Ohio University Libraries News and Events

Nicholas Finke, librarian and archivist at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, will be the eighth annual Archives Week speaker at Ohio University on Wednesday, October 13. His talk “Documenting the Past at the Freedom Center,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Friends of the Library Room (Room 319) in Alden Library on the Ohio University campus.

The National Underground Freedom Center was incorporated in 1995. The Freedom Center opened its exhibit hall in August, 2004. For more information on the Freedom Center, view its web site at www.freedomcenter.org/.

Finke has been with the Freedom Center since 2002. His talk will discuss how the center, as a new institution, has had to collaborate with established archival repositories to provide documents for its exhibits and education programs. He will also talk about the work of organizing the Freedom Center’s own archival records.

The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University are sponsoring the program. The talk is free and open to the public.

Archives Week in Ohio is a program of the Society of Ohio Archivists, now in its 12th year. More information is available at its web site http://www.ohiojunction.net/soa/aweek.html.

The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University were established in 1979 to support the Libraries, its programs and its collections. For more information on the Freinds, visit its web site at http://www.library.ohiou.edu/libinfo/friends/.

Alden Library’s Map Collection has added the complete atlas and gazetteer series for all 50 states from DeLorme. They contain topographic maps of the entire state, GPS grids, city street maps, back roads and lists places to visit, things to do and outdoor recreation options. This series of atlases and gazetteers are currently on display in the 5th floor map collection. This new set is currently classed as library use only. Older editions of states that we own will circulate. Stop by the 5th floor and use these colorful detailed atlases to plan your next adventure.

In September the Technical Services Department of Alden Library added tables of contents to the records of approximately 125,000 books in our online catalog, ALICE. The words in these Tables of Contents are now included among the terms searched when you do a Keyword search in ALICE.

Here’s a sample record for The fundamentals of coaching and playing baseball .

Starting September 20, 2004, Instructional Media and Technology Services (IMTS) in the new Learning Commons on the 2nd floor of Alden Library will have new and extended hours for borrowing DVDs and VHS tapes:

Hours for other services remain the same.

For more information, call 593 2665 or visit the Media Library website.