Collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources with Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh], a free, easy-to-use web browser tool. Learn more at our hands on session and start gathering your materials in Zotero right away. Tuesday, February 28th, 3:00-4:00pmHardin Library for the Health Sciences, East Information Commons Sign up for this class online: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/regform.html or by callingContinue reading “Learn how to manage and share your research sources with Zotero at free workshop”
Category Archives: Hardin
Keeping Current is Easy, Nov 17
Want to know as soon as an exciting new article is published? Tired of skimming the websites or paper copies of multiple journals to see what is in the new issue? This hands-on session will show you how to create a single destination for information from your favorite journals, databases, websites and blogs using RSSContinue reading “Keeping Current is Easy, Nov 17”
New card needed to access Hardin 24-hr study room
Hawk IDs will no longer provide access to the Hardin 24-hour room. Each person must have an AMAG card (promimity card). To receive a card or to have the Hardin Library added to an existing AMAG card, users must come to Hardin Library between 7:30 and 4:00 M-F and ask for Deanna or Michelle.
Hardin Library closed this summer for renovations
The Hardin Library building will be closed this summer for renovations beginning Saturday, May 14, and reopening on Tuesday, August 17. Staff have been busy planning how to provide service during this time. If you have questions about returns, please feel free to contact Sarah Andrews, Access Services Supervisor for Hardin Library. We’ll post more detailsContinue reading “Hardin Library closed this summer for renovations”
Walton earns NLM fellowship
Linda Walton, associate university librarian and director of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, has been accepted for the prestigious National Library of Medicine’s 2011 fellowship program in Biomedical Informatics held at the Marine Biological Laboratory located in Woods Hole, MA. This week-long survey course is designed to familiarize individuals with the application ofContinue reading “Walton earns NLM fellowship”
Hardin Library participates in pipeline education project
Saba Rasheed Ali, an associate professor in the University of Iowa Counseling Psychology Department in the College of Education, received a Roy J. Carver charitable trust grant of more than $11,000 to expand a career education program called Project HOPE (Healthcare, Occupations, Preparation, Exploration): Pipeline Education for Underserved Rural Students.The initiative will allow middle school students toContinue reading “Hardin Library participates in pipeline education project”
Lawrence named Midwest MLA President-Elect
Janna Lawrence, Assistant Director of the Hardin Library for Health Sciences, is president-elect of the Midwest Chapter/Medical Library Association. She will serve as president-elect, president and past-president for the Chapter. Janna will preside over the October 2012 annual meeting to be held in Rochester, MN.
Orange for Open Access
The University of Iowa Libraries joins thousands of other academic research libraries worldwide in celebration of Open Access Week, which is now in its fourth year. To draw attention to this important issue facing faculty, students and librarians, we’re turning our website orange in recognition of Open Access. We see this as an opportunity forContinue reading “Orange for Open Access”
The Anesthesia for the First Heart Transplant: Cape Town 1967
The world was shaken when an unknown South African surgeon, Christian Bernard, performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant in 1967. Come hear the story of how the groundwork was laid, the young donor gave up her life, the recipient was selected and the world reacted to this magnificent surgical feat. Franklin Scamman, M.D.Professor, DepartmentContinue reading “The Anesthesia for the First Heart Transplant: Cape Town 1967”
Not Just Another Pretty Face
Hardin Library’s newest exhibit traces the history of the dubious attempts to divine personality characteristics by analyzing the size, shape, structure and composition of the human head. It was Aristotle who coined the term, “physiognomy” to support his own writings and inclinations on the subject. Since that time the notion that character and personality areContinue reading “Not Just Another Pretty Face”