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Jan 12 2023

Katie Buehner Named Interim Associate University Librarian | Linda Walton Retires from University Libraries

Posted on January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 by Sarah Andrews
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Katie Buehner, MM, MLIS

Linda Walton retired as an associate university librarian from the University of Iowa Libraries on December 31, 2022.  Walton will still head Region 6 Medical Library of the National Library of Medicine.

Katie Buehner, MM, MLIS, currently serves as the director of the Rita Benton Music Library and assumed responsibilities of Linda Walton on Jan. 3, 2023. She will serve for approximately six months to nine months until the completion of the national search and successful hire of a new associate university librarian. 

Buehner will provide leadership and oversight for the day-to-day operations for:

  • Collection development and acquisitions 
  • Humanities and social sciences 
  • Undergraduate engagement and circulation/user services
  • Scholarly Impact
  • The Art Library, Business Library, Hardin Library, Engineering Library, and Sciences Library. Buehner will continue to be involved with supporting the Music Library and working with her staff to continue providing the same excellent service to artists across campus.

Buehner will also be responsible for developing and executing the Libraries’ strategic plan, overseeing program development and evaluation, and managing resources in support of the Libraries’ mission.

Buehner’s areas of research include 20th century American music and online video production. Buehner profile including publications, presentations, and videos.

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Oct 04 2022

October is Medical Librarians Month | Make Better Decisions Faster

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

For better data, research, costs, and patient outcomes: consult your medical librarian.

avoid health misinformation graphic with information from studies listed

  • Aitken, E. M., Powelson, S. E., Reaume, R. D., & Ghali, W. A. (2011). Involving Clinical Librarians at the Point of Care: Results of a Controlled Intervention: Academic Medicine, 86(12), 1508–1512. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e31823595cd
  • Banks, D. E., Shi, R., Timm, D. F., Christopher, K. A., Duggar, D. C., Comegys, M., & McLarty, J. (2007). Decreased hospital length of stay associated with presentation of cases at morning report with librarian support. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 95(4), 381–387. https://doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.95.4.381
  • Brettle, A., Maden, M., & Payne, C. (2016). The impact of clinical librarian services on patients and health care organisations. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 33(2), 100–120. https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.12136
  • Brettle, A., Maden-Jenkins, M., Anderson, L., McNally, R., Pratchett, T., Tancock, J., Thornton, D., & Webb, A. (2011). Evaluating clinical librarian services: a systematic review: Evaluating clinical librarian services. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 28(1), 3–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2010.00925.x
  • Marshall, J. G., Sollenberger, J., Easterby-Gannett, S., Morgan, L. K., Klem, M. L., Cavanaugh, S. K., Oliver, K. B., Thompson, C. A., Romanosky, N., & Hunter, S. (2013). The value of library and information services in patient care: results of a multisite study. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 101(1), 38–46. https://doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.101.1.007
  • McGowan, J., Hogg, W., Campbell, C., & Rowan, M. (2008). Just-in-Time Information Improved Decision-Making in Primary Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial. PLoS ONE, 3(11), e3785. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003785
  • Weightman, A. L., & Williamson, J. (2005). The value and impact of information provided through library services for patient care: a systematic review. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 22(1), 4–25.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2005.00549.x

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Posted in Events, Hardin Library StaffTagged medical librarians month, value of librarians to health sciences
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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

Bird flying out of cage says read a banned book

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
Posted in Hardin Library StaffTagged banned books week 2022, library staff picks
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Sep 14 2022

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

Posted on September 14, 2022September 15, 2022 by Sarah Andrews
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Mary Thomas, MLIS

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.

Posted in Hardin Library StaffTagged new liaison, new librarian, new staff
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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

photo of Carlisle Isley, white woman, in front of art and fountainCarlisle 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.

Posted in Hardin Library StaffTagged Practicum student
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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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Posted in Hardin Library StaffTagged liaison librarians, subject librarians
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May 04 2022

Medical Library Association Spring 2022 Hardin Staff Activities

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

Hardin Librarians are active in the Medical Library Association.  The annual conference is in New Orleans, May 3-6, 2022.

Jennifer Deberg, a 2022 RTI (Research Training Institute) Fellow is presenting a poster:
Exploring DNP (Doctorate Nurse Practitioner) Student Information Literacy Competence for Evidence-Based Practice

Hardin Library Director Janna Lawrence will be attending the in-person Board meeting on Tuesday, May 3.  Ms. Lawrence is also co-facilitator of a session, “Staying Ahead of the Future: Developing Your Library’s Collection Philosophy and Policy,” which is part of an in-conference symposium called “The Big Not-So-Easy: a Symposium on 21st Century Health Sciences Collection Development and Resource Sharing.”

Heather Healy and Jennifer Deberg recently taught a CE (continuing education) course for librarians for the Medical Librarian Association on Librarians and Systematic Review Teams: Negotiating Roles and Recognition.

 

Posted in Hardin Library StaffTagged library staff, medical library association conference, presentations, publications
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Apr 27 2022

National Poetry Month Selections From Hardin Library Student Employees

Posted on April 27, 2022April 27, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

April is National Poetry Month, and these are poems selected by our student employees.

Lips on top of newspapers with text There's a poem in this place & list of sponsorsSelections by Josh Hart

stonewall to standing rock by Julian Talamantez Brolaski (entire poem)

who by the time it arrived
had made its plan heretofore
stonewall   it had not a penny
thats not true it had several pennies

I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party by Chen Chen (entire poem)

In the invitation, I tell them for the
      seventeenth time

(the fourth in writing), that I am gay.

First Light by Chen Chen (entire poem)

I like to say we left at first light
        with Chairman Mao himself chasing us in a police car,
my father fighting him off with firecrackers,
        even though Mao was already over a decade
dead, & my mother says all my father did
        during the Cultural Revolution was teach math,

Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas (entire poem)

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close
       of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the
       light.

Selections by Aiyana Bolar

You Are So Articulate With Your Hands by Joshua Bennett (full poem)

she says & it’s the first time
the word doesn’t hurt. I respond
by citing something age-inappropriate
from Aristotle, drawing mostly
from his idea that hands are what make
       us

Poem for July 4, 1994 by Sonia Sanchez (full poem)

For President Václav Havel

It is essential that Summer be grafted
        to

bones marrow earth clouds blood the
eyes of our ancestors.
It is essential to smell the beginning
words where Washington, Madison,
       Hamilton,

Adams, Jefferson assembled amid cries
       of:

                      “The people lack of
                    information”
                          “We grow more and
                            more skeptical”

                          “This Constitution is a
                          triple-headed monster”

                        “Blacks are property”

It is essential to remember how cold
        the sun

how warm the snow snapping
around the ragged feet of soldiers and
        slaves.

It is essential to string the sky
with the saliva of Slavs and 
Germans and Anglos and French
and Italians and Scandinavians,
and Spaniards and Mexicans and Poles
and Africans and Native Americans.
It is essential that we always repeat:
                           we the people,
                           we the people,
                           we the people.

The Idea of Ancestry by Etheridge Knight (full poem)

1

Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black
faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand-
fathers (both dead), brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts,
cousins (1st and 2nd), nieces, and nephews. They stare
across the space at me sprawling on my bunk. I know
their dark eyes, they know mine. I know their style,
they know mine. I am all of them, they are all of me;
they are farmers, I am a thief, I am me, they are thee.

I have at one time or another been in love with my mother,
1 grandmother, 2 sisters, 2 aunts (1 went to the asylum),
and 5 cousins. I am now in love with a 7-yr-old niece
(she sends me letters in large block print, and
her picture is the only one that smiles at me).

I have the same name as 1 grandfather, 3 cousins, 3 nephews,
and 1 uncle. The uncle disappeared when he was 15, just took
off and caught a freight (they say). He’s discussed each year
when the family has a reunion, he causes uneasiness in
the clan, he is an empty space. My father’s mother, who is 93
and who keeps the Family Bible with everbody’s birth dates
(and death dates) in it, always mentions him. There is no
place in her Bible for “whereabouts unknown.”

My Father Is a Retired Magician by Ntozake Shange (entire poem)

(for ifa, p.t., & bisa)

my father is a retired magician
which accounts for my irregular
       behavior

everythin comes outta magic hats
or bottles wit no bottoms & parakeets
are as easy to get as a couple a rabbits
or 3 fifty cent pieces/ 1958

[untitled] by Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta (entire poem)

once, while on a coke binge,
and away from my mother,
my father drove his car
across the sand
and into the pacific ocean.
before he had done that,
he had given away
all of his possessions,
and eaten
a steak dinner.
he survived.

Selections by Bushra Moghram

This Bridge Across by Christopher Gilbert (entire poem)
A moment comes to me
and it’s a lot like the dead
who get in the way sometimes
hanging around, with their ranks
growing bigger by the second
and the game of tag they play
claiming whoever happens by.

“The world is a beautiful place” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (entire poem)

The world is a beautiful place 
                                                           to be born into 
if you don’t mind happiness 
                                             not always being 
                                                                        so very much fun 
       if you don’t mind a touch of hell
                                                       now and then
                just when everything is fine
                                                             because even in heaven
                                they don’t sing 
                                                        all the time


Selections by Ian Russell

 

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Villanelle by Otto Leland Bohanan (entire poem)
How dreary the winds shriek and whine:
    The trembling shadows grow chill. 
O soul of my soul, wert thou mine!

Death of an Old Seaman by Langston Hughes (entire poem)
We buried him high on a windy hill,
But his soul went out to sea.

Comparison by Paul Laurence Dunbar (entire poem)
The sky of brightest gray seems dark
    To one whose sky was ever white.
To one who never knew a spark,
    Thro’ all his life, of love or light,
    The grayest cloud seems over-bright.

It’s a Long Way by William Stanley Braithwaite (entire poem)
It’s a long way the sea-winds blow
    Over the sea-plains blue,—
But longer far has my heart to go
    Before its dreams come true.

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost (entire poem)
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.

Posted in Hardin Library StaffTagged National Poetry Month, poems
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Mar 24 2022

Staff Highlight: Michelle Dralle

Posted on March 24, 2022March 24, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

Name: Michelle Dralle

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Michelle Dralle

Your role at Hardin: I am a Library Assistant IV working in Collections, Access Services, and just recently, returned to help in Interlibrary Loan.

Years you’ve worked in a library and years you’ve worked at Hardin: My library career started in high school in the late ’70s as a volunteer at my hometown library in Allison, Iowa, under the direction of librarian Mabel Bauman. I started working at UI Libraries in 1983 and have worked at Hardin on and off as a student and staff since 1983. I’ve also worked at the UI Law Library, VA Library, Math Library, and the Iowa City Public Library (24 years).

One thing you enjoy about working at Hardin: I’ve worn many hats during my library career. Anything from dealing with the bomb-sniffing dog in 2007 during an active bomb threat at Hardin, working at the storage facility (lovingly referred to as the “barn”), to working on the lighting/HVAC project at Hardin. The best experience during my library career has been working with the many students and other individuals that have crossed my path and continue to keep in touch with me decades later.

A fun fact about yourself: I have no peripheral vision, so if you don’t like the answer I give and you roll your eyes at me as you stand next to me, I most likely won’t see it. My door is always open at Hardin, so stop in and say hello.

 

Posted in Hardin Library Staff
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Mar 05 2022

What Do You Wish We Had @Hardin? | Submit your ideas and suggestions

Posted on March 5, 2022March 9, 2022 by Sarah Andrews
black and white genie bottle with something coming out of spout Do you have an idea for a new service, workshop, want a change in the physical space in the library?
Do you want something changed on our website?

We want to know!

Please submit feedback online

You can receive follow-up communication if you add your email to the form.  Anonymous comments are also welcome.

 

Posted in Hardin Library Staff, Services

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