Hardin News

The UI College of Public Health and University Hygienic Laboratory has produced a Flood 2008 Public Health Fact Sheet. This document includes information about mental health, environmental hazards, infectious disease risks, and more. Check it out at http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/icphp/flood-resources.html. Look for the “Flood 2008 Public Health Fact Sheets” listing under the heading Resources. Additionally, a hard copy is on display at Hardin’s Info/Reference desk on the third floor.

The Hardin Library offers a wide variety of online resource guides on a variety of topics such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and general reference. These LibGuides are listed on our homepage at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/find.html.

We have recently added a guide with information on flood recovery - and with special attention to public health issues. This guide is available at http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/floodrecovery. All of these resources are available to the public.

The library server controlling access to VisualDx has been restored, so VisualDx is once again available.

Thank you for your patience!

Please note that the UI-Wireless-WEP service is being retired for security reasons on June 30, 2008 and will no longer work to access the UI Wireless network. WEP should be replaced by the more secure and standards-based WPA2 security protocol. At this time, the University provides wireless access via dynamic-WEP for devices that cannot support WPA2. This service is deprecated, and it should only be used when a client cannot support WPA2.

The UI Wireless network is currently accessible using WPA2 (UI-Wireless-WPA2), which is supported by many modern wireless devices. Please see http://helpdesk.its.uiowa/edu/wireless for more information about the WEP retirement and UI Wireless configuration instructions using the UI-Wireless-WPA2 network.

If you have questions or need assistance, ask at the Information Commons East on the second floor, visit the ITS Wireless Support Center, call the ITS Help Desk at 319-384-HELP or email
its-wireless@uiowa.edu. ITS Help Desk’s telephone support is available Monday – Thursday: 8 AM - 10 PM, Friday: 8 AM - 5 PM, Saturday: 12 PM - 5 PM, and Sunday: 6 PM - 10 PM.

Hardin Library for the Health Sciences has a wireless zone that covers the public areas in the building and outside areas around the building to some extent.

Please remember that wireless capable laptops are available for checkout in the Information Commons East for three days at a time. Check with staff for availability.

Library staff are currently moving the bound journals dated 1980-present that are accessible electronically into storage. The remaining journals on the third floor are being condensed into a smaller stack area. Please go to the Information/Reference desk on the third floor if you need assistance finding materials.

Current plans for the third floor space where these journals used to be include installation of new carpet and eventual conversion to study areas.

Please note that bound journals dated pre-1980 are unaffected by this change. They are still shelved on the first floor.

For years, the library system has provided faculty, students, and staff access to Health and Psychosocial Instruments, Mental Measurements Yearbook, PsycINFO, and ERIC through OVID Technologies. The recent invoice from OVID Technologies showed steep price increases. Given our desire to provide our users with the most access to a variety of research and teaching resources within our budgetary constraints, we sought alternatives. With the changes that we are making, we are saving $6,000-$8,000 to spend on other materials.

Beginning July 1,

1) Health and Psychosocial Instruments and Mental Measurements Yearbook + Tests in Print will be available via EBSCOhost.

2) PsycINFO will be available via PsycNET (American Psychological Association interface).

3) ERIC will be available via EBSCOhost or CSA. You will have a choice of interface. There is access for no additional cost.

On July 1, links from library web pages will take you to the new access sites. If you have created bookmarks, it will be necessary for you to make your changes.

If you have set up an account and saved your searches or if you have created alerts through OVID, please print off your search strategies and enter them into the new interface on July 1 or later.

If you have any questions, please contact Dottie Persson, Head Librarian of the Psychology Library: (319)335-3080 or dorothy-persson@uiowa.edu.

With the recent outbreak of Salmonella infection, the Hardin MD Salmonella Symptoms page has gotten heavy traffic from Google searches. Much of this traffic has come from people clicking the symptom label assigned by a group of Medical Library Association (MLA) librarians, who are a part of the Google Health Coop project. This is a cooperative effort by Google and medical websites, such as WebMD, AMA, Mayo Clinic, as well as MLA, to make health information more accessible.

During the 6/8 Week Summer Session, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences is proud to be open during these hours:

Monday 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sunday Noon - 9:00 p.m.

Don’t forget our 24 Hour Study! A section of the library’s third floor is available all night. Access to this area is simple - all you need to do is swipe your University ID at the door.

The building will be closed on July 4th, which is a University holiday.

Visitors to the John Martin Rare Book Room are often bemused when they spot a View-Master resting on one of the bookcases. If you’re under the age of sixty-five you probably owned one of these devices along with several View-Master reels depicting far-off countries, cartoon characters or comic book heroes rendered in 3-D. But why a viewer in the rare book room? In 1962, Dr. David L. Bassett, anatomist from the University of Washington, working with William Gruber, the inventor of the View-Master created the “Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy” — over 1,500 slides of three-dimensional color images of human dissection. Nearly fifty years later the 25 volume collection remains a marvel of relatively simple technology that still elicits gasps of wonder from viewers as they behold in stark clarity the “in-depth” photographs of body structures and cavities. Each of the slides is accompanied by commentary written by Dr. Bassett (the lone dissector) and a line diagram that labels all of the structures. The Hardin Library is fortunate to own a complete set of this amazing work which is beginning to arouse the curiosity of anatomists interested in using high-tech solutions to bring 3-D to desktop computers. In the meantime the marvelous handiwork of Mr. Gruber and Dr. Bassett is at your disposal.
You can read about and view more images of Dr. Bassett’s work here.