Saba Rasheed Ali, an associate professor in the University of Iowa Counseling Psychology Department in the College of Education, received a Roy J. Carver charitable trust grant of more than $11,000 to expand a career education program called Project HOPE (Healthcare, Occupations, Preparation, Exploration): Pipeline Education for Underserved Rural Students.The initiative will allow middle school students toContinue reading “Hardin Library participates in pipeline education project”
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Save time with our Refworks class Monday @ 9am
Want some help writing your next paper? Come to Hardin Library’s class on RefWorks and learn about this web-based bibliographic management tool. In this class, you’ll learn how to import citations from PubMed, how to enter references, how to create a quick bibliography, and how to add end and foot notes to your papers (Write-n-Cite). Continue reading “Save time with our Refworks class Monday @ 9am”
Learn new skills this summer with free workshops!
Need help keeping your articles or citations in order? Want to learn more about PubMed? We have free open workshops this summer at the library. Register online or by calling 319-335-9151.
Don’t Struggle With Research During the Fall Semester
During the last couple days of the semester, you’re tired, you’re frustrated and you’re spending WAY too much time searching for information for your paper. The end of next semester can be better! You can learn how to Find the Good Stuff Fast! Learn how to DO MORE than just Google for information Find the type of resourcesContinue reading “Don’t Struggle With Research During the Fall Semester”
Learn PubMed, master EndNote, use RefWorks at our free workshops
Hardin Library is offering the following workshops to faculty, clinicians, staff, and students of the University of Iowa. All sessions are free of charge. Learn PubMed PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to the medical literature and includes over 17 million bibliographic citations in life sciences. This one hour session will introduce youContinue reading “Learn PubMed, master EndNote, use RefWorks at our free workshops”
Lawrence Lessig Webcast, Thursday, Feb. 25
The University of Iowa Libraries will join libraries across the country for a “Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig” on Thursday, February 25 at 5 p.m. in the Main Library Second Floor Conference Room. The lecture by Lawrence Lessig will last 45 minutes, and will be followed by a 30 minute interactive Q & A session.Continue reading “Lawrence Lessig Webcast, Thursday, Feb. 25”
Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI Community, January 2010
January 2010 Issue 1.10 Welcome to the winter issue of Transitions. The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments informnig the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement, and other alternative publishing models.Continue reading “Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI Community, January 2010”
“Comrades in the Labor Room” History of Medicine Presentation
On Wednesday, December 9, Paula Michaels, PhD, UI Department of History will present: “Comrades in the Labor Room: The International Story of the Lamaze Method.” Time: 5:30 to 6:30, December 9 Place: Room 2032, Main Library Light Refreshments will be served Free and open to the public For additional information, contact Ed Holtum; edwin-holtum@uiowa.edu; 335-9154Continue reading ““Comrades in the Labor Room” History of Medicine Presentation”
Iowa Doctors & the Germ Theory of Disease: lecture Wednesday evening
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites everyone to attend a lecture by Matthew T. Schaefer. Mr. Schaefer, archivist at Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, will be speaking on “Iowa Doctors and the Germ Theory of Disease.” The lecture will be at The University of Iowa Main Library, Room 2032 on Wednesday, November 18Continue reading “Iowa Doctors & the Germ Theory of Disease: lecture Wednesday evening”
“Open Access or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Internet”
Did you know that access to some scholarly journals can cost as much as buying a new car…every year? That is a price that UI Libraries cannot afford, but it is a research tool that YOU can’t afford to work without. So what do we do? Open Access: it means more readers, more recognition andContinue reading ““Open Access or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Internet””