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AMAG Card Needed for Access to 24-hour Study

Your university ID card will no longer allow access to Hardin’s 24-hour study. The new security system requires an AMAG card, a white plastic card about the size of a credit card.

If you plan to use the 24-hour study, please stop by the 3rd floor Information Desk to apply for access. If you already have an AMAG card for entrance to other buildings, access to the 24-hour study will be added to that card. If you do not already have an AMAG card, one will be issued. The process can take a few days, so please don’t wait until the last minute.

Please contact Linda Walton, Hardin Library Director, at linda-walton@uiowa.edu or 319-335-9873 if you have questions or concerns about the new AMAG security system.

Notes from the Rare Book Room, September 2011

ALESSANDRO ACHILLINI (1463-1512). Opera omnia in unum collecta. Venice: Apud Hieronymum Scotum, 1568

Achillini graduated from Bologna in 1484 with his doctorate in both medicine and philosophy. He immediately began his advancement through the academic ranks by teaching philosophy and, after 1495, he also taught medicine. He left Bologna for Padua in 1506 because of political difficulties and returned in 1508 to teach until his death four years later.

During his lifetime he was most highly regarded as a teacher of logic and philosophy, and little attention was paid to his medical or anatomical contributions. His Opera omnia was first published in 1508. The contents of the book include: De intelligentiis, De orbibus, De universalibus, De physico auditu, De elementis, De subiecto physionomiae & chiromantiae, De subiecto medicinae, De prima potestate syllogismi, De distinctionibus and, De proportione motuum.

His works were generally on the thought and doctrine of Aristotle. In the latter tract Achillini asserts that physiognomy and chiromancy are speculative sciences and not wholly practical. It was his belief that they were subordinated to natural philosophy.

Notes from the Rare Book Room, July 2011

Frederick Ruysch (1638-1731). Thesaurus anatomicus. 10 pts. 1729-1737.

Rusch, a Dutch surgeon, anatomist and professor of anatomy at Leiden and Amsterdam, mastered (and probably invented) a method of minute injection of anatomical structures allowing detailed studies. The recipe for the injected substance has been lost, however. He made many anatomical investigations, including those of the vascular plexuses of the heart, and was the first to point out the nourishment of the fetus through the umbilical cord. The ten parts of his Thesaurus Anatomicus are especially noteworthy, and the engraved illustrations which accompany them deserve special mention for their whimsical, almost surealistic, quality.

Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, May 2011

History of Medicine Society Presentations and Events, 2011/2012

The presentation series for 2011/2012 has now been published. Talks range from 1) Memories of Oakdale Sanatorium to 2) History of Anesthesia in the Veterans Administration to 3) Medical Quakes in the 18th Century.

Hirst to Attend Rare Book School

We are pleased to announce that Donna Hirst, curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room, has been accepted to the very prestigious Rare Book School located on the University of Virginia campus. She will attend the week-long class, Printed Books to 1800: Description & Analysis, where she will learn more about the physical aspects of books from the hand-press period. The course will cover such things as the identification and description of paper (laid vs. wove, watermarks); typography (type sizes and styles); letterpress printing; illustration processes (relief, intaglio); binding materials (leather, parchment, paper) and styles (dating and localizing bindings. The instructor, David Whitesell, is Curator of Books at the American Antiquarian Society. Previously, he was rare book cataloger at the Houghton Library, Harvard University and was in the antiquarian book trade.

John Martin Rare Book Room- News Notes, Feb 2011

Le Boursier, a prominent Parisian midwife, first published the present work in 1759 without illustrations. The success of the book encouraged her to have later editions illustrated by Jean Robert (fl. 1746-1782). The 1769 edition was the first book on midwifery to appear with plates printed in multiple colors. Robert, a pupil of Le Blon, is known to have illustrated only three books and this was his most copiously illustrated book. The finely applied colors often appear to be hand-painted rather than printed.

Walton accepted for NLM fellowship program

Linda Walton, Associate University Librarian and Director of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, has been accepted for the prestigious National Library of Medicine’s 2011 fellowship program in Biomedical Informatics held at the Marine Biological Laboratory located in Woods Hole, MA.

This week-long survey course is designed to familiarize individuals with the application of computer technologies and information science in biomedicine and health science. Taught by a nationally known faculty, the course prepares students to become actively involved in making informed decisions about computer-based tools in her organizational environment.

Congratulations to our graduating student employees!

Three student employees of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences are graduating this semester.

Tessa Whalen, B.A. Spanish
Tessa will begin attending the nursing program at Kirkwood Community College next month. She plans to then obtain an advanced nursing degree and work as a nurse practitioner.

Abbie Leppert, B.S.N. Nursing
Abbie is returning to her hometown of Houston. She is applying for jobs in nursing oncology.

Kyle Casper, B.A. Cinema, B.B.A. Finance
Kyle will be moving to New York this summer and work on feature-length movies for a couple years and then pursue an MFA in film production. Kyle worked as an intern on several films last summer.

Notes from the Rare Book Room December, 2010

An Invitation to Explore the Past

Visit us before, during or after the holidays and bring a friend. To insure that the room is open email donna-hirst@uiowa.edu or call 335-9154.

National Medical Librarian’s Month Fact #2

Since July 1, 2010, Hardin librarians and staff have taught over 80 sessions on library resources. We have done orientation sessions for students, faculty and residents. We go into the classrooms and teach library resources to students at the Colleges of Public Health, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry and the Carver College of Medicine. And of course we teach our Hardin Open Workshops which offer a variety of content and are open to any student, staff or faculty on campus.