| Message from the Director | 
Janna Lawrence, MLIS, AHIP, FMLA
Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
Remodeling continues at Hardin Library! Earlier this summer, we welcomed our new neighbors, the staff from UI Environmental Health and Safety, when they moved into new offices on Hardin’s first floor in Rooms 105 and 107.
Construction on the 4th floor has begun. As reported in the Spring issue of the Pulse, all print books published before 2010 have been moved to the Library Annex and can be requested for delivery by using the “request” option in the InfoHawk+ catalog. Currently, the west side of the 4th floor is walled off with a construction curtain. The study rooms in that area, as well as the Library’s conference room, are being renovated and are not available for use. 2010 and newer books located on the 4th floor are also in this area, so we ask that users not go behind the curtain but instead ask staff at the 3rd-floor desk to retrieve needed books. Later in the fall, this area will open up and the east side of the floor will be blocked off while the new reading room for the John Martin Rare Book Room is constructed. Fourth floor construction should be completed in early 2024. Future construction will renovate the 3rd floor and add offices for others from the Office for the Vice President for Research on the 2nd floor.
Watch the Hardin Library blog for updates and feel free to contact me at janna-lawrence@uiowa.edu if you have questions or concerns.
| | | | EndNote 21 (EN21) was recently released and is now available through the University for faculty, staff, and graduate and professional students. While most of the interface is the same, new features for organization and library restoration have been added.
There is now a new EndNote Web experience, which better reflects the interface of the desktop application. EN21 libraries synced with EndNote Web can be recovered from the cloud. This even works with individual citations.
Tags! EndNote has added the ability to create tags, giving you the ability to quickly visually scan or filter your library. Citations can have multiple tags, you can select colors for the tags, and you can give the tags custom names.
Looking ahead to this fall, EndNote plans to introduce a plugin for Cite While You Write (CWYW) for Google Docs.
Hardin Library EndNote guide | | | Leisure reading has been shown to improve critical thinking skills, improve writing skills, and lead to higher academic achievement. Reading for pleasure also decreases stress, increases self-awareness, and broadens perspective. Our Enrichment Collection contains healthcare-related biographies, histories, fiction, and graphic medicine that we hope will provide a mental break from coursework and academic research.
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Summer hours:
- Monday-Thursday 7:30 am - 9:00 pm
- Friday 7:30 am - 6:00 pm
- Saturday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
- Sunday 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm
| | | We are currently working on course reserves for Fall 2023. If you have materials you would like to place on course reserve, please submit an online “Hardin Library – Place Items on Reserve” form at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/hardin_reserve.
You can also e-mail Mark Onken directly at mark-onken@uiowa.edu. Please list your course number and the specific materials you would like us to place on reserve for your course. | | | | Hardin was well represented at the spring 2023 Medical Library Association conference in Detroit, Michigan. Several Hardin librarians presented on a variety of topics, from advocacy to mental health to rare books. Find out more in this news post. | | | The John Martin Rare Book Room is currently under renovation. Work is slated to start in earnest this fall, with an estimated completion date of early next spring. Requests for materials will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please contact Damien Ihrig at damien-ihrig@uiowa.edu for more information. | | | |
