Curator highlights, including images: We Are Hawkeyes: Celebrating 175 Years of Student Life at the University of Iowa – Main Library Gallery – University of Iowa Libraries (uiowa.edu) Stop by to check out this exhibit at the Main Library Gallery. On display are snippets of student life from throughout the university’s history: the Iowa MemorialContinue reading “Main Library Gallery Exhibit | We Are Hawkeyes: Celebrating 175 Years of Student Life at the University of Iowa.”
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Work Day in the Life of John Martin Rare Book Room Curator Damien Ihrig
A day in Damien’s work life at Hardin Library involves some or all of the following: Email, email, email A few meetings with local, state, or regional colleagues Working with the collection to prepare items for conservation care, digitization, reshelving, shifting shelves, or updating database entries. Class prep Working with a donor interested in giftingContinue reading “Work Day in the Life of John Martin Rare Book Room Curator Damien Ihrig”
Quack Transplant and Endocrinology Medicine | Serge Voronoff | January Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
VORONOFF, SERGE (1866-1951). Étude sur la vieillesse et la rajeunissement par la greffe. [Research on aging and rejuvenation by transplantation] Printed in Paris by Octave and Gaston Doin in 1926. 23 cm tall. Signed copy. Voronoff was born in Russia and studied medicine in France. He studied with the transplant pioneer, Alexis Carell, eventually becomingContinue reading “Quack Transplant and Endocrinology Medicine | Serge Voronoff | January Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Library Open Regular Hours April 15-17 | Good Friday, Passover, Easter
The Hardin Library will be open regular hours this weekend: Friday, April 15 7:30am-6pm Saturday, April 16 10am-6pm Sunday, April 17 Noon-9pm The 24-hour study is open when the library is closed.
Company of Biologists: Free Open Access Publishing for UI Authors
by Sara Scheib, Head, Scholarly Impact Department The University of Iowa Libraries has entered into a transformative agreement with the Company of Biologists that allows University of Iowa authors to publish open access articles for free in their 5 journals. Key benefits of the agreement include: unlimited fee-free publishing of Open Access research articles forContinue reading “Company of Biologists: Free Open Access Publishing for UI Authors”
New | Reflection Room available to all | Room 417
Hardin Library now has a reflection room available on the 4th Floor, Room 417. The reflection room is open to all and is a designated reflection space to be used for any quiet solitary activity, other than napping or studying, that supports the needs of the individual. Please send comments about the space to jennifer-deberg@uiowa.eduContinue reading “New | Reflection Room available to all | Room 417”
Roots of Medicine | Iowa Pharmacy Garden
The University of Iowa University of Iowa College of Pharmacy building has a garden that contains plants that were used for healing. The Roots of Medicine garden was a collaboration of Hardin Library staff, the John Martin Rare Book Room, the College of Pharmacy, a horticulture expert from Iowa State University, and local gardeners. TheContinue reading “Roots of Medicine | Iowa Pharmacy Garden”
Spring Break Hours @Hardin Library Saturday March 12-March 19 | 24-Hour Study Always Available
Hardin Library will be on reduced hours during Spring Break, beginning Saturday, March 12. The 24-hour study will be open when the library is closed. Accessing the 24-hour study requires using an Iowa OneCard of UIHC Badge. Saturday, March 12 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, March 13 Noon-4 p.m. Monday, March 14-Friday, March 18 7:30 a.m.-6Continue reading “Spring Break Hours @Hardin Library Saturday March 12-March 19 | 24-Hour Study Always Available”
December 2021 Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin | Early Italian Facial Plastic Surgery
TAGLIACOZZI, GASPARE(1545-1599). De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem. Apud Gasparem Bindonum, juniorem, 1597. 32 cm tall. Tagliacozzi studied under Girolamo Cardano at the University of Bologna. After graduating, he became a professor of surgery and anatomy at Bologna. This work, “Concerning the surgery of the mutilated by grafting,” is a classic in the history of plastic surgery and isContinue reading “December 2021 Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin | Early Italian Facial Plastic Surgery”
Home Book Delivery Available
by Cathy Cranston, Director, Undergraduate Engagement, University of Iowa Libraries Yes, you may request office or home delivery of books, DVDs, and InterLibrary Loan items. Materials located in the Reserve Collection or the John Martin Rare Book Room will not be delivered. To have an item owned by the libraries delivered to your home orContinue reading “Home Book Delivery Available”