Meet Brittney Thomas, Manager for the NNLM All of Us Coordinating Center. Brittney joined the Greater Midwest Region of the National Network of the Libraries of Medicine in November and has spent the last few weeks learning as much as she can about health librarianship. In her new role, Brittney will be coordinating outreach andContinue reading “Brittney Thomas, MLIS | All of Us Manager”
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UI awarded $3.6M NIH Grant for “All of Us” personal medicine initiative
Originally published in IowaNow online. UI to lead national campaign educating Americans, health care professionals about precision medicine $3.6 million NIH grant will make the UI a national hub for creating and distributing educational information for the ‘All of Us’ initiative By: Richard C. Lewis | 2017.11.29 | 09:45 am The University of Iowa is poised to lead aContinue reading “UI awarded $3.6M NIH Grant for “All of Us” personal medicine initiative”
November 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room | Ars moriendi = The Art of Dying
Ars moriendi. [Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, c. 1495] Although the author of Ars moriendi is not known, the book is believed to have been written in Southern Germany at the time of the Council of Constance (1414-1418). Ars moriendi, or The art of dying, was intended to instruct the reader on the proper modes of behaviorContinue reading “November 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room | Ars moriendi = The Art of Dying”
Meet The Expert: Jen DeBerg, Reference Services Librarian
Jen DeBerg, Reference Services Librarian Master of Library Science, Emporia State University Bachelor of Science, Occupational Therapy, Elizabethtown College Areas of expertise: Adjunct Lecturer, College of Nursing Health sciences literature searching Systematic reviews EndNote Teaching and training users Finding evidence-based resources Arthur Benton Excellence in Reference Services award winner Outside the library: Jen lives inContinue reading “Meet The Expert: Jen DeBerg, Reference Services Librarian”
Paracelsus, father of toxicology | October 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
PARACELSUS (1493-1541). Opera, Bücher und Schrifften. Strasbourg: In Verlegung L. Zetzners seligen Erben, 1616. Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim is universally known as Paracelsus. He was born in Switzerland and educated at Basel. Paracelsus unorthodox ideas and teachings put him in conflict with the orthodox establishment of his revolutionary time and he spent most of hisContinue reading “Paracelsus, father of toxicology | October 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Librarian Activities at Midwest Chapter of Medical Library Association Annual Meeting 2017
The Midwest Chapter of The Medical Library Association (MLA) and Michigan Health Science Library Association joint annual conference is in Yipsilanti, Michigan this year. Our librarians are going to be busy! Heather Healy, Clinical Education Librarian and Mahrya Carncross, Scholarly Communications Librarian for UI Libraries will present Picture This! Teaching Ethical Use of Health Sciences Images, aboutContinue reading “Librarian Activities at Midwest Chapter of Medical Library Association Annual Meeting 2017”
Major, Chirugia Infusoria | Blood Transfusion | September 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
JOHANN DANIEL MAJOR (1634-1693). Chirurgia infusoria. Kiel: Sumptibus Joh. Lüdervvald, Impremebat Joach. Reumannus, 1667. Major, a native of Breslau, Germany, received his second medical degree at Padua in 1660. He practiced medicine at Hamburg and Wittenberg before being appointed the first professor of medicine at Kiel in 1665. Major was a physician, a naturalist, collector,Continue reading “Major, Chirugia Infusoria | Blood Transfusion | September 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Abu al-Qasim | August 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
ABU AL-QASIM (d. 1013?). Liber theoricae necnon practicae Alsaharavii. [Augsburg: Impensis Sigismundi Grimm, & Marci Vuirsung, 1519]. Abu al-Qasim (or Abulcasis, or Albucasis, as he is variously known), a native of Cordova in Moorish Spain, may be classed with Avicenna in the importance of his great medical encyclopedia, al-Tasrif. Kitab Al-Tasrif was originally published in 30Continue reading “Abu al-Qasim | August 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
ANDRÉ DU LAURENS | July 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
ANDRÉ DU LAURENS (1558-1609). De mirabili strumas sanandi vi solis Galliae regi-bus christianissimis divinitus concessa liber unus. Paris: Apud Marcum Orry, 1609. Du Laurens taught at Montpellier until 1598 when he was called to Paris as court physician. In this position he eventually became personal physician to Marie de Medici and King Henry IV. DuringContinue reading “ANDRÉ DU LAURENS | July 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Meet The Expert: Janna Lawrence, Deputy Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
Janna Lawrence, Deputy Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences Master of Library and Information Science, University of Texas at Austin Bachelor of Arts, Rhetoric, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Areas of expertise: Health sciences literature searching Trends in health sciences publishing Copyright, fair use, appropriate use of resources Open access publishing Identifying predatory publishersContinue reading “Meet The Expert: Janna Lawrence, Deputy Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences”