This user lives in or hails from Cincinnati. |
This user lives in the U.S. State of Ohio. |
I've been interested in local history and other Cincinnati-related articles.
I've organized local Wikipedia events for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art and Wikipedia 10 in Cincinnati.
I'm also interested in Hackerspaces and the surrounding movements and I'm a co-founder of my local hackerspace Hive13.
Another project I've worked on is mashing up the Template:Reqphoto tag with the geolocation data on Wikipedia articles using the Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates or geonames API: http://www.geonames.org/maps/wikipedia.html. My efforts so far are on my personal site: http://www.davemenninger.com/wikipedia/dashboard.php
Photos I've taken appear in these articles:
I was chosen to help with the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art project along with the Taft Museum of Art.
I'm also http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DaveMenninger
I'm going to plan on being at the Taft Museum for the Wikipedia Loves Art event / contest on this coming Sunday the 22nd from 11-12. I'm hoping I'll get a chance to meet up with other Wikipedians, photographers, and art lovers. Although this is a way to hopefully encourage participation in that project, I hope other Wikipedians will feel free to come and chat. It is not necessary to pay admission to come into the cafe portion of the Taft. Please stop by and see me! DaveMenninger ( talk) 01:00, 18 February 2009 (UTC).
my revisions of Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County:
PLCH traces its roots to a subscription library that began in 1802. On March 14, 1853, it became the Cincinnati Public Library. [1] Since its founding, the library has occupied several locations, including its current location at Eighth Street and Vine Street. [2]
For many years, the library used the Computerized Information Network for Cincinnati and Hamilton County (CINCH) as a system-wide library catalog, which connected each branch through a large number of computer terminals. Users at home were permitted to access the database via TELNET. In 2005, this system was replaced with an integrated library system (ILS) purchased from library automation vendor Sirsi, now SirsiDynix.
Beginning in 2001, budget cuts from the State of Ohio drastically reduced funding for PLCH. In July 2002, the Board of Trustees voted to close branch locations in Deer Park, Elmwood Place, Greenhills and Mount Healthy. The board later backed off on the branch closing plan after a strong negative response from citizens in the affected neighborhoods. [3]
In 2005, the library received the American Library Association's John Cotton Dana Public Relations Award.
In 2005, a state budget plan that cut spending on libraries a further five percent was passed in the Ohio House of Representatives, after being proposed by Ohio governor Bob Taft. The budget prompted the library to distribute flyers and hold rallies in Downtown Cincinnati, calling on the state to repeal the proposed cuts. [4] The cuts resulted in a periodic hiring freeze, reductions in hours, branch and department closings, and the layoff of approximately forty librarians. Librarians responded by voting to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1199 in 2006. [5]
After nine months of contentious negotiations over a union contract, the parties (SEIU and the library administration) resorted to a hearing in front of a third-party neutral negotiator, who drew up a labor contract. Librarians voted 45–1 to approve the contract. The library's Board of Trustees subsequently voted the contract down by a 7–0 vote, citing concerns over 'fair share' proposals built into the contract. After further negotiations between SEIU and attorneys for the library, the Board approved a union contract that did not include fair share. See the Agency shop article for clarification.
In 2007, the library began implementing a dramatic reorganization plan, known as ML/21 (Main Library for the 21st Century), that will lead to the creation of a Technology Center, Teen Center, a Popular Library, and a Local History and Genealogy Department. The plan also calls for the disbanding of subject departments in Art & Music, Literature & Languages, History and Genealogy, Rare Books and Special Collections, Science & Technology, Government and Business, Education & Religion, Fiction & Young Adults, and Films and Recordings. The latter two departments will comprise the new Popular Library. The History and Genealogy Department will be merged with Rare Books and Special Collections to create the aforementioned Local History and Genealogy department. The other subject departments will comprise the Information and Reference department. Approximately 24 professional positions (those holding a master's degree in Library and Information Science) are slated for elimination through attrition and reassignment. [6] [7]
In July 2007, the library agreed to join with Kirtas Technologies, Inc. to digitize rare books and make them available via Amazon.com. The plan costs the library nothing and allows it to retain full control what is digitized. Profits from sales of the digitized books are to be shared with the library. Other institutions involved in the plan include the University of Maine, Emory University in Atlanta, and the Toronto Public Library in Ontario. [8]
How much content should be brought over from http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/info/locations.asp Should I make new pages for all branches?
Cincinnati had 9 Carnegie libraries. Currently 7 are still in use as library branches: Avondale, Corryville, Hyde Park, Northside, Norwood, Price Hill, Walnut Hills http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/freepublic/carnegie.html
I might as well start on this while I'm at it.
my notes about Samuel Hannaford
memory project has a "hannaford collection": http://www.cincinnatimemory.org/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0greaterc--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=greaterc&cl=CL3.11
Hannford started his career working with Edwin Anderson (architect). The Workhouse was their biggest job together. (List taken from http://www.samuelhannaford.info/hanander2.htm)
Hannford worked with Edwin Procter on a number of buildings, most notably Music Hall. The partnership was dissolved before Music Hall was finished.
(List taken from http://www.samuelhannaford.info/hanaproc4.htm )
(Taken from http://www.samuelhannaford.info/han&sons6.htm )
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