Ohio University Libraries News and Events

The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University are sponsoring a panel program on “Plagiarism and the Library.” The program will take place on Tuesday, October 24 beginning at 4:00 p.m. in the fourth floor lounge area of Alden Library.

The panelists are Margaret Appel, Professor of Psychology, David Carr, Associate Professor of Recreation and Sports Sciences, Kent Mulliner, retired Coordinator for Collection Development in the Libraries, Megan Rose, graduate student in Education, and Susan Sarnoff, Associate Professor and Chair of Social Work.

“Plagiarism is an age-old problem that frequently involves libraries,” says Catherine Brown, chair of the Friends’ Program Committee. “We are pleased the panelists are willing to provide perspectives on the issue.”

Appel is a member of the University Curriculum Council and a past president of the Faculty Senate. Sarnoff is co-chair of the Academic Honesty Committee established in August. Carr is the Coordinator of the Physical Education and Coaching Education Division in the School of Recreation and Sports Sciences, College of Health & Human Services. Rhodes’s duties include familiarizing education students with plagiarism issues and policies. Mulliner has a long-standing interest in library collections and their uses.

The Friends of the Libraries, established in 1979 to provide support for library collections and operations, is now more than a quarter century old.

Alden’s popular audio tour is now available in Swahili.

The tour contains about 25 minutes of audio, and if you walk the complete tour, it will take you approximately 30 minutes. The tour is a great way for Ohio University’s Swahili speakers to get to know the library, so give it a try. The tour is available on the library’s iPod, which can be checked out at the Learning Commons desk on the second floor of Alden. The Swahili translation was made possible by Peter Githinji, Professor of Linguistics, and Peter Otiato, a PhD Candidate in Education.

If you already own an iPod or MP3 player, you can download the file here. Just click on the links to save to your iPod or MP3 player. Once you’ve taken the tour, please take a moment to give us some feedback.

To make sure you don’t miss future library podcasts, be sure to subscribe to our podcast feed. You can learn how to subcribe here. For other library podcast tour’s, please visit our Podcast Tour Page.

The University Libraries are pleased to announce that the Foundation Directory Online is now available via the Web to all campuses of Ohio University. This database contains information on “nearly 80,000 foundations, corporate giving programs (with sponsoring company information), and grantmaking public charities” plus a “searchable database of 500,000 recently awarded grants.”

The Directory provides information on foundations, the grants they award, and the recipients, along with copies of IRS 990 forms filed by tax-exampt organizations.

It is listed in InfoTree’s section on Grants and Grantseeking, and can be accessed directly using this link: infotree.library.ohiou.edu/scripts/redirect.html?id=3813.

If you have questions about this database, please contact Wanda Weinberg, Head of the Reference and Instruction Department at Alden Library: (740) 593-9685 or weinberg@ohio.edu

Ohio University will offer two programs for “Archives Week in Ohio” during the week beginning October 8. With this year’s theme “African Americans in Ohio,” there will be a panel featuring two Ohio University faculty members on Monday, October 9, and a lecture by Dr. John E. Fleming, Vice President of Museums at the Cincinnati Museum Center, on Wednesday, October 11.

Panelists for the October 9th program will be Visiting Professor Philip Malory Jones, Artist in Residence in the Aesthetic Technologies Lab, College of Fine Arts at Ohio University, and Professor Mark Leff of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. The program will take place in the Multipurpose Room of the Lindley Cultural Center (Room 052) from 3:00 – 4:30 PM. The panelists will discuss the broad theme of “Finding and Saving the African American Record.”

Professor Jones is also Resident Artist at the Center for African American Archival Preservation and Creative Director for Alchemy Media and Marketing, Inc. (www.alchemy-media.com), both in Atlanta, GA.

Professor Leff is doing research for a documentary on Milton Holland, an Athens County resident who received the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War and then had a long career in business and civic affairs in Washington, DC in the decades after the conflict. Leff previously produced a documentary, The Sky Has Fallen (2005), on the closing of Ohio University in 1970.

John Fleming will talk on “Documenting the African American Experience: A Personal Journey” on October 11th. Fleming serves on the Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board members of which are appointed by the Governor. He worked previously as director of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati and the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, OH. He is the author of the recently published A Summer Remembered: A Memoir (2005) and will sign copies following his talk. Fleming’s lecture will take place in Walter Hall Room 145 beginning at 7:30 PM.

The programs are sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries of Ohio University, the Ohio University President’s Office for Diversity, and the Ohio University Libraries’ Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections. Both events are free and open to the public.

Archives Week in Ohio in sponsored by the Society of Ohio Archivists, a statewide association established in 1968. This year’s theme “African Americans in Ohio” ties in with the sesquicentennial of Wilberforce University. Archives Week is a program to increase the general public’s awareness of archival materials and archival centers. For more information, visit www.ohioarchivists.org/aweek.htm.