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Sep 22 2022

UI Libraries Favorite Banned Books | Banned Books Week 2022

Posted on September 22, 2022September 22, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

Libraries respect everyone’s freedom to read what they choose. Staff across all University of Iowa Libraries selected some of their favorite banned books this year:

1984	George Orwell
The 1619 Project	Nicole Hannah-Jones
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian	Sherman Alexie
The Autobiography of Malcolm X	Malcolm X and Alex Haley
120 Banned Books	Nicholas J. Karolidas
All American Boys	Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
All Boys Aren’t Blue	George M. Johnson
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque
And Tango Makes Three	John Richardson and Peter Parnell
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging	Louise Rennison
Barefoot Gen	Keiji Nakazawa
The Best Little Boy in the World	Andrew Tobias
Bless Me, Ultima	Rudolfo Anaya
Blood and Chocolate	Annette Curtis Klause
Bone (GN Series)	Jeff Smith
The Book Thief	Zusak
Books Under Fire	Pat R. Scales
Born a Crime	Trevor Noah
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	Dee Brown
Captain Underpants	Dav Pilkey
Carrie	Stephen King
Catch-22	Joseph Heller
Charlotte’s Web	E.B. White
The Chocolate War	Robert Cormier
The Color Purple	Alice Walker
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time	Mark Haddon
The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank
Drama	Raina Telgemeier
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury
Forever	Judy Blume
Fun Home: A family tragicomic	Alison Bechdel
gender queer	Maiai Kobabe
George	Alex Gino
The Giver	Lois Lowry
The Glass Castle: a memoir	Jeannette Walls
Go Tell It On the Mountain	James Baldwin
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter	J.K. Rowling
The Hate U Give	Angie Thomas
His Dark Materials	Philip Pullman
The House on Mango Street	Sandra Cisneros
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot
In Cold Blood	Truman Capote
In the Dream House	Carmen Maria Machado
In the Night Kitchen	Maurice Sendak
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison
James and the Giant Peach	Roald Dahl
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini
A Light in the Attic	Shel Silverstein
Maus	Art Spiegelman
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children	Ransom Riggs
The New Jim Crow	Michelle Alexander
Nickel and Dimed	Barbara Ehrenreich
Olive’s Ocean	Kevin Henkes
Out of darkness	Ashley Hope Perez
The Outsiders	S.E. Hinton
A People’s History of the United States	Howard Zinn
Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi
Rainbow Boys	Alex Sanchez
A Separate Peace	John Knowles
Sex is a Funny Word	Cory Silverberg
Silent Spring	Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse Five	Kurt Vonnegut
Something Happened in our town	Marianne Celano, et al
Speak	Laurie Halse Anderson
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You	Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston
The Things They Carried	Tim O’Brien
Thirteen Reasons Why	Jay Asher
This Day in June	Gayle Pitman
Ulysses	James Joyce
What My Mother Doesn’t Know	Sonya Sones
When I was Puerto Rican	Esmerelda Santiago
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeline L’Engle
You Can’t Say that	Leonard S. Marcus (editor)
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty	Greg Neri

photo of Mary Thomas, white woman, blond hair, in front of trees

Sep 14 2022

Welcome New Librarian Mary Thomas! Liaison for Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Neurology

Posted on September 14, 2022September 15, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

Welcome to Mary Thomas, Hardin’s newest liaison librarian! Mary joined the Hardin staff on August 15, 2022 and is a recent graduate of the Master of Library Science program at Emporia State University and did an internship at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Boulder Labs Library. Mary was also a member of the 2021-2022 cohort of the Research Training Institute of the Medical Library Association, a competitive online program designed to provide training in advanced research methods to health sciences librarians. Mary’s research on the use of Mental Health First Aid training for library staff resulted in a virtual poster presented at the 2022 conference of the Medical Library Association in May.

Mary previously lived in Boulder, Colorado, where she received bachelor degrees in Psychology and English are from the University of Colorado. While working as a high school English teacher, she realized she could combine her interests in information literacy and health information in one job as a medical librarian.

After several weeks of orientation and training at Hardin, May will become the liaison to several departments, including Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Neurology, and will join other Hardin librarian in teaching Hardin Open Workshops sessions. Mary is excited to be able to use her teaching and librarian skills with her new community at Hardin.

Sep 06 2022

Looking for Print Book at Hardin?

Posted on September 6, 2022September 7, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

by Janna Lawrence, Hardin Library director

As part of the construction projects currently underway at Hardin, most print books published before 2010 will be moved to the Library Annex.

In August, 40,000 books were permanently moved to the Annex; these were from the beginning of the call number range, starting with A and going through QR92 L5 C66. The remainder of the pre-2010 collection, approximately 50,000 books, will be moved to the Annex in December.

After ingestion into the Annex, which may take several months, you will be able to request these books through the InfoHawk+ catalog for pick up at Hardin or another campus library, or even delivered to your office or home (although currently not to residence halls).

If you require a book that you believe has been moved to the Annex but is not yet available there, please request a copy through Interlibrary Loan. We will obtain a copy for you from another library, at no cost to you.

Because e-books make up the majority of books in Hardin’s current collection, we hope that this change will have minimal impact on users. If a book located at the Annex is used frequently or is needed for course reserve, it can be returned to Hardin’s shelves. Hardin books published before 1980 have been located at the Library Annex for several years.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, you can use our anonymous feedback form or contact any Hardin staff member. You can always contact me directly at janna-lawrence@uiowa.edu or at 319-335-9870.

doctor and nurse working on patient in hospital setting

Sep 01 2022

Evidence-Based Clinical Tools Available To All University of Iowa Affiliates

Posted on September 1, 2022September 12, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

by Heather Healy, Clinical Education Librarian

Hardin Library has many evidence-based clinical tools for you to use in your practice or coursework.

Many have an app version available. See Mobile Resources Guide for installation.

DynaMed

Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool
DynaMed Editorial Team monitors over 450 medical journals and guidelines organizations
Team of practicing physicians appraises and summarizes the evidence
Embedded citations of specific studies and DynaMed evidence levels
Mobile app available

BMJ Best Practice

Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool
Combines latest research evidence, guidelines, and expert opinion
Step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis
Referenced studies are listed and full-text is linked when available
Mobile app available

UpToDate

Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool
Recognized faculty of experts synthesize the latest evidence and practices and provide detailed recommendations
References are provided for recommendations
Mobile app available

Essential Evidence Plus and AHFS DI Essentials

Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool
Includes 13,000 conditions, diseases, and procedures
Strength-of-evidence recommendation ratings

Micromedex

Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool for drug information
Strength of recommendation and strength of evidence ratings
Includes many tools, including Drug Interactions, IV Compatibility, Drug Comparison, and more
Mobile apps available

Clinical Overviews

Search the overviews in ClinicalKey using the dropdown menu by the search box
Overviews that are easy-to-scan, actionable information on diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, screening, and prevention of diseases and conditions
Content developed by Elsevier’s Point of Care Editorial team (global community of 4800 physicians)
Mobile app of ClinicalKey available; look for results labeled as Clinical Overviews

Cochrane Clinical Answers

Truncated summaries of Cochrane systematic reviews
Easy-to-read, clinically focused
Actionable, and designed to inform decision-making at point-of-care
Contains a clinical question, short answer, ability to drill down to evidence

Cochrane Library

High-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making
Includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, a gold-standard of medical literature
Includes the Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), a repository of trial citations

ACP Journal Club

Summarizes the best new evidence for internal medicine from over 120 clinical journals.
Research staff and clinical editors rigorously assess scientific merit of medical literature

PubMed Clinical Queries

Point-of-care search interface for PubMed
Allows focusing search by clinical question type (therapy, diagnosis, etiology, prognosis, or clinical prediction guides)
Can also focus searches on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 articles by category (treatment, mechanism, long COVID, and more)

Natural Medicines

Evidence-based information and ratings for over 90,000 dietary supplements, natural medicines and integrative therapies
Includes interaction checker, effectiveness checker, and a nutrient depletion checker

photo of Carlisle Isley, white woman, in front of art and fountain

Aug 31 2022

Meet Carlisle Isley: Practicum Student in the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

Carlisle Isley, BFA, is an artist, papermaker, bookmaker and world traveler. She grew up in a multicultural world in seven different countries — a neither/nor world that cannot be stereotyped as a typically “white American childhood.”

The non-traditional way she was raised allowed her to engage, understand and respect many other cultural voices. In June of 2021 she moved from Rwanda to Iowa City to pursue a Masters in Library Information Science. Having access to information will allow a person to discover and empower their identities as information seekers. She believes her purpose is to promote information literacy so a community can have the tools to get their voices and thoughts heard.

Aug 25 2022

Construction @ Hardin

Posted on August 25, 2022August 25, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

Beginning this month, construction will begin in Hardin Library that will transform the space into one that we hope will be more welcoming and more relevant to your needs. By the end of the project, which will take two years:

quiet study space on the 4^th floor will be expanded,
3^rd floor study space will be upgraded, and
Hardin staff offices will all be located in a central area on the 3^rd floor (except for the Curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room).

Among the anticipated improvements include the addition of more group studies on the 2^nd and 3^rd floors and updating of the individual study rooms on the 4^th floor. The 4^th floor improvements are thanks to a grant funded by the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust.

The first activity you will notice at Hardin will be on the 4^th floor. Beginning August 8, most of the print books published before 2010 will be removed and sent to the Library Annex to accommodate the expansion of study space on the that floor. The book move will take place in two stages, each lasting about a week, in August and in December. Most of the current books in Hardin’s collection are electronic and so will continue to be easily accessible from anywhere. If you need an older print item, books at the Annex can be requested and delivered to Hardin for pick-up or even sent to your office or home (although not to dorm rooms). Older books with high use can be permanently returned to Hardin.

Later in the month, beginning approximately August 22, work will begin on the 1^st floor to build offices for the Vice President for Research’s Environmental Health and Safety group. Also this fall, public restrooms on the 3^rd and 4^th floor will be enlarged and improved. Restrooms on the 1^st and 2^nd floor are scheduled for upgrades next year.

We know that construction will be disruptive, but Hardin will remain open and metered parking will continue to be available in our lot. We have asked that the noisiest work be done overnight, when it will disturb the fewest number of people. Earplugs are available at the 3^rd floor service desk and in the 24-hour study. We will keep you updated through signage and blog posts.

Janna Lawrence, MLIS, AHIP, FMLA

Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

Aug 25 2022

Hardin Library Closed On Home Iowa Football Game Saturdays

Posted on August 25, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

The Hardin Library will be closed every Saturday there is a home Iowa Football game. The 24-hour study will be available. Bus service is disrupted and there is almost no parking near the library during football gamedays.

Kinnick Football stadium holds 69,250 people and all 2022 games are sold out.

Hardin Library closed:
September 3
September 10
September 17
October 1
October 29
November 12

Cambus service during Football gamedays

Iowa City Transit service Football gamedays

Aug 22 2022

1843 American Cleft Palate Surgery Book | Thomas Dent Mütter | from The John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library

Posted on August 22, 2022September 28, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

by Damien Ihrig, MA, Curator John Martin Rare Book Room

MÜTTER, Thomas Dent (1811–1859). A report on the operations for fissures of the palatine vault. Printed in Philadelphia by Merrihew & Thompson, 1843. 28 pages. 23 cm tall.

The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia is celebrated for its collection of anatomical specimens of rare conditions, from the famous (and infamous), as well as medical instruments. The museum was founded with an original donation from the collection of Thomas Dent Mütter.

Mütter was born in 1811 in Richmond, Virginia. Sickness is a common theme in Mütter’s life and he lost both of his parents by the time he was eight. He was raised by a distant relative in a seemingly supportive environment.

Money left to him by his parents allowed him to attend Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. Mütter himself fell ill during medical school. He left for Europe after graduation in the hopes of improving his health in a different climate and to further pursue his medical education.

In Paris, he worked with the aforementioned Dupuytren, and in London with Robert Liston. Mütter eventually put together a collection of lectures by Liston, which he annotated with 250 pages of his own.

Dupuytren was known for his exacting nature and Liston for his speed when performing a surgical procedure (which could mean the difference between life and death in the days before anesthesia and antibiotics). Mütter seems to have embraced the teachings of both his mentors, stressing the need for the simplest of tools and techniques when performing his reconstructive surgeries while trying to keep the pain and blood loss to a minimum.

A color photo of the black printed text of the title page from Mütter's A report on the operations for fissures of the palatine vault, 1843.

In 1841, he joined the faculty of the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. It was there that he made a name for himself as an excellent speaker and engaging teacher. He used his ever-expanding anatomical and instrument collection to provide his students with hands-on experience.

Unfortunately, his ill health never truly subsided and he was forced to retire in 1856. He died three years later at the age of 48.

A report on the operations for fissures of the palatine vault demonstrates Mütter’s adherence to his surgical principles. It is not a long book, only 28 pages, but it provides insight into his process and surgical philosophy. It includes several small illustrations of the steps of the procedure and the instruments used, examples of which you can see above.

binding of book. black leather library binding The book is covered in a “library binding” of black cloth and the textblock shows evidence of having been trimmed (see the ownership mark in the upper right corner of the title page above). Indeed, this book was at some point pulled from the circulating Hardin collection and added to the Rare Book Room collection. It still contains the date due slip (last checked out in 1967!) and barcode sticker.

The spine shows a stamped and gold painted title and Library of Congress call number. Although there is some staining on the first and last pages, likely from the glue of a previous binding, the paper is in excellent condition.

Contact me to view this tiny but mighty book or any others from this or past newsletters: damien-ihrig@uiowa.edu or 319-335-9154 to arrange a visit in person or over Zoom.

Read more on the history of books about cleft palate repairs in the July 2022 newsletter.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact our office in advance at damien-ihrig@uiowa.edu or 319-335-9154

Aug 16 2022

New EBook Titles in Ortho, Emergency, Peds, Ophthalmology & More

Posted on August 16, 2022August 22, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

New titles now available as electronic (online) books.

Adrenal Disorders (Young, William)
Applied Knowledge in Paediatrics: MRCPCH Mastercourse (Hewitt, Martin)
Atlas of Laparoscopic and Robotic Urologic Surgery (Bishoff, Jay) 3rd edition
Atlas of Pain Management Injection Techniques (Waldman, Steven) 5th edition
Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology (Goldblum, John) 2nd edition
The Chest Wall and Abdomen (Waldman, Steven)
Complications in Orthopaedics: Adult Reconstruction (Courtney, P. Maxwell)
Congenital Heart Disease (Van Praagh, Richard)
Cosmetic Facial Surgery (Niamtu, Joe) 3rd edition
Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine (Penman, Ian) 24th edition
Endoscopic Craniosynostosis Surgery (Jimenez, David F.)
Evidence-Based Practice of Anesthesiology (Fleisher, Lee) 4th edition
Ferri’s Best Test (Ferri, Fred) 5th edition
Ferri’s Clinical Advisor 2023 (Ferri, Fred)
Kaufman’s Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists (Kaufman, David M.) 9th edition
Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office (Malamed, Stanley) 8th edition
National Kidney Foundation Primer on Kidney Diseases (Gilbert, Scott) 8th edition
Nelson Pediatric Symptom-Based Diagnosis (Kliegman, Robert M.) 2nd edition
The Ophthalmic Assistant (Stein, Harold A.) 11th edition
Practical Management of Pain (Benzon, Honorio) 6th edition
Prehospital Emergency Medicine Secrets (Olympia, Robert P.)
Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Long, Sarah) 6th edition
Rhinoplasty (Khan, Husain Ali)
Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice (Walls, Ron) 10th edition
Single-Port Robotic Surgery in Urology (Bertolo, Riccardo)
Tibial Plateau Fractures (Riehl, John T.)
Hand (Waldman, Steven)

Aug 16 2022

Find Your Subject Specialist Librarian

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

Hardin Librarian liaisons provide an educational link between the library and the health sciences campus by teaching library education sessions for groups or individuals. We can help you with literature searching. We can meet with you in person or via email, Zoom, chat, or phone about any of your information needs!

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Author: Sarah Andrews