The presentation by ACRL President Erika Linke scheduled for Wednesday, October 8 at the Ackerman Library has been cancelled due to illness. The program will be rescheduled for a later date.
For more information, call 292-2503.
October 7th, 2008
Get a $15 Donato’s gift card for taking an hour to help the OSU Libraries design its new web site. Take part in a fun, simple exercise–sorting cards–that will help build the Libraries’ new web site scheduled to launch next year when the Thompson Library opens.
Each student focus group will meet for just one hour. Groups will meet the week of October 6.
Interested? Call 292-6151 or email mastin.16@osu.edu.
October 6th, 2008
The OSU Libraries have practicum opportunities available. Check this site for more information on current opportunities.
September 25th, 2008
Sam Milai of the Pittsburgh Courier
Cartoon Research Library Reading Room Gallery
September 22-December 31
Sam Milai (March 23, 1908-April 30, 1970) was an artist and cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Courier, an influential African American newspaper, for thirty-three years. He was a centrist who disdained all forms of extremism. Unfortunately, much of Milai’s original work was destroyed in a fire. The cartoons in this exhibition were found by his granddaughter in a suitcase in her mother’s attic and donated to the Cartoon Research Library. The Sam Milai collection also includes correspondence, clippings and photographs related to Milai.
“Sam Milai of the Pittsburgh Courier” documents Milai’s mature work during the last seven years of his life. Reading these cartoons from the perspective of almost four decades later, we sense both the hopes and the frustrations that the African American community experienced during the 1960s.
Milai was loyal to Lyndon Johnson, and some of his pro-Johnson cartoons are housed in the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. He won the National Newspaper Publisher’s Association Russwurm trophy for the best cartoon eight times during his career. In addition to his editorial cartoons, Milai created a series titled Facts about the Negro that celebrated the accomplishments of people of color. During the late 1930s, he also contributed a comic strip to the newspaper. He taught part time at Pittsburgh’s Ivey School of Professional Art from 1964-1967 and was teaching full-time at the Pittsburgh Art Institute at the time of his death.
September 19th, 2008
The Ackerman Library is open as of Wednesday, September 17. Power has been restored to the building, and normal operations will resume on Wednesday. Ackerman Library hours during the break (through September 23) are Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Ackerman Library is closed on Saturdays and Sundays.
September 15th, 2008
The OSU Catalog will be unavailable early in the day on Wed. Sept 3, due to a system upgrade. The upgrade is expected to completed by late morning.
You can view the location and status of OSU Libraries’ holdings in the OhioLINK catalog or at WorldCat by clicking on “Search OSU and Beyond.” However, MY RECORD services, including renewal and requests for OSU materials, will be unavailable.
September 2nd, 2008
The Newark Library will be closed through Sept 8 while it is moved into its new location.
August 25th, 2008
Concrete repair work at the Libraries’ Book Depository (STX) will make materials kept in that facility unaccessible from September 8-12. Requests for items kept at STX will display the message, “This location temporarily closed.” Normal collection access is expected to be restored no later than September 12.
August 18th, 2008
OSU head football coach Jim Tressel has a bestselling book, and you can pick up autographed copies from the OSU Libraries.
Coach Tressel’s book, The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life, benefits the renovation of the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library. The book, an inspiring blend of football stories, spiritual insights, motivational reading and practical application, sells for $25. For an additional $15, you can have your copy autographed by the coach.
To order your copies, fill out this order form and send it to the address listed. Proceeds from your purchase will help support the Thompson Library Renovation.
August 6th, 2008
History of the Holy Grail, with Dr. Daniel Scavone
Monday, August 18, 10 a.m.
Ackerman Library, 600 Ackerman Rd., Room 5826
The Holy Grail entered the world in two works of fiction from about 1200 A.D. Dr. Daniel Scavone, professor emeritus of history, University of Southern Indiana, will discuss his discovery of the early apocryphal legends used by Robert de Boron in his story of the Grail as the Last Supper cup, as has been published in the journal Arthuriana and in the publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest.
August 5th, 2008
