Hardin News – Page 56

Free coffee for finals week & lots of study space

Does coffee make studying easier for you? We can help you with that!

Hardin Library will begin serving free coffee beginning Friday, May 10th at 6pm. Finals week coffee is sponsored by Linda Walton, Associate University Librarian for the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences & Branch Libraries.

Do you hate not being able to find a place to study? You will be able to find one at our library!

15 quiet study rooms
8 group study rooms
253 seats at tables
72 computers
7 couches
112 study carrels
15 lounge chairs
24 hour study area

Philanthropy Day: Hardin Library construction funded through gifts and NIH grant

Hardin Library for the Health Sciences opened in 1974. The building was designed by Walter Netsch, and was funded by $1.4 million in gifts and a National Institute of Health grant for $2.3 million.

The John Martin Rare Book Room was started by a generous donation of books and funding from Dr. John Martin.

See History of the Hardin Library for more pictures and information about the library.

If you would like to donate to our library, you may do so online.

Service Spotlight: Reserve a group study room for finals prep

Do you have a group project to work on and can’t find a space?

Try our group study rooms.

You can reserve rooms online at http://uiowa.libcal.com/booking/hardin-groupstudy up to 2 weeks in advance.

National Poetry Month @HardinLib

April is National Poetry Month. Poems on many subjects have been posted throughout the library for you to enjoy. This year the poems were selected by Hardin Library student employees.

Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, April 2013

History of Medicine Society Presentations and Events 2013/2014

Thursday, September 26, 2013, 5:30-6:30. Dayle DeLancey, Asst. Professor, Dept of Medical History & Bioethics, Univ. of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “African American Print Culture and the History of Medicine”.

Thursday, October 24, 2013, 5:30-6:30. Russell Currier, Past President, American Veterinary Medical History Society, “2,000 Year History of Scabies: From Humoral Beliefs to Contagion to Modern Understanding”.

Thursday, November 21, 2013, 5:30-6:30. K. Lindsay Eaves, MA, PhD candidate. Research Asst., UI Biological Anthropology Lab and Report Manager for Wapsi Valley Archaeology, Inc., Anamosa, IA, “An Uncorseted Life: The Medical Basis of Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker’s Suffrage and Dress Reform Activism”.

Thursday, January 23, 2014, 5:30-6:30. Asitha Jayawardena, Medical student, Univ. of Iowa. Winner of Sparks Essay Contest. “Expedited ‘Diffusion of Innovation’: A reflection on the Ponseti Method in the current era of medicine”.

Thursday, February 27, 2014, 5:30-6:30. H. Stanley Thompson, Emeritus Prof. Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Univ. of Iowa, “Abraham Flexner’s Contributions to the University of Iowa’s College of Medicine”.

Thursday, March 27, 2014, 4:30-7:00 John Martin Rare Book Room, 4th floor, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa “Open House in the John Martin Rare Book Room”

Friday, April 25, 2014, 6:00-9:00 History of Medicine Society Banquet. W. Bruce Fye, Professor of Medicine and Medical History, Mayo Clinic, “Franklin Roosevelt’s Secret ‘Serious Heart Ailment’ and the 1944 Presidential Campaign.” Location to be determined.

Learn how to use PubMed with our session on Wednesday, April 24th

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 you to the basics of searching PubMed and will also cover: using subject headings (MeSH headings), combining searches, choosing limits, and saving, printing and emailing search results.

Our next session is

Wednesday, April 24th 1:00-2:00pm (Location: East Information Commons)

No time for class? Ask your librarian for a private consult!

Keep current with a free workshop at Hardin on April 18th

Want to know as soon as an exciting new article is published? Tired of skimming the websites or paper copies of multiple journals to see what is in the new issue? This hands-on session will show you how to create a single destination for information from your favorite journals, databases, websites and blogs using RSS feeds and auto-alerts.

Our next session is:

Thursday, April 18th, 11:00am-12:00pm (Location: East Information Commons).

History of Medicine Dinner-Thomas Hager to speak

The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society Dinner, April 26, 2013, 6:oopm-9:30pm

Thomas Hager will speak on The First Miracle Drug: How the Discovery of Sulfa Saved the President’s Son, Put a Nobel Prize Winner in Jail, and Changed Medical History.

The media called it “the miracle of miracles,” a wonder drug that conquered diseases, saved millions of lives—among them Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.—and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. No, it was not penicillin. The miracle came a decade earlier in the form of sulfa, an off-the-shelf, unpatentable dye-making ingredient that fundamentally changed the practice of medicine.

Sulfa shifted the way new drugs are developed, approved, and sold; reshaped the relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry; and spurred the creation of today’s drug laws. Today sulfa is almost forgotten. But Thomas Hager, author of The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor’s Heroic Search for the World’s First Miracle Drug brings it back to life, detailing the heyday of sulfa, its rise and fall, and the lessons it still teaches about the interplay between research, government, big business, and the art of healing.

Improve your lit search for a systematic review with a free workshop on April 9th

This class will focus on tips and techniques for carrying out a successful literature search in support of a systematic review.

Topics will include techniques for developing search strategies, deciding which databases to search and how to seek out grey literature for a given topic. There will also be discussion on selecting journals for hand searching, documenting search strategies, and saving and organizing references.

Our next session:

Tuesday, April 9th 12:00-1:00pm (Location: East Information Commons, Hardin Library)

Learn how to manage your citations with EndNote: Come to the free workshop on Thursday, April 4

EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class will be hands-on and there will be time for questions at the end.

Our next session is

Thursday, April 4, 2:00pm (Location: East Information Commons)

No time for a class? We can help you with tips and support.