One a recent July 4th holiday visit to Chicago, Michelle McKinney, UCBA Reference and Web Services librarian, made a brief stop at the Harold Washington Library Center (HWLC) of the Chicago Pubic Library (CPL). The main branch of CPL is located on 400 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60605 in the South Loop. The building is a site to behold. It is 10 stories high, 756,000 square feet, and takes up a full city block. Here are just a few photos from Michelle’s all-too-brief visit. Follow the links at the end of the post to learn more about the Chicago Public Library and the Harold Washington Library Center. Continue reading
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UCBA Librarians Attend ALA Annual Conference
by Heather Maloney and Kellie Tilton
UCBA Library Director, Heather Maloney and Instructional Technologies Librarian, Kellie Tilton headed to Orlando, Florida for the American Library Association Annual Conference.
Heather Maloney attended a pre-conference session on Transforming the Contributions of Student Employees in Your Library and thoroughly enjoyed listening to the passionate opening session speaker, Michael Eric Dyson. The exhibit floor was filled with the familiar and the new and probably a few too many giveaways…but how do you say no to a free book?!
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- Heather Maloney, UCBA Library Director
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- ALA celebrates it’s 140th birthday
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- ALA Annual Conference
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- Program for General Session speaker, Michael Eric Dyson
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- Heather’s conference swag.
Kellie Tilton spent a good chunk of time at ALA sitting in a, thankfully, air-conditioned hotel conference room for her super-secret Alex Committee meetings. She also managed to check out the fireworks at Epcot (sorry, IllumiNations) and had a blast wandering the exhibit hall. Swag she was most excited about? The Ruth Bader Ginsburg tote bag she will add to her collection.
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- Instructional Technologies Librarian, Kellie Tilton, at the American Library Association Conference. June 2016.
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- ALA in Orlando, FL
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- ALA Exhibits Hall
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- Library of Congress Exhibit Booth
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- Make Your Own Zine table
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- Disney Conference Ribbon
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- Librarians Step Guide
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- Fireworks at IllumiNations
New Students are Here!
by Lauren Wahman
Lauren Wahman talks with a student at the Resource Fair.
The UCBA Library is excited to be a partner once again in this year’s Summer Orientation Program. Each week, incoming freshman are arriving on campus Continue reading
UCBA Library Hours for Spring Semester Exam Week
by Julie Robinson
UCBA Library Hours – Exam Week 2016
Remember – shuttle service starts at 6:45a Monday through Thursday!
Sat. April 23 – noon-4p
Sun. April 24 – noon-4p
Mon. April 25 – 7:30a-9p
Tue. April 26 – 7:30a-9p
Wed. April 27 – 7:30a-9p
Thur. April 28 – 7:30a-9p
Fri. April 29 – noon-4p
Break hours begin Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 8th. The library will be open Closed Saturdays and Sundays during that time and open Monday through Thursday from noon-5p and Friday from noon-4p. We will reopen Monday, May 9th under our Summer Semester hours, Monday through Thursday from 8a-6p and Friday from 8a-4p, and Closed Saturday and Sunday. Please check out our website to plan your visit,http://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/cgi-bin/calcium/Calcium40.pl?CalendarName=UCBA&EventID=142&Date=2016%2F4%2F22
UCBA Library’s Whiteboards and Wine Event Wraps up NLW 2016
The UCBA Library wrapped up National Library Week 2016 with Whiteboards & Wine. Faculty came out to relax in the midst of end-of-semester activities with light snacks and wine. Faculty enjoyed coloring with artwork from various library collections, answered some fun, reading related questions and viewed the library’s NLW #librarytransforms video.
Many thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate National Library Week!
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- Library Faculty celebrating National Library Week 2016 and serve as host to the library’s Whiteboards and Wine event.
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- Coasters
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- Pam Ranky notes her favorite guilt-free book
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- Some favorite guilt-free pleasure reading?
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- A little wine, cheese, fruit, and photobombing.
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- Personal library collections
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- Eric Anderson’s desk…
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- Book organization
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- Tres Kutcher and Eric Anderson discuss current reads
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- Ruth Benander enjoys the coloring pages
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- Unwinding with Whiteboards and Wine
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- Ruth Benander in deep thought.
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- Favorite books read this year.
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- Favorite fictional villians
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- Current reads
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- As seen in the library…
UCBA Library Celebrates National Library Week 2016
It’s National Library Week and the UCBA Library is celebrating! This year we are highlighting the ways libraries transform their communities. Check out our #librariestransform video to see some amazing UCBA faculty, staff, and students share their UCBA Library stories. Come into the library and celebrate this Thursday and Friday with Crayons and Candy. Relax a little with coloring therapy while enjoying an everlasting (and transforming) gobstopper. Want to capture your relaxation? Take a selfie in our #librariestransform selfie frame, or just stop by to check our new #librariestransform signs and celebrity READ posters.
We are proud and honored to be part of the UC Blue Ash community and look forward to celebrating with you this week!
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Display at UCBA Library
A selection of books are now on display through April 29th in honor of Asian American and Pacific Island Heritage Month (usually celebrated during the month of May). Stop by the UCBA Library to check them out!
UCBA Fun Facts: Personal Lending Policy
Question: What is your policy on book lending?
Heather Maloney, Library Director: I share! Unless it’s a library book then I’m a little more protective. 😉
Michelle McKinney, Reference/Web Services Librarian: It depends on the book and who I’m lending it to…I’ve lost a few faves over the years and those folks can’t borrow from my anymore.
Kellie Tilton, Instructional Technologies Librarian: I am an advocate of book lending! But only if I know the person well enough to know the book is coming back at some point.
Lauren Wahman, Instruction Librarian: No policy. All of my books come from the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County.
Julie Robinson, Library Operations Manager: Hardly ever. Streamlined my collection to keep mainly my absolute favorite hardcovers and first editions which I NEVER lend and the rest I borrow from the library.
Pam Adler, Public Services Assistant: Depends on the book. I rarely loan my hardcovers but if I have an ebook it’s yours to borrow.
Exploring the UC Libraries
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?!?
UCBA Fun Facts: Giving Bad Reviews
Question: How do you feel about giving a bad or negative review?
Heather Maloney, Library Director: Reading opinions can be very personal (especially if reading for leisure) so I keep it constructive and from a place of my own personal preference.
Michelle McKinney, Reference/Web Services Librarian: I like reading them if I don’t like a book. Sometimes I can’t find the words to describe why I don’t like a book and reading other people’s negative review helps.
Kellie Tilton, Instructional Technologies Librarian: I think if the reviews are given critically, I’m okay with them. I also appreciate when reviewers acknowledge the difference between issues they personally had with a book and the issues that are problematic on a more general level.
Lauren Wahman, Instruction Librarian: I appreciate honesty and understand that not everyone is going to like the same books as me.
Julie Robinson, Library Operations Manager: I try to keep it concrete and give specific examples, but just because I don’t care for a book doesn’t mean someone else won’t love it. I never want to discourage anyone from picking up a book.
Pam Adler, Public Services Assistant: Reviews/opinions. I will give my opinion, good/bad/indifferent if asked.