Welcome Bethany Nummela-Hanel!

We are pleased to welcome Bethany Nummela-Hanel as the newest member of the UI&U Library team.

Bethany comes from Chase College of Law Library at Northern Kentucky University and recently graduated from the University of Kentucky with her master’s degree in Information and Library Science. While she enjoys sewing and reading, most of her current free-time is spent making her six-month old daughter giggle.

Bethany will serve as our Technical Services & Electronic Resources Librarian and will be responsible for the cataloging and management of electronic resources.  As a member of our reference and instruction team, she will also be available to answer any research questions you have.  She can be reached by email at Bethany.Nummela-Hanel@myunion.edu or by phone at 800-861-6400, extension 1210.  If you would like to welcome Bethany in person, her office is located in the Center for Teaching and Learning at Union’s Cincinnati Headquarters.

Welcome again to Union, Bethany!

Published 8/22/2013

Library Treasure Hunt

Interested in improving your library research skills and having fun at the same time?  Take the library treasure hunt, Mateys.

The treasure hunt consists of 6 clues hidden throughout the library website and requires approximately 20 minutes to complete.  We recommend beginning during normal business hours as some of the questions require librarian interaction (it's fine to take it at night, but you may have to wait until the morning for follow-up clues).  By the time you are done, you'll know how to:

• Find an ebook
• Find an article
• Locate databases in your field
• Use Google Scholar@UI&U
• Get formatted APA, Chicago, and MLA citations
• Get APA, Chicago, and MLA citation examples
• Navigate the Help Center
• Ask a librarian for help by chat and email

If you are up for the challenge, here is your first clue:  

Image transcript: Clue #1.  Your first challenge is to find this ebook: Plank-walking and you: Robbing and terrorizing for the novice pirate by Y.AR. Matey.  1) Go to the catalog (library homepage, then ebooks tab, then browse search link).  2) Use a title search (plank-walking and you).  3) Enter the book title (exclude the subtitle).  4) Select the ebook from the search results.  5) Click the URL below the title to open the ebook and get the next clue.


Photo credits: pirate ship © post406, pirate flag © Olivier Bruchez

Published 12/2/13

New: Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is the top source for news in post-secondary education. It brings you news stories of concerning faculty, administration and technology as well as academic news from around the global. You also have access to many blogs devoted to different aspects of the university experience (admissions, scholarly publishing or building and grounds) and also to the forums where you can connect with people involved in higher education around the country and around the world.

From the Chronicle, 2013

The UI&U Library now provides access to the Chronicle without the additional step of logging on through our proxy server. Simply go to chronicle.com. In the upper right hand corner, click log in. (Don’t subscribe! We’ve done that for you!)

Then create a free account using your Union email.

You maintain the same account whether you’re at one of our centers, at home, working on your laptop or desktop, AND working on your ipad. You can download the app from the iTunes store by going to https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id414901678 or searching for it by name. It appears in the newstand and you simply log in or create an account with your Union email.

From the Chronicle, 2013

Have any questions about getting access to The Chronicle? Ask a librarian!
Published 8/28/2013

Banned Books Week

The week of September 22-28 is the 30th Annual Banned Books Week! Since 1982, the American Library Association has been celebrating books that challenge our thinking. Join the UI&U Library in celebrating the freedom to read!

Artwork courtesy of the American Library Association

It's part of our 1st amendment right to publish and have access to all types of material--not just the content that everyone agrees with. The decision to decide what material you read is up to YOU, not the government, not the library, not any other institution.

Did you know that this year 426 book challenges were issued across the country? And that's just the challenges that were reported! Like many social injustices, many more incidents of banning occur without ever being reported. Even worse, people may choose to self-censor--not even put the book in a situation where outsiders might complain about it.

Participate in Banned Books Week by reading one of these titles available from your UI&U Library!

Alice Walker's The Color Purple
Voltaire's Candide
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass 
J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

To explore more, check out the American Library Association's timeline of banned books.

Spotlight: Historical New York Times

The inauguration of a world leader.  A breakthrough medical discovery.  A declaration of war.  The social event of the season. The rock concert of a generation.  A technological wonder.  A death in the family.  The birth of freedom.

For centuries, newspapers have been at the scene capturing not only the facts about momentous occasions, but also the sights and sounds of everyday life. ProQuest Historical Newspapers lets casual explorers and serious researchers alike travel digitally back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to history. -ProQuest Brochure

Issues of the New York Times from 1851-2008 are hosted in UI&U's Historical New York Times database (the latest newspaper issues can be found in other UI&U Library databases).  The Historical New York Times database can be accessed from the UI&U Library’s Databases by Subject page (Library Home>Articles & Databases tab>Select "Primary Sources (Newspapers)" from the drop-down box).  Once you are in the database, enter keywords in the search box to locate scanned copies of newspaper articles.  For help designing your search query, please view these training videos or contact the UI&U Library.

We hope you enjoy using this rich collection of primary resources.

ProQuest. (n.d.). Centuries of Discovery Online: ProQuest Historical Newspapers [Brochure]. Retrieved from http://www.proquest.com/assets/literature/products/databases/HNP.pdf