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• Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
  • Open until Midnight on Friday through Thursday.
  • 24-hour study room available with a key card.
• Pomerantz Business Library
  • Open until Midnight Sunday through Thursday.
• Lichtenberger Engineering Library
  • Open until Midnight Sunday through Thursday.

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Jon Winet, Director of the Digital Studio for Public Humanities at the University of Iowa

Jon Winet has been named the inaugural director of the Digital Studio for Public Humanities at the University of Iowa.

The new Studio is a campus-wide initiative based in the Main Library that will encourage and support public digital humanities research and scholarship by faculty, staff, and students, including those involved in “Public Humanities in a Digital World,” one of the interdisciplinary faculty “clusters” that have been established so far under the UI Cluster Hire Initiative.

Provost P. Barry Butler Professor stated in a note to faculty late last week:

“Winet has long been a strong advocate and practitioner of public digital humanities and art. Many of you may know him as one of the driving forces behind the online art and literature project The Daily Palette. He directs The University of Iowa UNESCO City of Literature Mobile Application Development Team, which last fall launched ‘City of Lit,’ an iPhone app that highlights Iowa City’s rich literary history. He has engaged in a series of collaborative projects around politics, art, language, and image in the Information Age, including ‘Novel Iowa City,’ an experimental community writing project created and presented via Twitter during the 2011 Iowa City Book Festival. He is currently in pre-production on ‘First in the Nation,’ a New Media documentary project on the run-up to the 2012 Iowa Caucuses. In 2007, he received the UI President’s Award for State Outreach and Public Engagement.”

The Libraries is excited to have the Digital Studio located on the first floor of Main Library and we look forward to partnering with Jon and others on this exciting initiative. You will hear more about the Digital Studio in the months ahead, as it gets up and running under Jon’s leadership. Welcome, Jon!

The Instructional Technology Center (ITC) in the Main Library is now operational. The transformer that powers the largest ITC on campus had been damaged when the lower level of the Main Library took on water during the flooding earlier this summer.

The damaged equipment has been replaced and the electrical supply has been tested. The computers are operational.

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.