University Libraries

Willow Fuchs is the Pomerantz Business Library’s new Reference and Instruction Librarian.  She grew up in Canada and completed her Masters of Information Studies in 2008 at the University of Toronto.  At the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) Willow began her career.  She later moved to Nottingham, United Kingdom.  There, she worked as Open Access Adviser.  Willow’s European experience brought her a passion for issues in Scholarly Publishing.

When Willow has time—and is not chasing her toddler—she likes to knit and on occasion run a Half Marathon.

Stop by and meet Willow when you have a chance, or when you have a reference question!

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to the medical literature and includes over 22 million bibliographic citations in life sciences. This one-hour session will show you how to improve your search results by using subject headings (MeSH) and advanced keyword searching techniques.

Our next session is:

Tuesday, March 11, 9-10 am

Location: Hardin Library East Information Commons

Register here or contact us at lib-hardin@uiowa.edu.

No time for class? Check out our PubMed tutorial.

Twitter is more than just a social media tool. It has developed into a vibrant real-time information network used by health care providers, scholars, and scientists. Come to this hands-on session to learn the basics of Twitter, advanced techniques such as searching, and examples of its uses in the Health Sciences.

Our next session takes place:

Monday, March 10, 2-3 pm

Location: Hardin Library East Information Commons

Register here. To learn more, call (319) 335-9151 or email us at hardin-lib@uiowa.edu

 

Head Quarters, 1st Brig. 1st Div., 11th A.C.
In the Field near Stevenson, Alabama
March 6th 1864
My Dear Wife

We arrived at Stevenson this evening. I recd. your letters of the 23rd and 24th, came to hand by mail, and of the 25th by Dr. Wood who joined us here.¹ I also recd. a very handsome Masonic pin, for which you will please accept my thanks. I am most happy to hear of your good health and that you are trying to enjoy yourself. Three days’ mail has gone forward to Corps Head Qurs., so that I shall get your former letters when we arrive there [in Lookout Valley]. I am also glad to learn that the money I forwarded went safely through.

You wish to know whether you may teach school.² If you can pass your time better in that way, I have no objections; while I would prefer it otherwise, it is for your sake. I fear it will be a severe tax on you, and I wish you to enjoy as much of life as possible. I am afraid also that your health will not admit of it. You must try and prepare yourself for coming events.³

It is barely possible I may get home, but the prospects are not flattering. We have got along thus far on our march very well. To-morrow we expect to reach Bridgeport, Ala., and the day after we will cross the Tennessee River. Where our destination will be next, we cannot tell. Should we be sent to Mobile, we will have no mail facilities for months.⁴ It is still only a rumor as yet & perhaps without foundation.

I forgot all day that it was Sunday. I feel ashamed of myself, but it does sometimes happen so. We have been on the march almost two weeks. The weather is beautiful & the roads good. We marched 14 miles to-day, started at 6 o’clock this morning & went into camp about 2 this P.M.

Chris [Yetter] and Nate [Hill] are looking anxiously for a letter from you. I presume Harry McDowell & Jim Morrow are having a grand time. Remember me kindly to all our friends and give my love to all the family. I will send this letter to Capt. Hoskins & request him to take it home with him. He is still in Nashville.

I have written every day but one since we started. May our Father in Heaven bless you and keep you by Divine Grace. Continue to pray for me. God has been merciful to us; let us hope for a continuance of his favor and in all things praise Him.

Accept all the love and affection of your
Husband,
J. F. Culver

P.S. A very serious Collision occurred on the Rail Road at Anderson in which a Paymaster’s daughter, two soldiers’ wives, and one little babe were killed and several wounded.

1. Mary Culver’s letters of Feb. 23, 24, & 25 are missing from the Culver Collection. Orlando S. Wood, a 25-year-old physician, was mustered in as assistant surgeon at Stevenson, Ala., on March 6, 1864. He was promoted to regimental surgeon on April 9, 1865, and mustered out near Washington, D.C., June 8, 1865. Compiled Service Records of Union Soldiers, NA.
2. See J.F.C.’s letter of March 1, 1864.
3. Mary Culver was three months pregnant.
4. There was no substance to rumors that a powerful column was to be sent southwest from Chattanooga to attack Mobile. This story was triggered by news that General Sherman with two corps had advanced east from Vicksburg and had captured Meridian and that Farragut’s squadron was anchored off the entrance to Mobile Bay. Sherman’s army by March 6 had returned to Vicksburg, and on the 4th General Grant had directed him to transfer most of his troops to Memphis, and be ready to join Grant at Chattanooga for the spring campaign. O. R., Ser. I, Vol. XXXII, pt. III, p. 19.

Do you have NIH-funded grants?  If so, this session, taught by Oliva Smith of the UI Office of Research, will show you how to use the NCBI My Bibliography module to manage citations of NIH-supported research publications, as well as look at how it is used in NIH RPPR electronic progress reports, as well as progress reports submitted on paper.

This session will be held in Hardin Information Commons West on Monday, March 10, 2014, 1:00-2:30 p.m.  To register, email Oliva Smith at oliva-smith@uiowa.edu.

Join the Lichtenberger Engineering Library and the People in Engineering LLC for an exciting afternoon of free pie and Pi(e) trivia.

The fun begins at 1:59 pm on 3.14 in the Seamans Center Student Commons.

Show off your knowledge of Pi(e). Form a team of four and pre-register for a trivia game at http://goo.gl/Ncnvmy.

Pi Day is open to all students, faculty, and staff. Be there or……. be square!

http://www.tumblr.com/reblog/78107880964/OKNFwoCg

Head Quarters, 1st Brig., 1st Div., 11th A.C.
In the Field March 5th 1864
My Dear Wife

We left Tantalon at one o’clock this afternoon. We are now in camp about 5 miles south of Tantalon and 4 miles north of Anderson. We expect to reach Stevenson, Alabama, to-morrow. The [wagon] train just got up as we Started.¹ All right. We are still among the mountains. Our Head Qurs. to-night are upon a little island, about 50 feet wide & perhaps two hundred long. It is “a sweet little nook by the babbling brook.” The moss is growing all around us, & we found some very beautiful flowers, one which contains the colors beautifully blended, red, white and blue.

My health never was better. We have not lost a man crossing the mountains. The valley [of Big Crow Creek] through which we are passing is very narrow. The troops marched all the way upon the Rail Road track. We will break camp at 6 o’clock to-morrow morning. Reveille sounds at 4-1/2 o’clock. It is 14 miles to Stevenson.

I hope you are well and happy. I expect a letter to-morrow night. The roads to-day have been quite good. Give my love to all. May God bless you. Accept much love from

Your Affect. Husband
J. F. Culver

1. On the 4th the 129th Illinois had been detailed to guard the wagon train as it climbed up over the Cumberland Plateau. It was hard pulling for the horses and mules, and soldiers were detailed to help the teams get the wagons up the steeper grades. Darkness overtook the train before it reached Tantalon, where the brigade camped and the wagons were corralled. Grunert, History of the 129th Illinois, pp. 46-47.

Introduction to an online citation management system that is free for everyone at the University of Iowa.   It helps you to manage all your references for a paper (or many papers) as well as create the incite citations and bibliographies in a wide variety of formatting styles.  Taught by Amy Blevins (Clinical Education Librarian, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences) http://goo.gl/N9eS1v

The web version of Endnote Basic will be taught not the full client version!