The 2010 Iowa City Book Festival (ICBF), presented by the University of Iowa Libraries, has announced its schedule for the three-day celebration of reading, writing and books July 16-18. The Festival offers activities for the entire family: best-selling authors, hands-on book arts, kids’ activities, music and festival food. For its second year, the ICBF has greatly expanded its schedule and has attracted some leading writers and filmmakers, including Jane Smiley, Audrey Niffenegger, Jeffrey Zaslow and Nicholas Meyer

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Iowa City Book Festival Announces Line-up

Content Expansion Will Bring New Material to Civil War Collection The University of Iowa Libraries has signed an agreement with Accessible Archives, an electronic publisher of primary source full-text historical databases, to preserve in digital format a number of primary source publications from the Civil War era. The Libraries’ holdings include various Civil War memoirs, pamphlets, and regimental histories, which up to now have been available only for those with access to its Special Collections Department.  Once the materials have been digitized and made fully searchable, they will become a new portion – an additional part – of The Civil War, a collection from Accessible Archives that has been well received by university and public libraries

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University of Iowa Extends Its Collaboration with Accessible Archives, Inc.

Candie Helseth wrote an article in Prairie Business Magazin e about Kathy Nelson, a North Dakota pharmacy owner who remotely supervises technicians dispensing medications in a retail setting. The NDTP’s stats were highlighted a bit as well: The use of telepharmacy technology is growing in North Dakota, which in 2001 became the first state to approve legislation allowing retail pharmacies to operate in remote areas without requiring a pharmacist to be physically present. In the decade preceding the creation of the North Dakota Telepharmacy Project, the state had lost 26 pharmacies.

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North Dakota Telepharmacy Project Continues to Expand

The University of Iowa Libraries is pleased to announce the two winners of Creative Scholarship Innovation Awards, aimed at supporting significant digital humanities projects with the potential for national recognition.

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The Libraries announce the 2010 Creative Scholarship Innovation Award winners

Pharmacy colleges in Tamil Nadu are facing a serious problem of shortage of students for their B Pharma course.

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Most of 42 pharmacy colleges in TN heading for trouble with few students opting for B Pharm

It may be called the University of Iowa’s diary: magazines catering to its alumni. Starting with The Iowa Alumnus in 1903 and continuing today as Iowa Alumni Magazine , these publications chronicle the life and events of the University and its people on many fronts: research breakthroughs, innovations in teaching, graduates’ milestones, political and social movements, and memorable football games

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The University’s "Diary" now online in Iowa Digital Library

As of the end of business day, Friday, May 14th, the Physics and Geosciences Libraries will be closed. Materials from the libraries will be moved to the Sciences Library (formerly the Biological Sciences Library) on Iowa Avenue.

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Physics and Geoscience Libraries to close permanently Friday, May 14

A telepharmacy provider, Alicia Roberts Medical Center in Klawock, won the “Outstanding Rural Health Organization Award” at the Alaska Rural Health Conference in Anchorage on April 28. According to ” Stories In The News ” out of Ketchikan (and later Capital City Weekly ), they were able to greatly expand their medical services with funding through the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

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Medical Centers Extend Telepharmacy to Rural Alaskans

During the last couple days of the semester, you’re tired, you’re frustrated and you’re spending WAY too much time searching for information for your paper. The end of next semester can be better! You can learn how to Find the Good Stuff Fast! Learn how to DO MORE than just Google for information Find information resources your professors want Save yourself the headache of searching – do more finding Feel more confident in your information/research skills If this sounds like a better end to the semester, add the course 417:001 Library Research in Context to your fall schedule.  In this class, you’ll actually be able to use the information you learn for assignments and projects that you’ll be doing in your major courses.  Two for one – now that’s something the University rarely offers you!  So log-on to ISIS and register for one of the following sections of 417:001 before the course closes! 417:001:003 Library Research in Context Subtitle: Find the Good Stuff Fast Instructors: Kristi A Robinson-Bontrager, Ericka A Raber Time & Location: 10:30A – 11:20A W 4037 LIB 417:001:005 Library Research in Context Subtitle: Find the Good Stuff Fast Instructor: Steven F Ostrem Time & Location: 1:30P – 2:20P T 4037 LIB Or one of the online courses offered this fall: 417:001:EXU Library Research in Context Subtitle: Find the Good Stuff Fast Instructor: Daniel P Gall Time & Location: ARR World Wide Web 417:001:EXV Library Research in Context Subtitle: Find the Good Stuff Fast Instructor: Dave Martin Time & Location: ARR World Wide Web 417:001:EXW Library Research in Context Subtitle: Find the Good Stuff Fast Instructor: Christopher A Childs Time & Location: ARR World Wide Web

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Don’t Struggle with Research Next Semester

May 2010 Issue 2.10 Welcome to the spring issue of Transitions . The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments informnig the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement, and other alternative publishing models

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Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI Community (May 2010)

The Iowa City Book Festival presented by the University of Iowa Libraries is pleased to welcome Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry , and David Rhodes, author of Driftless , to this summer’s book festival July 16-18 in Iowa City. In The Time Traveler’ Wife (MacAdam/Cage, 2003), Niffenegger initially conceived of the story of a time traveler and his wife as a graphic novel, however as the story progressed the issues of time shifting turned the format into a novel.

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Niffenegger and Rhodes at Iowa City Book Festival

The first ever Choose Privacy Week , May 2 – 8, is a new initiative sponsored by the American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) that invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. The campaign gives libraries the tools they need to educate and engage users, and gives citizens the resources to think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy. Privacy has long been the cornerstone of library services in America, a freedom that librarians defend every day.

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Choose Privacy Week, May 2-8

Prairie Lights and the Iowa City Public Library will co-sponsor Kathryn Stockett reading from her novel The Help from 2-3 p.m. Sunday, May 2 in Room A at ICPL

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Prairie Lights to Donate Portion of Profit of The Help book sales to ICBF

David Wahlberg of the Wicsconsin State Journal wrote a great article yesterday about the problem of vanishing pharmacies in Wisconsin, and the rise of outpatient telepharmacy programs. He explains why pharmacies are closing (mostly high costs, and mentions that pharmacists are expensive) and how telepharmacies and Dispensing Machines like InstyMeds ‘ are taking the place of full-blown pharmacies: InstyMeds machines In some small towns where pharmacies have vanished, InstyMeds machines prevent patients from having to make trips to other cities. …

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Dispensing Machines, Telepharmacists Fill Void Left by Closing Pharmacies

A recent nursing graduate pointed out that being a nurse is not just about the medical management of disease but also about restoring dignity and normalizing the lives of patients who need nurses’ help. Nancy Wilson delivered a speech to her fellow graduates of Unitek College in Fremont, Calif. The March 25 graduation celebrated its recent cohort of Associate Degree RNs.

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Unitek College Graduate Reflects on Personal ‘Evolution’ Into Nursing

Congratulations to Political Science Professor Bob Boynton. His New Media in Political Discourse project was selected by Center for Research Libraries to receive the 2010 Primary Source Award for research

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Boynton Project with Digital Library Services Wins Award

Jayashri Sankaranarayanan published a Viewpoint in Medscape today, about a study in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association from August 2009 called ” Exploring the formation of patient satisfaction in rural community telepharmacies ” that attempted to assess patient satisfaction with outpatient telepharmacies in rural communities. The study concluded: A previous application of this instrument in a traditional community pharmacy setting yielded two interrelated latent constructs (“friendly explanation” and “managing therapy”). Our analysis suggests that the formation of patient satisfaction in rural community telepharmacies is much simpler in that patients form a single construct exhibiting high mean and median values

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Recent Telepharmacy Study Round-Up

ScriptPro issued a press release today about their Telepharmacy product ‘s use by the United States Navy: “Our Telepharmacy system operates in a systematic way. It organizes photos, which become part of the electronic record, of the written prescription, the drug image, and patient information

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US Navy using ScriptPro’s Telepharmacy System

The Emmy Award that Barry Morrow received for writing the 1981 TV movie “Bill” is now on display in the University of Iowa Main Library in the Special Collections on the third floor. Morrow, an award-winning screenwriter who worked at the UI from 1974 to 1981, gave the Emmy to the university earlier this year. Included as part of the Emmy display is a video loop that contains selected clips from the acclaimed documentary “A Friend Indeed: The Bill Sackter Story,” produced and directed by 1990 UI graduate Lane J.

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Morrow Emmy on display at Main Library

On US Congresswoman from Arizona Gabrielle Giffords’ website, under ‘Fiscal Year 2011 Appropriations,’ she highlights several earmarks she referred to the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies . One interesting item, referred to Giffords by State Rep Bradley is listed below: Telepharmacy – Marana Health Center, Inc., 13644 North Sandario Road, Marana, AZ 85653 – $200,000, HHS-HRSA : Funding will be used to establish a telepharmacy in the MHC Primary Care Health Center at the TMC Campus to provide low-cost pharmaceuticals to uninsured and underinsured patients utilizing the 340B drug program

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Arizona Outpatient Telepharmacy Program gets Federal Earmark