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A Note from the Dean: A Busy Year in Review
The 2014-15 academic year has been one of exploration, innovation and collaboration for UC Libraries. The launch of the Strategic Plan has contributed greatly to our success with its ten initiatives along with a wide range of events and activities created and sponsored by library faculty and staff throughout our libraries. The initiatives are all focused on the same goal, to make UC libraries the globally connected intellectual hub of the university. Below is a small sampling of those successes. More information on the ten strategic initiatives is available online. ____________________________ Scholar@UC One of the ten strategic initiatives was to create the next generation digital repository. Named scholar@uc, it successfully…
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Accounting for an Historic Text
The life of a book can be as interesting and long lasting as the contents within. Such is the tale of the historic text The Fabric of the Human Body by anatomist Andreas Vesalius. Recently, Dr. Stephen N. Joffe, a retired UC professor of surgery and medicine, and Veronica Buchanan, archivist in the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of Medicine, embarked on a project to account for the locations in the United States of both the first (1543) and second editions (1555) of this seminal work whose author was among the first to accurately depict the human body and to illustrate anatomy in a visual way. Andreas Vesalius…
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Save the Date: Annual Cecil Striker Lecture May 19
The Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions invites you to Save the Date for the: Cecil Striker Society Annual Lecture ~ 4 to 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 19, 2015 Dale C. Smith, PhD – senior vice president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD and chairman of the Department of Medical History in the F. Edward Hubert School of Medicine, USUHS will present on the topic of “The History of Public Hospitals: Cornerstone of American Healthcare.” Additional details regarding RSVP, location and reception will be posted soon to the Winkler Center website. Questions should be directed to (513) 558-5120. Originally…
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A View into Special Collections
By Steve Marine, Associate Dean of Digital Initiatives, Special Collections, Preservation and Grants UC Libraries’ special collections provide scholars, both local and global, access to rare books and other rare materials such as maps, pamphlets and journals, that are found in few other libraries. In addition, UC Libraries’ special collections consist of unique primary source materials such as the personal archives of notable people, photographs and historical artifacts and the official records of the university and many regional institutions. Such collections are sources for new discoveries and catalysts for novel research. UC Libraries’ flagship special collections location is the Archives and Rare Book Library located on the 8th floor of…
