Library News

Beginning this summer, the University of Iowa Libraries is using a new electronic system for Interlibrary Loan at the Main Library and at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. This new system features a web-based interface for:

• placing requests
• updating your contact information
• checking the status of your requests
• asking for renewals
• retrieving journal articles posted electronically
• contacting library staff
• creating a history of all your interlibrary loan requests

You will find it easier to submit your interlibrary loan requests. With this new system, you will enter your name and contact information only once, at the time of the first request. For subsequent requests, that information will be automatically included.

Library users at other branch libraries (Art, Biological Sciences, Business, Chemistry, Engineering, Geoscience, Mathematical Sciences, Music, Physics and Psychology) can either request materials through the Main Library system or contact the library staff at the branch.

If you need an article or a book that the UI Libraries doesn’t have, we encourage you to try our interlibrary loan system. For more information, please contact Amy Paulus in the Main Library (amy-fuls@uiowa.edu or 319-335-5916) or Linda Lococo in the Hardin Library (lib-hardin-ill@uiowa.edu or 319-335-9874).

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Models are needed for a photo session in the branch libraries on Tuesday, August 1. These photos will be used in the Libraries newsletter and website.

Every student who signs-up and participates will receive a $5 gift certificate to the IMU. Please contact Kristi Bontrager (kristi-r-bontrager@uiowa.edu) to sign up.

9:00 – 9:30 a.m. at the Psychology Library (W202 Seashore Hall)
9:45 – 10:15 a.m. at the Biological Sciences Library
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. at the Pomerantz Business Library (C320 PBB)
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. at the Geoscience Library (136 Trowbridge Hall)
11:45 - 12:15 p.m. at the Math Library (125 Maclean Hall)

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Kristi. Thanks for your help.

The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa, has awarded two grants to the University of Iowa that will make information more readily accessible to medical and scientific researchers, as well as help the UI offer career-education services to rural high school students in Iowa. The grants, totaling $393,902, were made through the UI Foundation.

The grant, in the amount of $298,927, was awarded to UI Libraries and reflects the trust’s ongoing interest in supporting medical and scientific research. The grant will help the libraries purchase online access to archived issues of medical and scientific journals. The titles and packages chosen for access will bring the greatest benefit across the broadest range of bioscience research interests on campus, and have been requested by many UI researchers.

The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust was established by the estate of industrialist and philanthropist Roy J. Carver, Sr., of Muscatine. Carver died in 1981. The trust has been supporting the UI since 1987, and it has made gifts to UI programs every year since that time. Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust gifts and pledges to the university, in addition to gifts made by the late Roy Carver and his widow, Lucille Carver, exceed $126 million to date. In addition to gifts to the College of Education, the trust has supported the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine; the UI Colleges of Dentistry, Engineering, Law and Liberal Arts and Sciences; UI Libraries; Hancher Auditorium; UI intercollegiate athletics; student aid; and other UI programs.

The UI acknowledges the UI Foundation as the preferred channel for private contributions that benefit all areas of the university. For more information about the foundation, visit its web site at www.uiowafoundation.org.

An exhibit tracing the history of the Battle of the Little Bighorn has been installed in the Special Collections of the University of Iowa Libraries. This year marks the 130th anniversary of this famous battle. Emeritus Librarian Robert McCown curated the exhibit with assistance from Jacque Roethler and Denise Anderson.

In the summer of 1876 a crisis arose between the U.S. government and the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne tribes. Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry were dispatched to southeastern Montana. After hearing reports of a large Sioux and Northern Cheyenne encampment along the Little Bighorn river, Custer decided to attack. A few hundred cavalry troops met several thousand Indians. Today the site of the battle can be visited at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Montana, about sixty miles north of Sheridan, Wyoming.

The exhibit contains books and manuscripts from the UI Libraries Special Collections as well as a descriptive map of the battlefield from the Map Department.

The exhibit is free and open to the public during regular library hours and will run through September. Special Collections is located on the third floor of the Main Library and open Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. If you’re interested in learning more about the materials in Special Collections, online finding aids provide detailed information.