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, studentsContinue reading “Coronavirus | COVID-19 | Guide to information sources | from Hardin Library for the Health Sciences”
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CANCELLED |2020 Open House | John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Black Plague | March 26
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
Mattioli | Encyclopedia of Renaissance pharmacology | February 2020 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
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 toContinue reading “Mattioli | Encyclopedia of Renaissance pharmacology | February 2020 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
New! | SciFinder-N | includes Patents, MethodsNow and Retrosynthesis Plan
SciFinder-N is the new version with added features: more flexible searching relevancy ranking works better on mobile devices no system limits renders structures in standard conventions allows you to combine reference and structure searches AND includes new tools PatentPak, MethodsNow and Retrosynthesis Plan For more information about SciFinder-N, please see the Sciences Library guide
Libraries open for President’s Day | Monday, February 17
The State government of Iowa does not celebrate the President’s Day holiday, which is Monday, February 17 this year. All University of Iowa classes, services, clinics, offices and libraries should be open/operating regular hours. President’s Day was originally designated to honor George Washington, but now honors all US Presidents. History
Got EndNote Desktop? Got Mac? | Read this before upgrading to Catalina OS
The latest Mac operating system, Catalina, runs only 64-bit apps. While the original version of EndNote X9 is a 32-bit app, the latest EndNote upgrade is a 64-bit app. If you have EndNote Desktop on your computer and have not yet upgraded to Catalina: 1. Upgrade your EndNote to the newest version (X9.3.2). InContinue reading “Got EndNote Desktop? Got Mac? | Read this before upgrading to Catalina OS”
Hardin Library closed Monday, January 20 for Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
The Hardin Library will be closed Monday, January 20 for the University Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. The library will re-open at 7:30am on Tuesday, January 21. The 24-hour study is available whenever the library is closed for all affiliated University of Iowa/University Healthcare users.
Return Billed Books | Get Credit for Charges
Our library is mostly fine-free. If you were billed a replacement charge for an overdue book owned by University of Iowa, simply return it to any University of Iowa Library/UIowa Law Library and you will receive a credit for the replacement cost within two months on your next University bill. If the book was billedContinue reading “Return Billed Books | Get Credit for Charges”
Mental Illness and Addiction Biographies | Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel
Author Elizabeth Wurtzel’s groundbreaking biography about depression Prozac Nation inspired many other confession-style biographies. Ms. Wurtzel died from metastasized cancer on January 7, 2020. Here is a selected list of biographies that discuss mental health or addiction held in the University of Iowa Libraries collections. Prozac nation: young and depressed in America / Elizabeth Wurtzel,Continue reading “Mental Illness and Addiction Biographies | Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel”
Lower Pioneer of Experimental Physiology | December 2019 Notes from The John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
RICHARD LOWER (1631-1691). Tractatus de corde. Amsterdam: Apud Danielem Elzevirium, 1669. [16] 232 pp Richard Lower was one of the foremost English physiologists of the seventeenth century. Soon after receiving his M.D. degree in 1665, Lower relocated to London. He quickly acquired a large practice, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and later aContinue reading “Lower Pioneer of Experimental Physiology | December 2019 Notes from The John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”