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Mar 04 2022

Get Ready For Finals @Hardin Library | Later Hours May 6 & 7| Free Coffee & Snacks | Dinosaur Game

Posted on March 4, 2022May 13, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

Hardin Library wants you to be successful with your finals!  We have lots of seating and offer some extras to help you study.

  • Reserve one of our 11 group study rooms: https://uiowa.libcal.com/booking/hardin-groupstudy
  • 24-hour study available when the library is closed
  • Open later: until 9pm on Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7
  • Free coffee Friday-Saturday-Sunday
  • Free snacks starting Friday until they run out
  • Be the first to find our stuffed dinosaur Little Linda and win a prize Friday-Wednesday!

 

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Posted in Events, ServicesTagged finals week 2022
photos of Iowa students from the last 175 years
Mar 03 2022

Main Library Gallery Exhibit | We Are Hawkeyes: Celebrating 175 Years of Student Life at the University of Iowa.

Posted on March 3, 2022March 9, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

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 Memorial Union as a center of activity, the performing arts as a source of vibrancy, and military service and Greek life as time-honored traditions. Decades of student publications and glimpses of social and political activism are seen throughout, demonstrating the diversity of student voices on campus.

photos of Iowa students from the last 175 years

Posted in ExhibitsTagged 175, Main Library gallery
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Feb 23 2022

Work Day in the Life of John Martin Rare Book Room Curator Damien Ihrig

Posted on February 23, 2022February 23, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

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 gifting books to the JMRBR or Hardin
  • Processing gift books
  • Research on a book or topic
  • Writing (usually for the JMRBR or Hardin newsletters)
  • Updating the JMRBR website
  • Project or exhibit prep
  • Professional development (usually a virtual webinar)
  • Working with a researcher interested in JMRBR materials
  • Consulting with a clinical researcher about their project
  • Working on a systematic or other review
  • A reference desk shift

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Damien Ihrig

 

Interested in visiting the John Martin Rare Book room for research or fun? In-person or Zoom appointments are available. Want to host a class here? Need help with your historical medical research? Contact Damien by email or phone (319-335-9154). 

Posted in Hardin Library Staff, John Martin Rare Book RoomTagged John Martin Rare Book Room
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Feb 16 2022

Quack Transplant and Endocrinology Medicine | Serge Voronoff | January Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library

Posted on February 16, 2022February 24, 2022 by Sarah Andrews
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Dr. Serge Voronoff

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 becoming a French citizen and setting up his own research and surgical practice. While practicing in Cairo for a time, he reflected on the accelerated aging experienced by eunuchs.

Believing aging and a whole host of associated health conditions could be reversed with testicular transplantation, he set about studying the effects in farm animals. Not unexpectedly, few young men were willing to donate one of their testicles for human transplantation. He began by using the testicles of executed prisoners (he was neither the first nor the last to misuse prisoners in this way), but the demand for his services was too high. He eventually settled on monkeys and apes as the best animal substitute, setting up a “monkey farm” to ensure a steady supply.

To demonstrate the validity of his procedure, Voronoff often published patient testimonials with “before and after” photographs of his patients,  a technique used throughout the 20th Century and now by those peddling “too good to be true” cures. His technique inspired many other surgeons and veterinarians around the world. Thousands of animal-to-human and animal-to-animal sexual organ transplants were performed.

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Before and after patient photographs by Voronoff

 

Voronoff was convinced he would eventually be able to create long-lived superhumans and animals. He performed at least one human ovary transplantation into a monkey, including an attempt to impregnate the monkey with human sperm. Most of Voronoff’s patients were wealthy men seeking increased sexual vigor. An increasing lack of evidence and Voronoff’s critics, both in science and the media, finally overwhelmed the work, the discovery of hormones associated with sexual organs in the 1930’s rendered transplantation completely unnecessary.

This book is Voronoff’s major work and has his signature on the flyleaf. It is in good condition, with the cover mostly detached but the text block is intact and in excellent condition. The simple paper covers have darkened somewhat over time due to handling and higher acid levels present in most papers of the time. Contact Curator Damien-Ihrig  (phone 319-335-9154) to view this book or any others from this fascinating (and disturbing!) period of medical experimentation and discovery. In person and Zoom appointments available.

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

Posted in History of Medicine, John Martin Rare Book Room, Library ResourceTagged history of medicine, quack medicine, Serge Voronoff
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Feb 13 2022

Library Open Regular Hours April 15-17 | Good Friday, Passover, Easter

Posted on February 13, 2022April 25, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

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.

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Feb 10 2022

Company of Biologists: Free Open Access Publishing for UI Authors

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

Open Accessby 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 for corresponding authors in their hybrid journals (Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology) and their fully Open Access journals (Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open)
  • unlimited access to their hybrid journals including their archives dating back to 1853
  • compliant with Plan S and funder mandates

Publishing open access allows articles to reach a wider audience because they are free to read online and not limited to subscribers. This transformative agreement for open access publishing means that UI authors will not have to pay out of pocket for the article processing fees that are traditionally charged for open access publishing.

To take advantage of free open access publishing in Company of Biologists journals, UI authors can follow the instructions on their web site. 

Looking for more? Check out the UI Libraries full list of transformative agreements (also known as read and publish agreements).

Questions? Ask Leo Clougherty or Sara Scheib.

Posted in Library Resource, Scholarly Communication, ServicesTagged fee free open access publishing, Scholarly Communication
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Jan 31 2022

New | Reflection Room available to all | Room 417

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

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.

This is a pilot project.  Please send comments about the space to jennifer-deberg@uiowa.edu . 

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Posted in UncategorizedTagged reflection room
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Jan 31 2022

Roots of Medicine | Iowa Pharmacy Garden

Posted on January 31, 2022February 1, 2022 by Sarah Andrews
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Image of butterfly milkweed (asclepias tuberosa) from the book American Medical Botany, from the John Martin Rare Book Room collection

The new 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.  The garden contains signs that identify the plants and QR codes to pull up more information.

While you are waiting for Spring, explore the Roots of Medicine site which contains:

  • images of plants
  • citations of the latest research about specific plants
  • historical uses

Watch a video on Roots of Medicine by the Iowa Bibliophies (53 minutes)

Posted in History of Medicine, John Martin Rare Book Room
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Jan 10 2022

Spring Break Hours @Hardin Library Saturday March 12-March 19 | 24-Hour Study Always Available

Posted on January 10, 2022March 21, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

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.-6 p.m.
Saturday, March 19 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Sunday, March 20 Noon-9 p.m.  *regular hours resume*
 

The library will remain staffed and ready to help you! Get help by chat, email, phone or in person.

 

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Posted in ServicesTagged Spring Break 2022
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Dec 30 2021

December 2021 Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin | Early Italian Facial Plastic Surgery

Posted on December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 by Sarah Andrews

TAGLIACOZZI, GASPARE(1545-1599). De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem. Apud Gasparem Bindonum, juniorem, 1597. 32 cm tall.

woodcut from Tagliacozzi bookTagliacozzi 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 is especially noteworthy for its description of rhinoplasty.

Some form of rhinoplasty had been practiced in ancient India and, in the thirteenth century, by a family of itinerant Sicilian surgeons (the Brancas) who kept the operation a family secret. This became known as the “Italian Method.” This method was included in works by Vesalius, but he described it incorrectly. Tagliacozzi learned of it, modified it, and published De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, describing his successes and failures of his own method in detail.

The volume is divided into two parts: the first, “Theory of the art of plastic surgery,” is about the structure, function, and physiology of the nose; and the second part, “Practice of the art,” describes and illustrates the instruments and operative procedures for restoration of the nose, lip, and ear. Tagliacozzi also fully discussed the complications, such as hemorrhage and gangrene, that often occurred during these operations.

It has 22 full-page woodcut illustrations showing Tagliacozzi’s method and surgical instruments. They are well-executed and illustrate many of the techniques described in the text. The immediate popularity of the work caused it to be pirated by another Venetian printer, Roberto Meietti, who issued it under the same date. This only touches on the interesting life and work of Tagliacozzi. Read more about him here. 

The book is in great condition. One leaf is stained and a few others have browned a bit over time, but it is otherwise in excellent shape. The binding consists of a modern vellum pasted over paper boards. And the full-page illustrations are crisp and jump off the page with their detail and fun flourishes.  This book was purchased by Dr. John Martin in 1977 and donated to the collection.

We also have an English translation of De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem by way of the 17th-century Scottish anatomist, Alexander Read.

If you are interested in seeing this or other items in the collection, please contact Damien Ihrig at damien-ihrig@uiowa.edu or 319-335-9154 to arrange a visit in person or over Zoom.

Give a gift to the Libraries 

 

Posted in History of Medicine, John Martin Rare Book Room, ResourcesTagged Concerning the surgery of the mutilated by grafting, history of medicine, rare medical books, Tagliacozzi

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