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Jan 03 2019

Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina | January 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library

Posted on January 3, 2019January 31, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

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 Hippocratic writings. It was written about 30 A.D. De Medicina was one of the first medical books printed after printing was invented.

Celsus has left the best account of Roman medicine; he was the first important medical historian. The manuscript of the De Medicina was lost during the Middle Ages and rediscovered in Milan in 1443. Celsus was probably not a professional physician–his work seems to be a compilation of the work of others–echoing the Greeks and especially Hippocrates. Nevertheless, it is an extremely able and interesting history of medicine and surgery, including descriptions of symptoms and treatment of disease as well as descriptions of plastic surgery, goiter operations, tonsillectomies, treatment of fractures, and dental procedures.

This Celsus volume is one of few volumes in the John Martin collection which has been completely digitized. View the book online: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/jmrbr/id/6326/rec/1.

The John Martin Rare Book Room copy is in Latin and bound in Eighteenth-century half calf and floral boards.

Jan 03 2019

No More Recalls ! | Get Checked-Out Books Faster, Keep Materials Longer

Posted on January 3, 2019January 3, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

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 get a copy of the needed material from another library, at no charge to you. On average, it takes 6.5 days to get a book through interlibrary loan. In contrast, when a book is recalled from another user, that user is given at least a week to return it, and sometimes longer, depending on when they had checked the book out. This change also means that materials you have checked out are less likely to be recalled from you.

If you have never requested a book or journal article through interlibrary loan, you will need to fill out a registration form the first time. There is no limit on the number of interlibrary loan requests UI faculty, staff, students, or residents can make, and requests can be for any use, including entertainment.

Books may still be recalled by UI Libraries staff when they are needed for course reserves.

If you have questions about interlibrary loan or any other UI Libraries service or policy, contact Hardin staff at 319-335-9151.

*What are Interlibrary Loans?
Interlibrary loans are materials borrowed from another library for use by a user or loaned to another library for their patron’s use.
The lending library does not know which user has requested the materials.

Jan 01 2019

Open Education Week Activities @UI Libraries | Tools, resources & practices that increase access and sharing

Posted on January 1, 2019March 8, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

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, 1-2:30pm, 2032 Main Library

Talk with Nicole Allen from SPARC | Friday, March 8, 1-2pm, E105 Adler Journalism Building

For more information see:

Open Education Resources Program at UI Libraries and grants program

Dec 17 2018

2020 Journal and Database Cancellation Review Information

Posted on December 17, 2018December 18, 2018 by Sarah Andrews

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-use
carry a high cost-per-use
duplicate content available from other sources

In the past, these processes–along with reducing spending on printed books–have enabled The Libraries to counter rising costs. However, in 2020, subscription costs will increase 5 to 7 percent, and we are finding it difficult to identify further spending reductions. The UI Libraries must identify $600,000 in subscriptions to cancel. Health sciences areas will cut $175,000 and other areas will cut the remaining $425,000. Subscriptions managed by the Law Library are not included in this process.

We need your feedback in order to make the best possible decisions.

Faculty and staff should complete the feedback form by Friday, March 1, 2019 to make a case to keep journal titles or database subscriptions.

Updates and more information about the process is available online.

Dec 12 2018

ClinicalKey, Scopus and many Elsevier journals working again

Posted on December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 by Sarah Andrews

ClinicalKey, Scopus and Science Direct should all be working as expected.

If you have problems, please call us at 319-335-9151.

Nov 29 2018

Hippocrates Translated by François Rabelais | December 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library

Posted on November 29, 2018February 7, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

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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, best known for his series —Pantagruel and Gargantua –the comic and satirical masterpieces directed against the superstitions and pretenses of his day.

He entered Montpellier to study medicine late in 1530 and by 1532 was physician to the Hôtel Dieu in Lyons. Rabelais compiled and edited the first edition of the present work while at Lyons in 1532. He was one of the first to lecture from Greek texts and, in the book’s dedicatory letter to his good friend Geoffroy d’Estissac, Bishop of Maillezais, indicates that the translation was made from his own ancient text because existing Latin translations were filled with errors. The Greek text of the Aphorismi with its own special title page is added at the end of the book. The book also includes Hippocrates’ De medico, medicine officio liber, Liber de lege, and Liber de specie, acie, visuve, & opsios oculorum corrupta.

Radiology, Cardiology, Anatomy & More | New eBooks Available on ClinicalKey

Posted on November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 by Sarah Andrews

- 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) 2nd ed
- Medical Secrets (Harward, Mary) 6th ed
- Molecular Biology (Clark, David) 3rd ed
- Muller’s Imaging of the Chest (Walker, Christopher) 2nd ed
- Neuroradiology: Spectrum and Evolution of Disease (Small, Juan) 1st ed; *NEW*
- Atlas of Endovascular Venous Surgery (Almeida, Jose) 2nd ed;
- Cardiac Intensive Care (Brown, David) 3rd ed
- Cardiovascular Physiology (Pappano, Achilles)11th ed
- Cell Biology (Pollard, Thomas) 3rd ed
- Central Nervous System Cancer Rehabilitation (Cristian, Adrian) 1st ed; *NEW*
- Challenging Neuropathic Pain Syndromes (Freedman, Mitchell) 1st ed; *NEW*
- Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology (Issa, Ziad) 3rd ed;
- Clinical Biochemistry: An Illustrated Colour Text (Murphy, Michael) 6th ed
- Clinical Pharmacology (Brown, Morris) 12th ed
- Creasy and Resnik’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine: Principles and Practice (Resnik, Robert) 8th ed
- Dubois’ Lupus Erythematosus and Related Syndromes (Wallace, Daniel) 9th ed
- Emery’s Elements of Medical Genetics (Turnpenny, Peter) 15th ed
- Fundamentals of Oncologic PET/CT (Ulaner, Gary) 1st ed; *NEW*
- Hutchison’s Clinical Methods (Glynn, Michael) 24th ed
- Kaplan’s Essentials of Cardiac Anesthesia for Noncardiac Surgery (Kaplan, Joel) *NEW*
- Netter’s Concise Radiologic Anatomy (Weber, Edward) Updated 2nd Ed
- Netter’s Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry (Norton, Neil) 3rd Ed
- Oh’s Intensive Care Manual (Bersten, Andrew) 8th ed
- Oral Pathology: A Comprehensive Atlas and Text (Woo, Sook-Bin) 2nd ed
- Physician Assistant: A Guide to Clinical Practice (Ballweg, Ruth) 6th ed
- Practical Cytopathology: A Diagnostic Approach to Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (Field, Andrew) 1st ed *NEW*
- Renal Physiology (Koeppen, Bruce) 6th ed
- Transfusion Medicine and Hemostasis (Shaz, Beth) 3rd ed
- Underwood’s Pathology (Cross, Simon) 7th ed

Access any of this titles by going to http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/clinicalkey and selecting “books.”

Nov 28 2018

Hardin Library Closing Early Tuesday and Wednesday | 6pm Closing January 29 and January 30

Posted on November 28, 2018February 1, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

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-Midnight **regular hours resume**

The 24 hour study will remain open at all times if you have a valid Iowa One Card or UIHC Badge.

Nov 21 2018

Longer loans for DVDs

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Sarah Andrews

You can now borrow DVDs for 14 days!

You find DVDs in InfoHawk+, and request DVDs after signing in to InfoHawk+.

Nov 14 2018

Meet The Expert: Chris Childs, Clinical Education Librarian for Pharmacy and Dentistry

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Sarah Andrews

Meet The Expert: Chris Childs, Clinical Education Librarian

Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Purdue University
Master of Library Science, University of North Texas

Areas of Expertise:

Health sciences literature searching
Systematic reviews
EndNote
Teaching and training users
Collection development
Finding evidence-based resources
Outreach

Outside the library:

I’m a big fan of the National Park system and each year hike and camp at a different national park. My goal is to see all 59 parks and so far I have been to 33. I can’t go more than three days without having a book to read. History is my favorite non-fiction topic to read. My wife and I have a cat named Aurora we think is part Maine Coon. I enjoy travel outside of the United States as well and recently visited Europe.