Con Library Study Break April 10 and Tiny Ref Desk Concert April 12

We hope you will be able to join us for and help get the word out about two events at the Con Library this week:

  • Wednesday April 10, 4pm we have Melodies on the Menu (with Snacks!) study break. This is in conjunction with our current student-curated exhibit, “Melodies on the Menu” featuring music inspired by food or cooking. Emily Dickinson’s black cake recipe, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pot roast recipe, and composer Erberk Eryilmaz’s “collection of love songs all using dairy to rhyme or to describe emotions.”
  • Friday April 12 at noon we have a Tiny Ref Desk Concert featuring Damian Goggans, guitar, performing works by Villa-Lobos, Goggans, and Brouwer. The concert will be streamed on Instagram @obieconlib.

Con Library Events – Study Break April 10 and Tiny Ref Desk Concert April 12

We hope you will be able to join us for and help get the word out about two events at the Con Library this week:

  • Wednesday April 10, 4pm we have Melodies on the Menu (with Snacks!) study break. This is in conjunction with our current student-curated exhibit, “Melodies on the Menu” featuring music inspired by food or cooking. Emily Dickinson’s black cake recipe, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pot roast recipe, and composer Erberk Eryilmaz’s “collection of love songs all using dairy to rhyme or to describe emotions.”
  • Friday April 12 at noon we have a Tiny Ref Desk Concert featuring Damian Goggans, guitar, performing works by Villa-Lobos, Goggans, and Brouwer. The concert will be streamed on Instagram @obieconlib.

Art Librarian Position posted

Please share the word about this important position on any appropriate listservs or other groups you may belong to–and, of course, with any potential candidates:

Open Date: 04/09/2024
Close Date:
Open Until Filled? Yes
If the position is to remain open there may be no close date.

URL: https://jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/15089

Current Posting Status: Posted

Title:  Art Librarian
Position Number: C16118
Posting Number: APS150986PS
Department:  Art Library

Job Summary: 

Oberlin College Libraries seek an enthusiastic, innovative, and highly competent Art Librarian to manage the collections of the Clarence Ward Art Library and serve as subject specialist. The Art Library serves the Allen Memorial Art Museum, the departments of art history and studio art, and the campus as a whole. The Art Librarian is part of a dynamic team of librarians providing research support and instruction to the Oberlin community through collaborative efforts around collection development, information literacy, programming, and outreach.
The ideal candidate will possess a strong service-oriented approach to assisting library patrons and the ability to work productively with patrons at all levels. We are looking for a librarian who thinks strategically and can present a clear vision for the direction of the Art Library, while working collaboratively and collegially with colleagues and faculty
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are integral to all functions of Oberlin College Libraries. Oberlin is dedicated to building a culturally diverse and pluralistic staff committed to working in an environment in which “great minds do not think alike.” We encourage underrepresented groups, including people of color, individuals with disabilities, and LGBTIA+ individuals to apply.

The position operates in coordination with others in the research and instruction group and the Associate Director for Public Services to ensure consistent access services and outstanding user experience across Oberlin libraries. The position also contributes to planning, policy development, resource management, and decision-making as a member of the Libraries’ leadership team.

 

Welcome to Clint Baugess, Information Literacy and Assessment Librarian

Clint has been hired as the Information Literacy and Assessment Librarian starting June 17. An Ohio native, he completed his BA at the College of Wooster and his MLS at Indiana University Bloomington. For the last several years, he has worked in Gettysburg, PA, as an academic librarian, coordinating a library instruction program and building peer learning and internship programs for undergraduates. He’s excited to join everyone at Oberlin in a few weeks.

Beyond library life, Clint is into hiking, kayaking, gardening, reading fantasy and science fiction, visiting historic sites, and watching true crime and period pieces with strong female leads (according to Netflix).

Congratulations, Clint!

New Role for Zeb Wimsatt as Collections and User Experience Librarian

On April 15, Zeb Wimsatt joins the core reference team in the Terrell Main Library as the Collections and User Experience Librarian. Before joining the staff at OCL, Zeb worked as a children’s librarian in New England, where they grew up. Outside of work, Zeb plays horror sound effects on WOBC, looks for mushrooms and flowers, writes fiction, and maintains an uneasy alliance with the elderly chiweenie Pigeon-bird-of-my-heart. Also, as half of Greensand Books, Zeb prepares papercut decorations for books handbound by their partner Bess—you can sometimes find them tabling at local markets. Congratulations, Zeb!

Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library

NYTimes article that is creepy and interesting:

Of the roughly 20 million books in Harvard University’s libraries, one has long exerted a unique dark fascination, not for its contents, but for the material it was reputedly bound in: human skin.

For years, the volume — a 19th-century French treatise on the human soul — was brought out for show and tell, and sometimes, according to library lore, used to haze new employees. In 2014, the university drew jokey news coverage around the world with the announcement that it had used new technology to confirm that the binding was in fact human skin….

Update on Hachette vs. Internet Archive

David Hansen and Kyle Courtney have written a rapid reaction post to the publishers’ reply brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive. Their post identifies a few critical issues that the publishers focus on in their brief, including some questionable fairuse analysis. Much of the brief is framed in heated rhetoric that may cause alarm, but much like publishers’ announcements about interlibrary loan, e-reserves, or document delivery in the past. They argue instead that controlled digital lending is here to stay, regardless of the lower court’s poor copyright analysis and current publisher’s brief. Have a read!

https://kylecourtney.com/publishers-reply-brief-in-hachette-v-internet-archive-first-impressions/