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Subscribe to Library News The UI Libraries welcome National History Day students from across Eastern Iowa to a research workshop. These students prepare projects around a theme and present them at an annual competition. Reference, Special Collections and Iowa Women’s Archives library staff put together a special library guide webpage for these students: http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/nhd . Students will be visiting the Main Library [...]
Iowa Doctors and the Germ Theory of Disease, Nov 18The History of Medicine Society has invited Matt Schaefer, Archivist at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library to speak on the topic, “Iowa Doctors and the Germ Theory of Disease.” Wednesday, November 18 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Main Library, Second Floor Conference Room (2032) The widely accepted notion that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases was very controversial when first proposed [...]
Google U Workshops: Dec 2 & 3The University of Iowa Libraries will offer the workshop “Google U: Using Google for Academic Research” on two dates this fall. Wednesday, Dec. 2 and Thursday, Dec. 3, noon-1:30 pm. Information Arcade Classroom 1 at the Main Library This workshop is geared to the experienced Web searcher and will be especially useful for graduate students. Emphasis will be [...]
Memories of a Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor: Nov 17“Memories of a Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor” screening with introduction by Prof. Stephen Vlastos Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:30-5:00 pm Main Library 2nd Floor Conference Room Ms. Yoshiko Kajimoto was a student directed to work in an airplane parts factory 2.3 kilometers from the epicenter of where the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. She [...]
Did You Know? Manage your research with web-based tool.RefWorks is web-based citation management tool to help you keep track of your research. There’s no software to install. Use RefWorks to organize and share citations, format bibliographies, and more. See RefWorks tutorials for more information.