The library hours for Hardin Library have been reduced slightly during the Fall Semester. This decrease was made necessary by the budget cuts that affected the entire University and in particular the cut in the student employment budget. In deciding which hours to reduce, Hardin staff members examined gate statistics to minimize the impact on our users. Hardin’s 24-hour study will continue to remain open throughout the year to provide a study area for students around the clock.
Fall Hours
Sunday: Noon to 10:00 p.m.
Monday-Thursday: 7:30 a.m. to Midnight
Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
24-hour study available after building closes
The construction now underway on the Health Campus has provided our users and staff members with some new challenges, as the temporary pathways that lead to and from the building seem to vary on a daily basis. Eventually, new and pleasant pedestrian walkways will provide more direct routes. In the meantime, users with disabilities or making deliveries to the Hardin Library should make use of the buzzer/intercom on the North side of the building to ask one of the staff members to allow them entrance from Newton Road. In the long term, Hardin staff members are working with a campus architect to design and install another permanent entrance on the first floor to provide for more convenient access to the building.
Chris Shaffer
Chris Shaffer began his new position as Assistant Director, Public Services at the Hardin Library on September 9, 2002. Mr. Shaffer comes to the University of Iowa from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he held various public service positions in the Library of the Health Sciences. For the past six years, Mr. Shaffer has been the Technology Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region, which is headquartered at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In this role, he provided outreach and training services to health sciences librarians and other health professionals in a ten-state area of the Midwest. Mr. Shaffer has expertise in technology and user education. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Texas A&M, and a Master of Science degree in Information Science from the University of North Texas.
Anne Gehringer
Anne Gehringer, Reference & Education Librarian, comes to the Hardin Library with a background in the health sciences, including a Master’s Degree in Audiology from the University of Iowa. After completing her Clinical Fellowship Year in Audiology, Ms. Gehringer enrolled in the UI School of Library and Information Science where she was a recipient of the Dr. John Martin Scholarship for Health Sciences Librarianship. She holds an undergraduate degree in Hearing and Speech Sciences from Ohio University and received her M.A. in Library and Information Science in 2001. Immediately prior to her present position, Ms. Gehringer served in a temporary capacity as Reference and Instruction Librarian at the Hardin Library. We are please to welcome her to the library in her new permanent position.
Denise Britigan
Before receiving her Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from the U of I in 2002, Ms. Britigan spent over 12 years as a medical technologist and research assistant. She received her B.S. degree in Medical Technology from Saint Louis University after which she held numerous positions in St. Louis, Los Angeles, Providence, and Durham, finally settling in Iowa City where she remains very active within the community. She was employed as a student assistant at the Hardin Library during the 2000/2001 school year before serving as a practicum student with us last Spring. She begins her duties at the Hardin Library as Reference & Education Librarian in October.
David Rubright
Beginning September 5 as Technical Supervisor, Information Commons, David Rubright is responsible for providing building-wide technical support. He will contribute to technology planning at Hardin and will supervise Information Commons student assistant staff members. David has extensive experience with Windows and Macintosh hardware and software. In his most recent position, Dave served as an award-winning computer-based instructional developer, server administrator and technology instructor at the College of Dentistry. A long-time resident of the area, he holds several advanced degrees from the University of Iowa, including a B.F.A. in studio art, an M.A. in fine art, an M.F.A. in multimedia and video art, and an M.A. in instructional design & technology. His commitment to public service and enhancing the “end-user experience” is well known in health sciences technology circles. One of his first official tasks at Hardin is a mighty one–coordinating the replacement of more than 100 computers throughout the Information Commons and its electronic classrooms. Hardin Library staff members are delighted to have Dave join their team.
Plagiarism in the 17th Century!
The John Martin Rare Book Room recently acquired the first edition of William Cowper’s The anatomy of humane bodies (1698), one of the most controversial books in the history of medicine. Cowper (1666-1709), a renowned British surgeon and anatomist used copies of the 114 elegant plates already published by Govard Bidloo (1649-1713) in his Anatomia humani corporis (1685). On the frontispiece to his new book, Cowper pasted his own name over Bidloo’s, translated the Latin text into English, corrected some of the descriptions, and sold the book as his own. Cowper argued that the plates were originally published for yet a third author who had already died before Bidloo’s book was published and were, therefore, free for Cowper to use. Bidloo then brought Cowper before the Royal Society where he was forced to defend himself with somewhat mixed results. The John Martin Rare Book room owns both Bidloo’s and Cowper’s works as well as a fascinating rejoinder that Cowper wrote to Bidloo to defend his actions.
To compare the frontispieces of the two works, click here.
For more information about the John Martin Rare Book Room please visit the website at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/rbr/ or contact Ed Holtum, Assistant Director for Administrative Services and Special Collections, at 335-9154 or edwin-holtum@uiowa.edu.
Richard Eimas, longtime Curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room retired on June 30 after serving the University Libraries and the Hardin Library for over 28 years. During his tenure, Mr. Eimas worked closely with Dr. John Martin to help build the Library’s rare book collection into one of the finest in the country. He also compiled and edited the third edition of “Heirs of Hippocrates,” a 700 page annotated book catalog that describes the major works in the collection. This important volume has justly attained status as an authoritative and scholarly sourcebook for the study of the history of medicine and is used by scholars throughout the world. Mr. Eimas remains an active member of the prestigious Osler Society and has presented several papers to this group in the last decade. We wish him well as he begins this new phase of his life.
Hardin Library’s Website, Exhibit, and Contest
A Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) is a simple computer that can literally be held in the palm of your hand. Introduced in the mid 1990’s, PDA’s were used primarily as date and address books. In the ensuing decade, the ways in which these devices have been used has grown exponentially, and many professions, including the health care professions, now embrace them.
The Hardin Library has a new exhibit on display all about PDA’s. Highlighting the development of the PDA and the use of PDA’s in the health professions, the exhibit also provides information on the library’s PDA website. Included on the website is information on hardware, software, and local resources for PDA use. To promote both the exhibit and the website, the library is offering a contest. By simply going to our PDA website and answering a few simple questions about your PDA use, you can enter to win one of four prizes:
Please stop in to enjoy the exhibit, and check out the website at: http://ww.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/pda_index.html
Once again, Hardin Library will be offering an assortment of workshops to help patrons become more familiar with the library’s resources. All sessions are free and open to members of the University of Iowa community. Classes offered include sessions on basic and advanced Ovid-Online searching, Web of Science, EndNote 5.0, and Evidence-Based Medicine Resources. In addition, a new class entitled Introduction to Electronic Resources will be offered to introduce library users to some of the most frequently used electronic resources. Topics to be covered include using the library catalog, accessing electronic journals, and searching the Ovid-Online databases.
Registration for all sessions can be done using the online registration form available at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/regform.html or by stopping by the Information Desk. Additional workshops will be added later in the semester. The complete schedule of classes can be found at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/education.html
Electronic access to the Cell Press journals and Science was made available this summer as a result of a partnership between Hardin Library, The College of Medicine Administration, and the Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Physiology and Biophysics. The Cell Press journals include Cell, Immunity, Neuron, Cancer Cell, Developmental Cell, Molecular Cell, Structure and Current Biology. Links to these titles can be found on the Hardin Library web site at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/ej. These prominent titles along with Science are very important to a wide range of biomedical faculty, staff, and students across the campus and Hardin Library is very grateful to its partners in this collaboration.
The University Libraries are committed to acquiring access to electronic resources and currently subscribes to over 12,000 electronic journals. A full list of electronic journals available though the Libraries is available at http://infolink.lib.uiowa.edu/e-journals/. New titles and publisher packages are continually under review and suggestions or comments about our holdings are always welcome. These can be submitted through the Hardin Library web site or directly to Hope Barton (hope-barton@uiowa.edu, 335-9161).
Access to MD Consult (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/mdconsult/) has been changed and no longer requires preliminary registration and entry of a username and password at login. We are very happy to have successfully negotiated this simplified access with the publisher.
As with other Hardin Library electronic resources, when accessing MD Consult from an off-campus computer you will be prompted for your University ID. For those of you who have customized your MD Consult features, these are still available to you by clicking "Member Sign-In" on Hardin Library’s MD Consult page (above) and entering your registered username and password at the "Member Log On" screen.
