Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

25 Things:
1. Hardin Library is open 100 hours per week.
2. Hardin has a 24-Hour Study.
3. Hardin Library was designed by Walter Netsch.
4. Hardin contains the John Martin Rare Book Room.
5. Hardin MD consistently ranks in the top 15 sites in Google searches.
6. Fun Fridays @ Hardin puts on Noon Knits and House @ 3 eve...ry Friday.
7. A Lactation Room is available when the library is open.
8. Dr. Robert Hardin, for whom the library was named in 1988, was responsible for the control and distribution of blood and blood products for the entire European Theatre during World War II. His expertise made it possible for the USA to meet the great demand for blood products necessary for the invasion of Normandy and the remaining months of World War II. For this outstanding leadership he was awarded the Legion of Merit.
9. Hardin has 389,184 print volumes (including government publications).
10. Hardin Library is the largest Health Science Library in the state of Iowa.Read More

11. Before the Hardin Library was built, the medical collection was housed on the 2nd floor of the Medical Laboratories.
12. The John Martin Rare Book Room is one of only a handful of libraries in the United States to own a first edition of William Harvey’s Du Motu Cordis (1628), perhaps the most important book in the h...istory of medicine.
13. Seating should never be a problem at the Hardin Library, with more than 570 study seats available throughout the four floors.
14. Harvey, the cardiopulmonary medical simulator, is a member of the Hardin Library.
15. Hardin Library staff has answered over 22,000 reference questions.
16. Over 120 publically accessible computers are located within the library.
17. In 1972, the medical library was one of the first institutions in the Midwest to offer online Medline searching. The first searches were performed on a teletype machine that printed at a rate of 10 characters a second (c. 100 baud).Read More

18. Visitors can enter the Hardin Library on either the 1st or 3rd floor.
19. Hardin Library currently has around 3500 electronic journals for the use of its patrons.
20. Hardin Library has a news and events blog on their homepage at: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/index.html.
21. Luv 2 txt?! Text hardinlhs:your questio...n to 265010 to have Hardin staff answer your reference questions (iWireless is excluded from this service).
22. Group Studies are available on the 3rd and 4th floors of the Hardin Library.
23. Based on our observations and the law of averages, it is probable that at least one child has been conceived in one of the library’s group studies.
24. The mural in the staircase near the vending lounge was designed and painted by local artist Donna Friedman. While supervising the project she met and later married David Curry, longtime Director of the Hardin Library.
25. Hardin Library for the Health Sciences has a FACEBOOK!!Read More

Office Delivery For Books Now Available:

Beginning today, you can get Hardin Library books delivered to your campus office address through a partnership with the UI Libraries and Central Mail Services.

Once you find a book you would like to check out, a request for delivery can be made directly from the InfoHawk library ...catalog. Your HawkID and password are required. You can request book deliveries to your campus office address or have them delivered to the Hardin Library for pickup. Materials will be available within 5 working days (excluding weekends and holidays) and an email notification will be sent when the book leaves the owning library.

**There are a few exceptions to this new service. Materials from the Curriculum Resources Laboratory in the College of Education, State Historical Society of Iowa, Law Library in the College of Law are excluded. Dorm addresses are excluded.
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