Peter Brantley
Executive Director, Digital Library Federation
Wednesday, April 2, 3:30 p.m.
Refreshments begin at 3:15 p.m.
Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr.
Peter Brantley is currently director of strategic technology for academic information systems in the University of California’s Office of the President. He has 20 years’ experience in systems development and management, including academic computing services at UC Berkeley and academic information systems management and digital library development at UC San Francisco and New York University. He also served as director of technology for the California Digital Library. He has been active in the Digital Library Federation, participating in the Digital Library Federation Services Framework initiative and co-managing the Digital Library Federation Developers’ Forum.
The series is sponsored by the OSU Libraries and the Office of Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (TELR), with support from the Friends of the OSU Libraries. For information call 614-292-2503 or 614-292-5875.
March 28th, 2008
“The Black Dress,” with author Valerie Steel
Monday April 28
Campbell Hall, 1787 Neil Ave.
5:30 p.m., refreshments, Columbia Gas Lounge
6 p.m., lecture, Campbell 200
7 p.m., book signing
The black dress has been the foundation of a woman’s wardrobe for centuries. The allure of the black dress has captured the imagination of generations of couturiers and artists and served as the signature of society’s most enviably dressed women. With an essay and images selected by Dr. Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, this book features page after uniquely designed page of some of the most compelling dresses in the history of fashion. The presentation is in conjunction with the current exhibit, “The Little Black Dress: Fashion Icon.”
March 28th, 2008
The Online Computer Library Center, Inc., (OCLC) is looking for people willing to demonstrate and discuss how they conduct research for a paper, project or publication.
The one to two-hour in-person interviews will be held in Room 244A of the Sullivant Library, at the corner of North High Street and 15th Avenue, or the Prior Health Sciences Library at 376 W. 10th Ave. Interviews will be scheduled the weeks of April 7 and April 14.
Each session will take 1 to 2 hours.
Participants should be:
•Undergraduate or graduate students, or instructors
•Non-professionals in the library or database searching
Library employees, including student employees, are not eligible to participate.
Participants will be asked to comment while doing their own research at the library or their office. Participants will also need to bring a laptop capable of a wireless connection to the Internet. Comments will be recorded with the participant’s consent.
If you’re interested, please contact Mike Prasse, OCLC, at ulab@oclc.org
March 20th, 2008
William G. Thomas, III is the next speaker in the “2020 Vision: The Future of Scholarship and Publishing,” series. Explore scholarship and publishing in the digital age. National leaders in digital scholarship will consider the topic through diverse lenses such as scholarly communication, academic publishing, and intellectual property in an age where the lines between scholarly and popular discourse are becoming blurred. Jensen will make his presentation on Tuesday, March 4, at 3:30 p.m. at the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr. Refreshments begin at 3:15 p.m.
Thomas is the John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has served as Director and co-founder of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia where he led research in the field of digital humanities scholarship. His digital research initiatives have included The Valley of the Shadow, Race and Place: African American Community in the Jim Crow South, Television News of the Civil Rights Era, and The Roots of Modern America. Thomas shared, with Anne Rubin and Edward Ayers, the Lincoln Prize in 2001 from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for the Valley of the Shadow project, and the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association in recognition of the project as an outstanding contribution to the teaching of history.
For information, call 614-292-2503.
March 1st, 2008
The David Abbey Paige Pastel Drawings
OSU Faculty Club
Through April 25, 2008
181 S. Oval Dr.
Pastel drawings from the collections of the Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program.
February 26th, 2008
The OSU Libraries are pleased to offer “WorldCat Local,” Web access to the world’s richest database, listing over one billion items.
Basic features associated with WorldCat include:
• A simple search box
• Friendly, easy-to-use results display, including “faceted browsing”
• Searches for materials at OSU, OhioLINK (Ohio libraries shared catalog; includes 86 academic libraries
not including OSU), and libraries worldwide
• Displays the availability of materials
• Allows requesting of materials
• Finds articles and provides links to full-text articles online
• Result sets that bring multiple versions of a work together under one record
• Citation formatting options
See the “What’s this” link for more details about the features.
The main change you’ll see is the new search box on the library home page, now displaying search results from WorldCat Local. You can still search the OSU catalog via the OSCAR interface by clicking the link just below the box, named “Search OSU Catalog”.
Let us know what you think about WorldCat Local. Please complete the survey linked in the “what’s this” link near the search box and at the upper right hand corner of the pilot pages, called “Survey – Your voice counts!”
February 4th, 2008
Anne Mergen: Editorial Cartoonist
The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library
February 1 – April 11, 2008
27 W. 17th Ave. Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
Anne Mergen’s editorial cartoons chronicle history from the Great Depression through the Cold War. During that time, she was the only woman in the nation working as an editorial cartoonist.
Mergen was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1906. She studied commercial art in Chicago before moving to Miami in the mid 1920s to work as a fashion advertising artist for a local department store. When the Miami Daily News, part of the Cox newspaper chain, hired her as its editorial cartoonist in 1933, she was the only woman editorial cartoonist in the United States, a status that continued until her retirement in 1956. She continued to have cartoons published as late as 1959.
She had a home studio and all of the contemporary press coverage about her career celebrates the fact that she drew her editorial cartoons only after fulfilling her duties as wife and mother to two children. In addition to being published in the Miami Daily News, her cartoons were published in other Cox newspapers including the Atlanta Journal and the Dayton News.
The editorial cartoons in this exhibit range from Mergen’s take on Goebbels’ propaganda to the advent of nuclear power. She was a thoughtful commentator on the events of her time and her work merits wider recognition.
Anne Mergen died in 1994. The cartoons in this exhibition were donated to the Cartoon Research Library by her grandchildren, Matthew Bernhardt and Christine Hoverman. The Anne Mergen Collection at the Cartoon Research Library contains almost 600 original editorial cartoons documenting her work. This exhibit is free and open to the public.
January 29th, 2008
Students: Would you like to win money for your research project?
Faculty: Would you like to win money for helping a student from your class submit a research project for a competition?
Then consider entering the OSU Libraries’ Undergraduate Research Prize Competition. The winning project team (author, the student’s instructor, and the collaborating librarian) with a prize of $1,000 ($750 for the student author; $250 for the instructor). The winning project will be submitted to the OSU Knowledge Bank repository, where it will have a permanent home and Web address. This site is also indexed by Google, so your project will be available to a worldwide audience.
Follow the link above for complete details.
January 22nd, 2008
Shortly after World War II, the horrifying atrocities committed by the Nazis against humanity were brought to light and remain widely studied. However, the acts committed in America against people of Japanese descent are hardly remembered. Although they were not genocide, the racial discrimination suffered by Japanese Americans should not be ignored.
Calls to Remembrance, a joint project from both Otterbein College and The Ohio State University, will commemorate this evil through the lives and writings of Toyo Suyemoto and Lawson Inada. Suyemoto survived internment camps in Utah and wrote about her experience in recently published memoirs titled, “I Call to Remembrance.” Inada, who is a third-generation American and poet laureate from Oregon, wrote a book of poetry, Legends from Camp. It details his childhood experience in a Japanese internment camp because of fears he would commit treason against his family’s country of over 40 years.
The presentation will include a short film, A Day of Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto Kawakami Remembers Internment. Additionally, editor Susan B. Richardson will read from “I Call to Remembrance.” Finally, Inada himself will conduct a reading. The dates, times, and locations of this event are as follows:
Otterbein College: Tuesday, January 29, 4 p.m.
Philomathean Room of Towers Hall,
1 S. Grove St., Westerville
The Ohio State University: Wednesday, January 30
Refreshments 11:30 a.m.; Program 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center,
153 W. 12th Ave. Columbus
January 17th, 2008
“Reading ReMix,” a quarterly book group without commitment, is preparing for its inaugural meeting at 7:30 p.m. on February 21 at The Knight House (104 E. 15 Ave). The group will be discussing “Boombox” by Gabriel Cohen. If you would like to attend, please register online before January 23. The group is currently available only for students.
The key differences between Reading ReMix and traditional book clubs are price and commitment. Because of the generosity of Friends of the OSU Libraries, all of the books will be completely free for group members. Additionally, members can attend as few or as many discussions as they like without negative consequences. For more information, please contact Melissa at miller.2676@osu.edu.
January 17th, 2008
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