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Starting Monday, 2/24/2014, the circulation desk at Bierce Library will accept credit cards. Patrons will be able to purchase jumpdrives, pay fines and add money to ZipCards using Visa, MasterCard, Discover, JCB, Diners Club International, and American Express. Cards will only be accepted as credit, not as debit cards.
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Guess How Many?
We just dismantled The Race Card Project whiteboard installation. Participation was great!
Can you guess how many cards were up there?
Answer: 174
Vic Fleischer will join a select group of other UA leaders in The UniverCity Community Leadership Institute (UCLI), a new program developed by The University of Akron in partnership with Leadership Akron. This leadership development program will benefit the campus and greater Akron community by building relationships between campus and community leaders and the organizations they serve. The program will begin in early February and continue throughout the Spring 2014 semester.
WKSU’s Kabir Bhatia reports on the University of Akron’s “Rethinking Race” week and highlights the The Race Card Project at Bierce. Access Services Student Assistant Will Carter is featured.
Click here for the story: http://www.wksu.org/news/story/38223
University of Akron alumnus Mickey Wittman
is heralded as “The Father of Sports Aerial Broadcasting.”
Hear him talk about:
“Sports Broadcasting from Every Angle”
Thursday, Feb. 13, at 3:30 p.m.
The University of Akron’s Daum Theatre in Kolbe Hall.
Lecture followed by
reception, refreshments, historic Goodyear displays
and tours of the UA School of Communication’s
WZIP-FM, Z-TV, and Social Media Learning Lab.
FREE.
Reservations not required but strongly suggested:
330-972-7600 or scom@uakron.edu
Park for free beginning at 3 p.m. in UA’s East Parking Deck off Route 8.
Directions to Daum Theatre and Kolbe Hall are here.
Sponsors:
Goodyear and The University of Akron’s
School of Communication and Archival Services of the University Libraries.
The University of Akron Archival Services, a division of University Libraries, is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition on the photography of Opie Evans at the Dr. Shirla R. McClain Gallery of Akron’s Black History and Culture with an opening reception on February 10th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Evans was a local reporter, broadcaster, publisher, and businessman and one of the earliest African-American photographers in Akron. His photography documents the local African-American community in addition to other segments of the city’s population from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s.
The exhibit, which is titled “This is Akron with Opie Evans: The Rubber City as Seen through the Lens of One of Its Earliest African-American Photographers,” will feature 58 photographs from Mr. Evans’ catalogue that capture the work and leisure of Akronites—particularly African-Americans—from every walk of life from the end of the Second World War through the civil rights era. This includes leaders, politicians, and professionals in addition to the indigent and working class. The images are from Evans’ collection that is part of the extensive holdings of Archival Services.
The exhibit, which was guest curated by S. Victor Fleischer, University Archivist, Head of Archival Services, and Associate Professor of Bibliography, is a collaboration between the McClain Gallery, the Pan-African Center for Community Studies, and Archival Services of University Libraries. According to Fleischer, “the photographs are incredibly significant as they visually document an important and transitional time in the city’s and the nation’s history and capture a segment of the local population that is seldom documented elsewhere.”
The Dr. Shirla R. McClain Gallery of Akron’s Black History and Culture is located in the Buckingham Building at The University of Akron. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and admission is free to the public. Further information about the Gallery can be obtained at http://www.uakron.edu/ie/offices/.
The Opie Evans Papers and other historical resources on local African-American history and the history of the region are available by visiting Archival Services located in Room LL10 of the Polsky Building. Business hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Additional information about Archival Services and its collections can be accessed on the department’s website at http://www.uakron.edu/libraries/archives.
February 7, 2014
The UL is partnering with the School of Communications for Candid Conversations with Dr. Lin on Friday, February 7th at 11am in Einsteins. Dr. Lin, who teaches intercultural communication at UA, will use submissions from The Race Card Project display in Bierce lobby to start conversations about race, ethnicity and identity. Please join us!
February 10, 2014
The opening of the exhibit “This is Akron with Opie Evans: The Rubber City as Seen through the Lens of One of Its Earliest African-American Photographers” at the McClain Gallery of Akron’s Black History and Culture. Reception on February 10th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The exhibit is a partnership between the McClain Gallery, Pan-African Center for Community Studies and Archival Services of University Libraries.
February 14, 2014
Lisa Lazar will be hosting Different faces, different films: examining the portrayal of race in different types of film and exploring race-related film resources at Bierce Library on Friday, February 14th from 10-11:30am in room 154 in Bierce Library. The session is open to both faculty and students.
The UL sponsored Rethinking Race Film Festival, as well as the Bierce Film series, will continue through Friday February 14.
For more information about Rethinking Race activities on campus, see http://www.uakron.edu/race/
OARnet scheduled maintenance Feb. 5 from 8-10pm
OARnet will be making equipment upgrades. This may result in two short interruptions in access to the OhioLINK website, shared catalog, database lists and other web services. OARnet expects that these interruptions will last 1 minute or less.
Archival Services, a division of University Libraries, is pleased to announce the successful completion of a
grant to digitize, preserve and to make available online 153 historic technical reports from the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute, which was a part of the University’s College of Engineering from 1929 to 1949. The digitized reports, which are available online as fully searchable PDF documents, can be accessed at http://cdm15960.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15960coll3.
The institute was operated by The University of Akron from 1929 to 1949 and was a partnership with the California Institute of Technology, the Daniel Guggenheim Fund, and the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation in Akron, Ohio. Experiments conducted at the institute focused on the effects of turbulence and drag on airship hulls as well as meteorological observations. The technical reports are a valuable source of information that primarily document research in lighter-than-air flight, heavier-than-air flight, meteorology, aerodynamics, and G-force measurements that was conducted at the institute. The reports are frequently used by students, historians, scholars, lighter-than-air enthusiasts, and researchers for a variety of research projects.
This project was supported in part by a nine-month $1,980 National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Grant that was awarded last April through the Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board (OHRAB). Additional funding was provided by the University. UA gratefully acknowledges the support of these bodies.
The Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute Records and other historical resources on the history of lighter-than-air flight and local history are available by visiting Archival Services located in Room LL10 of the Polsky Building. Business hours are Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm. Additional information about Archival Services and its collections can be accessed on the department’s website at http://www.uakron.edu/libraries/archives.