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The university library system has holdings of over 4 million volumes and 70,000 periodicals. The average circulation is around 451,815 items and 116,532 reference transactions. The University of Cincinnati is a member of the Association of Research Libraries and the OhioLINK consortium of libraries. Walter C. Langsam Library (main library)
Cincinnati's public library was among the first to try providing service to patrons on Sunday. Starting in March 1871, the reading rooms at the main library were open from 8am to 10pm. Sunday library service was so popular that, according to library director William F. Poole, "often during the afternoon and evenings every seat has been occupied ...
The Old Main closed on 27 January 1955, after 85 years as the main library of Cincinnati. [1] [6] The New Main opened four days later, on 31 January 1955. [1] The "New Main" is located two blocks away from where the Old Main stood. Demolition of the Old Main began on 1 March 1955 and was carried out by the Cleveland Wrecking Company.
The Oakland Public Library is the public library in Oakland, California. Opened in 1878, the Oakland Public Library currently serves the city of Oakland, along with neighboring smaller cities Emeryville and Piedmont. The Oakland Public Library has the largest collection of any public library in the East Bay, featuring approximately 1.5 million ...
The library is also serviced by GALILEO, a program of the University System of Georgia which stands for "GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online". This program offers residents in supported libraries access to over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. It also boasts over 10,000 journal titles in full text. [4]
The Bearcat statue near the main entrance of Fifth Third Arena on University of Cincinnati campus was erected in 2010. Origins of the UC Bearcat mascot trace back to a 1914 football game between ...
Cincinnati Bearcats (recreational athletics) Armory Fieldhouse is an on-campus facility located at the University of Cincinnati . It was built in 1954 to replace the old Schmidlapp Gymnasium, and originally was used as the home for the Bearcats men's basketball team, who opened the building with a 97–65 win over Indiana on December 18, 1954.
Van Wormer Library, part of the University of Cincinnati campus, is a classical architecture-style library building designed by Samuel Hannaford in 1899, and opened on May 1, 1901. Funding was provided by Asa Van Wormer with $50,000 worth of street railroad capital stock in memory of his late wife, who died October 4, 1878.