Susan Winckler (left), chief of staff of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a University of Iowa alumna, and Jennifer Niebyl (right), UI faculty member and physician, will help launch a traveling exhibit on women and medicine with talks beginning at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, in the Dr. Prem Sahai Auditorium, Room 1110A,Continue reading “Event Explores Changing Role of Women in Health Care”
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Slovenian Poet Tomaz Salamun to read in Shambaugh Auditorium
The culimination of the International Writing Program’s 40th Anniversary Celebration is a reading by influential Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun on Friday, October 12 at 8 p.m. in Shambaugh Auditorium. Tomaz Šalamun was born in Zagreb, Croatia, raised in Koper, Slovenia, and now makes his home in Ljubljana. He studied art history and worked as aContinue reading “Slovenian Poet Tomaz Salamun to read in Shambaugh Auditorium”
Sakai Leads Exhibit Tour
UI librarian Chiaki Sakai will conduct a brief tour of the exhibit “East Asia in the Midwest: 40 Years of East Asian Writers at the IWP” on Thursday, October 11 at 4:30 pm in the North Lobby of the Main Library. This exhibit and tour are part of the celebration of the International Writing Program’sContinue reading “Sakai Leads Exhibit Tour”
Hardin Library will host national traveling exhibition
Women doctors are the focus of a new traveling exhibition opening Friday, Oct. 12 at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa.”Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians” tells the extraordinary story of how American women who wanted to practice medicine have struggled over the past two centuriesContinue reading “Hardin Library will host national traveling exhibition”
Amazing Library Race Results
Congratulations to all of our participants. This year almost 90 students signed-up to test their skills in the Amazing Library Race. Below is a list of our top 3 teams and their total times (hours: minutes: seconds). Place Fname Lname Tname TOTAL TIME 1st Karen Fairchild Baloney Amputation 3:46:00 2nd Katy Bruchmann C-5 3:53:00 2ndContinue reading “Amazing Library Race Results”
An Endangered River Runs Through Us: Three Iowa River Journeys
REGISTER NOW: IOWA RIVER BUS TOUR ON OCTOBER 19 Register at cory-sanderson@uiowa.edu or 319 353-1021 Friday, October 19, is the first of three events focused on the Iowa River, declared endangered by the organization American Rivers. Each event is a guided bus tour of the river with site visits along the way, followed byContinue reading “An Endangered River Runs Through Us: Three Iowa River Journeys”
“All we are saying … is give peace a chance”.
The lyrics of “Give Peace a Chance” express former Beatle, John Lennon’s (1940-1980) antiwar philosophy. In commemoration of his birthday on October 9th, the Libraries’ is highlighting resources that provide a documentary history of governments’ attempts to establish peace though negotiations, armistice agreements, and treaties. Supplementary documents related to peace talks, declassified diplomatic correspondence provideContinue reading ““All we are saying … is give peace a chance”.”
Scattered Seeds: Writers from China and the Chinese Diaspora
As part of the 40th Anniversary of the International Writing Program, several noted IWP alumni have returned to Iowa City. A special reading of Chinese writers is planned to celebrate. The reading will take place in the Adler Journalism Building room E105 on Thursday, October 11 from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Li Rui (2002), Xi ChuanContinue reading “Scattered Seeds: Writers from China and the Chinese Diaspora”
Interlibrary Loan Delivers!
The more than four million volumes that the UI Libraries owns are just the tip of the iceberg of knowlege that UI faculty, students and staff have access to. Our Interlibrary Loan department is your connection to a world of libraries. Every year the Interlibrary Loan department fills requests for more than 20,000 items! You can request a book, thesis, video,Continue reading “Interlibrary Loan Delivers!”
Search Smarter at the UI Libraries
Beginning this fall, UI Libraries users can search smarter. The new and improved Smart Search on the UI Libraries website provides a single search box that searches the InfoHawk Catalog, the Iowa Digital Library, E-resources, E-books, E-journals and even journal articles. During this early release period, we want to hear about your experience using Smart SearchContinue reading “Search Smarter at the UI Libraries”