Information Technology Services will be upgrading wireless controller software on Sunday morning from 7am-noon on the West campus. The wireless network service will be interrupted multiple times, for up to 45 minutes at a time.
Wireless service in and around the Hardin Library will be affected by this upgrade.
A new collaborative online medical resource is now available, Medpedia. Medpedia is an up-and-coming website seeking to bring together those in the medical fields and their respective research. It currently is looking for members to contribute to its growing repository, and at its young age, is already a useful resource tool.
It can be found at: http://www.medpedia.com/
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society Invites You to Hear:
Blaine Houmes, M.D., Cedar Rapids Emergency Medicine Physician speak on:
“Medical Aspects of the Lincoln Assassination”
Dr. Blaine Houmes is known for his extensive knowledge of Abraham Lincoln and is an avid collector of Lincoln literature and artifacts. As an emergency medical physician he has a special interest in the medical events relating to Lincoln’s assassination.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Room 2032, Main Library
*Light refreshments will be served
If you ever need to record anything and upload it to a computer, you now need to look no further
than the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. Recently, a stereo digital audio recorder was purchased for the library. It is kept in the Info Commons East and can be rented out for a maximum of 3 days.
The University of Iowa Libraries now has 60 Second Tutorials available online. From the tutorials, you can learn how to use InfoLink, request article delivery, request books from other libraries, and much more. The condensed tutorials include audio and graphics that are easy to use and follow.
The 60 Second Tutorials can be viewed at: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/help/tutorials/videos.html#about
Iowa Research Online is a newly created online repository of scholarly work from the m
embers of the University of Iowa community. Iowa Research Online provides open access to all interested in research, and is also a resource for those looking to submit their work. The University of Iowa Libraries staff works with university departments, research centers, and individual faculty to select, submit, and manage content.
Members of the academic community are invited to contribute their completed scholarship for long-term preservation and worldwide electronic accessibility. If you are interested in learning more about the repository, please contact the site administrator at lib-ir@uiowa.edu.
Birthing in the 16th Century
Jakob Rüff (1500-1558) was not the first physician to write a birthing manual for midwives but his book, De conceptu et generatione hominis, first published in 1554 in both Latin and German was certainly one of the most famous and widely used. Lithotomist, surgeon, obstetrician and playwright, was the town physician of Zurich where his book was obligatory reading for anyone delivering a child in the canton.
To modern eyes, the crude woodcuts used to illustrate the position and placement of the fetus appear somewhat whimsical but the anatomical drawings of the reproductive organs (many based on Vesalius) are often quite accurate.
Rüff covers every aspect of labor, delivery, and postnatal care, including advice for treating the newly pregnant:
“Before all things let them be of a merry heart, …them give their endevour to moderat joyes and sports …them use moderate exercise, let them not leape, or rise up suddenly, let them not runne also, neither dance nor ride, neither let them lace or gird in themselves hard or straight, or lift up any heavie burden with their hands.”
All images from 1580, Frankfurt edition. Book is available for view in the John Martin Rare Book Room.
Hardin Library’s Iowa Go Local project is currently featured on the American Library Association’s new Virtual Poster Session website. Iowa Go Local is a free online directory that connects Iowan’s to healthcare providers in any of the 99 counties across the state.
You can view the poster at http://presentations.ala.org/index.php?title=Iowa_Go_Local
