April 22nd, 2008 by Mary Cullen
On Thursday, May 1, Charisse Madlock-Brown will be teaching a class on how to use the online management tool RefWorks.
RefWorks is a web-based citation management and bibliography tool. It can help you to efficiently store, organize, and share citations and easily format them for papers and bibliographies.
It is also compatible with other databases and EndNote users can easily export their citation databases directly into RefWorks.
The workshop will be held at 3pm in the Info Commons East Room of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.
To register for the class, go online to:
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/find/refworks/workshops.html
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March 19th, 2008 by Sarah Andrews
The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host its annual four-session Mini Medical School, “Making Sense of Your Health: See More. Hear More. Do More.” in April on the UI campus.
Librarians Kathy Skhal and Chris Childs will teach a session called “Your What Hurts?: Research Health Questions on the Web” at the Hardin Library on April 29th.
The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences Simulation Center in the Information Commons will be featured in the April 29th program.
The sessions will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays April 8, 15, 22 and 29 in the Dr. Prem Sahai Auditorium in the Medical Education and Research Facility (MERF). Map to MERF.
This year, Mini Medical School will focus on age-related changes in vision, hearing and mobility. UI researchers and clinicians will lead sessions on glaucoma, macular degeneration, hearing loss, aging and mobility, and osteroarthritis.
The Mini Medical School program is offered through the UI Carver College of Medicine in partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, based in the UI Center on Aging.
Mini Medical School is designed for anyone who is interested in the scientific basis of health and disease. No science or medical educational background is needed to take part in the program.
This event is open to the public. Participation is limited to the first 250 registrants. A $5 fee for course materials will be collected during the first session. Registration is for all four of the Mini Medical School sessions.
For more information, visit http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/minimedicalschool or call toll free 877-MED-IOWA (877-633-4692).
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February 6th, 2008 by Sarah Andrews
The Hardin Library will close at 9pm on Wednesday due to weather conditions.
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August 21st, 2007 by Chris Shaffer
GRADUATE ASSISTANT
Information Commons Training and Systems Assistant
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
Background: The Hardin Library Information Commons is a state of the art educational technology facility, featuring multimedia development workstations, hands-on computer classrooms, a group study, audiovisual materials and computer labs. The Information Commons also supports web development projects in the health sciences such as Iowa Public Health Information and Go Local Iowa. For more information, please visit http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/ and http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/commons/.
Position description: Reporting to the Assistant Director, Technology and Outreach, the Training and Systems Assistant supports the activities and services of the Information Commons. The Assistant provides on-demand technology support for instructors, students and other users of computer labs, classrooms and multimedia workstations; designs and teaches staff development sessions for Information Commons desk workers; creates and maintains equipment and software documentation; and assists the Technology Support Specialist with systems administration tasks.
The Training and Systems Assistant is required to work between the hours of 8:00 am and 5:00 pm, two days per week and four additional hours as assigned. Some weekend and evening hours occasionally required.
See http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/jobs/commonsga.pdf for details.
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March 21st, 2006 by UI Libraries
March 28, 2006: The suvery has ended. Thank you.
We are evaluating and assessing the daily operations and services of the Information Commons East and West. The goals of this review process are
- to gain a better understanding of our users needs and expectations
- to improve services for our users
- to plan for the future
Please take 5 minutes to fill out the Information Commons Survey
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/commons/survey/
To learn more about the review process, please visit the following web page: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/commons/taskforce
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September 16th, 2005 by UI Libraries
Individuals who have attended a course or workshop in the Information Commons’ two classrooms will appreciate some recent upgrades. More than 50 big, bulky computer monitors have been exchanged for sleek, energy-efficient 17” flat panel displays. Crystal-sharp images practically fly off the screen! We say, "How can the learning experience be anything BUT improved when you have new jazzy monitors?" Our supportive partners at ITS Campus Services facilitated this much-needed infusion of equipment, paid for by Student Computing Fees.
In the Commons West flexible classroom, the two ceiling-mounted LCD projectors have been replaced with even smaller, brighter projectors. Think you’ve had Lazik surgery? No, its actually Sharp Notevision DLP technology.
Seven new Dell laptops are available for checkout at the Hardin Circulation Desk on the 3rd floor. These new laptops, with their customary wireless networking capability, are styled after campus ITC computers, which essentially means that they offer more software titles than ever before! Users will still need to have a Hawk-ID and password in order to access the wireless network within the building or elsewhere on campus.
Students, faculty members and staff are always welcome and encouraged to stop by the Information Commons service desks with any technical/technology questions. Our commitment to you: if we don’t know the answer, we’ll find someone who does.
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February 18th, 2004 by UI Libraries
The Information Commons Productions Services in Hardin Library has released a beta edition of iLecture, the simple online lecture tool.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/commons/ilecture/
iLecture makes preparing an online lecture an easy process. Simply import your PowerPoint slides, plug in a microphone and record your narration. iLecture does the rest. It packages the images and audio, along with the individual timings for each slide, in a directory that’s ready for upload to any web server. Not only does iLecture offer convenient features to any instructor narrating an online lecture, it also makes viewing and listening to that lecture simple for students. Students aren’t locked in to a particular piece of software, particular file formats, or any specific computer platform (operating system). The online lectures created by iLecture can be viewed on any Internet connection in any web browser. iLecture is open ended, accessible and easy to use, unlike many products on the commercial market. iLecture makes the task of creating and viewing online lectures simple. Best of all–iLecture is free.
We invite you to download the beta edition of iLecture from the URL above and let us know what you think.
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May 19th, 2003 by UI Libraries
Scott Fiddelke, Digital Media Projects Manager at Hardin Library’s Information Commons, has received a $4,865 grant from the Innovations in Instructional Computing Award. His project, titled "A Simple Online Lecture Delivery Solution" was selected from among 24 entries submitted to the Academic Technologies Advisory Council.
The project involves creation of a tool that will simplify and make more flexible the process of creating narrated lectures for web delivery. In addition, the "student experience" promises to improve when viewing an online lecture created under this tool.
During Fall 2003 semester, Scott will be asked to participate in a campus-wide meeting to share his project results alongside other award recipients. For more information about the project, please contact him at 335-6955 or scott-fiddelke@uiowa.edu.
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December 21st, 2002 by UI Libraries
Faster processors, new displays, additional RAM and CD burners–these are some of the improvements brought by new computers installed at the Information Commons in recent weeks. More than $140,000 in student computer fees were allocated for the replacement of more than 100 computers at the Commons. The last comprehensive replacement of computers was in 1999.
The new computers arrived just in time to take advantage of a recent network rewiring project at Hardin. Connection speeds are potentially 10 times faster than they were six months ago as a result of an upgrade to fast Ethernet to each desktop (100 MB/sec. data transfer speed).
Each computer features a 1.7 MHz Intel Pentium 4 processor. Every computer in the facility now sports a CD-RW drive, and blank media is available for purchase at either of the Commons service desks. A majority of the new computers feature 500 MB of RAM and 20 GB harddrives. The exception is the Commons West classroom, which features 1 GB of RAM in each computer and 80 GB harddrives.
The West classroom also offers a choice of operating system at startup: Windows 2000 or Linux.
New 15" flat panel displays are available in all open areas of the facility, while 19" CRT monitors are located in the two classrooms.
For more information about the functions and features of the new computers, please send your questions by e-mail to info-commons@uiowa.edu.
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