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Apr 15 2019

Lou Barker & Jake Edwards | 2019 Library Student Employee Scholarship Winners

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

Lou Barker is the recipient of the Dale M. and Mary Gail Bentz Libraries Student Employee Scholarship.

“I came to the UI for violin performance–the chamber music program here is really inclusive and brings in a lot of amazing artists. Working at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences desk helps me work on my people skills….

Working in the library has given me the skill of a greater sense of self; it has increased my self confidence. As a violin performance major, it’s important to have the skills to adapt, communicate, and feel secure in a place that feels somewhat out of my element.”

Jacob (Jake) Edwards is a receipient of the UI Libraries Student Employee Scholarship.

“Although most of my own course work is in the humanities and not the sciences, my library skills have been instrumental to my personal scholarship. My work at the library has allowed me to surround myself with books and people who love them….These skills will help me as a high school English teacher.”

Donate online to the Library Student Employee Scholarship Fund

Dr Laveran; man with spectacles and high color

Apr 05 2019

Malaria Discovered by Laveran | April 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library

Posted on April 5, 2019May 1, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

CHARLES LOUIS ALPHONSE LAVERAN (1845-1922). Traité du paludisme. Paris: Masson, 1898.

After graduating from the University of Strasbourg in 1867, Laveran became an army physician like his well-known father. While stationed at Constantine in Algeria, he discovered the malaria parasite which he named Oscillatia malariae. One of the great discoveries of modern medicine, it was announced in 1880.

Laveran later served as professor of military hygiene at Val de Grâce and, resigning from the army, went to the Pasteur Institute where he devoted the remainder of his life to research and experimentation in tropical medicine and parasitology. He received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1907.

Traité du paludisme is the last of four separate treatises on malaria published by Laveran.

He summarizes the long history of the study of malaria;
Describes his own discovery of the malaria parasite as well as its mosquito carrier, and
Places considerable emphasis on the importance and necessity of draining marshes and stagnant bodies of water.
He also covers the clinical, pathological, and therapeutic aspects of malaria and concludes with material on related parasitic diseases and problems yet to be solved.

You may view this book in the John Martin Rare Book Room, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. Make a gift to the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences by donating online or setting up a recurring gift with The University of Iowa Foundation.

Scanned University of California copy

Apr 02 2019

Invisible Bias: Data Bias in a World Designed For Men | New e-book

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

The libraries now have an ebook with unlimited users of Caroline Criado Perez’s book Invisible Bias: Data Bias in a World Designed For Men.

NPR interview with Criado Perez

image of Duncan Stewart, white man, holding book in front of brick wall

Mar 27 2019

Duncan Stewart wins Benton Award for Excellence

Posted on March 27, 2019March 27, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

Congratulations to Duncan Stewart, the of Libraries’ Cataloging-Metadata Department who has been selected to receive the 2018 Arthur Benton University Librarian’s Award for Excellence.

Duncan’s nominators called out his work in bringing a cataloging class back to the University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) as well as his efforts to expand and improve the UI SLIS mentorship program. He has also played a number of leadership roles in the Iowa Library Association.

Mar 08 2019

Researchers: Find Funding and Collaborators | Pivot Database

Posted on March 8, 2019March 12, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

image of circle graph with $ in middle Pivot now makes it easier for researchers to search for potential collaborators and external funding opportunities.

University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students may now use the database to identify funding opportunities from governments, corporations, non-profit organizations, foundations, and other private sources. Users may also sign up to receive weekly funding alerts based on their search criteria. Tip: add relevant keywords to your profile in order to better identify relevant funding.

Pivot replaces the University of Iowa’s subscription to the SPIN funding database.

In addition to the funding search tools, Pivot also offers functionality to support research collaborations. Users can search for researcher expertise on the University of Iowa campus or at other institutions within the U.S. and internationally. 3M faculty profiles are included in the database.

Questions about using the Pivot database may be directed to Oliva Smith in the Division of Sponsored Programs at oliva-smith@uiowa.edu or 335-3708.

The launch of Pivot on the University of Iowa campus is a collaborative effort from the Research Development Office, Division of Sponsored Programs, and the UI Libraries.

edited from original post by Leslie Revaux

Mar 03 2019

Get Ready for Finals @Hardin Library

Posted on March 3, 2019May 10, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

We want you to succeed, and here are some of the ways we want to help making studying at the Hardin Library easier:

Open until Midnight Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4. 24-hour study available when the library is closed.
Free coffee starting at 5pm Friday until it runs out.
Free snacks starting at 5pm Friday until they run out.
Therapy dogs 4-6pm Saturday in Room 401.
Coloring and puzzle pages.
West Commons computer lab, 2nd Floor is a silent computer lab.
Reserve a group study

photo of herbal from 1541; herb and 3 men

Mar 02 2019

Scientific Books & Their Makers : Pop Up Exhibit and Presentations | Monday, May 6 | John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library

Posted on March 2, 2019May 10, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

Students in History 4430/UICB 4930 Scientific Books and Their Makers invite you to a pop up exhibit and series of presentations. The exhibit includes interactive, artistic, literary, and scholarly elements, grounded in research in the history of science and the book in early modern Europe.

Monday, May 6
10am-12pm
John Martin Rare Book Room, 401 HLHS

How to Science: Interpretation, Organization and Language in Early Modern Scientific Texts
Kaeli Nieves-Whitmore, Elizabeth McKay, and Lucy Dunphy Barness

How to Book: Books Before Robots
Lydia Nesslar, Katerina Hazell, and Libby Walkup

How to Sex: Practicality Versus Morality
Rhiannon Bell and Heidi Parker

Feb 22 2019

Printing @Hardin Library | Yes we have color printing!

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

Hardin Library printing and public computers are provided by ITS.

Color printing is available from ALL public computers. Simply select ITC-Color as your printer and release the job from the print release station on 3rd Floor or in the Information Commons West.

Color printing is 15 cents per side. Black and white printing is 3 cents per side. We are quite a bargain!

Feb 20 2019

Judicial Astrology | Al-Qabisi | February 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library

Posted on February 20, 2019April 19, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

ABD AL-ʻAZĪZ IBN ʻUTHMĀN (fl. 950 – d. 967) AND Danck, Joannes fl. 1331. Libellus ysagogicus Abdilazi, id est servi gloriosi Dei... 1485

Abu al-Saqr Abd al-Aziz Ibn Uthman Ibn Ali al-Qabisi l-Mawsili al-Hashimi, generally known as Al-Qabisi, (Latinised as Alchabitius or Alcabitius), and sometimes known as Alchabiz, Abdelazys, Abdilaziz ‘Abd al-Azîz, عبدالعزيز القبيصي) was an Arab astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician.

Al-Qabisi is best known for his treatise on judicial astrology, Introduction to the Art of Judgments of the Stars. This work survives in at least twenty-five Arabic manuscripts, and over two hundred manuscripts of its Latin translation, with twelve printed editions of the Latin work between 1473 and 1521. The Arabic text has received at least three Latin translations, which attracted several commentaries and were, in turn, translated into other European languages.

The 1473 copy, and others up until 1521, features writing about Al-Qabisi by John of Saxony. The rare 3rd edition (1473) of this classic scientific work recognized the authority of Ptolmy’s Almagest. The present work is edited by Bartholomaeus Alten. These early printed editions of Alchabitius’ “principle surviving treatise, a tenth century Arabic introduction to Astrology” are almost unprocurable. The book includes attractive large and smaller, ornamental initials, white on black.