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Reception to honor Deberg on Wednesday

By
Sarah Andrews
– September 24, 2012Posted in: Fun, Hardin Library Staff, News

image of Jennifer DebergJennifer Deberg, Clinical Education Librarian for the College of Nursing, has earned the Arthur Benton Excellence in Reference Services Professional Development Award.

Please join us for a celebration on Wednesday, September 26 from 3-4:30pm in the Hardin Library Conference Room 401.

Jennifer was nominated by both The College of Nursing and the Department of Nursing at University of Iowa Healthcare.  Jennifer provides one-on-one consults and course integrated training for students, faculty, and staff in these departments as well as other departments.

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Iowa City Book Festival this weekend

By
Sarah Andrews
– July 9, 2012Posted in: Fun, Lectures and Discussions, News

image Iowa City book festivalThe Iowa City Book Festival is a celebration of books, reading and writing presented by The University of Iowa Libraries.  Most of the book festival programs are free and many are appropriate for children.

Pick up a guide to the festival at the Hardin Library or see list of events online (http://www.iowacitybookfestival.org/schedule/).

 

Programming about illness or medicine:

Saturday, July 14, 11:00am
Lichtenberger Engineering Library, Seamans Center
A Pocket Full of Posies, My Life with Cancer by Deborah Leistikow
Cancer as a comedy? Discover how humor trumps crying with illuminating self-reflection, candid treatment descriptions, tenacious optimism and smiles.

Saturday, July 14, 11:30am
Seamans Center Commons
Carol Scott-Conner and Mary Jane Nealon have both seen the inside of a hosptial room as medical caregivers.  Through fiction and nonfiction they share stories of sickness and health.’

Saturday, July 14, 2:00pm
Macbride Auditorium
Mary O’Connell introduces Sandanista Jones in her first novel, The Sharp Time.  Sandinista is an injured teen who experiences grief and loneliness during one week of her life.

Sunday, July 15, 11AM
321 North Hall/Wild Bill’s Coffee Shop
Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone, shares how her background in social work informs her fiction writing.

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Longer hours and free coffee to help you get ready for finals!

By
Sarah Andrews
– May 1, 2012Posted in: Fun, News, Services

The Hardin Library will have extended hours on Friday, May 4 and Saturday, May 5.

Friday, May 4  7:30am-Midnight

Saturday, May 5  10:00am-Midnight

We will be serving free coffee beginning at 6pm on Friday, May 4 through Finals Week.  The coffee is provided by Linda Walton, Assistant University Librarian and Director, Hardin Library.

picture of cup of coffee

photo by mhaithaca

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National Public Health Week

By
Chris Childs
– April 1, 2012Posted in: Fun, News, Uncategorized

State, local and federal health officials from across the county unite this week to celebrate National Public Health Week (April 2-8), an annual health observance aimed at educating the public, policy-makers and the public health community about critical public health challenges facing the nation.

To learn more go to http://www.nphw.org/tools-and-tips/themes/communicable-diseases

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Happy National Doctor’s Day!

By
Amy Blevins
– March 30, 2012Posted in: Fun, Uncategorized

Today, March 30, is National Doctor’s Day. This is a day when for all of us to take some time to thank the hard working physicians that keep us healthy and work to heal us when we are sick and injured.

Happy National Doctor's Day from Hardin Library

If you’d like to learn more, see http://www.doctorsday.org/

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Art and Science symposium at UI March 2-3

By
Sarah Andrews
– February 28, 2012Posted in: Education, Fun

The University of Iowa’s Art History Society’s 27th annual symposium is themed “Art and Science.”  All events are free and open to the public.

Keynote presentation – Friday, March 2 – 5:30pm – Art Building West, Auditorium 240
Martial Guedron, Universite de Strasbourg
Science and Phantasmagoria in the Twilight of Enlightenment

Morning Sessions – Saturday, March 3 – 9:00am – noon – Art Building West, Auditorium 240
Elisabeth Berry Drago  Surface and Substance: physiognomy and Hans Holbein’s Pictures of Death

Adam M. Thomas In the Laboratory and through the Window: Art and Science in San Francisco, ca. 1887

Becky Dewing Shifting Perspectives: Aerial Photography in the Interwar Years

Afternoon Sessions – Saturday, March 3 – 1:30pm-3:30pm – Art Building West, Auditorium 240Holbein image

Katherine L. Carroll Designing the American Medical School to Define Modern Science

Deanna Marie Sheward War Science and Image Production: Abstraction at Mid Century

Ginger Elliott Smith Practicing Big Science in Southern California: Larry Bell as Artist-Scientist

 

 

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Celebrate Iowa City Darwin Day – February 10-12

By
Sarah Andrews
– February 1, 2012Posted in: Education, Fun, Lectures and Discussions

You are invited to Darwin Day, a celebration of science and its benefits to humanity!  Iowa City Darwin Day is sponsored by The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences and The Sciences Library.

2012′s theme is “Bird Origins and Evolution” and a slate of world-renowned scientists will share their research in a series of professional seminars and public talks.

Another event this year is rap artist Baba Brinkman, who will be performing his off-broadway show, “The Rap Guide to Evolution” at the Englert Theater on Sunday evening (Feb.12th) at 7pm (doors open at 6pm).

All events are free and open to the public.  See http://iowacitydarwinday2012.org/events.html for a complete schedule of events.image of darwin

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Iowa City Book Festival this weekend – Most Free!

By
Sarah Andrews
– July 14, 2011Posted in: Fun

The Iowa City Book Festival is a three-day celebration of books, reading and writing, presented by the University of Iowa Libraries on July 15, 16 and 17.

The Book Festival will begin on Friday with an author dinner in the Main Library. Saturday is festival day in Gibson Square with booksellers, music, children’s activities, food vendors, book arts demonstrations and readings and panel discussions. Sunday will be “A Day in the City of Literature.” Local businesses of all kinds throughout Iowa City will participate with readings, special activities all day.

All activities except the author dinner on Friday evening are free.  See a complete schedcule online (http://www.iowacitybookfestival.org/saturday-july-16).

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Free coffee!

By
Sarah Andrews
– April 22, 2011Posted in: Fun, Services

Free coffee is available at the Hardin Library this week until it runs out.  Even though it may be hot outside–you might still need a jolt of caffeine.

Coffee is sponsored by Linda Walton, Associate University Librarian and Director of Hardin Library.

picture of coffee cup

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Later hours to help you get ready for finals!

By
Sarah Andrews
– April 20, 2011Posted in: Fun, Services

Need a little extra time to study for finals or finish up a paper?  We’ve got you covered!

The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences will be open 10 extra hours this week.  Friday, May 6, the library will close at 12am.
Saturday, May 7, the library will also close at 12am.

And, to make that study time go faster you can have some fun.
La Michoacana Taco Truck will be at the library from 9:30pm-12am both days.
Watch NBA Bulls vs. Hawks and Lakers vs. Mavericks games on Friday.
Watch MLS LA Galaxy vs. New York Red Bulls on Saturday.

To keep you awake we will have free coffee, beginning at 8pm on Friday until it runs out.

The Main Library opens at 11am on Sunday, May 8 and will not close again until Friday, May 13 at 10pm.

picture of coffee and pen and book

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