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Exhibit Showcases Paul Revere Awards
Staff of the Gorno Memorial Music (CCM) Library have created an exhibit of the first place winners of the Paul Revere Awards for Graphic Excellence. The exhibit will be available for viewing through...
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The Irish and Archives Month
By Kevin Grace UC’s celebration of Archives Month in Ohio, sponsored by the Society of Ohio Archivists, continues with another event, slated for Thursday, October 18. The Archives & Rare Books...
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Stealing St. Patrick: Another Moment in Archives Month and the Cincinnati Irish
By Kevin Grace It has its roots in the fact that, historically, German and Irish Catholic congregants were often at odds in Cincinnati. On Mt. Adams, where both Irish and German working-class...
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The Importance of Being Information Literate
In celebration of the National Information Literacy Awareness Month librarians, educators, and politicians are talking about the importance of information literacy and evaluating what we are doing to...
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Tour the Health Sciences Library Subject Guide Home Page
Now there’s a direct link from the Health Sciences Library (HSL) web home page to the HSL Subject Guides home page. Click on the Subject Guides link under Express Links in the middle of the HSL web...
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Southwest Ohio Folklore Collection
By Molly Gullett Mabel H. Singing Telegram Company The Southwest Ohio Folklore Collection in the Archives & Rare Books Library’s Urban Studies Collection, is made up of several hundred small...
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ARB's Next "50 Minutes-1 Book" Presentation
By: Kevin Grace On Tuesday, November 20, the Archives & Rare Books Library will present the second in its series of lunchtime talks for this academic year. The book to be presented is George...
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Watching the Presidential Debate Tonight?
Tell us what sources help you to stay informed about the elections…
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Next Life of the Mind Lecture Series Scheduled for October 30
The second in the “Life of the Mind” lecture series on the theme of “Security” is scheduled for Tuesday, October 30 from 3:30-5pm in the Russell C. Myers Alumni Center. Free and open to the UC...
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Moving Along. . . in the Subway
By: Angela Vanderbilt Digitization of the Cincinnati subway and street improvement project prints and negatives began this week with three boxes containing 681 silver nitrate-based negatives delivered...
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The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: American Archives Month
The clue for #49 down was "Vaccine name." October is American Archives Month! To celebrate, project staff wanted to showcase some interesting newspaper clippings in the Sabin collection. We hope you...
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Celebrating Archives Month and the Peoples of Ohio - Procter & Gamble's...
By Kevin Grace An early Irish immigrant to Cincinnati, Alexander Norris was born in Caledon, County Tyrone, Ireland in 1771. The date of his arrival in Cincinnati is uncertain, but it was before 1819...
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Trials Extended: Calling for Your Input
We extended the AccessPediatrics, AccessPhysiotherapy, and AccessSurgery trials so more of you would have the chance to try out these resources and let us know what you think. Many thanks to those of...
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The Haunting of Wilson Auditorium
By: Molly Gullett As work proceeds on the Southwest Ohio Folklore Archives, there are a few papers that are certainly appropriate at this time of year. In November, 2002, student Mathew Z. Keller...
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Irish Cincinnati-Mike Mullen and Ward Politics
By: Kevin Grace As the election season draws to a close over the next couple of weeks, it seems appropriate to consider the story of Mike Mullen, perhaps corrupt in the eyes of muckraking journalists,...
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The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: October 24, World Polio Day
"World Understanding, World Peace and Polio" by Dr. Albert B. Sabin October 24 is known as “World Polio Day,” in honor of Dr. Jonas Salk’s birthday. According to the Global Polio Eradication...
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The Subway and Street Improvement Photograph Grant Project- Images of Progress
By: Angela Vanderbilt The first delivery of scans depicting the 1920s subway construction project has arrived. These scans were made from a set of highly sensitive nitrate-based negatives, which are...
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The Power Which Knowledge Gives
“The Power Which Knowledge Gives”: Go to The Polls Armed With Reliable Information Recently I came across this stunning quote from James Madison in a fellow librarian’s blog post: “A popular Government...
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ORCID: Connecting Research and Researchers
Create a unique personal identifier with ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)! ORCID, an open, non-profit, community-based initiative has launched its Registry (http://orcid.org) and can now be...
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Local Lore: Haunted Buildings of Clifton
By: Molly Gullett As Halloween approaches, many of us are preparing to celebrate the holiday, from trick-or-treating to haunted house tours. October is a month filled with a sense of the uncanny, and...
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