Hardin News

Volume 5#1

“History Through Deaf Eyes” Exhibit - extended through February 23rd

Electronic Resources Update

• U of Iowa Subscription to Current Contents Cancelled as of January 1, 2006
• eJournal Search Subject Browsing Now Available
• New Electronic Journal Access!

Nursing Journals Moved from Reserve

Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room

• Heirs of Hippocrates Now Online
• Extreme Makeovers from the Sixteenth Century
  Tagliacozzi, Gaspare (1545-1599). De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, libri due. Venice, 1597.

U of Iowa Subscription to Current Contents Cancelled as of January 1, 2006

The UI Libraries has made the decision to cancel our subscription to Current Contents as of January 2006. Students and faculty have relied for many years on Current Contents to provide a simple and effective general interdisciplinary database and table-of-contents alerting service. However, there is a content overlap of 100% for Current Contents in the larger Web of Science (also an ISI product). There is also considerable overlap with PubMed. The usage of Current Contents has dropped significantly in the past several years, and it is no longer feasible to pay over $20,000 per year for 100% duplicative content, given the current UI Libraries budget environment.

We know and regret that the cancellation of Current Contents will inconvenience patrons who have used this database regularly. We are here to help you learn how to find and extract the same information and functionality you got from Current Contents through other databases. Please feel free to contact the Hardin Education Team for assistance: hlhsed@uiowa.edu, or call the Hardin Library Information Desk at 335-9151. Additionally, the California Digital Library has assembled a helpful list of how to set up alerts in other databases.

In December, the Libraries implemented the functionality to search and browse our electronic journals by subject categories. We are hoping that this will help improve access to our electronic journals and facilitate browsing of specific subject areas. Titles can appear in more than one subject area. At the URL below, you can view our list of subjects in the Health Sciences.

http://infolink.lib.uiowa.edu/sfx_local/a-z/default?perform=searchCategories&type
=browseCategory&service=&category=12170000000000213

We are interested in any feedback about this feature and its functionality. Feel free to email or call Karen Fischer at 335-8781.

We continue to add electronic access to our journals. Here is a list of the most recent titles added. To access these titles, go to: http://infolink.lib.uiowa.edu/e-journals/

American journal of rhinology
ISSN: 1050-6586
Available from 2001

Cancer informatics
ISSN: 1176-9351
Available from 2005 volume: 1 issue: 1

Clinical drug investigation
ISSN: 1173-2563
Available from 1998

Clinical Nuclear Medicine
ISSN: 0363-9762
Available from 1996 volume: 21 issue: 1

Clinical pharmacokinetics
ISSN: 0312-5963
Available from 1998

Current medicinal chemistry
ISSN: 0929-8673
Available from 2006

Evolutionary bioinformatics online
ISSN: 1176-9343
Available from 2005 volume: 1 issue: 1

Gastroenterology
ISSN: 0016-5085
Available 1995

Health affairs
ISSN: 0278-2715
Available from 1981

International psychogeriatrics
1041-6102
Available from 1989 volume: 1 issue: 1

Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
ISSN: 0146-0404
Available 1999

Journal of clinical oncology
ISSN: 0732-183X
Available from 1999

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
ISSN: 0363-8715
Available from 1996 volume: 20 issue: 1

Journal of health politics, policy and law
ISSN: 0361-6878
Available from 2000

Journal of Thoracic Imaging
ISSN: 0883-5993
Available from 2000 volume: 15 issue: 1

PLoS Pathogens
ISSN: 1553-7366
Available from 2005 volume: 1 issue: 1

Heirs of Hippocrates Now Online

We are pleased to announce that the book catalog, “Heirs of Hippocrates” last published in 1990 (3^rd edition), is now available as an online database and offered to the public on the internet at no charge.

“Heirs” is an annotated bibliography of the historic books in the John Martin Rare Book Room and has become a source of authority for antiquarian book dealers, librarians, bibliographers, historians, and collectors from around the world.

This new product is the result of the labor of many individuals, most notably, Linda Roth, Hardin Library’s Web Producer (please see the About Heirs Online for further acknowledgements).

The online version is much more than the full text of the book; although it can be browsed, the content has been entered in the form of a database to allow for precision searching and quick recall.

We invite you to take a look at this new and important scholarly contribution to the history of medicine and printing.

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/heirsonline

The following nursing journals have been moved from the Reserve area and placed in the regular stacks, extending the loan period from 2-hours to 1-day*:

• ANS (Advances in Nursing Science)
• American Journal of Nursing
• Journal of Nursing Administration
• MCN (American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing)
• Medical Letter
• Nursing Clinics
• Nursing Outlook

* Most journals can be checked out anytime during the day and are due back by 9:30 a.m. the following day.

Extreme Makeovers From The Sixteenth Century

Tagliacozzi, Gaspare (1545-1599). De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, libri due. Venice, 1597.

Although Tagliacozzi was not the first plastic surgeon (it had been practiced in India centuries earlier) he is usually credited as the first modern practitioner of the art. Loss of facial parts from dueling, street fights, and syphilis were common during the 16^th century. His work covers the anatomy of the nose and includes sections on the restoration of the nose, lips, and ears by means of autografting; it is replete with stunning engravings illustrating the techniques and instruments used in the various procedures. The popularity of the work caused it to be plagiarized almost immediately. However, Tagliacozzi’s work was opposed on religious grounds by such authorities as Paré and Fallopius and condemned by the church whose authorities exhumed his body and reburied it in unconsecrated ground.

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NOTE: “History Through Deaf Eyes” will continue through Thursday, February 23^rd .

Well over one hundred attendees showed up Friday afternoon, November 4 for the official opening of the exhibit, “History Through Deaf Eyes” now on display at the Hardin Library.

The touring exhibit, developed by Gallaudet University and sponsored by numerous funding agencies was greeted enthusiastically by attendees from all parts of the country.

Staff from The Iowa School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs supplemented the exhibit with artifacts including photographs and objects relating to the early years of the institution.

The opening ceremony was highlighted by addresses from Dr. Jane K. Fernandes, Provost of Gallaudet and Jack R. Gannon, retired Gallaudet faculty member, and the curator of the project.

The exhibit covers nearly the entire first floor of the library and traces the sometimes controversial history of deafness and deaf education in America through photographs, documents, and multimedia.

Professor Richard Hurtig of the UI Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology was instrumental in procuring the exhibit.

Read the original University of Iowa News Release | Listen to the interview with Dr. Richard Hurtig (posted January 2006) - Listen to MP3 (6.49 MB) or read the transcript

See Also: News@Hardin, January 2006