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’s 40th Anniversary. Details of the weeklong celebration are available online.
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 centuries to gain access to medical education and to work in the medical specialty they chose.
The National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Md., and the American Library Association in Chicago, Ill., organized the exhibition with support from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health and the American Medical Women’s Association. The traveling exhibition is based on a larger exhibition that was displayed at the National Library of Medicine 2003-05.
“Changing the Face of Medicine” features the life stories of a rich diversity of women physicians from around the nation and highlights the broad range of medical specialties women are involved in today.
“Women have brought fresh perspectives to the medical profession,” said Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D., director of the National Library of Medicine. “They have turned the spotlight on issues that had previously received little attention, such as the social and economic costs of illnesses and the low numbers of women and minorities entering medical school and practice.”
Women physicians in the 21st century are benefiting from the career paths carved out since the mid-19th century by a long line of American women. Some early physicians featured in the exhibition are Matilda Evans, the first African American physician to be licensed in South Carolina, and Florence Sabin, one of the earliest woman physicians to work as a research scientist. Among the many other doctors whose stories appear in the exhibition are Antonia Novello, the first woman Surgeon General of the United States, and Catherine DeAngelis, the first woman to be appointed editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Two interactive kiosks traveling with the exhibition offer access to the National Library of Medicine’s “Local Legends” Web site (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends), which features outstanding women physicians from every state, and to a Web site created for the larger exhibition at the National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine.
The exhibition Web site offers access to educational and professional resources for people considering medicine as a career, as well as lesson plans for classroom activities. A section of the Web site called “Share Your Story,” allows the public to add the names and biographies of women physicians they know.
The Hardin Library is one of 62 libraries in the United States to host the exhibit and one of two in Iowa; the Council Bluffs Public Library will also host the exhibit after the Hardin Library.
“We are delighted to have been selected as a site for this exhibition,” said Linda Walton, associate university librarian and director of the Hardin Library. “Although ‘Changing the Face of Medicine’ focuses on women in medicine, its lessons about persistence, dedication and courage in one’s life choices speak to everyone — men and women and young adults — and to people in all lines of work.”
An opening reception for the exhibit will be held Thursday, Oct. 18 starting at 4 p.m. in the Medical Education Research Facility Atrium at the UI. UI alumna Susan Winckler, chief of staff for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and Jennifer Niebyl, M.D., professor and head of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, will speak about the changing role of women in health care at 5 p.m. in the Sahai Auditorium. The exhibit will be open for viewing in the Hardin Library after the reception speakers.
The Hardin Library is sponsoring free programs and other events for the public in connection with the exhibition. For more information and hours, visit the library’s Web site at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/women.
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 |
| 2nd | Matthew | Calamia | C-5 | 3:53:00 |
| 3rd | Stephanie | Blalock | 5:26:00 |
The complete results will be listed tomorrow on www.lib.uiowa.edu/events/amazingrace.
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 by a reading/lecture.
On the 19th, the bus leaves the south side of the UI Main Library at 3pm headed towards the Clear Creek Project of IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering at South Amana. With the help of docent Wayne Petersen of the US Conservation Service, those on the tour will follow the course of the river upstream to the Greenbelt and then to the operable hydropower dam at Iowa Falls (est. 1925). A box supper will be served along the way.
Ted Steinberg, Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University, reads at 7pm in the Iowa Falls Public Library. Steinberg is author of Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster, and Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History. You can learn more about him at http://www.case.edu/artsci/hsty/steinberg.html
All events are free and open to the public, but registration is required for the bus tour and box supper. Please RSVP by noon on Friday, October 19th. We welcome everyone at these events. People with disabilities needing special accommodation should contact Barbara Eckstein Barbara-eckstein@uiowa.edu; 319 335-0449.
This event is sponsored by the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Perry A. and Helen Judy Bond Fund for Interdisciplinary Interaction, the Departments of English and History, and the Program in American Studies.
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 provide further accounts of diplomatic successes and failures.
The text of treaties from the earliest formation of the U.S. government to contemporary times are available in print or in digital format within the Government Publications Collection including Indian Treaties, treaties with foreign governments from the Revolutionary War, both World Wars, and the Korean and Viet Nam Wars eras. In addition, the United Nations Treaty Collection subscription resource includes multilateral treaties, many of which seek to promote peaceful relationships among countries.
Background information critical for better understanding of issues involved in negotiations, includes foreign policy statements, reprints of speeches, congressional testimony, position papers, and country geopolitical profiles.
The destruction resulting from World War II brought nations together to work on peace and security issues through the United Nations. The United Nations has worked on these issues since it was founded in 1945. As a collector of United Nations publications, the University of Iowa Libraries has an extensive collection of materials that describe and detail international efforts to maintain and promote peace in the world. A research guide for the United Nations collection is available online at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/govpubs/intl/un.html.
Researchers may begin their search in InfoHawk Catalog or contact Marianne Mason for help with U.S. government information and Brett Cloyd for assistance with the United Nations and international government information.
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 Chuan (2002), Ya Hsien (1967), and Cheng Wen-tao (1968-71), as well as IWP 2007 residents Lo Yi-chin (Taiwan), Lawrence Pun (Hong Kong) and special guest Yun He (China/The Philippines) will discuss Chinese writing and literature. Poets Xi, Ya, Cheng, and Yun will also read from their work.
The writers will also visit the Main Library to see the current exhibit “East Asia in the Midwest.”
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, journal article, book chapter or other research material online. This free service is available to all University of Iowa faculty, students, and staff and is done online through the Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery website.
Generally journal articles, book chapters and other short materials that are scannable are delivered to your desktop within 2 days. Books, videos or theses can be delivered, on average in 4-10 days.
The first time you login with your HawkID and password to our online Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery system, you will have to complete a one time registration form. Here is where you choose your Home Library (Hardin or Main) and your Pick-up Library (Hardin, Main or any of the branch libraries). So for example, if you are faculty, student or staff member in the health sciences, Hardin Library is the best choice for Home Library. All other departments should choose the Main Library. The Pick-up Library is where books will be sent for you to pick up – if your office is in Seashore Hall, you can choose the Psychology Library and have your books sent there for you to check out.
Once you are registered, your Interlibrary Loan account will be the place to go to do everything – submit your requests, view scanned material that has been posted, renew your books, and track the status of your outstanding requests.
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 Search (http://smartsearch.uiowa.edu). We will compile these responses to continue improving functionality for our library users.
One of the clues in the Amazing Library Race asks racers to create an avatar. Here is a sampling of submissions.
Members of the Grayhawks (UI Retirees Association) and other retired community members will be visiting the Main Library today for “Preserving Family Photographs, Part 1” in the Conservation Lab from 2 – 3:30 p.m.
This hands-on session will be led by Nancy E. Kraft, Head of the Preservation Department and Gary Frost, University Libraries Conservator. The session will cover the various film and photo types with suggestions for handling, storage and extending the life of the image; photo album and scrapbook problems and possible solutions; how to determine the acidity or color fastness of paper; how to perform light cleaning of photos and how to display photos safely.
Future retirees sessions include “Preserving Family Photographs, Part 2” in the Information Arcade on Tuesday, October 16 from 10 – 11:30 a.m. Mark Anderson and Jennifer Wolfe from Digital Library Services department will demonstrate best practices in digitizing photos. You’ll learn the technical requirements that will make your photos usable, and you’ll add descriptors to your photos that will help you organize them.
For more information about Back to the Libraries sessions for retirees, contact Kristi Bontrager (kristi-r-bontrager@uiowa.edu or 319-335-5960).