Winter Interim Notice: delivery requests will continue as usual except for the week of December 22 when requests received after midnight of the 22nd will be processed on December 29.
The art library staff office will be closed on December 24-28.
For more information about how to request Art Library materials while the library is closed, check the library website.
The Rita Benton Music Library (RBML) will be moving to the Main Library over the Winter Break. To accommodate the move, RBML staff and services to the public will be suspended from Saturday, December 20, 2008 through Thursday, January 15, 2009 .
Once settled, our reference and print collections will be housed on the second floor (southwest corner) of the Main Library. Staff, music course reserves, and all other materials will be housed on the 5th floor in the study lounge at the south end of the building.
Please use Interlibrary Loan or in the case of urgent needs, contact us at lib-mus@uiowa.edu or ruthann-mctyre@uiowa.edu
Thank you for your patience. We look forward to returning to normal operations in our temporary home in the new year. Please feel free to contact Ruthann McTyre, music librarian, with your questions.
When the new version EBSCOhost 2.0, fully ADA compliant, was implemented before the start of classes in the fall, the Text Only interface was still available. But it will be fully retired this spring.
If you are still using the old interface and have created personal links to either EBSCOhost or any of the individual databases contained within it, now may be a good time to make the switch. The new version of EBSCOhost can be found at the following address: http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/ebscohost
If you use the Text Only interface for accessing EBSCOhost via a handheld device, you will find EBSCOhost 2.0 equally effective. For those who continue to use the Text Only interface to minimize connectivity speed issues based on your local network providers, EBSCOhost 2.0 provides a superior alternative to Text Only.
This week’s issue of FYI, the monthly online faculty and staff newsletter, featured flood restoration work being done in the Libraries by members of the Preservation Staff.
UI Libraries preservation specialists reach out to area museums in need of restoration work.
Jonathan Koffel, education and outreach librarian, recently received special recognition from the UI College of Pharmacy for his teaching and outreach efforts. The award was based on votes and comments from Pharmacy students and was awarded at the College’s annual reception held to honor scholarship recipients and Teacher of the Year award winners.
Jonathan is the Library’s liaison to the College of Pharmacy and holds an adjunct faculty appointment within the College. He teaches information use skills to students in the Pharmacy Practice Lab course sequence, creates customized resource guides on pharmacy topics, and selects pharmacy-related materials for the library’s collection.
Louise Rosenfield Noun, social activist, art collector, author, philanthropist and co-founder of the Iowa Women’s Archives, was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1908. Noun became widely recognized for her leadership and commitment to a number of organizations and causes.
Please join us in a celebration of her life with cake and conversation.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Iowa Women’s Archives
Third Floor, Main Library
She served as president of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union and the Des Moines chapters of the League of Women Voters and the National Organization for Women. Noun established the Chrysalis Foundation in 1989 to provide financial assistance to Iowa women. She wrote several books, including Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in Iowa; More Strong-Minded Women: Iowa Feminists Tell Their Stories; Iowa Women in the WPA; Journey to Autonomy: A Memoir; and Leader and Pariah: Annie Savery and the Campaign for Women’s Rights in Iowa, 1868-1891.
Louise Noun realized a long-term goal in 1992 with the establishment of the Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women’s Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries. The Iowa Women’s Archives, which opened in October 1992, is devoted to preserving the history of women by acquiring and making available primary source material that documents the lives of Iowa women.
Learn more about Louise Noun through the IWA Founder’s digital collection.
Beginning Monday, the chemistry materials which are currently housed on the second floor of the Main Library will move to the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. The move should be completed within two days and will likely affect the use of some elevators in these two buildings and may pose some temporary inconvenience.
The Music Library collection will move to the Main Library at the beginning of January, over the winter break. This move will likely take two weeks to complete. The books will be going to the second floor in the Main Library, where the chemistry materials have been located. The rest of the collection (recordings, etc) will be moved to the 5th floor study lounge. The music library staff will also move to the 5th floor with that collection. Again, this will likely pose some inconvenience during those couple of weeks.
We expect to complete both moves by the beginning of the spring semester and specifically scheduled them during University breaks to minimize disruption to library users.
For questions about the chemistry materials, please contact Leo Clougherty, Head of the Science and Math Libraries. For questions about the music materials, please contact Ruthann McTyre, Head of the Rita Benton Music Library.
Traditionally humanities researchers have worked independently. Yet as this model of scholarship is changing to a more collaborative model, researchers are using social networks to support an open exchange of knowledge. Several new digital collaborative projects are providing the tools for this new scholarship and are incorporating high-quality primary resource collections.
When the University of Iowa Libraries’ collection of letters by British writer James Henry Leigh Hunt went online last year, this was one step of many to provide a high-quality primary resource necessary for digital humanities scholarship. Leigh Hunt Online: The Letters digital collection, which has been built with the support of a $20,000 grant from the Gladys Krieble Delma Foundation, will eventually include 1,600 autograph letters from 1790-1858, as well as transcripts and catalog records for those letters.
Unlike digitization projects that offer only the text of correspondence, this digital collection will present images of the autograph letters, be full-text searchable and provide scholarly transcripts of the letters. These enhancements are part of reason that Leigh Hunt Online has been accepted into the NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship) project.
NINES is a scholarly organization whose primary goal is establishing an integrated publishing environment for aggregated, peer-reviewed online scholarship centered in nineteenth-century studies. Currently NINES links records for 300,000 digital objects from projects hosted at many different institutions. For the Leigh Hunt Online collection, information about the author, date and subject of the letters, as well as a thumbnail image, will be available at NINES, while a durable url will lead the searcher directly from NINES to our digital collection. As well as providing another portal for discovery, NINES enhances the digital collections it aggregates by providing tools that aid in collation and comparative analysis of electronic resources.
November 2008
Issue 3.08
The Fall issue of Transitions is now online.
The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments affecting the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement and other alternative publishing models. Scholarly communication refers to the full range of formal and informal means by which scholars and researchers communicate, from email discussion lists to peer-reviewed publication. In general authors are seeking to document and share new discoveries with their colleagues, while readers–researchers, students, librarians and others–want access to all the literature relevant to their work.
While the system of scholarly communication exists for the benefit of the world’s research and educational community and the public at large, it faces a multitude of challenges and is undergoing rapid change brought on by technology. To help interested members of the UI community keep up on these challenges and changes we plan to put out 4 issues per year of this newsletter.
This newsletter aims to reflect the interests of its readers so please forward comments, suggestions and entries to include to karen-fischer@uiowa.edu. Also, read the health sciences counterpart to Transitions: Hardin Scholarly Communication News.
We’ve got just the job listing resource for you that was just released today.
Every four years, just after the Presidential election, the “United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions,” commonly known as the Plum Book, is published.
The Plum Book contains data for over 7,000 Federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government. These positions generally open after the election and particularly if there has been a shift in political party strength. The duties of many such positions may involve advocacy of Obama Administration policies and programs and the incumbents usually have a close and confidential working relationship with the agency head or other key officials.
This catalog of federal jobs lists available positions, the incumbent’s name and the salary scale for the position. Whether you’re interested in working in the legislative branch, the executive branch or for an independent agency, you can find a potential position here.
Who knows you could be the next Director of the National Park Service – that job is open.