The University of Iowa Libraries is pleased to announce that the Iowa City Flood Digital Collection is now 
available for viewing online.
The collection uses mixed multimedia, including photographs and audio interviews, to document the flood that many on campus are still feeling the effect of today, over six months later.
The collection can be viewed at: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/flood
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 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.
This semester, the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences will begin offering “drop-in” help sessions for wireless 
devices such as PDAs, Smartphones, iPhones, and iTouches. The Hardin Library will help patrons set up their devices for wireless, as well as help them access library subscriptions to PDA resources.
The help sessions will be every Friday from 10am-2pm in the Information Commons East.
Although the help will always be available if patrons need it, individuals that need a lot of help, or would like their devices completely configured for them, should plan to stop by on Fridays.
A library guide to accessing wireless device resources can be found at:
http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/content.php?hs=a&pid=10066
The R2 Library, a collection of electronic books in the health sciences from Rittenhouse Book Distributors, is currently being evaluated by the Hardin Library. Books in the collection come from a wide variety of publishers, including Wiley, Thomson Healthcare, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, and many others. The books in the collection can be browsed or searched. All artwork, including tables, graphs, charts, illustrations and photographs, may be used for educational purposes in the classroom.
The R2 Library is available for evaluation through December. For off-campus access, you will be required to enter your HawkID and password. Please send comments, including recommendations on individual book titles that you find useful, to Janna Lawrence (janna-lawrence@uiowa.edu).
Important Library Feature for Tracking Loan History Now Available Online:
Can’t remember what you checked out in the last year? Returned something and didn’t write down the citation? Information on your last 100 loans or up to 1 year of data is now available online at:
http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/myaccount
An introduction to RefWorks, an electronic resource tool at the University of Iowa, will be offered on Monday, November 10, from 2-3pm. The class is open to all who are interested and will be at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.
*Registration is much appreciated and can be completed at:
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/regform.html
More information can be found for RefWorks at:
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/find/refworks/
The Sage e-Reference electronic books collection was recently purchased by the University of Iowa Libraries. The collection contains reference books in social, natural, and health sciences.
Some of the newly added titles include:
Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science
Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society
Handbook of Death and Dying
Encyclopedia of Disability
Encyclopedia of Global Health
Encyclopedia of Health and Aging
Encyclopedia of Health Care Management
Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior
The SAGE Handbook of Healthcare
The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods
Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods
Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research
Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy
