Hardin News

Access to the CINAHL (Nursing) database will be switching from OVID to EBSCO beginning July 1, 2005. EBSCO bought the CINAHL database several years ago and has added some new and neat features and also a Pre-CINAHL database. These new features/files are not available from OVID, which is why we are making this switch.

Our new EBSCO access has recently been established and you can see and use it at: http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/ebsco/cinahl. The Libraries’ offers a variety of databases through the EBSCO interface, so many users may already be familiar with the look and feel of this interface.

Hardin staff is available to provide individual or group assistance in transitioning to EBSCO CINAHL. To arrange a transition session contact the Hardin Library Education Team at 5-9151 or hlhsed@uiowa.edu.

Fourth uncle in the mountain : a memoir of a barefoot doctor in Vietnam / Quang Van Nguyen with Marjorie Pivar. — New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2004. [Call Number: GR313 .Q83 2004]
Read the Publishers Weekly review at Amazon.com

Hot lights, cold steel : life, death and sleepless nights in a surgeon’s first years / Michael J. Collins. — New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2005. [Call Number: RD728.C64 A3 2005]
Read the Publishers Weekly and Booklist reviews at Amazon.com

For more information about Hardin Library’s Browsing Collection read the article in the December 2004 issue of News@Hardin.

Horse Song
Horse Song is a dramatization of Navajo man, Jack White, who learns he has diabetes. It chronicles his emotional, physical and physical journal with this disease with particular emphasis on the balance of modern and traditional Navajo medicine and philosophy. This video is filmed in Red Valley, Arizona and produced by the Northern Navajo Medical Center. It is an hour in length and is spoken in the Navajo language with English subtitles.

The Angry Heart
The Angry Heart discusses the disproportionate rate African-Americans who die from heart disease through the story of a 45 year-old African American man, Keith Hartgrove. Hartgrove has experienced two heart attacks and quadruple bypass surgery and along with medical experts, analyzes a wide variety of factors affecting his heart disease. It’s clear that many “medical” factors are inseparable from social factors such as discrimination, poverty, segregation, and sub-standard education that are all engendered by racism. Of great importance to Hartgrove’s story is the power of family, church, and community ties that support him through his recovery. The Angry Heart is an hour in length.

The Edge of America: Struggling for Health and Justice
Produced by NACCHO (National Association of County and City Health Officials), The Edge of America: Struggling for Health and Justice depicts the life experiences of people living on the edge of American society in three rural communities. Filmed in rural Arizona, Montana, and North Carolina, viewers observe firsthand the enormous challenges of survival, health, and quality of life faced not only by individuals and families, but also by these communities themselves. Issues presented include the injustices of poverty, inadequate housing, discrimination, ineffective immigration policy, and lack of access to transportation and health care – all of which lead to increased morbidity and mortality. The Edge of America is in DVD format and is an hour in length.

These three videos are currently located in the Reserve area on the 3rd floor. Loan Period: 3 Days

Videotape players (VCRs) are located in the Information Commons West. Headphones are available at the Commons Help Desk.

To search for other videos go to the InfoHawk Library Catalog, click Advanced Search, enter a search term, select Video-All under Format, then click Search .

Most videos are located in the Information Commons West, 2nd Floor

For the past year, Hardin Library staff have been working on the Iowa Public Health Information Project (IPHI) in cooperation with the University of Iowa College of Public Health, the Iowa Department of Public Health and public health professionals across the state. The project addresses information needs of Iowa public health professionals by creating an easy-to-use web site that emphasizes local and state public health resources. The website design portion of the project has now been completed, and public release of the website is scheduled for March 2004. You will be able to view the site at http://www.iowapublichealth.org

During the next few months, Hardin Library staff will provide training to at least 15 public health departments across the state. Public health staff will learn how to use the new IPHI site, and how to use the National Library of Medicine and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) systems and resources. Hardin Library will maintain this website after the project period as a service to Iowans. For more information about IPHI, contact us.

IPHI is funded with federal funds from the CDC and the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health under contract number NO1-LM-1-3513.