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map: to enter library from VA Loop bus stop, walk on Newton Road to the sidewalk by the parking lot
Oct 06 2022

Newton Road Sidewalk Closed October 10 through 21

Posted on October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

The sidewalk between the Hardin Library bus stop and Hardin’s parking lot  beginning Monday, Oct. 10. The closure is expected last through Friday, Oct. 21. Access to the first floor entrance will be available only from the direction of the parking lot. Please be careful if you must make your way from the VA Loop bus stop area. 

map with arrows indicating you must walk through grass or walk in Newton Road to access the library from the VA Loop bus stop

Posted in Building, Construction, EventsTagged construction, sidewalk closing
Oct 05 2022

Homecoming Week | Hardin Closed Sat, Oct 29 | Bus Service Disrupted Fri Afternoon, Oct 28 | Downtown Parade Route

Posted on October 5, 2022November 23, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

Homecoming is here once again.

Hardin Library will be closed on Saturday, October 29 due to the home Iowa vs. Northwestern football game.  Kickoff is 2pm.  The 24-hour study is available.

Cambus routes will detour Friday afternoon starting about 4pm.  More information

map of cambus route changes see https://transportation.uiowa.edu/articles/2022/10/cambus-service-alert-routes-31-32-33-35-42-52-impacted-due-ui-homecoming-parade for information

Iowa City Transit will move the downtown interchange to Court Street starting Friday morning until the end of the day.  More information

Many streets in downtown Iowa City will begin closing at about 4:30-5pm to accommodate the parade which begins at 5:45pm. More information
map of downtown streets closed for parade see https://homecoming.uiowa.edu/parade

Posted in ServicesTagged bus homecoming 2022, homecoming 2022, homecoming parade 2022
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

medical librarians improve outcomes graphic with results from articles

Posted in Events, Hardin Library StaffTagged medical librarians month, value of librarians to health sciences
says under construction with hard hat
Oct 01 2022

Construction @ Hardin

Posted on October 1, 2022January 30, 2023 by Sarah Andrews

Beginning this month, construction will begin in Hardin Library that will transform the space into one that we hope will be more welcoming and more relevant to your needs.  By the end of the project, which will take two years:

  • quiet study space on the 4th floor will be expanded,
  •  3rd floor study space will be upgraded, and 
  • Hardin staff offices will all be located in a central area on the 3rd floor (except for the Curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room). 

Among the anticipated improvements include the addition of more group studies on the 2nd and 3rd floors and updating of the individual study rooms on the 4th floor. The 4th floor improvements are thanks to a grant funded by the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust.

The first activity you will notice at Hardin will be on the 4th floor. Beginning August 8, most of the print books published before 2010 will be removed and sent to the Library Annex to accommodate the expansion of study space on the that floor. The book move will take place in two stages, each lasting about a week, in August and in December. Most of the current books in Hardin’s collection are electronic and so will continue to be easily accessible from anywhere.  If you need an older print item, books at the Annex can be requested and delivered to Hardin for pick-up or even sent to your office or home (although not to dorm rooms). Older books with high use can be permanently returned to Hardin.

Later in the month, beginning approximately August 22, work will begin on the 1st floor to build offices for the Vice President for Research’s Environmental Health and Safety group.  Also this fall, public restrooms on the 3rd and 4th floor will be enlarged and improved. Restrooms on the 1st and 2nd floor are scheduled for upgrades next year.

The gender neutral restroom on the 3rd floor is being remodeled and after remodeling Hardin Library will have 2 gender neutral restrooms.

We know that construction will be disruptive, but Hardin will remain open and metered parking will continue to be available in our lot. We have asked that the noisiest work be done overnight, when it will disturb the fewest number of people.  Earplugs are available at the 3rd floor service desk and in the 24-hour study.  We will keep you updated through signage and blog posts.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, you can use our anonymous feedback form or contact any Hardin staff member.  You can always contact me directly at janna-lawrence@uiowa.edu or at 319-335-9870.

 

image of Janna Lawrence, white woman, long dark hair, blue topJanna Lawrence, MLIS, AHIP, FMLA

Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

Posted in Building, Construction, Events, ServicesTagged construction, remodel, renovation, Roy J Carver Trust
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Sep 28 2022

How To Set Up EndNote To Find Full Text

Posted on September 28, 2022October 4, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

Here is how to set up EndNote to find full text so you can save entire articles in your library.  

To set up Find Full Text:

  1. From the Edit menu, select Preferences.
  2. Click on Find Full Text.
  3. In the Open URL Path box, enter: 
    https://search.lib.uiowa.edu/openurl/01IOWA/01IOWA_SERVICES
  4. If you are using EndNote from off-campus, you will need to enter https://login.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu beside the box labeled Authentication URL.

NOTE:  It is advised that you do not select the box “automatically invoke find full text on newly imported references” that appears at the bottom of the box. Attaching full text for all references is often unnecessary and will interfere with use of library during the process.

Find Full Text:

  1. Select the desired references in your EndNote Library.
  2. Right click and then select Find Full Text from the pop-up menu.
  3. Click OK on the copyright notice. EndNote will begin looking for full-text and will track its progress in the blue side panel.
  4. When EndNote finds a PDF, a paperclip appears in the attachment column, and the PDF appears in the File Attachments field of the reference. Click on the PDF to open the article. PDFs are stored in the Endnote library’s .data file, in a folder called PDF.
  5. If EndNote can only find an HTML version of the article, a link to that version appears in the reference’s URL field.

Enable UI Link

By enabling UI Link in EndNote, you can easily get to the full-text of an article from the EndNote record

  1. From the Edit menu, select Preferences.
  2. Click on URLS and Links.
  3. Paste the following into the box labeled ISI Base URL: 
    https://login.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=http://gateway.isiknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi
  4. You can now click OK.
  5. To use UI Link, click on a record, then go to the References menu and select URL and then OpenURL Link. Use UI Link to find full text, or to launch an interlibrary loan request, if the item is not available electronically.

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Set up EndNote to Find Full-Text

EndNote can attempt to locate the full text (PDF or HTML) of articles in your library. Full text availability is limited to journals to which the UI Libraries subscribe electronically and for which full text is available. If the Find Full-Text function does not locate a given article, try the UILink option below. (NOTE: this service produces error messages when used off-campus. Clicking either “yes” or “no” on error messages and signing in when you see the login screen should allow this to work from off-campus)

To set up Find Full Text:

  1. From the EndNote menu, select Preferences.
  2. Click on Find Full Text in the left frame.
  3. In the Open URL Path box, enter: 
    https://search.lib.uiowa.edu/openurl/01IOWA/01IOWA_SERVICE
  4. If you are using EndNote from off-campus, you will need to enter https://login.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu beside the box labeled Authentication URL.

To find full-text:

  1. Select the desired references in your EndNote Library.
  2. From the References menu, select Find Full Text.
  3. Click OK on the copyright notice. EndNote will begin looking for full-text and will track its progress in the side panel.
  4. When EndNote finds a PDF, a paperclip appears in the attachment column, and the PDF appears in the File Attachments field of the reference. It also appears in the far right pane when the reference is open. To open the PDF, click the icon in the File Attachments field or click the “book” icon in the lower corner of the open reference. PDFs are stored in the Endnote library’s .data file, in a folder called PDF.
  5. If EndNote can only find an HTML version of the article, a link to that version appears in the reference’s URL field.

By enabling InfoLink in EndNote, you can easily get to the full-text of an article from the EndNote record, without attaching the PDF.

Enable UI Link

  1. From the EndNote menu, select Preferences
  2. Click on URLS and Links
  3. In the box labeled ISI Base URL, copy and paste this into the field:
    https://login.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=http://gateway.isiknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi
  1. To use UI Link, select a record, then go to the References menu and select URL and then OpenURL Link. The UI Link window should appear.

 

Linking PDFs or Other Files to EndNote References

Sometimes, EndNote won’t be able to locate a PDF.  In that case, if you have the PDF, you can manually attach it.  You can also attach other types of files to citations.  The file can be on your own computer or on the Internet.

  1. Open the reference to which you wish to link.
  2. To link to a file on your computer, select a citation, go to the References menu and choose File Attachments and then Attach File…. Locate the file and click Open.
  3. To link to a file on the Internet, simply type (or paste) the URL into the reference’s URL field.

 

Need personalized help?  Contact your librarian!

Posted in Library Resource, Services, TechnologyTagged EndNote find full text
celebrate banned books week September 18-26, 2022
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
photo of Mary Thomas, white woman, blond hair, in front of trees
Sep 14 2022

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

Posted on September 14, 2022September 15, 2022 by Sarah Andrews
photo of Mary Thomas, white woman, blond hair, in front of trees
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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Sep 06 2022

Looking for Print Book at Hardin?

Posted on September 6, 2022September 7, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

by Janna Lawrence, Hardin Library director

As part of the construction projects currently underway at Hardin, most print books published before 2010 will be moved to the Library Annex.

In August, 40,000 books were permanently moved to the Annex; these were from the beginning of the call number range, starting with A and going through QR92 L5 C66.  The remainder of the pre-2010 collection, approximately 50,000 books, will be moved to the Annex in December.

After ingestion into the Annex, which may take several months, you will be able to request these books through the InfoHawk+ catalog for pick up at Hardin or another campus library, or even delivered to your office or home (although currently not to residence halls). 

If you require a book that you believe has been moved to the Annex but is not yet available there, please request a copy through Interlibrary Loan. We will obtain a copy for you from another library, at no cost to you.

Because e-books make up the majority of books in Hardin’s current collection, we hope that this change will have minimal impact on users. If a book located at the Annex is used frequently or is needed for course reserve, it can be returned to Hardin’s shelves. Hardin books published before 1980 have been located at the Library Annex for several years.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, you can use our anonymous feedback form or contact any Hardin staff member.  You can always contact me directly at janna-lawrence@uiowa.edu or at 319-335-9870.

 

Posted in Building, ConstructionTagged construction, moving books to storage
doctor and nurse working on patient in hospital setting
Sep 01 2022

Evidence-Based Clinical Tools Available To All University of Iowa Affiliates

Posted on September 1, 2022September 12, 2022 by Sarah Andrews

by Heather Healy, Clinical Education Librarian 

Hardin Library has many evidence-based clinical tools for you to use in your practice or coursework.

graphic cellphone with medical cross in the middle Many have an app version available.  See Mobile Resources Guide for installation.

DynaMed

  • Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool
  • DynaMed Editorial Team monitors over 450 medical journals and guidelines organizations
  • Team of practicing physicians appraises and summarizes the evidence
  • Embedded citations of specific studies and DynaMed evidence levels
  • Mobile app available

BMJ Best Practice

  • Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool
  • Combines latest research evidence, guidelines, and expert opinion
  • Step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis
  • Referenced studies are listed and full-text is linked when available
  • Mobile app available

UpToDate

  • Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool
  • Recognized faculty of experts synthesize the latest evidence and practices and provide detailed recommendations
  • References are provided for recommendations
  • Mobile app available

Essential Evidence Plus and AHFS DI Essentials

  • Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool
  • Includes 13,000 conditions, diseases, and procedures
  • Strength-of-evidence recommendation ratings

Micromedex

  • Evidence-based summary, point-of-care tool for drug information
  • Strength of recommendation and strength of evidence ratings
  • Includes many tools, including Drug Interactions, IV Compatibility, Drug Comparison, and more
  • Mobile apps available

Clinical Overviews

  • Search the overviews in ClinicalKey using the dropdown menu by the search box
  • Overviews that are easy-to-scan, actionable information on diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, screening, and prevention of diseases and conditions
  • Content developed by Elsevier’s Point of Care Editorial team (global community of 4800 physicians)
  • Mobile app of ClinicalKey available; look for results labeled as Clinical Overviews

Cochrane Clinical Answers

  • Truncated summaries of Cochrane systematic reviews
  • Easy-to-read, clinically focused
  • Actionable, and designed to inform decision-making at point-of-care
  • Contains a clinical question, short answer, ability to drill down to evidence

Cochrane Library

  • High-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making
  • Includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, a gold-standard of medical literature
  • Includes the Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), a repository of trial citations

ACP Journal Club

  • Summarizes the best new evidence for internal medicine from over 120 clinical journals.
  • Research staff and clinical editors rigorously assess scientific merit of medical literature 

PubMed Clinical Queries

  • Point-of-care search interface for PubMed
  • Allows focusing search by clinical question type (therapy, diagnosis, etiology, prognosis, or clinical prediction guides)
  • Can also focus searches on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 articles by category (treatment, mechanism, long COVID, and more)

Natural Medicines 

  • Evidence-based information and ratings for over 90,000 dietary supplements, natural medicines and integrative therapies
  • Includes interaction checker, effectiveness checker, and a nutrient depletion checker

 

Posted in ResourcesTagged clinical care, clinical tools, mobile apps, point-of-care tools, professional tools
photo of Carlisle Isley, white woman, in front of art and fountain
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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