Check out the delectable photos in the Gallery of Entries in the 1st Annual Oberlin Edible Book Festival earlier this month. Over 175 participants/viewers/eaters. And thanks again to everyone who made it possible!
Author: VALERIE HOTCHKISS
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:
Welcome to Clint Baugess, Information Literacy and Assessment Librarian
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!
The City of Oberlin Appreciates Library Workers!
Thanks, Eboni, for seeing this proclamation through City Council!
Hope the image comes through!
Congrats to all,
Valerie
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….
Adam Matthew new collection – British Newstreets
6,420 short blank and white silent films from Adam Matthew Explorer collections on British Newstreets, 1911-1930: Culture and Society were just added to OBIS and Summon. (It will take a few days to see them in Summon until they are indexed.)
The collection can be found via OBIS at https://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b9767224
Enjoy!
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/