Need to Know

Apr 02 2020

Preventing Zoombombing | Tips from Office of Teaching & Learning

Posted on April 2, 2020 by Sarah Andrews

The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provided several important privacy tips to prevent Zoom-based classes and meetings from being disrupted.

Do not post the link to your Zoom meeting on social media. Instead, share the link privately with those you wish to invite.
Mute all participants.
Disable the “Share Screen” option for all participants.

Other changes you could try:

Making the Zoom meeting password-protected.
Disabling the “Join Before Host” feature.
Locking the Zoom meeting after everyone has arrived to prevent others from randomly joining.

More information is available on the Zoom Meeting Privacy Options Page of the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology website. If you have questions, please contact the ITS Help Desk.

Mar 27 2020

UpToDate, DynaMed Plus, other clinical point-of-care mobile apps FREE from Hardin Library

Posted on March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 by Sarah Andrews

Hardin Library subscribes to a variety of clinical resources that include free mobile apps for UIowa affiliated users including faculty, staff, students, residents, fellows, and emeritus faculty. Find instructions on how to install on our guide: https://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/mobile.

UpToDate: EBM clinical resource
DynaMed Plus: EBM clinical resources Differences between DynaMed Plus and UpToDate from Harrell Library @PSU
ClinicalKey: Information from 1100 text, 500 journals published by Elsevier
Johns Hopkins ABX Guide Mobile: EBM treatment information for infectious diseases
BMJ Best Practice: decision-support
VisualDX Mobile: visually based differential DX tool
AccessMedicine Mobile: includes DX and RX tools and textbooks
MicroMedex Drug Interactions
Medical Letter app
Micromedex Neofax and Pediatrics Essential Mobile: drug dosing and parenteral nutrition support for peds and neonatal patients
StatRef! Mobile: EBM resources, full-text journal titles, ACP Smart Medicine, Merck Manual, Stedman’s
OvidToday: access to Ovid journals
BrowZine: faster reading of your journals

All of Hardin’s electronic databases and tools are available here: https://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/az.php?s=119595. Most of these sources are responsive and will also work on a mobile device without loading an app.

A more complete list of University of Iowa Libraries electronic resources is available here: https://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/az.php?a=all

If you have difficulty installing apps, please contact us.

Mar 19 2020

Chat and Email Reference Hours Available Specific Hours | 7 days per week

Posted on March 19, 2020March 20, 2020 by Sarah Andrews

Chat and email reference will be available while the Hardin Library is closed during specific hours:

Monday-Friday	7:30am-6pm
Saturday & Sunday	1pm-5pm

All of Hardin’s staff are working remotely. You may also contact your liaison directly for help Monday-Friday.

Mar 18 2020

Interlibrary Loan Service Continues During Closing

Posted on March 18, 2020April 2, 2020 by Sarah Andrews

Interlibrary loan service and document delivery will continue while the University of Iowa Libraries are closed. We will try to fill all of your requests electronically.

If you request a book, we will try to fill your request with an electronic book or scanned book chapter, since we are not currently able to send or receive physical items.

If you have questions about Interlibrary Loans or have materials that are due please contact lib-hardin-ill@uiowa.edu .

sign saying sorry we're closed/blue and white, distressed

Mar 17 2020

Hardin Library and All University of Iowa Libraries CLOSED, Tuesday March 17-at least April 30

Posted on March 17, 2020April 3, 2020 by Sarah Andrews

All University of Iowa Libraries–including Hardin Library–closed at 6pm on Tuesday, March 17 through at least April 3.

The Hardin Library, The 24-hour study, and the Galleria (steps, study area, microwave) will all be closed and locked. No access is available.

All Hardin Library staff will be working remotely. If you need help, please contact your librarian liaison by email or email lib-hardin@uiowa.edu .

For additional information, please see https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/alerts/coronavirus/

Hardin Library staff will update this blog and our social media with updates as soon as we have any.

Mar 17 2020

Cancelled | 2020 R. Palmer Howard History of Medicine Society Dinner | April 24 | Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Enslaved Women | Cancelled

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Sarah Andrews

The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society and Hardin Library for the Health Sciences announce that the 2020 R. Palmer Howard Dinner scheduled for Friday, April 24 has been cancelled.

The event will not be rescheduled.

Mar 13 2020

Using Library Electronic Resources Off Campus

Posted on March 13, 2020March 17, 2020 by Sarah Andrews

REMOTE ACCESS TO LIBRARY RESOURCES

Users can access resources by following these instructions:

· UI faculty and staff can prepare by setting up off-campus access to work computers. Follow this checklist for working off campus.

· All users with an Iowa HawkID can access the following e-resources: e-books, online articles, streaming videos, and e-images. It may be necessary to follow these instructions for making links work from off campus.

TROUBLESHOOTING

If you are behind a firewall or working in a location that enforces strict security, you need to install and run the Cisco AnyConnect Client before trying to access library resources. Instructions and support for Cisco AnyConnect are provided by ITS.

If you want to use remote desktop, you also need to use the Cisco AnyConnect client.

Mar 06 2020

Coronavirus | COVID-19 | Guide to information sources | from Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Sarah Andrews

Quickly find accurate and authoritative sources for coronavirus information for members of the public and general health care professionals with Hardin Library’s guide: https://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/coronavirus.

This guide was prepared by Riley Samuelson, MA, Hardin’s outreach librarian and liaison to The College of Public Health.

Hardin Library for the Health Sciences helps all University of Iowa staff, students and faculty find accurate information for health-science related questions. Hardin Library will also help all residents of Iowa find accurate medical information. Please contact us for help. However, we are not doctors, and do not diagnose medical conditions or provide medical advice. If you think you are sick or have been exposed to coronavirus, please contact a medical professional immediately.

Mar 05 2020

CANCELLED |2020 Open House | John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Black Plague | March 26

Posted on March 5, 2020March 17, 2020 by Sarah Andrews

The 2020 John Martin Rare Book Room Open House has been cancelled. This event will not be rescheduled.

Please see our online exhibit: The Black Death: The Plague, 1331-1770

image of fire burning in street during plague — A street during the plague in London with a death cart a Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

Feb 21 2020

Mattioli | Encyclopedia of Renaissance pharmacology | February 2020 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Sarah Andrews

By Moretto da Brescia – Musei di Strada Nuova – Palazzo Rosso

PIETRO ANDREA MATTIOLI (1500-1577) Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, Demedica materia. In officina Erasmiana; Apud Vincentium Valgrisium 1554 [48] 707 [1] pp., illus. 31.5 cm.

Mattioli of Siena studied medicine at Padua where he graduated in 1523. During his career, he practiced at Siena, Perugia, Rome, Trent, and Gorizia. Mattioli was physician to Ferdinand I and later Maximilian II. He wrote books on syphilis, the practice of medicine, and therapeutics, but his best-known and most popular work was Comentarii.

Mattioli first published his commentary on Dioscorides in Italian at Venice in 1544 and this is his first Latin commentary and also the earliest edition to contain information on botanical specimens from the Americas, Asia, and Africa. He prepared what many authorities now regard as the encyclopedia of Renaissance pharmacology. Mattioli studied hundreds of plants, examined and described them fully, added many new species, and provided excellent illustrations which were far superior to those of any previous work in the field.

By Unknown – Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medica materia. Adiectis quàm plurimis plantarum et animalium imaginibus, eodem authore. Vincentius Valgrisi, Venedig, Public Domain, Link