And the Winners Are: Library Research Contest Results
Friday Challenge Winner: Madhavun Candadai Madhavun used the library catalog to find the book and searched its contents to find the answer to the question. Grand Prize Winner: Raj Kapadia Our virtual...
View ArticleThe Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: An Unsolved Mystery
Albert Sabin and Basil O’Connor pose with Dr. Sabin’s bust, sculpted by Edmond Romulus Amateis. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) recently launched, and, of course, I wanted to see if there...
View ArticleSlip, Slide and A Parkway = Adventures in the Subway and Street Improvements...
By: Angela Vanderbilt Cincinnatians who drive along Columbia Parkway from downtown to the eastern suburbs know the parkway for its breathtaking scenic views of the Ohio River below. But these...
View ArticleNew UCBA Library Guides/Tutorials Web page
The new UCBA Library Guides & Tutorials web page is now available at http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/guideshome. This web page provides a basic starting point for research on any topic. UCBA...
View ArticleService Notice: Library Catalog Unavailable Beginning 1pm April 29.
On Monday, April 29, at 1:00pm the Library Catalog will go offline for a planned software migration. It is estimated that the catalog will be back online and ready for use at 10:00pm on April 29. In...
View ArticleThe Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: New Lesson Plans Available
Dr. Albert B. Sabin Sabin project student assistant Katie Pintz created a couple of lesson plans to encourage the use of the the newly digitized materials in the Albert B. Sabin Archives. They are:...
View ArticleAll Skate! = Adventures in the Subway and Street Improvements Digitization...
By: Angela Vanderbilt One of the favorite pastimes of children in the 1920s and 1930s was roller skating, which is evident from the many pictures in this collection of kids with the four-wheeled...
View ArticleRecords Update Highlights Ohio Public Records Cases
By: Janice Schulz A new Records Update is now available on the Records Management Program website. Records Update is released periodically to convey timely information between publications of Records...
View ArticlePhilosophical "Ames" of the Archives and Rare Books Library
By Lauren Fink Thanks to a generous donation from Anthony Graybosch, The Archives and Rare Books Library now has in its holdings a collection of philosophy books from Van Meter Ames’ private library....
View ArticleThe Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: Remembering Hilary Koprowski
By Jeff O’Flynn, Sabin Student Assistant Telegram from Hilary Koprowski to Albert Sabin, indicating he would be unable to attend a polio conference. Hilary Koprowski is considered by many to be equally...
View ArticleWhat Style is That? = Adventures in the Subway and Street Improvements...
By Angela Vanderbilt 3926 Feemster Street, June 17, 1932 The photographs contained in the Subway and Street Improvements collection are a valuable source of information for anyone who might be...
View ArticleNew (Free) Medical Guidelines App for Students and Clinicians
Apple is advertising a new iPhone/iPad Guideline Central app that provides over 2,700 free guideline summaries that cover all of the main specialties. A few of the features: Official recommendations...
View ArticleAPhA PharmacyLibrary Collection
The APhA PharmacyLibrary collection features authoritative Pharmacy textbooks, NAPLEX® review, case studies, and primary literature abstracts from JAPhA in one comprehensive search platform....
View ArticleDigitized Correspondence and Photographs of Albert B. Sabin Available on the Web
The University of Cincinnati Libraries have completed a three-year project to digitize the correspondence and photographs of Albert B. Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine and distinguished...
View ArticleSnow Globes in the DAAP Library
Jenell Walton of Channel 9′s “The List” recently visited the Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) and met with librarian Jennifer Krivickas...
View ArticleQuarters to Semester Conversion Records now in ARB
By: Janice Schulz The Archives and Rare Books Library has made available a collection of records from University Communications covering the University’s conversion to semesters in 2012. The...
View ArticleUCBA College Library Renovation Update and Layout
The UCBA Library renovation is entering the final month of construction. Our friends at Library Design Associates have begun to carefully move the library collection into the new space, and by the end...
View ArticleFalse Facades Offer Aesthetic Disguise = Adventures in the Subway and Street...
By Angela Vanderbilt The story of abandoned subway stations and tracks hidden beneath busy city streets is not unique to Cincinnati. Other large cities, such as New York, London, and Paris have...
View ArticleJune Lunch & Learn Series
The Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library invites you to join us for our June Lunch & Learn instruction series, Thursdays, June 13 – 27, 12:10-12:50pm, in the Health Sciences Library Classroom...
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