Iowa Bird Photographs by Kai Weatherman We are displaying some of Kai Weatherman’s beautiful pictures of birds in Iowa.  Please come and visit this colorful display.   Kai is the library assistant to the Sciences Library.  The Paper birds in the case are done by one of our talented students Mary.  

     SCIFINDER ACCESS IS CHANGING SOON!   The University of Iowa Libraries will be moving to the web version of SciFinder.  Any University of Iowa faculty, staff or student wishing to use SciFinder must register to use the web version.     Access to the client version of SciFinder we currently use will be discontinued onContinue reading “New SciFinder Access Changing June 30, 2011”

We wanted to let everyone know that Web of Science (Web of Knowledge) does not currently work with IE9. You will have to use Firefox or Google Chrome.  The Library and ITC computers are still on IE8 so you should be OK there, at least for now. What we heard from the the company is: “At present, Web of KnowledgeContinue reading “Web of Science not working with IE9”

The Sciences Library will have different hours because of the closing of Hardin Library as they go through repairs. Hours are: M-TH 9:00am-12 am F 9am – 6pm S 9am – 6pm Sun 12pm -12am Thank you and welcome Hardin!

Everything is blooming at the Sciences Library! Our feature exhibit this month is Flowers. In the case we cover everything from fossils, medicinal and pollinators. So please stop over to see the books we have on display. We would love to thank the Paleontology Repository for the donation of the frog hopper, insects in the DominicanContinue reading “Everything Blooming…”

Earth Day April 22, 2011 Sciences Library is celebrating Earth Day! Our display has some of the different issues that our Earth faces every day. We have actually taken over the whole library! The third floor covers the environment, second is animals and on first we have all of them.  Please join us!

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. –Albert Eistein We have a new display with Albert Einstein and Pi Day! Pi is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference  of a circle to its diamerter. Pi Day is celebrated by math entusiasts around the world on MarchContinue reading “Einstein and Pi Day at the Sciences Library!”

The Science’s libguides has a new link that is a wonderful addition we hope you will use. It is the ScienceCinema. The following is the offical description of it. Scientific videos highlighting the most exciting research and development sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are now available through ScienceCinema. The multimedia search toolContinue reading “ScienceCinema Gives You Searchable Videos”

Welcome back to school! Hope you had a wonderful break. We have been busy getting the websites updated and adding our new library guides. If you check out the Chemistry website for example you will find a new way to search and find out news happening in the Sciences Library. Please checkout our current displayContinue reading “Welcome back students, from the Sciences Library…”

The holidays are over but at the Sciences Library we have a snow display up. Avalanches, blizzards, and the physics of skiing we have it all . Come and check out our winter wonderland! If you have any suggestions for a displays please send them to us. We are always looking for new ideas.