Library News

Again this year, the UI Libraries welcome National History Day students from across Eastern Iowa to a research workshop. These students prepare projects around a theme and present them at an annual competition.

Reference, Special Collections and Iowa Women’s Archives library staff put together a special webpage for these students: National History Day Research Workshop.

Students will be visiting the Main Library on Thursday, November 30 and Tuesday, December 5. If you have any questions, please contact Kristi Bontrager, Public Relations Coordinator, 335-5960.

Kathy Skhal, Clinical Education Librarian at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences will be co-presenting a poster with Helen Damon-Moore, Ph.D. and Dee Dee Stafford, M.D., Ph.D. at the Medical Education Celebration Day on Thursday, November 30. The poster session is scheduled from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the MERF Atrium.

The poster describes a major pilot project that Kathy took the lead on for the Foundations of Clinical Practice IV (FCP IV) course, linking information concepts in the FCP IV curriculum to lecture notes and course materials presented in the FCP I, II and III class series.

In recognition of the Thanksgiving holiday, the University of Iowa Libraries will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 23 and 24. The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences will re-open on Saturday at 10 am; Main Library will re-open on Saturday at 1pm.

Other branch libraries have altered hours over the holiday break, please check online for each libraries’ hours. The regular fall semester schedule will resume on Monday, November 27.

A $225,000 gift from the estate of Clarice E. Krieg, who worked at the University of Iowa Libraries as a cataloguer in the 1920s and 1930s, will assist the UI Libraries in purchasing books and reference materials far into the future.

A 1932 graduate of the UI, Krieg died in 2004, having lived most recently in Eugene, Ore. Before designating that a portion of her estate be used to create the Clarice Krieg Libraries Fund, Krieg had been a longtime supporter of UI Libraries; her gifts included monetary contributions and her collection of Christmas-related greeting cards, which she donated to UI Libraries’ Special Collections. Those cards formed the heart of an exhibition at the UI Main Library in December 2000.

“We have been very touched by Clarice Krieg’s generosity to the University of Iowa Libraries over the years,” says Nancy L. Baker, University Librarian. “As a fellow academic librarian, she spent her career providing access to information. With this bequest, the UI Libraries will honor her legacy by continuing to meet the information needs of our students, faculty and staff.”

The University of Iowa Libraries is the largest library system in the state of Iowa and among the top 25 of the nation’s research libraries. The University’s Main Library, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, 10 branch libraries, and the Law Library contain more than 4 million volumes.

The UI Foundation is acknowledged by the UI as a preferred channel for private contributions that benefit all areas of the university. For more information, visit the Foundation’s web site at www.uiowafoundation.org.

Carlette Washington-Hoagland, Assessment and Staff Development Coordinator at the University of Iowa Libraries, is among 20 librarians selected for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Leadership and Career Development Program. The selected librarians represent a diverse combination of library experience, cultural backgrounds and research interest areas. Washington-Hoagland was selected from a very competitive applicant pool.

“Carlette has been an asset to the UI Libraries for many years, and I’m so pleased that she has earned this honor,” says Nancy L. Baker, University Librarian. “She has managed an excellent staff development program at a time of tremendous change in libraries and her work in assessment has helped us respond to the needs of today’s library users.”

ARL sponsors the program to address the needs of research libraries for a more diverse professional workforce that can contribute to library success in serving increasingly diverse scholarly and learning communities. The 18-month program prepares mid-career librarians from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to take on increasingly demanding leadership roles in research libraries. It consists of several components: Leadership Institutes hosted across the country throughout the program, a Career Coach and personal visit to an ARL library and a research project related to one of the ARL strategic directions. Through contacts with experts and research library leaders, these program elements are combined to allow participants to explore the strategic issues faced by research libraries in the digital environment, leadership roles within research libraries and career development options and opportunities.

To celebrate the School of Music’s 100th Anniversary, the staff at the Rita Benton Music Library invite you to join them for a party on Friday, November 3rd at 12 p.m.

This fall students and faculty from the School of Music performed a series of mini recitals in the library. For the finale this week an anniversary cake takes center stage.

For more information, contact Ruthann McTyre, Music Librarian at 335-3088.