University Facilities staff are preparing the Map Collection for asbestos abatement, which should begin next Tuesday.
While the abatement project is underway, Map Collection’s entrance will be in the short hallway, to the east of the copy machines on third floor.
The Map Collection and staff are still available to people needing to use the resources. For more information, please contact the Map Collection (lib-maps@uiowa.edu).
Iowa’s First Lady Mari Culver recently donated a signed copy of Entertaining at Terrace Hill to the Louis Szathmary II Culinary Arts Collection at the University of Iowa Libraries.
Culver made the donation on a visit to Iowa City in April for a Prairie Lights book-signing event. The cookbook features over 200 recipes from around the state and displays of food photographed at Terrace Hill. The latest in the series of Iowa First Lady cookbooks, it includes recollections by F.M. Hubbell family descendents who were part of the Terrace Hill legacy for many years before the home was presented to the state. For more information, visit http://www.governor.iowa.gov/news/2008/11/5_2.php.
This book joins one of the most wide-ranging culinary collections in the world, with some 12,000 volumes dating from 1499 to 2009, says David E. Schoonover, curator of rare books at the UI. See http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/scua/bai/szathmary.htm for more on the archives.
Join us for the final evening in the six-part series When the World Spoke Arabic: The Golden Age of Arab Civilization.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 7PM, ICPL, Meeting Rm. A
“From Arabic to Latin: The Assimilation of Arab Knowledge” (26 min.)
As dissension mounted between the rival Arab dynasties in Baghdad, Cordoba and Cairo, Christendom rallied to oppose the Muslims in Spain and Jerusalem. This program plots out the decline of the Empire of the Caliphate and the acquisition of Arab knowledge by Europeans starved for Islam’s intellectual riches.
“Forgetting the Arabs: Europe on the Cusp of the Renaissance” (27 min.)
Why was Islamic philosophy, once the epitome of Arab learning, eventually rejected by Muslims? And why, after assimilating it, did Europeans distance themselves from its formulators? This program seeks to understand the religious climate of the late Middle Ages, in which universities and madrassas became centers of power and models for evolving sociopolitical systems.
The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City Public Library, UI Middle East and Muslim World Studies Program, African Studies Program, and Medieval Studies Program are sponsors of this film series.
All films will be introduced by Edward Miner, International Studies Bibliographer, University of Iowa Libraries, with discussion to follow. This film series will be shown in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name in the north foyer of the University of Iowa Main Library. For more information, contact Edward Miner at (319)335-5883 or edward-miner@uiowa.edu.
The open house and exhibit, “De Partu Hominis; Six Centuries of Obstetrics,” will feature rare books on childbirth from the 15th through the 20th centuries. Visitors can view and page through early atlases and manuals used by midwives and physicians featuring illustrations and descriptions of birthing chairs, forceps, caesarean section, the development of anesthesia, and complications of labor and delivery.
Among the dozens of works to be displayed include William Hunter’s striking 1774 atlas, The anatomy of the human gravid uterus, Oliver Wendell Holmes’ controversial 1842 treatise, The contagiousness of puerperal fever, and De formato foetu, a set of plates rendered in the Baroque style, published in 1626.
Thursday, May 14 from 4:30 to 7:30
John Martin Rare Book Room, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
The exhibit is part of a series of public lectures and presentation sponsored by the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society. The John Martin Rare Book Room is located on the fourth floor of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. For additional information, please contact Ed Holtum, Curator at 335-9154.
To help students prepare for finals, the UI Libraries has put together a Finals Stimulus Package: FREE POP!
Main Library, North Exhibition Hall
Sunday, May 10 – Tuesday, May 12 @ 11 p.m. (while supplies last)
Lichtenberger Engineering, Mathematical Sciences and Physics Libraries
Monday, May 11 (while supplies last)
Biological Sciences, Pomerantz Business, Geoscience and Psychology Libraries
Tuesday, May 12 (while supplies last)
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
Thursday, May 14 (while supplies last)
The UI Libraries received the Diet Coke, Coke and Sprite from an anonymous donor.
Join us for the fifth evening of the six-part series When the World Spoke Arabic: The Golden Age of Arab Civilization.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 7PM, ICPL, Meeting Rm. A
“The Thousand and One Nights: A Historical Perspective” (27 min.)
Encompassing fairy tales, romances, legends, fables, parables, and anecdotes, The Thousand and One Nights is a composite of popular oral stories that developed over several centuries, mainly during the Empire of the Caliphate. This program scrutinizes the wonderfully audacious tale of Scheherazade and what it tells the attentive reader about the dreams of Arab men and women during the empire’s golden age.
“Ulema and Philosophers: Faith vs. Reason in Islamic Arabia” (26 min.)
By replacing paganism with monotheism and tribal life with empire-building, the Arabs of the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties effected a complete paradigm shift in their worldview. This program studies the codification of Islamic law and assimilation of non-Arab texts—and the ensuing competition between the ulema, or doctors of the law, and the philosophers, who saw reason as an equal to divine enlightenment.
The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City Public Library, UI Middle East and Muslim World Studies Program, African Studies Program, and Medieval Studies Program are sponsors of this film series.
All films will be introduced by Edward Miner, International Studies Bibliographer, University of Iowa Libraries, with discussion to follow. This film series will be shown in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name in the north foyer of the University of Iowa Main Library. For more information, contact Edward Miner at (319)335-5883 or edward-miner@uiowa.edu.
Hardin librarians have developed an information guide about Swine Flu. All of the information contained in the guide is free and open to the public.
Did you know that you can text a call number to your cell phone so you can go and find the item in the library stacks?
Simply use Smart Search (smartsearch.uiowa.edu) to find your item. Then click the title to view the full details of the record. On the right in the “Keeping this item” section is an option to “Text” the record. Just click the link, enter your 10 digit number without any spaces or dashes, and hit send. That’s it!
(Note: Carrier charges may apply)
The Asian American Coalition is screening “Finishing the Game” and “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” this weekend to celebrate the Asian Pacific Heritage Month.
Free Movie Screening at 101 Becker Communication Studies Building (BCSB)
“Finishing the Game” Director Justin Lin, 84 minutes Friday, April 24 at 7:30 PM
Bruce Lee’s shocking death left legions of stunned fans and a legacy of 12 minutes from his unfinished Game of Death. Undeterred, studio executives launched a search for his replacement chronicled here through the eyes of five aspiring thespians who find out what the real game is.
If you are interested in finding Bruce Lee films in the library, please try Author Search in InfoHawk Catalog. If you are interested in learning more about Bruce Lee, try Subject Search with his name.
“Tie A Yellow Ribbon” Director Joy Dietrich, 86 minutes Saturday, April 25 at 7:30 PM
The feature-length narrative film TIE A YELLOW RIBBON gives a rare view into the emotionally complex interior of a young Asian American woman, a Korean adoptee who needs to come to terms with her damaged past.
If you are interested in learning more about themes from this movie, you may want to try Subject Headings such as Intercountry adoption, Interracial adoption, Korean Americans, Adopted children, etc. for your search. You may be also interested in reading Prof. Sonia Ryang’s Writing Selves in Diaspora: Ethnography of Autobiographics of Korean Women in Japan and the United States (Main Library DS832.7.K6 R938 2008).”
Please contact Sunny Bounyalath at sunny-bounyalath@uiowa.edu if you have questions about attending the events.
Join us for the fourth evening in a six-part series of When the World Spoke Arabic: The Golden Age of Arab Civilization.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 7PM, ICPL, Meeting Rm. A
“The Secrets of the Human Body: Islam’s Contributions to Medicine” (27 min.)
This program investigates the practice of medicine during the Abbasid Caliphate, offering profiles of Jurjis ibn Jibrail, personal doctor to Caliph al-Mansur; Yuhanna ibn Masawayh, head of Caliph al-Ma’amun’s House of Wisdom; Rhazes, whose Kitab al-hawi outlines an exemplary clinical approach; Avicenna, universally known for his Canon of Medicine; and Abul Qasim al-Zahrawi, the father of modern surgery.
“Everything under the Sun: Astronomy, Mathematics, and Islam” (26 min.)
Picking up mathematics and astronomy from where the ancient Greeks had left off, Arab scholars paved the way for the Copernican revolution and the rebirth of science in Europe. This program reveals the Empire of the Caliphate’s role in developing the Indo-Arabic decimal system, algebra, and algorithms and in refining the science of optics and the Ptolemaic model of the solar system.
The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City Public Library, UI Middle East and Muslim World Studies Program, African Studies Program, and Medieval Studies Program are sponsors of this film series.
All films will be introduced by Edward Miner, International Studies Bibliographer, University of Iowa Libraries, with discussion to follow. This film series will be shown in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name in the north foyer of the University of Iowa Main Library. For more information, contact Edward Miner at (319)335-5883 or edward-miner@uiowa.edu.