What's New at the UCC Library?

This week's hints:

• A celestial event that occurs twice a year, once in the southern hemisphere, and once in the northern hemisphere on Earth.
• During this event, it is the longest day of the year. 
• Culturally, there are variations on how to celebrate this da, but most cultures recognize this event around the theme of fertility.

• Hint 1: A human-powered or motor-assisted vehicle with two wheels.
• Hint 2: Invented in Europe during the 19th century.
• Hint 3: A popular physical activity as well as a sustainable alternative to internal combustion engine vehicles.

Bonus: The UN promotes the usage of this vehicle on June 3rd, for it’s benefits to both human and environmental health.

All UCC Library Items Are Due

June 14th, 2024.

Do you have a ECE textbook, calculator, and/or laptop computer? Do you hate being charged fees? Then return your library items by June 14th, 2024.

• Hint 1: This insect has five eyes, one on either side of their head and three on top.
• Hint 2: These insects communicate with each other through dance.
• Hint 3: A variety of this insect pollinates approximately one third of the food we eat.

Bonus: The U.N. proclaimed May 20th as a day to acknowledge the role this insect has on our ecosystems.

This week's hints:

• The protector of the dead in ancient Egypt. 
• Credited in mythology for creating embalming and mummification. 
• In Egyptian mythology, would escort the deceased into the afterlife. 

With week's hints

• A Roman general and statesman
• Became a dictator in 49 BCE until his assassination in 44 BCE, which was made famous in a Shakespearean play. 
• When he was dictator of Rome, he created a calendar and named it after himself. It  would be used in Europe until 1582, but is still used by the Eastern Orthodox Church. 

This week's hints:

• A Greek poet who is credited to have authored two well known epics.
• Both of his epic poems feature a legendary king named Odysseus. 
• In Dante's Inferno, he is referred to as the "Poet Sovereign" and Alexander Pope considered him to be the "greatest of poets."

Library Poetry Hour

April 25th at 3pm at the UCC Library 

Click here to register.

In ancient Rome, recitationes were a literary practice that involved one or more public readings of a text by the author.

Tomorrow, April 25th at 3pm, the UCC Library will be hosting our own recitationes with our second poetry hour. Come to recite your own work or a favorite. Don't want to share? Come and listen. This event is not exclusive to poetry, come and share a short story or essay instead. 

Need help finding a poem? Click here to access the LitFinder database. Simply type in an author or the word "poetry" and start exploring. 

Above painting: Catullus Reading His Poems to Friends by Stephan Bakalowicz

 How to Use the UCC Library Catalog 

This 19th century artistic rendering of the Library of Alexandria by O. Von Corven, shows that the ancient library has a lot in common with modern libraries found across the world, including at UCC. Stacks of books surround busy readers shuffling through pages, a librarian taking some items down from a bookcase while an eager reader awaits below. Also like UCC, the Library of Alexandria was a research institution, which means that its main focus was on academic inquiry instead of pleasure reading. While this ancient library and our modern one function in a similar way, many things have changed in the field of librarianship. Such as how we catalog our collections, and how our patrons access those collections. Currently, the UCC library uses the Dewey Decimal System, and while we don't have a physical card catalog, we do have a digital one. Read below for steps on how to access and use this catalog. 

• To access the UCC catalog, first visit our website by clicking here.
• Then click on "Databases." A drop down menu will appear, then click on "Library Catalog" on the bottom of the menu. 
• You should see a page that looks like the image below. Type your inquiry in the search bar. This could be a keyword, author name, or title. There are other options in the drop down menu. 

• Lets say that you want to find a book on the Library of Alexandria. After typing that subject in to the search bar and hitting enter, there will be a display of titles with that key word in the record. 

• From here, click on a title that seems to fit your interest. For this example, lets look at the fourth title. 

• If we had a card catalog, this is the information that would be displayed on this item's card. But where is this book located in the library collection? For that we look at the Dewey Decimal Number, or call number, on the bottom of the record. For this item, the call number is "027 BAT." 

• Take this number and find the same number in the bookcases in the library. The collection is ordered from 000 to 999, with the 000's being towards the front of the building. If you get lost, that's okay. Ask a library staffer for help.  

• Here is the book on the shelf. Note how the other call numbers are in order. 
• You have read the book, but you don't want to check it out. That's okay, instead of putting it back on the shelf, we ask that you instead put it on one of these carts, or hand it to a library staffer to re-shelve. 

• Hint 1: Not from the ancient world, but some of his plays take place in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. 
• Hint 2: One of his more popular plays is a comedy that takes place in Athens.
• Hint 3: Died on April 23rd, after a successful career as a writer in London.