AULUS CORNELIUS CELSUS (25 B.C.-50 A.D.). De medicina. Venice: Philippus Pincius, for Benedictus Fontana, 1497. Aulus Cornelius Celsus was a Roman encyclopaedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia. The De Medicina is the oldest medical document after the HippocraticContinue reading “Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina | January 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
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No More Recalls ! | Get Checked-Out Books Faster, Keep Materials Longer
Do you need to use a book checked out to someone else? The UI Libraries’ new default option for getting a copy of a book that is in use is to request it through interlibrary loan, rather than recall it from the person who has it checked out. The Libraries’ interlibrary loan* service will getContinue reading “No More Recalls ! | Get Checked-Out Books Faster, Keep Materials Longer”
Artificial Hearts | Shelley McKellar | 2019 R. Palmer Howard History of Medicine Society Dinner | Friday, April 5, 2019
Medical historian Shelley McKellar will speak on Artificial Hearts: A Controversial Medical Technology and its Sensational Patient Cases at the 2019 R. Palmer Howard Dinner. Location: Radisson Hotel, Coralville, Iowa Date: Friday, April 5, 2019 Reception 6pm with cash bar, Dinner at 7pm, Presentation at 8pm Registration and prepayment (check or credit card) requiredContinue reading “Artificial Hearts | Shelley McKellar | 2019 R. Palmer Howard History of Medicine Society Dinner | Friday, April 5, 2019”
Open Education Week Activities @UI Libraries | Tools, resources & practices that increase access and sharing
Open Education Week #OEWeek is a week-long event highlight the impact of Open Education, and Open Educational Resources (OER) on teaching and learning. Open education is the practice of allowing the sharing of learning objects, case studies, materials, and other resources unburdened by cost and copyright. Liberated: Faculty Perspectives on OER | Monday, March 4,Continue reading “Open Education Week Activities @UI Libraries | Tools, resources & practices that increase access and sharing”
2020 Journal and Database Cancellation Review Information
The University of Iowa Libraries work to offset increases in the costs of information resources each year along with a flat budget (0 percent increase in funding). Our strategy is to minimize the impact of inflation by continuously monitoring the use of the collection to identify and eliminate journals, databases, and ebooks that: are low-useContinue reading “2020 Journal and Database Cancellation Review Information”
ClinicalKey, Scopus and many Elsevier journals working again
ClinicalKey, Scopus and Science Direct should all be working as expected. If you have problems, please call us at 319-335-9151.
Hippocrates Translated by François Rabelais | December 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
HIPPOCRATES (ca. 460 B.C.-ca. 368 B.C.). Aphorismorum Hippocratis sectiones septem. Lyons: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1543. The John Martin Rare Book Room holds 21 titles by Hippocrates published from 1527 through the 1800’s. This volume, translated from the Greek to Latin is by François Rabelais (ca. 1490-1553?). Rabelais was a French physician, Catholic monk, and noted humanist,Continue reading “Hippocrates Translated by François Rabelais | December 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Radiology, Cardiology, Anatomy & More | New eBooks Available on ClinicalKey
Arrhythmias in Adult Congenital Heart Disease (Balaji, Seshadri) 1st ed *NEW* Complications in Neurosurgery (Nanda, Anil) 1st ed *NEW* Endocrine and Reproductive Physiology (White, Bruce) 5th ed Essentials of Nuclear Medicine Imaging (Mettler, Fred) 7th ed Gastrointestinal Physiology (Johnson, Leonard) 9th ed Grainger & Allison’s Diagnostic Radiology Essentials (Grant, Lee Alexander) 2nd ed Gray’s Clinical Photographic Dissector of the Human Body (Loukas, Marios)Continue reading “Radiology, Cardiology, Anatomy & More | New eBooks Available on ClinicalKey”
Hardin Library Closing Early Tuesday and Wednesday | 6pm Closing January 29 and January 30
Due to predicted record low temperatures, the Hardin Library will be closing early on Tuesday, January 29 and Wednesday, January 30. Hardin Library Hours Monday, January 28 7:30am-Midnight Tuesday, January 30 7:30am-6pm Wednesday, January 31 7:30am-6pm Thursday, February 1 7:30-MidnightContinue reading “Hardin Library Closing Early Tuesday and Wednesday | 6pm Closing January 29 and January 30”
Longer loans for DVDs
You can now borrow DVDs for 14 days! You find DVDs in InfoHawk+, and request DVDs after signing in to InfoHawk+.