apologies to the books I’m using as a foot rest.)
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- If the cat is getting really insistent, I will move to the couch to work so she can sit on my lap. Yes, she is spoiled. The end table was made by my grandpa and my mom made the pillow! (The making gene runs strong in our family.)
Faculty Research Lightning Talks: Meet Linda Wunderley
The UCBA Library’s 3rd Annual Faculty Research Lightning Talks on March 10, 2020 featured four presenters and their discipline-based research projects via short, 15 minute presentations. In our Meet the Presenters series, each presenter shares some insights into their research project.
Linda Wunderley | Assistant Professor, Adjunct | Business & Economics
Presentation: The Real Truth About What Determines Our Professional Performance
Linda Wunderley discusses her research.
Research Project
Today’s frenetic pace of market change and stressful organizational environments have the business world struggling with not only redesigning their professional development efforts to address this new normal, but also attempting to understand why past practices have repeatedly proven so ineffective! At the same time, Neuroscience research may have uncovered a critical correlation (between an individual’s significant life experiences and their repetitive thoughts, feelings and behavior) which could provide the very insight and direction needed for a professional development reinvention. But empirical data specific to the business world is needed. This research study is attempting to provide that data.
A slide from Linda Wunderley’s The Real Truth About What Determines Our Professional Performance presentation. Source: Linda Wunderley
What excites you most about your research?
Top management across the U.S. today, as well as the likes of Deloitte and McKinsey, report little or no behavior change on the part of the ‘trained’ or the ‘coached.’ But the need for improved soft skills such as better communication, persuasion, team building and creativity is huge and growing. This research could provide the empirical data for a potential sea change in our approach to such Professional Development.
What are your next steps with your research?
Continue to recruit participants to increase sample size.
Past Publication
Wunderley, L. J., Reddy, W.B. & Dember, W.N. (2006). Optimism and Pessimism in Business Leaders. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 28 (9) 751-760.
Additional Resources
* Library copy currently unavailable to request at this time
- *Dweck, C. S. (2007). Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. New York: Random Books.
- Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2017). The Talent Delusion: Why Data, Not Intuition, Is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential. Great Britain: Piatkus
- Felitti, V. J. et.al. (1998). Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. American Journal of Preventative Medicine. 14, 4, 245-258.
- Kellerman, B. (2012). The End of Leadership. New York: HarperCollins.
- *Lipton, B. (2005). The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House Publishers.
- Merzenich, M. (2013). Soft-Wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your Life.
San Francisco: Parnassus Publishing.
- *Pert, C. P. (1997). Molecules of Emotions: Why You Feel the Way You Feel. New York: Scribner.
- *Siegel, D. J. (2011). Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation. New York: Bantam Books.
- *Shapiro, F. (2012). Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy. New York: Rodale, Inc.
By Lauren Wahman
From the Virtual Desk of … Michelle McKinney
The next From the Virtual Desk Of… tour brings you to my home office. I’m Michelle McKinney, Reference and Web Services Librarian, and I share an office with my husband, Keith, and two sons, Kam and Jameson. I’m usually stationed at the desk throughout the day while my coworkers come and go. It’s been really nice to get time back that was lost to commuting so our days get off to a much smoother start. It’s also nice to have windows and sunlight in the office (although I do daydream a bit more as I’m often watching squirrels, rabbits and neighbors moving about outside).
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- My favorite spot: my reading chair surrounded by my books. Our office/library/craft room gets great light and the aromatherapy diffuser I use helps keep a cozy and calm atmosphere.
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- Our first grader has weekly meetings with his classmates and daily online assignments. He requested his own personal desk in the office.
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- It’s normal for our first grader to find unusual reading spots like this one underneath my desk.
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- When they aren’t working on school work, our boys enjoy playing games at their table.
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- My personal library supply kit and my collection of bookmarks. I enjoy photography as well, hence the camera themed-holder.
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- The library/office also serves as my craft room. I have knitting, crocheting, sewing and scrapbooking supplies interspersed throughout the room.
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- A few of my favorite books encased in my Maya Angelou bookends. That’s Hedwig peeking out there.
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- More favorite items: a homemade pillow with an MLK quote, my book wagon and literary photo comprised of text from Thoreau’s Walden.
UCBA Faculty Share Research at 3rd Annual Lightning Talks
The UCBA Library hosted the 3rd Annual Faculty Research Lightning Talks on Tuesday March 10. This year’s event showcased four presenters and their discipline-based research projects via short, 15 minute presentations. UCBA faculty, staff, and students enjoyed refreshments, learned about research outside of their disciplines, and asked thoughtful questions during the Q&A’s.
Through the end of spring semester, we’ll highlight the presenters via individual posts in our first Meet the Presenters blog series!
L-R: Carla Cesare, Linda Wunderley, David Freeman, Chris Gulgas
Presentations:
Carla Cesare| Assistant Professor| Art & Visual Communication
Networks of Design: Women at Work
David Freeman| Associate Professor| Math, Physics & Computer Science
Geometry from Symmetry
Chris Gulgas| Associate Professor| Chemistry
A Student Discovery Involving a Chemical that Changes Color Leads to a New Organic Laboratory Experiment
Linda Wunderley| Assistant Professor, Adjunct| Business & Economics
The Real Truth About What Determines Our Professional Performance
by Lauren Wahman
UCBA Library Closed, Virtual Support Available
In response to the ever-evolving COVID-19 events and news, the UC Blue Ash Library has closed.
Virtual support will be available Monday-Friday, 8am – 5pm. We reply to email and form questions within one day. Questions that occur outside of service hours will be addressed the following business day (if Friday, responses will be addressed on Monday).
Please visit COVID-19 Updates: UCBA Library Services & Support for a full listing of library services, hours, and up-to-date news.
by Kellie Tilton