Ohio University Libraries News

Students, this could be you! Another chance at $100.

Char Booth — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:34:29 +0000

Check out Patricia and Adam - two of our $100 winners from last quarter’s Library Technology Survey.

If you didn’t take the first survey, or if you didn’t win last time - please stop crying! You have another chance to win $100 from the OU Libraries, just by taking the second installment of our anonymous survey. This one is much shorter, and should only take 5 minutes or so of your time:

click here to take the survey!

The survey will be open until June 14th, and we’ll draw the winner on June 15th. (We’ll mail the check to the winner if they’re not in town over the summer.)

Friends of the Libraries Book Sale May 8-10, 2008

Kate Mason — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:02:52 +0000

The Friends of the Libraries at Ohio University will hold a book sale on May 8-10, 2008 located in Alden Library’s 4th floor lounge. The hours are:

Thursday, 7-9 pm (Presale for members only)

Friday, 10-6 pm

Saturday, 10-4 pm

“When you support the Friends, you are supporting all of Ohio University-every discipline, every student, every faculty-by helping to build and maintain a great library.”

Nancy Bain presentation on May 14

Chris Guder — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:28:52 +0000

As part of the Alden Library Diversity Committee’s Culture Corner Series entitled Portraits of Appalachian Women, author Nancy Bain will be giving a talk entitled, “Women in Mining Communities: Information from Archival and Documentary Sources”. The presentation will be held on May 14^th at 2:00pm on the third floor of Alden Library in the Friends of the Libraries Room.

Dr. Nancy Bain is a professor emeritus in Geography. Originally from Minnesota, she completed her graduate work at the University of Minnesota. At OU she has served as department chair, University Ombuds, and was the first director of Women’s Studies. Her research interests include impact analysis, land change, and coal.

Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.

Library Awards: Research and Creative Activity Expo

sherri saines — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:53:02 +0000

University Libraries and Friends of the Libraries are excited to once again take part in the Annual Student Research and Creative Activity Expo by providing three awards to Expo participants.

Sponsored by Friends of the Libraries, an award of $100 each will be given to one undergraduate and one graduate project. In addition, a $50 Librarian’s Choice Award will be selected the day of the Expo.

Not just filled with books and computers, the library has many friendly librarians ready to help with your latest paper or project, and to aid you with our numerous services. Winning applicants will demonstrate their exceptional use of our library resources, services, and facilities for their research projects and creative endeavors.

To be considered for a library sponsored award, Expo participants need to complete an online application (http://www.library.ohiou.edu/info/awards.html) no later than May 1, 2008.

Winners will be selected by library staff committee members Araba Dawson-Andoh, Joyce Douglas, Michael Farmer, Sherri Saines and Dawn Walter-Gagliano.

Online Index to The Post

Tim Smith — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:19:55 +0000

We are pleased to announce the availability of an online index to The Post, Ohio University’s campus newspaper, that covers the time period from Fall 1985 through Spring 1995. You may find this index listed in Infotree as Post Index (online). The direct link is www2.library.ohiou.edu/post2/.

The library also has a printed index to The Post covering the years 1939 through 1950, and 1961 through 1985. These volumes are available in Alden’s reference stacks on the 2nd floor (call number LD4191.O82 G7x Index). More information about our holdings and indexing to The Post is available among our Newspaper Timelines.

Sharon Hatfield presentation on April 16th

Chris Guder — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:29:48 +0000

As part of the Alden Library Diversity Committee’s Culture Corner Series entitled Portraits of Appalachian Women, author Sharon Hatfield will be giving a talk entitled, “Marry in Haste; Repent in Leisure: Edith Maxwell and the National Woman’s Party”. The presentation will be held on April 16^th at 3:00pm on the third floor of Alden Library in the Friends of the Libraries room.

Sharon Hatfield is the author of Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell (University of Illinois Press, 2005) and co-editor of An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature (Ohio University Press, 2005). She grew up in the Cumberland Mountains of Lee County, Virginia. After college she became a newspaper reporter in Wise County, Virginia, covering the justice system in the same courtroom Edith Maxwell was tried for murder.

Hatfield holds a master’s degree in Journalism from Ohio University and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. She lives in Athens, Ohio, with her husband Jack Wright, and teaches writing at Hocking College.

Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.

Portraits of Appalachian Women

Chris Guder — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:40:44 +0000

The Culture Corner display this quarter includes a group of photographs taken of women in this area during the last century. The photographs are all part of the Manuscript Collection located in the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections which is on the fifth floor of Alden Library. Included in the Culture Corner exhibit are photographs from the Lloyd Moore Collection, the Buhla Collection, and the Dairy Barn Collection, as well as publications from the Fine Arts collection on the third floor. The exhibit contains artifacts from the Athens County Historical Society and Museum as well as the College of Fine Arts, School of Theater’s costume shop. So stop by the Culture Corner on the fourth floor and take a trip back in time, or check us out online to see lists of titles and materials relevant to this quarter’s theme of Portraits of Appalachian Women.

Library’s New Food Policy

Tim Smith — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:11:22 +0000

The Library has revised its policy about eating food in public spaces of
the building.

Snack foods such as nuts, pretzels, cookies, and candy are now allowed.
Foods such as bagels, muffins, pizza, hamburgers, fries, sandwiches, salads, soup are not considered snack food and must be consumed in Café BiblioTech on the 2nd floor.
Please report spills to the nearest service desk immediately, so that they can be cleaned up quickly and damages can be
minimized.

(As always, please enjoy your beverages in containers with lids.)

Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibit

Tim Smith — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:45:33 +0000

A poster exhibit dealing with the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings will be on display in the lobby area in front of the Friends Room on the third floor of Alden Library from April 1 to April 25.

This exhibit is partially supported by the Alden Library “Article 9 — Katsumori, Ichioka, Overby — Endowment.”

Southeast Asia Photography Exhibit

Tim Smith — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:57:19 +0000

A photography exhibit entitled “Perspectives: Visions of Southeast Asia” will be on display on the first floor of Alden Library in the Center for International Collections until the end of March. The sixteen photos, taken throughout Southeast Asia, were chosen through a contest held during winter quarter which was open to faculty, staff and students.

The goal of this exhibit is to promote awareness in Athens and surrounding
areas of Southeast Asia and of the Southeast Asian Studies program’s 40th
anniversary, 1968-2008. It is supported by Southeast Asian Studies Program
and Ohio Valley International Council and has also been on display in area
elementary and middle schools.