Hardin News

• Hardin 30th Anniversary Open House
  Video, Photographs & More

• Meet Our Newest Staff Member - Welcome Kathy!

• Electronic Resources Update
  E-Books for Nursing
  New Electronic Journals Available

• Check out a CD-ROM or DVD

• Put Articles on the Web with Electronic Reserves

• Ask A Librarian - Introducing Live Reference Health

• Google Scholar (beta) - Stand on the shoulders of giants

• Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room: Changing Medicine in a Heartbeat

• The Hardin Library Browsing Collection

• NIH Open Access Proposed Rule

• Hardin Library Director Selected as Mentor in the Leadership Fellows Program

The Hardin Library celebrated its 30th anniversary on October 6, 2004 with speakers, a video, music and refreshments. Over eighty people heard President Skorton make remarks about Dr. Hardin and the Hardin Library professionals. A video entitled “Reflections on Hardin Library 1974-2004” was also featured. President Skorton’s remarks, photographs, and the video are still available on the Web site if you were unable to attend the celebration.

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Hardin Library for the Health Sciences - A Photographic History

New@Hardin article from September 2004 announcing the Open House Celebration

Kathryn Skhal joined the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences on October 5, 2004 as Reference and Education Librarian. She is involved in reference and consultation services, Hardin Housecalls and curriculum education. She has an interest in the influence of emerging technologies on library services.

Prior to working at the University of Iowa, Kathryn was a library assistant at the Carlson Health Sciences Library, University of California, Davis. At UC Davis, she administered interlibrary loans and commercial document delivery services and worked on the circulation and reference desks. As a research assistant, she was involved in the publication of Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences, which was dedicated to her by the author.

Kathryn recently received her M.S. in Library and Information Science through the LEEP distance-learning program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has B.S. degrees in Anthropology and Psychology from the University of California, Davis. She has been very active professionally, presenting and serving on panels at regional and national conferences.

We are happy to have Kathy join the staff of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences and the University Libraries.

Below is a list of electronic books for Nursing. These are restricted to University of Iowa students, faculty and staff. Try them out!

Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 10th ed. (2004)

Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses - 9th ed. (2005)

Delmar’s Fundamental and Advanced Nursing Skills, 2nd ed. (2004)
Dictionary of Nursing, 4th ed. (2003) (in Oxford Reference Online)

Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual, 2nd ed. (2002)

A Nurse’s Guide to Cancer Care, 1st ed. (2000)

Nurse’s Pocket Guide: Diagnosis, Interventions, and Rationales, 9th ed. (2004)

Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, 5th ed. (2001)

We have been busy adding electronic access to current print subscriptions as well as adding some entirely new titles with online access only! Many of these titles were faculty requests and others had high instances of Interlibrary Loan. You can access these by going to the Alphabetical List of Electronic Journals at http://infolink.lib.uiowa.edu/e-journals/

Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics
Ear and Hearing
Gait & Posture
Genetic Testing
International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
JNCI Cancer Spectrum
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Journal of Dental Research
Journal of Electromyography & Kinesiology
Journal of Immunology
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
Journal of Palliative Medicine
Journal of Shoulder & Elbow Surgery
Journal of Urology
Nursing Research
Obesity Research
Obesity Surgery
Thorax
Quality & Safety in Health Care

Hardin patrons are now able to check-out CD-ROM and DVD titles in the Information Commons collection. These items have a loan period of one week. Many of these items accompany new books and others are standalone titles to be used by themselves. All items are cataloged in InfoHawk, the Libraries online catalog (http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/uiowa) and have a location of Hardin Library for Health Sci Commons East Desk.

We are always interested in recommendations for this collection and they can be submitted via our web site at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/purchase.html

Introducing Live Reference Health - chat online with a librarian Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Get help now: 

• Live Reference Health: Chat interactively with a health sciences librarian from Iowa, Utah, Colorado, Missouri, North Dakota or Hawaii.
• Call 335-9151 or visit the reference desk for assistance (hours).

Get help soon:

• Email your question to us. You should receive a response within 24 hours.
• Schedule a free research consultation.
• Request a literature search

Google Scholar will help you locate a wide variety of peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. It’s very easy to use and ranks results based on citations. Google’s nifty new search service is in public beta test, which means there are lots of new features coming soon, and it doesn’t always work as expected. For example, there isn’t any way to limit to peer-reviewed articles or sort results. Some links take you right to the full article, book or report, while others lead to an abstract. Your access to electronic journals and books will be limited if you are off-campus. Be sure to check the University Libraries electronic journals, electronic books and library catalog before pulling out your credit card to pay for things you find in Google Scholar. We’re very excited about this new service and will share information with you as it develops.

Please read The Debut of Google Scholar in Hardin Scholarly Communication News for more information on Google Scholar.

Changing Medicine in a Heartbeat

Réné Laënnec (1781-1826). Traité de l’Auscultation Médiate , Paris, 1819.

The stethoscope is so familiar an object, it is somewhat surprising that it did not arrive on the scene until 1816. In fact, if it had not been for a fear of breaching 19th century etiquette, we might have had to wait even longer for its appearance. While the noises of the chest had long been linked to certain conditions, it was not until Réné Laënnec, a Paris physician, was confronted with a patient who, “…owing to her stoutness little information could be gathered by application of the hand and percussion. The patient’s age and sex did not permit me to resort to the kind of examination I have just described (i.e., direct application of the ear to the chest.)”. Recollecting that children often listen to noises through hollow logs, Leannec rolled up several sheets of paper to form a tube and found to his delight that he could hear better with his new invention than he could with the ear alone. After a good deal of experimenting, Leannec produced a wooden instrument with which he learned to discern the significance of the various sounds which he described in great detail. His descriptions were so keen that they retain their accuracy and authority to the present day. Laënnec published his findings in Traité de l’Auscultation Médiate in 1819 in two volumes. The copy in the John Martin Rare Book room is particularly well preserved and includes the many folding plates illustrating Laennec’s invention that quickly became the fundamental diagnostic tool we recognize today.

Click here to view larger images of Traité de l’Auscultation Médiate.

We read to know we are not alone.
–C.S. Lewis

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested.
– Francis Bacon

As you enter the library on the third floor, take the first turn to the left and you’ll pass the Hardin Library Browsing Collection, a shelf-full of books by such disparate authors as, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, E.B. White, and William Carlos Williams. The books all have one thing in common: they are works from the humanities, arts, social sciences, and religion that are directly or indirectly related to the healing arts. While many of the books are duplicated in the Main Library or in the Hardin stacks, this smaller assemblage offers an opportunity for users to browse books they might not otherwise encounter. All of the books may be checked out by staff and students. The initial funding and book drive for the browsing collection was provided by the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society around 20 years ago. Since that time, the collection has grown through both formal and informal donations which are always welcome. The next time you find yourself in the library, take a few minutes to glance at some of these classic works – you may find yourself coming back often.

Recent additions to the Browsing Collection

• What patients taught me: a medical student’s journey, by Audrey Young [R729.5 .R87Y68 2004]
• Mountains beyond mountains, by Tracy Kidder [R154 .F36K53 2003]
• Complications: a surgeon’s notes on an imperfect science, by Atul Gawande [RD27.35 .G39A3 2002]
• The Doctor’s quotation book: a medical miscellany, by Robert Wilkins [R705 .D63 1992]