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July 12th was the kickoff for the 2016 National LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) convention. Janet, assistant curator here at the IWA, attended the conference to promote “Migration is Beautiful,” a new website featuring vignettes, oral history interview clips, memoirs, letters, and  photographs from the IWA’s Mujeres Latinas Project.

The new website highlights the experiences and contributions Latinas and Latinos have made to the state of Iowa. It also hosts an interactive map that shows the migration of Latinos through Iowa during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Recently, Hola Iowa, a news outlet focusing on Latinos in the Midwest, featured a vignette and photos from the Migration is Beautiful website.

We are very proud of Janet, and can’t wait to hear more about the convention when she returns!

 

 

 

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Hardin Library recently welcomed two new Clinical Education Librarians, Heather Healy and Matt Regan.

Heather is the primary liaison to Carver College of Medicine and to a number of UIHC departments, including Internal Medicine. Before arriving at Hardin on July 1, Heather was a health sciences librarian at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, and previously worked at Kansas State University libraries. Before receiving her Master of Library Science degree from Emporia State University, Heather worked as an editor for Human Kinetics, a health sciences publisher. You can contact Heather at heather-healy@uiowa.edu.

Matt Regan joined the Hardin staff on July 18 and will be the liaison to Family Medicine and several other departments. He will also support Hardin’s website and other technologies. An Iowa native, Matt received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa. After receiving his Master of Library and Information Science Degree from Dominican University, he was a reference and instruction librarian at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, where he served as liaison to Nursing and other health sciences programs. You can contact Matt at matthew-regan@uiowa.edu.

Welcome to Hardin, Heather and Matt!

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The Greater Midwest Region (GMR) @Hardin Library and South Central Region (SCR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine present a jointly sponsored webinar :

Data Research Services: University of Michigan Experience

Thursday, July 21, 2-3pm CDT

This webinar session is focused on interviewing Jake Carlson and Marisa Conte, both who are involved in research data services at the University of Michigan. Join us to learn how data services support interactions between scientists and librarians, and how these interactions create new opportunities for health sciences libraries.

Topics covered in this webinar include:

• needs assessments to inform a research data service
• the importance of teaching data literacy
• data management requirement from funding agencies
• value of health science libraries as partners in data management

Jake Carlson is the Research Data Services Manager for the UM Library. He oversees the development and implementation of a data services program designed to apply the practices, principles and perspectives of library science to address researchers’ needs in managing, organizing, sharing and preserving their research data. More information about Jake and the work that he has done is available on his website.

As the Translational Research and Data Informationist, Marisa Conte [Profile] provides research support to clinical and basic scientists with an emphasis on translational research. Her areas of expertise include data management, biomedical informatics, collaborative technologies, and expert literature searching. 

To join the meeting:

1. Go to: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/jointwebinar/
2. At the log in screen, choose “Enter as a Guest” and type in your name.
3. Once the room is open, the system will provide you with a phone number to dial-in and a participant code to connect to the audio.
4. Please use *6 to mute or unmute your phone.

Problems? Contact the SCR Regional Medical Library (RML) office at 817-735-2223.

Friday, July 15, 2016
Submitted by Katarzyna Bator and Bailey Kinsky

Dry cleaning is the first step in most, if not all conservation treatments. Loose dirt and soil buildup collects on exposed portions of the object, in this case on the outermost part of the scroll. Additional dirt can find its way onto the surface of the object when it is handled with dirty hands. Soft brushes, vulcanized rubber sponges, and vinyl erasers are most commonly used in dry cleaning works of art and archival materials.