Hardin News

The National Institutes of Health on Tuesday published a Request for Information, seeking input from the scientific community, health professionals, patient advocates, and the general public about innovative and cross-cutting initiatives to be funded through the NIH Common Fund. The NIH Common Fund was created by the NIH in 2004 and enacted into law by Congress through the 2006 NIH Reform Act to support cross-cutting, trans-NIH programs.

The deadline for comments is June 2nd.

The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society will host its annual R. Palmer Howard Dinner, Friday, April 25, 2008. The reception will begin at 6:00 pm followed by the dinner at 7:00 on the 8th floor, Roy Carver Pavilion, UIHC.
The after-dinner speaker will be, Walton O. Schalick, III, Md, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medical History, University of Wisconsin-Madison who will speak on ‘Humanizing’ Disability Care: Pediatrics, Policy and Crippled Children in the US and Europe, 1802-1945. The event is open to the public. Please click here for a reservation form.

Dr. Schalick’s research interests include medieval medicine and pharmacology, the history of children with physical disability in 19th and 20th century Europe and the US, and the practical ethics of pediatric emergency research. His is in great demand as a lecturer and has delivered presentations on four continents. Dr. Schalick is also the recipient of numerous honors, including the William b. Bean Award from the American Osler Society. After completing his undergraduate work at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Schalick received his PHD and his MD from Johns Hopkins University.

NIH on Friday formally requested input from the community regarding the NIH Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting From NIH-Funded Research (NIH Public Access Policy). An identical notice will be published in Monday’s Federal Register. The request for information (RFI) seeks input on the Public Access Policy. Comments are due by May 31, 2008. The NIH will post analysis and results from this RFI for public view by September 30, 2008.

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-060.html

Due to a new grant, the UI Police are now adding a weeknight route to their Nite Ride Van Service. The new “academic route” will be available from most campus buildings to student’s place of residence between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. Sundays through Thursdays. Beginning March 30, it can be utilized by calling the phone number, 319.384.1111. The weekend hours will also remain intact, operating from 11 p.m. Fridays to 3 a.m. Saturdays and 11 p.m. Saturdays to 3 a.m. Sundays.

The academic route Nite Ride will pick up passengers at any UI parking lot, ramp or building (except for residence halls and University Housing) and drop off at any UI parking lot, ramp or building including residence halls, University Housing and apartments within the specified boundaries.

For both the academic and weekend services the Nite Ride van operates within an area bounded by Summit Street to the east, University Housing (Hawkeye Campus) to the west, Highway 6 and Melrose Avenue to the south and Highway 6/Park Road/Foster Road to the north.

An added bonus for those seeking to use the service from the HLHS is that the van will be parked in the Hardin Library parking lot when in between pick up and drop offs.

Recently, the John Martin Rare Book Room acquired a rare copy of Edward Tyson’s 1699 book, Orang-outang, sive, Homo sylvestris, or, The anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man… The book constitutes of the most important works in the history of comparative morphology.
Physician, Edward Tyson, studied at Oxford and Cambridge and was a frequent lecturer on anatomy; he made several important contributions to medicine including the discovery of the sebaceous glands of the corona glandis (“Tyson Glands”). As a hospital administrator, Tyson was responsible for introducing female nurses to Bethlehem Hospital. Tyson’s reputation, however, rests largely with his anatomical studies which, in addition to the present investigation, included the porpoise and the opossum.

The “Orang-Outang” Tyson describes is actually a less than mature male chimpanzee from Angola that died a few months after its arrival in London. Also, his use of the word “Pygmie” denotes a group of small mythical beings whose supposed existence Tyson attributes to sightings of chimpanzees made in antiquity. Tyson’s “Pygmie” is completely unrelated to the name now given to the short-statured groups of people in Central Africa whose existence was unknown to Europeans until the 19th century.

As the first to dissect this species, Tyson noted the great morphological similarity between the animal and humans and termed it “an intermediate link” between ape and man. In doing so, Tyson did not mean to suggest a common lineage or descent but rather was referring to the “links” in the “Great Chain of Being,” the classical conception of a hierarchical universe from the simplest elements through the plants and animals and culminating in humans and finally God.

Tyson writes that the animal is “…of a higher degree above any of [the other apes and monkeys] we yet know, and more resembling a man. But at the same time I take him to be wholly a Brute, tho’ in the formation of the of the Body, and in the sensitive or brutal soul, it may be, more resembling a man, than another other anima; so that in this chain of the creation, as in intermediate link between an ape and a man, I would place our Pygmie.” The remarkable plates are executed in a style very similar to those in Vesalius’ Fabrica further underscoring Tyson’s thesis.

The copy in the John Martin Rare Book Room was once owned by William Musgrave (ca 1655-1721), former secretary of the Royal Society, physician, and noted historian. The skeleton of the chimpanzee dissected by Tyson remains on display at The Natural History Museum of London.
For additional images, click on links.
Musculature
Skeleton

NIH Public Access Policy training classes have been scheduled for March 26, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm and April 4, 2008 10:00am - 11:00am. Register for a class today or request a presentation for your department or lab from your librarian liaison.

NIH is seeking comments regarding the implementation of the NIH Public Access Policy. NIH would like comments from researchers and those who are facilitating implementation of the policy. The deadline for submitting comments is 5pm EST on Monday, March 17, 2008.

Information Technology Services (ITS) has informed us that they need to replace the network routers in Main Library and Hardin Library (as well as many other campus buildings). The upgrade is currently scheduled for Hardin Library on Tuesday, March 4, and Main Library on Thursday, March 6. Unfortunately, spring break is not an option.

Planned outages are as follows:

• Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 6:00am-6:30am
Hardin Library building-wide outage
No network traffic in or out of the building
Local services that depend on remote network sources (e.g., network printing) unavailable

• Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 6:30am-8:00am
Hardin Library rolling outages, one telecommunications closet at a time
Each area will experience approximately 20-30 minutes downtime

• Thursday, March 6, 2008, 6:00am-6:30am
Main Library building-wide outage
No network traffic in or out of the building
Local services that depend on remote network sources (e.g., network printing) unavailable

• Thursday, March 6, 2008, 6:00am-8:00am
Libraries-wide server outage (overlaps with building outage)
Nearly all library web servers and file storage unavailable
Will have broad impact on users outside Main Library trying to access library resources

• Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 6:30am-8:30am
Main Library rolling outages, one telecommunications closet at a time
Each area will experience approximately 20-30 minutes downtime
We all apologize in advance for the disruption. As usual, all of the end times are a bit generous to allow for unforeseen complications, so the actual outages may be shorter.

Hardin Library will be hosting the Medical Library Association (MLA) webcast titled “Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices: Discovering the Participatory Web.”

This webcast will be held on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM CST at Hardin Library in Room 401.

Participation if free but you must register by contacting Brooke Billman at brooke-billman@uiowa.edu or 319.335.8554

For more information regarding webcast goals, presenters, or CE contact hours, please visit http://www.mlanet.org/education/distance_ed/web2.0/

Please free to contact Brooke Billman with any questions regarding this event.

The sponsorship of this webcast site has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. NLM-N01-LM-6-3503 with the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The Iowa Orthopaedic Journal is now available in PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s open-access journal archive, from volume 19, 1999 to present. The Iowa Orthopaedic Journal is published annually by the residents and faculty of the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and is indexed in Medline. Older volumes are available on the department’s website.

Articles in PubMed Central are available for students, researchers and member of the public to read without charges or login restrictions. 49,851 unique users downloaded 69,079 articles in the five months that the journal has been available in PubMed Central.

This project is a collaboration between the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Digital Library Services and Information Commons Production Services.