Beginning Thursday, July 31 – Smart Search will be unavailable as we upgrade the operating system. This upgrade is expected to take a few weeks, but will be operational by the start of the fall semester.
Library users can still find books and journals in the InfoHawk Catalog or search for articles in our thousands of databases.
On August 1st, faculty members will be able to authorize a designated person (proxy) to request and pick-up materials in their name for Interlibrary Loan materials. An online request form is available at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/forms/ill.html.
A list of items checked out or requested via the Proxy card can be viewed by logging in to the Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery system.
To access the proxy account use the three sets of three numbers from the pink barcode number on the Circulation-issued proxy card as the Hawk ID. The password will be emailed to you shortly after submission of this form.
If you later wish to have the account cancelled, please contact interlibrary loan staff to cancel the account and prohibit any further checkouts or requests.
The University Libraries are now accepting reservation requests for the Information Arcade classrooms for Spring 2009. Priority will be given to instructors who submit requests before August 28, 2008.
TWO CLASSROOMS
Classroom One features 24 student workstations, Windows XP environments Pentium 4 computers are available at each student desk. All workstations provide access to common ITC and Information Arcade software resources and the Internet.
Classroom Two features 24 student desks and a powered storage cart with 24 Student laptops. The Dell D820 laptops are loaded with Windows Vista and make use of the classroom’s wireless network.
If you require additional software for your classes, please indicate so on the classroom reservation form.
INSTRUCTOR’S WORKSTATIONS
The Classroom One instructor’s station is equipped a Dell Pentium 4, and can project to two high-end Sharp projectors. The instructor’s station is also equipped with a VCR and has additional inputs for laptop computers and any external audio or video peripherals.
The Classroom Two instructor’s station is equipped with two laptops, either or both of which can display on two high-end Sharp LCD projectors. It is also equipped with a VCR, DVD player, visual presenter, and inputs from your own laptop if preferred.
The Information Arcade classrooms are intended to support courses that require multimedia software, electronic sources and integrate new pedagogical methods into courses.
SUPPORT
Various levels of staff support are always available to instructors teaching in the Information Arcade classrooms. For basic orientation to the technologies available in the classroom, please contact Ann Khan at 335-5447 or via e-mail annadora-khan@uiowa.edu.
For assistance in preparing a class or for in-class instructional help, staff from the Information Arcade, as well as the Reference and Library Instruction Department are available. Simply indicate assistance needs on the online classroom reservation form.
For more information, or to reserve the Information Arcade classroom for your semester course, please visit the classroom web page.
Library staffer Grace Katzenmeyer and her friends are featured in an article in the Senior Living section of the Iowa City Press-Citizen. These women have been friends for more than 70 years.
To best support our library users needs and accommodate difficulties they had returning materials while the Main Library was evacuated (the period from Friday, June 13 through Wednesday, July 9), we have adjusted the following due dates.
This week we will begin processing recalls and sending notices that were received while the Main Library was closed.
If you have any questions about due dates, you can “Check My Account” from the Libraries’ website. You may also contact Main Library Circulation staff at lib-maincirc@uiowa.edu or 319-335-5912.
Moving Special Collections materials to the lower-level storage area has progressed very quickly, and we expect to have the third floor hallway cleared today.
However a few volunteers are needed Thursday afternoon and Friday. Please call the Main Library Information Desk at 319-335-5299 to sign-up for a shift on Thursday or Friday.
NO volunteers are needed over the weekend.
While we resume business as usual in the Main Library, library staff is also trying to return evacuated materials to their appropriate places in the lower-level storage space. Returning the materials will be a much slower process than taking them out to make sure that items are retreivable.
We could use a few volunteers to help with this effort over the next week. Only 30-40 people are needed at a time. We will be moving materials only during the Main Library’s modified summer schedule:
The Main Library will re-open to the public Wednesday, July 9 at 7:30 a.m. and be open on a modified summer schedule.
During the next few weeks, while library staff move materials to the lower level storage areas, library users may experience some minor inconveniences. Staff will be using two of the four elevators to move materials and some materials will be inaccessible. If you have questions, or need assistance finding materials, please Ask a Librarian.
Study Space
Seating throughout the Main Library will be limited through the rest of the summer. Evacuated materials from the library’s lower level remain on the upper floors. Crews of library student employees are returning materials to their proper locations in storage.
Computers
Publicly accessible computers will only be available on the first floor of the Main Library.
The second-floor ITC (Instructional Technology Center computer lab), will NOT be available. Electrical problems caused by the flooding has eliminated power to that area of the building.
Cafe
The Food for Thought Library Cafe will be closed through Sunday, July 13th and is expected to re-open on Monday, July 14.
Services
Books on 4th and 5th floors are available for check-out. Course reserve materials are available. Some materials from storage will be inaccessible for immediate future.
Media materials in course reserves are available. The DVD collection is available for check-out. Some films may be inaccessible for immediate future.
Reference and Instruction librarians are available in person, through online chat, email and the phone.
Special Collections librarians are available to help researchers with reference questions; however much of the collection from storage is inaccessible.
With the re-opening of the Main Library building, regular summer hours at Hardin and the branch libraries resume (except Art and Music libraries, which remain closed). Check UI Libraries’ website for a complete listing of hours.
We expect to re-open the Main Library to the public and return to regular summer hours (7:30 a.m. - 9 p.m.) on Wednesday, July 9.
The building will remain closed on Monday, July 7 and Tuesday, July 8.
Retrieving Books
Circulation staff will continue to retrieve materials and deliver to other libraries for faculty, staff and students on Monday and Tuesday. Requests for print materials will be handled through the online form (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/forms/deliveryrequest.html).
Please provide as much information as possible about your needs – class date, best location for delivery, whether the materials should also be placed on Reserve, etc. If you have questions, please contact Library Circulation staff at lib-maincirc@uiowa.edu or (319) 335-5912.
Media Services staff will NOT retrieve materials on Monday and Tuesday; much of the collection was evacuated from the lower level and needs to be returned to shelves. Any questions about media materials should be made via email lib-media-services@uiowa.edu or phone 335-5944.
Research Help Available
Reference library staff continue to answer reference questions via email lib-ref@uiowa.edu and online chat.
Art and Music Libraries
The Art and Music libraries remain closed until further notice. Art Library staff members can contacted via e-mail at rijn-templeton@uiowa.edu or kim-carpenter@uiowa.edu.
Music Library staff members can be reached via email at ruthann-mctyre@uiowa.edu, susan-malecki@uiowa.edu or amy-mcbeth@uiowa.edu.
Last November, University Conservator Gary Frost visited Arequipa, Peru, at former UI Librarian Helen Ryan’s invitation to assist in preservation assessment of the historical libraries in the area. Gary has returned to Arequipa to provide further assistance along with a couple of his colleagues from other universities. A major activity will be moving an entire collection out of a condemned, earthquake damaged library.
You can follow the progress of the team on Gary’s blog.
Arequipa is in the southern region of Peru near the border with Chile. With a population of one million, it is the second largest city. The city is 40 miles from the coast and surrounded by volcanoes and expansive canyon lands. The region has had long pre-Incan settlement with an archeological record of more than 6,000 years. The Incan intrusion began in the 14th century. Spanish settlement was established in 1539.
Libraries for the education of clerics were founded beginning in the mid 17th century. Subsequent acquisition programs have continued to build the collections bringing together printed books imported to Peru as well as those printed in Peru over a period of five centuries. The genres collected include civil and canon law, theology, ecclesiastic history, philosophy, sociology, and linguistics. The church libraries have also served as repositories for magazines, newspapers and regional imprints of various kinds.
The project team will demonstrate actions needed to preserve these historical libraries. Specialists Chela Metzger from the Kilgarlin Center for the Preservation of the Cultural Record, University of Texas at Austin, Anna Embree, from the School of Library and Information Studies, The University of Alabama and project director Gary Frost, UICB Instructor and University of Iowa Libraries Conservator will demonstrate non-damaging exhibit installation, methods for preservation of historical libraries and cleaning and stabilization of book collections. The team will also participate in salvage of collections from earthquake damage.
All University of Iowa Libraries will be closed on Friday, July 4 to celebrate Independence Day.
Hardin Library will have limited hours (Saturday, July 5: 10:00am - 2:00pm, Sunday, July 6: Noon - 4:00pm); however the 24-hour study room will be open throughout the weekend.
The Lichtenberger Engineering Library will be open on Sunday, July 6: 4:00 - 8:00 pm.
Other than the Main, Art and Music libraries, all others will be open again beginning Monday, July 7.
The Main Library is Closed.
After moving library servers back to the Main Library, they are now up and functioning. Online services should be back to normal operating levels.
At approximately 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 2, all library servers will be shutdown in order to move them back into Main Library. The move will take approximately two hours. Once the move is complete, all library IT infrastructure should be restored to pre-flood levels.
This includes:
