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University Libraries and the Prior Health Sciences Library/Center for Knowledge Management are sponsoring “Open Access Day,” a panel discussion, on Wednesday, October 21, from 10:30 a.m. - noon in Room 165 of the Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave.
The program includes opening remarks by Jan Weisenberger, senior vice president for the OSU Office of Research. Scheduled panelists include:
*Tom Sanville, OhioLINK Director
*David Huron, OSU Professor of Music and editor of Empirical Musicology Review
*Scot Danforth, OSU Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning and editor of Disability Studies Quarterly
*Deborah Gryzbowski, OSU Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
*Donald Dean, OSU Professor of Biochemistry
*Jack Ochs, American Chemical Society
*Daviess Menefee, Elsevier
October 6th, 2009
Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee, author of two books that address the role of academic libraries in higher education, will offer the inaugural lecture at the newly reopened Thompson Library on October 9 at 2 p.m.
Gee’s lecture, the first in the Libraries’ 2009-2010 series, “Sharing Knowledge: The Global Information Society,” will highlight the impact of academic libraries on the universities and communities they serve.
The series, titled “Sharing Knowledge: The Global Information Society,” is designed as a way to reconnect the library with the general campus community. Lecture topics are intended not just library staff and patrons but students, staff and faculty from other campus units.
Dr. Gee’s presentation will be in the 11th floor Campus Reading Room, with a brief reception to follow. The public is invited to this free program.
September 25th, 2009
Exhibitions
From the Yellow Kid to Conan: American Cartoons from the International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection (through August 7) at the Hopkins Gallery + Corridor, 128 North Oval Mall, 10:30-4:30 M-F. For free group tours, call 614-262-6493.
Hogarth and Beyond: Global Cartoons from the International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection (though August 31) at the Cartoon Library & Museum Reading Room Gallery, 27 West 17th Avenue Mall, 9-5 M-F
Co-sponsors: The Ohio State University Cartoon Library & Museum, Wexner Center for the Arts, Department of Art Hopkins Gallery + Corridor, University Libraries, Logan Elm Press and Book Arts Program
June 29th, 2009
The Search for Other Worlds and Life in the Universe
Speaker: Scott Gaudi, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, OSU
Wednesday, July 1, 2 p.m. (doors open at 1:30 p.m.)
Gateway Movie Theatre, 1550 N High St., Columbus
We are privileged to live in a remarkable era. For the first time in human history, we are beginning to glimpse answers to some of our oldest questions: Are there other worlds out there? Are there other solar systems like ours? Do those systems contain Earthlike planets? Do those planets harbor life? Dr. Scott Gaudi will provide a guided tour of the golden age of the exploration of extrasolar worlds and the search for extraterrestrial life, focusing on the hunt for analogs to our solar system, and the search for the “pale blue dot:” another world just like our own.
Anyone is welcome to this “Science Cafe” program. Parking is available in the Gateway Parking Garage; $3 for the first hour, $1 for each additional hour.
June 11th, 2009
Thurber House and OSU Libraries’ Rare Books and Manuscripts Present “Thurber in the House”
Thurber House is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, making it an appropriate time to invite James Thurber back for a visit. The Rare Books and Manuscripts Library (RBMS) at The Ohio State University has done exactly that.
“Thurber in the House,” an exhibit of his cartooning art, focuses on some of Thurber’s favorite subjects: men, women, sex and dogs. The RBMS collection, 29 archival quality facsimiles, will run May 1 through September 6, 2009, at the Thurber Center, 91 Jefferson Ave., next door to Thurber House, and will be free and open daily, 1 – 4 p.m.
“We’re proud to be a contributor to the anniversary celebration,” said Geoffrey Smith, Ph.D, Professor and Head, RBMS. “Our partnership with Thurber House has become a tradition of frequent collaborations during this past quarter century. With the Thurber Humor Prize and its concomitant programs of visiting authors, literary picnics, children’s writing workshops and more, Thurber House accentuates the Thurber legacy and keeps his memory alive.”
As described by Smith, RBMS is the historical repository for the scholarly study of Thurber, Columbus’ and Ohio State’s greatest literary product. In addition to multiple printings and editions of virtually every Thurber publication, the library also administers a Thurber literary archive of more than 20,000 manuscript and typescript leaves, nearly 500 original drawings, photographs, scrapbooks, sound recordings and assorted Thurberiana.
“Geoff and the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library are the keepers of the ‘Thurber flame,’” said Thurber House Executive Director Susanne Jaffe.
Visitors are asked to stop by the house first and a staff member or volunteer will take them to see the collection. For more information, visit thurberhouse.org or call 614-464-1032.
April 29th, 2009
The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law and Wexner Center for the Arts have collaborated for a novel discussion on the implications of mashup and remix in the world of Web 2.0. Recent technological developments have created a wave of user-generated content in which pre-existing sounds and images are appropriated, reshaped, and shared with unprecedented ease. Bringing together new media artists, prominent academics, and influential members of the media community, this event will discuss ways in which the digitization of music, film, and visual art over the internet is influencing the future of these industries and the future of copyright law.
The program is March 12-13 at the Moritz College of Law, 55 West 12th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210-1391. Read more about it here.
February 26th, 2009
Oya Rieger, Associate University Librarian for Information Technologies, Cornell University Library
Learning, Research, and Creative Expression: Responding to Evolving Technologies
Wednesday, March 18, 10 a.m.,
Ackerman Library, 600 Ackerman Road, Room 5826
Research libraries’ aim to lead the collaborative development of academic information infrastructures to enhance learning, teaching, research, and creativity. To this end, one of the critical goals has been integrating digital assets (and surrogates for traditional content) in daily practices and work flows of researchers and students. During the last decade, our service context has changed substantially, requiring us to reconsider the integration goal in terms of affordances provided by the new information and communication technologies. Ms. Rieger’s goal is to review some of the emerging technologies as well as associated user expectations and behavior and consider potential impact on integrating digital assets in learning and research environments.
February 12th, 2009
University Libraries, the Office of Academic Affairs, and the Faculty Club will host the 6th annual Faculty Recognition Program reception at the Faculty Club Grand Lounge to honor all Ohio State University faculty granted tenure or promotion in 2008/09. The program, with music and refreshments, will be Wednesday, November 19, from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
The 134 honorees include regular and clinical faculty from all OSU campuses. Faculty honorees have the opportunity to select a book or a bound journal volume from the University Libraries’ collection to be book-plated in their name in recognition of their accomplishments. Books not owned will be purchased for the Libraries. Honorees are also invited to include a statement of why the book was significant to them. A commemorative program listing the honorees, books selected, and personal statements will be available at the reception and upon request and will become part of the University Libraries’ Knowledge Bank. Selected books will be displayed at the reception and later at library book displays.
The reception is open to the university community and guests. The Faculty Club is located at 181 S. Oval Dr., Columbus campus. For details on the Faculty Recognition Program, contact Marsha Hamilton (247-7461) or Dana DeRose (247-8183).
November 17th, 2008
POETS AGAINST WAR!, two Columbus events to Celebrate the Acquisition of the Papers of Sam Hamill, PAW Founder by The Rare Books & MSS Library of The Ohio State University. Both events will be held at the Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St. (The Old Lazarus Building), in downtown Columbus.
*A READING BY LOCAL AND REGIONAL POETS, Wednesday, October 29, 1-4 p.m., including David Baker, Jack and Kathleen Burgess, Judith Rose, John M. Bennett, Michael Vander Does, Jennifer Bosveld, Charlene Fix, Edward Lense, Robert Miltner, Connie Everett, Steve Abbott, Frank Richardson, Douglas Grey, Jerry Roscoe, David Shevin, Beverly Zeimer, Zaineb Alani, and Robert Pringle.
*A READING BY SAM HAMILL, ELEANOR WILNER, AND BREYTEN BREYTENBACH, Thursday, October 30, 3 p.m.
Sponsored by The Rare Books & MSS Library, OSU; Urban Arts Space, OSU. Call Urban Arts Space: (614) 292-8861; Rare Books & MSS Library: (614) 292-5938.
October 27th, 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
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