News and Events at The University of Iowa Libraries
Room 2060 and women’s restrooms 2064 and 3137 will be closed on Thursday, January 31, 2013 from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM (9 hours).
This is necessary to relocate existing plumbing as part of the Library Learning Commons Project.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Work Control Center at 335-5071.
No more waiting around to pick up DVDs at the Main Library. Just request them online and have them waiting for you. The DVD collection located in the Main Library consists of over 18,000 titles, ranging from documentaries to tv shows.
Delivery to your closest library as well as to the North Circulation desk within the Main Library is possible through the “Request” option in InfoHawk or Smart Search.
Requests placed before midnight will be available at the Main Library North Circulation desk before noon the next day and requests placed before 11:30am will be available the same day by 5pm, Monday-Friday.
Whether you want to watch a movie for fun or need to prepare for a course, we have improved our delivery service to make check-out faster and more convenient. Remember, just click “Request” and have your DVD(s) waiting for you to pick up!
Looking for somewhere new to study during finals? Look no further – campus libraries are the right place.
How do you keep going through the night during finals? FREE Coffee!
Stop by the Food for Thought at 10pm-Midnight on Sun, Mon and Tues for a FREE cup ‘o joe.
Need a little extra time to hit the books during finals week – come the Main Library. Open 24 hours starting Sunday, December 9 at 11am through Friday, December 14 at 11 pm.
Big dogs, small dogs and everything in between from the Therapy Dogs of Johnson County will be in the Main Library for a finals study break on Monday, December 10 from 4-7 p.m. in the Main Library rm 2032 (conference room adjacent to large computer lab).
Therapy Dogs of Johnson County is a volunteer therapy dog group comprised of Delta Society registered Pet Partner teams. Their purpose is to bring the benefits of the human-animal bond to members of our community.
The last time the dogs visited the library, more than 80 people came to see them. One student commented, “this is one of the best study breaks I’ve ever had! It’s so relaxing to pet a dog and forget about the stress.”
Need a little stress reliever during all that studying for finals? Stop by the Main Library tonight between 4-7p and meet some of the great dogs from Therapy Dogs of Johnson County.
All they want you to do – is pet them!
The dogs will be in the second floor conference room (adjacent to the large computer) in the Main Library.
Somewhere between an idea and a fully formed published work is the gray area of research in progress, raw data and “science right now” reports. This gray literature is often difficult to find, but provides details often omitted for the final published work and provides rapid release in new research areas.
Check out this guide to Gray/Grey Literature to bump up your research vocabulary: http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/graylit .
By Michael S. Lewis-Beck, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science
As emeritus faculty, I’ve spent my career researching and writing about politics. I published my first academic paper in 1974. Then as it is today, having your academic work cited is critical. But now the methods of scholarly publishing are very different. Academic publishers and academic libraries alike are faced with financial challenges of changing technologies and greater demand for information.
Over the course of my career I’ve authored or co-authored more than 200 articles and books in comparative elections, election forecasting, political economy and quantitative methodology. I can’t hazard a guess as to how many students, researchers and others have read my ideas in the past 40 years.
Then three years ago, 24 of my articles and book chapters were uploaded into Iowa Research Online (http://ir.uiowa.edu). Now each month, I receive notification of how many times an article has been downloaded. It’s exciting to see those numbers grow. But what might be even more exhilarating is the fact that my work will be available to students and researchers in perpetuity.
