| Message from the Director | Welcome to Hardin Library | Janna Lawrence, MLIS, AHIP, FMLA
Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
As the Fall semester gets underway, life at Hardin seems almost “normal.” Although we learned that many of our services can be provided virtually and most of our jobs can be done from home, we missed seeing our users (and each other) in person! Most Hardin staff members are spending at least 80% of their work week at the library and your liaison librarian is available either virtually or in-person for consults and workshops.
Hardin is now open with our regular hours, which you may notice are slightly shorter than they were in March 2020. This reduction in late-night hours had been scheduled to go into effect with the Fall 2020 semester and reflects statistics that show that the very few persons who were in Hardin after 9:00 pm were studying and rarely interacting with staff. After the library closes, UI- and UIHC-affiliated users are welcome to move to the 24-hour study.
We are always happy to hear your suggestions, concerns, and compliments about Hardin and our services. You can send those to lib-hardin@uiowa.edu or directly to me at janna-lawrence@uiowa.edu. If you prefer to make an anonymous suggestion, there are bright red suggestion boxes near both entrances to the library, or you can use the Feedback and Suggestions form linked from Hardin’s website. Just be sure to mention that your comment is for Hardin on that form.
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Stay up-to-date on what is happening at Hardin
Check out the blogs on our website | | | | Hardin Open Workshops Need to know more doing systematic reviews? Are you concerned about predatory publishers? Could your searching skills be improved? Check out Hardin Open Workshops! In addition to listed times, any of our sessions can be scheduled as classes for your group or as one-on-one consults.
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact our office in advance at lib-hardin@uiowa.edu or 319-335-9151. | | | | Virtual Dissection: the Anatomage Table A new virtual dissection experience is available at Hardin Library! Anatomage Table 7 is the world's only fully-segmented real human 3D anatomy system. Users of the Anatomage Table 7 can visualize anatomy exactly as they would on a fresh cadaver. Individual structures of the body are reconstructed in accurate 3D, resulting in an unprecedented virtual dissection experience. In addition, the Table 7 offers pathway and physiology recreation, 1000+ CT/MRI/X-ray images of normal/abnormal structures across the whole body, 36 high-resolution regional anatomy modules, and much more!
Training is offered for all users of the Table 7, though not required for use. The Table 7 is located near the 3rd floor reference desk of Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. See the 3rd floor reference desk or email Joe Promes as joseph-promes@uiowa.edu for more information or to schedule training. | | | Meet GibLib! Hardin Library now has a subscription to GIBLIB, an on-demand video medical education platform that features lectures, discussions, surgical procedures, and more from physicians and other experts at institutions including the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and UCSF. All videos include transcripts in English and many include transcripts in other languages.
GIBLIB is available through the library’s A-Z resource list and off-campus access requires logging in with your HawkID and password. Once in GIBLIB, you can set up a personal log-in, although one is not required to watch videos. Setting up a personal log-in allows you to save videos, make playlists, and take notes while watching a video.
To find videos, you can use the GIBLIB search bar or use the browse feature. If you set up a personal log-in, GIBLIB will suggest videos to you based on your profile. GIBLIB also offers “Courses,” which are collections of videos on a topic. Although CME is offered to personal subscribers, be aware that the library’s subscription does not include CME credits. | | | | E-books Are you using one of the Library’s electronic book in your class? If so, we would like to know! Although many of Hardin’s e-books, including those available through ClinicalKey, AccessMedicine, and AccessPharmacy, allow for unlimited simultaneous users, some of our e-books have a limit on the number of people who can use them at one time. Frequently, this is 1 or 3 users. However, if we know a whole class will need to use the book, there might be ways we can improve that situation. | | | Home Delivery Need a book, DVD, or InterLibrary loan delivered to your home? We have got you covered!
If you prefer to have an item held for you so you can pick it up yourself, you may also make that request in InfoHawk+. An email notification will be sent when items are placed on hold and ready for pickup at the 3rd Floor Service Desk.
If you prefer to have books sent to your campus office, you may also make that request in InfoHawk+. Note: this can take up to 5 business days. | | | | Preprints and PubMed medRxiv (pronounced Med Archive), the preprint server for the health sciences, launched in June 2019. Preprints, articles that have not been peer-reviewed or accepted for publication, have been controversial in the health sciences, primarily due to fears about the general population having access to non-peer-reviewed research.
A previous attempt at a medical preprint service, ClinMedNetPrints.org, received only 80 submissions during its existence from 1999-2008. However, medRxiv took a different course when a pandemic occurred just months after its debut. Beginning with an article entitled “Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV: early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic predictions” posted on January 28, 2020, there are now almost 15,000 articles just on COVID-19 in medRxiv.
To facilitate discovery of preprints on COVID-19, the National Library of Medicine initiated the NLM Preprint Pilot in June 2020. Preprints arising from NIH-funded research and deposited in medRxiv and other servers with significant numbers of COVID-19 papers are now included in PubMed Central and are findable by searching PubMed. Preprints in PubMed are clearly labeled, and if a final version of the article has been published in a journal, a link is included. | | | Exhibits Current Hardin Exhibits
Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well Drawn!
A National Library of Medicine traveling exhibit.
The art of comics, which combines words and pictures, gives approachability and emotional impact to personal stories, and even to the clinical data they sometimes include. Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well Drawn! explores the meaning of an emerging genre of medical literature that combines the art of comics and the personal illness narrative. Click here to find out more.
University of Iowa College of Medicine 1870-1928
Follow the timeline and the structures which supported early medical education at the UI. These 58 years include whimsy and catastrophe as well as major changes in basic medical education.
Future Exhibits
Chronic Condition: The History of Racism in Healthcare (February 2022) | | | | Nominate a Hardin librarian for the Benton Award The University Libraries is seeking nominations for the Arthur Benton University Librarian's Award for Excellence. Funded by a generous endowment, this prestigious award acknowledges a professional library staff member's professional contributions in the practice of librarianship, service to the profession, scholarship, or leadership which has had a significant impact or innovation to the operations of the Libraries or the University of Iowa.
The $2,000 award may be used to support professional development activity expenses for conferences or workshops in support of research projects and publications related to services, or it may be taken as a cash award.
Any member of the University of Iowa community may make a nomination. See eligibility requirements and nomination form at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/admin/bentonaward/. Nominations are due Wednesday, October 27. Contact Kelly Taylor (Kelly-taylor-1@uiowa.edu) with any questions you may have. | | | Events October 6 at 4:00 PM (central) – The John Martin Rare Book Room Presents
“The Power of Necessity” with Kimberly Sprague, MSN, ARNP, CNM
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UI Carver College of Medicine
https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/91848474468?pwd=aU4ra1ZrVUdpdTIwOWQ3ZlRUcjE1UT09
Celebrate National Midwifery Week with this casual look at the people driven to forward the practice of obstetrics. Sprague explores the recorded studies of the Hardin Library John Martin Rare Book Room collection to uncover the foundation of the profession. | | | |
