News@Hardin Table of Contents, May 2003
May 19th, 2003 by UI Libraries
Leave the Cords Behind and Go Wireless at Hardin!
May 19th, 2003 by UI Libraries
Bring your wireless laptop to Hardin and you can use the Internet everywhere. Try it in the book stacks, the study cubicles, even the bathrooms! Hardin Library is now a campus Wireless Zone. Have questions? Ask in the Information Commons, call the ITS Help Desk at 4-HELP or see http://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/wireless/ .
What, you say you don’t have a wireless laptop? Try one of ours! Starting this summer, wireless laptops will be available at the Circulation/Reserve Desk for use in the library. If you already own a laptop and want to test wireless access all over campus, check out a wireless network card for three days. (Wireless laptop and network card checkout not yet available. Some restrictions may apply.)
See Hardin Library’s handout "Wireless Zone" (in PDF)
Improving Narrated PowerPoint Lectures
May 19th, 2003 by UI Libraries
Scott Fiddelke, Digital Media Projects Manager at Hardin Library’s Information Commons, has received a $4,865 grant from the Innovations in Instructional Computing Award. His project, titled "A Simple Online Lecture Delivery Solution" was selected from among 24 entries submitted to the Academic Technologies Advisory Council.
The project involves creation of a tool that will simplify and make more flexible the process of creating narrated lectures for web delivery. In addition, the "student experience" promises to improve when viewing an online lecture created under this tool.
During Fall 2003 semester, Scott will be asked to participate in a campus-wide meeting to share his project results alongside other award recipients. For more information about the project, please contact him at 335-6955 or scott-fiddelke@uiowa.edu.
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room
May 19th, 2003 by UI Libraries
Pietro da Cortona Imgages
The Hardin Library has recently completed a project that allows a series of early 17th century anatomical images to be viewed from anywhere on the globe. Pietro da Cortona, a noted Italian painter and architect of the high baroque renaissance fashioned a superb series of 27 drawings around 1618 that were later expertly engraved by Luca Ciamberlano. The plates lay unpublished for more than a century until assembled into an atlas and printed in 1741 as Tabulae Anatomicae. The John Martin Rare Book Room at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences owns a well-preserved copy of the work and recently, the images were scanned at high resolution by staff members of the Information Commons for placement on the World Wide Web. The images can be viewed in varying degrees of magnification so that the viewer can gain an appreciation of the close-up beauty and artistry of the original drawings. The new offering is the second of a series of images to be mounted in this fashion, the first being the magnificent color lithographs of Mascagni’s Anatomia Universa.
The Web site was designed and developed by Christy Stevens, an Information Commons Graduate Assistant studying Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Other contributors to the development of the site include Ed Holtum, Head of the John Martin Rare Book Room; Scott Fiddelke, Digital Media Project Manager; and Jim Duncan, Coordinator, Information Commons & Electronic Services.
You may view the Web site at: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/rbr/imaging/cortona/
You may be required to download a small plug-in to view the images.
Elizabeth Blackwell Exhibit
May 18th, 2003 by UI Libraries
The struggle of women to become doctors began when Elizabeth Blackwell was accepted to the Medical College of Geneva in New York in the 1840’s. At that time, the idea of a woman physician was a scandal, but through a great deal of determination and hard work, women began to carve out a place for themselves in the M.D.’s world.
The Hardin Library has a new exhibit on display in the third floor exhibit area (by the browsing journals). On loan from National Library of Medicine is a wall display on Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female physician. This display can also be seen online at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/blackwell/
Accompanying the wall display is a small exhibit on the history of women in medicine in Iowa. The exhibit will be up until the second week of July.
Hardin Library’s Education Program Makes House Calls!
May 18th, 2003 by UI Libraries
Interested in a "Learning at Lunch" workshop? Or, looking for a Librarian to come and share information that will save you time, frustration and make your literature searches more efficient and effective? Just gather your colleagues together at a time and place that works for you, invite us, and we’ll be there! You and your associates are encouraged to select a learning session from the list of skills workshops that we offer and we will customize the session for your area of interest. Or, let us know if there is an area of interest that you’d like us to develop together.
We offer: Medline via OVID, CINAHL via OVID, PubMed, Web of Science, Introduction to Electronic Resources for the Health Sciences, Evidence Based Medicine Resources, and more!
Call the Hardin Education Coordinator at 335-7636, or e-mail: lib-hardin@uiowa.edu and we’ll sign you up for the summer!
