To celebrate Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birthday — she was born on this day in 1867 — we couldn’t decide whether to churn butter or make a corn-cob doll. So instead we…
Monthly Archives: February 2013
ReferenceUSA & Onesource Trials (End 28 February, 2013)
Find both databases on this site. ReferenceUSA is the nation’s premier source for business and consumer research data. Powered by Infogroup data, the database is updated monthly and contains detailed […]
Driven by love
These transportation-themed (and occasionally offensive, by today’s standards) cards are among the several dozen vintage valentines now featured on our Iowa Digital Library Pinterest site.
Kathy Fait to speak on “The History of the State Hygienic Laboratory at the Univ of Iowa”
Kathy Fait, Librarian, State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa “The History of the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa” Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:30-6:30 Room 401,…
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, February 2013
SAINT HILDEGARD (1098-1179). Physica. Strasbourg, 1533. Hildegard, called Hildegard of Bingen, was eight years old when her family placed her in a nearby Benedictine convent where she subsequently became a…
Early Encounters in North America – Trial ends 3 April 2013
Early Encounters in North America contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Particular care has been taken to index the material…
ReferenceUSA -and- Onesource – Trial ended 28 February 2013
Find both databases on this site. ReferenceUSA is the nation’s premier source for business and consumer research data. Powered by Infogroup data, the database is updated monthly and contains detailed…
Learn to speed up your research with Scopus! Free workshop at Hardin Library, Tuesday, February 19
Scopus is a multidisciplinary database with substantial international coverage. All citations that are in EMBASE are also in Scopus. Scopus also allows you to measure an author’s scholarly impact and…
Leigh Hunt’s Fireplace
Last week we opened, for the first time, a wooden shipping crate that had been stored in the department for many years. It had been sent to the Libraries in…
It is so cold today we can hardly keep warm I wonder if you have as changeable weather in Dixie
Pontiac Ill. Feb. 1st 1863 Dearest Husband It is so cold today we can hardly keep warm I wonder if you have as changeable weather in Dixie I have spent the Sabbath as usual There were a great many out … Continue reading →