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Spring Break hours begin Friday, March 9

The Hardin Library will have reduced hours for Spring Break, beginning on Friday, March 9.

Friday, March 9 7:30am-6pm
Saturday, March 10 10am-2pm
Sunday, March 11 Noon-4pm
Monday, March 12-Friday, March 16 7:30am-6pm
Saturday, March 17 10am-2pm
Sunday, March 18 Noon-Midnight *regular hours resume*
24-hour study available when the library is closed.
Apply for access at the desk.

 

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Pacific cliffs by 12010 at Pixabay.com

Faculty: Affordable Textbook Alternatives Discussion | Thurs. March 8, 11a-12pm

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The average university student spends over $1,000 a year on textbooks. If you are interested in exploring viable alternatives, this workshop is for you.

Scholarly Communications Librarian Mahrya Burnett will show you several open textbook repositories and discuss ways that you can lower—or even eliminate—student textbook bills.

Join us from 11 a.m. to noon on Thursday, March 8, at University Capital Center 1117.

Please register online.  

Welcome Miles Dietz-Castel, NNLM/GMR Office Coordinator!

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Miles Dietz-Castel

Welcome Miles Dietz-Castel, Office Coordinator for the NNLM Greater Midwest Region office.

Miles joined the GMR of National Network of Libraries of Medicine this January.  In his new role, Miles will be assisting the GMR office as it fulfills its mission to improve and provide equal access of biomedical information to health professionals and the public.

Prior to joining the NLM Greater Midwest Region Miles worked at the University of Iowa College of Public Health on various grants that supported underrepresented students in STEM PhD programs.

Miles received his B.A in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa and is currently pursuing his Master’s degree part time in Strategic Communications at the University of Iowa. Miles lives in Cedar Rapids with his partner and two dogs; a corgi and a mastiff. He enjoys tennis, running with dogs, and bingeing past seasons of Survivor.

PubMed Workshop | Tuesday, March 6, 2-3pm

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to the medical literature and includes over 26 million bibliographic citations in life sciences. This one-hour session will show you how to improve your search results by using subject headings (MeSH) and advanced keyword searching techniques. For individual instruction on this topic, please contact your liaison librarian.

Our next sessions:
Tuesday, March 6th, 2:00-3:00pm, East Information Commons, 2nd Floor

Wednesday, April 4th, 11:00-12:00pm, West Information Commons, 2nd Floor

Register online or by calling 319-335-9151

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

Researchers: Clean Up Your Messy Datasets! | OpenRefine | Workshop Wed. Feb. 28, 11am-12pm

OpenRefine (formerly known as Google Refine) is a free tool for working with messy tabular data.  Save yourself time working with datasets that need to be transformed, cleaned, or processed before use.  Bring your laptop for hands-on training.  You may also follow along without a laptop.

Prior to the workshop, please install the Release Version of OpenRefine on your laptop:
https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Installation-Instructions

Our session:
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 11am-12pm (Information Commons East, 2nd Floor, HLHS)

Register online or by calling 319-335-9151.

Need a personal session or one for your team?  Contact Brian Westra by email or phone 319-467-0069.

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Having trouble keeping current with professional reading? | Workshop Thursday, Feb. 22, 9-10am

Want to know as soon as an exciting new article is published? Tired of skimming the websites or paper copies of multiple journals to see what is in the new issue?

This hands-on session will show you how to create a single destination for information from your favorite journals, databases, websites and blogs using RSS feeds and auto-alerts.
Our next session:
Thursday, February 22nd, 9:00-10:00am, East Information Commons

Register online or by calling 319-335-9151.

No time for class? Try using BrowZine to organize all your journals into one tool!

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

Hardin Library open regular hours for President’s Day holiday Monday, Feb. 19

The Hardin Library will be open regular hours 7:30am-Midnight on President’s Day.  This year President’s Day is celebrated on February 19.

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Painting of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, dated 1797

Presidents Day always falls on the third Monday in February.  The holiday was originally called “Washington’s Birthday” to celebrate the first president of the United States, George Washington.  The holiday was celebrated throughout the USA beginning in 1885.

Systematic Reviews | Workshops February 6 and 20

Are you interested in conducting a systematic review? We have two workshops to help you get started.

Step one-
Systematic Reviews: Nuts and Bolts of a Systematic Review

This class provides a framework for developing a literature search for a systematic review, including:

    • standards and criteria to consider
    • establishing a plan
    • registering a protocol,
    • developing a research question,
    • determining where to search
    • identifying search terms
    • reporting search strategies, and managing references.

 Tuesday, February 6, 10-11am, Information Commons East, 2nd Floor, Hardin Library

Step two-

Systematic Reviews: Literature Searching for the Health Sciences

This class focuses on tips and techniques for carrying out a successful literature search in support of a health sciences systematic review. Topics include

    • techniques for developing search strategies
    • deciding which databases to search
    • how to seek out grey literature for a given topic
    • selecting journals for hand searching, documenting search strategies
    • saving and organizing references.

 Tuesday, February 20, 10-11am , Information Commons East, 2nd Floor, Hardin Library

Sign up for these workshops or request personal appointments online or by calling 319-335-9151.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

By Centre for Health Communication and Participation La Trobe University, Australasian Cochrane Centre [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
By Centre for Health Communication and Participation La Trobe University, Australasian Cochrane Centre [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons