The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (WWQR), a literary quarterly sponsored by the University of Iowa Graduate College and the Department of English, is now available online at http://ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/ . The official journal of the Walt Whitman Studies Association is edited at Iowa by editor Ed Folsom and managing editor Blake Bronson-Bartlett.  Less than a month after the site’s public launch, The Walt Whitman Recording , has already become the second-most accessed item in Iowa Research Online, the university’s institutional repository

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Walt Whitman Quarterly Goes Digital

Earlier this month, the BC College of Pharmacists proposed some amendments to the Bylaws of the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act ( PODSA , which is Current law in the Canadian province of British Columbia).

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College of Pharmacists of British Columbia Propose Bylaw Changes Involving Telepharmacy Rules

The 2010 Iowa City Book Festival is set for July 16-18, expanding the event from a one-day event to a three-day festival, which organizers hope will attract an even larger crowd after a successful start in 2009. To accomplish that goal, organizers are asking local businesses to participate with programming and activities in their places of business on Sunday, July 18, which will be “A Day in the City of Literature” in Iowa City. Among the various activities envisioned are: author events and signings in area bookstores; book-related crafts/projects/materials highlighted in local businesses; open studios hosted by book artists; a walking tour of bookstores; activities for all ages at the Iowa City Public Library; appearances by food writers in restaurants; and book festival specials in local shops and restaurants

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Iowa City Book Festival seeks participants, vendors for July 16-18 event

As the Iowa City Book Festival grows, we are looking for an intern to help us with the marketing and publicity of the book festival. Marketing interns will assist in all aspects of the marketing and publicity work for promotion of the 2010 Iowa City Book Festival. This intern must be in Iowa City for the summer of 2010.

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Marketing Internship for Iowa City Book Festival, application deadline March 15

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the University’s Council on the Status of Women, History of Medicine Society and Iowa Women’s Archives will sponsor a reception and a public lecture by University of Iowa History Professor Paula Michaels. Wednesday, March 10 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Iowa Women’s Archives on the third floor of the Main Library.  The festivities will begin at 4:30 p.m.

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"Comrades in the Labor Room," Women’s History Month Lecture

First up, the FCC gave out $145 million in grant money to rural health consortiums in support of upgrading their networks for things like telehealth and just general day-to-day operations. All in all, the grants affect more than 2000 rural hospitals around the US

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New Nationwide Grants Provide for Telepharmacy Service in Rural Hospitals

To celebrate women’s history month and to unveil a new digital collection of UI alumna Eve Drewelowe, the UI Libraries will host a reception from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 3, 2010, in the North Exhibition Hall of the Main Library. Joni Kinsey, Curator of the Drewelowe art collection, will speak briefly on the artist’s work and the significance of the collection.

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Women’s History Month reception, Mar 3

PharmaTrust’s MedCentre remote consultation and dispensing machine is likely headed to the UK, they’ve announced in a press release : British Minister for Trade, Investment and Small Business, Lord Davies, said: “I am delighted that PharmaTrust has chosen the UK for a major expansion of its business. Its new prescription drug dispensing technology will revolutionize the way medicines are dispensed across the country and beyond.” PharmaTrust sees the UK as “a key gateway to the European market.” The CEO and co-founder, Don Waugh was invited to attend the Global Investment Conference hosted by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In the press release, he draws some parallels between PharmaTrust’s machine and the first ATMs, introduced in London

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PharmaTrust’s Dispensing Machine Headed to the UK

A new study published in The Annals of Pharmacotherapy this month by a crew from UMass Memorial Medical Center and University of Massachusetts Medical School shows promising results for patients in intensive care. From Evaluation of the Impact of a tele-ICU Pharmacist on the Management of Sedation in Critically Ill Mechanically Ventilated Patients : RESULTS: The addition of third shift tele-ICU pharmacist support was associated with a significant increase in the percentage of patients who received a daily sedative interruption (45% vs 54%; p < 0.0001). This occurred in the context of significant increases in the total number of ICU pharmacist interventions (36 vs 49.4 per 100 patient days, p < 0.0001), the number of therapeutic interventions (20.4 vs 26.1 per 100 patient days, p < 0.001), and the number of sedative-related interventions (0.9 vs 4.4 per 100 patient days, p < 0.0001)

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New Study: Telepharmacist Monitoring ICU Patients Increased Sedation Guideline Compliance, Daily Sedation Interruptions, Interventions

Former faculty member Esther Bierbaum has died at her home in St. Petersburg, Florida.   Esther taught at the University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science from 1983-1995 and was beloved by students and faculty.  We remember her rigorous and imaginative teaching and research.  Most of all, though, we remember Esther as a wonderful person — caring, giving, funny, fiercely independent and wise.  We are grateful for the dozen years she shared with the Iowa library community. Here is a link to her obituary: http://www.tributes.com/show/Esther-Bierbaum-87874641

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Esther Bierbaum 1928-2010

In the latest issue of fyi: Faculty & Staff News at the University of Iowa, the Charlotte M. Smith Miniature Book Collection is featured in a photo spread . A tiny collection of books held in Special Collections is dwarfed by the library’s other five million volumes. These 4,500 itsy-bitsy books are “miniatures.” From pocket-size to micro-miniature, most books in the collection were donated by one person, Charlotte M

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Reading the Fine Print in Special Collections

The chief goal of early immigration law in the late-nineteenth-century United States was the exclusion of “defective” persons and races. Douglas C.  Baynton, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa will share his research on the topic of disability and immigration policy at the turn of the 20th century. Tuesday, February 23, 2010 5:30-6:30 p.m

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Defectives in the Land: Disability and American Immigration Policy, 1882-1924

A group of pharmacists at the Universiti Sains Malaysia School of Pharmaceutical Sciences have published a study in this month’s issue of the Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research entitled ” Evaluation Of Knowledge And Perception of Malaysian Health Professionals About Telemedicine ” ( PDF ): The study doesn’t state specifically how each respondent answered the questions, but it’s a good bet that this reflects telepharmacy use in hospital pharmacy settings, because 1) 80% of respondents were from hospitals (private and government-run), and 2) “Nurses or medical doctors in clinic settings were excluded since telemedicine is yet to become a common practice in these settings,” though telemedicine is defined as Teleradiology, Telesurgery, Telenursing as well as Telepharmacy. While 5% usage is low, this is the first I’ve heard of telepharmacy in use in Malaysia, whereas 42% of my fellow medical professionals in Malaysia have heard of it before, and as a developing country the only direction telepharmacy practice is headed there is up

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5% of Healthcare Professionals in Malaysia use Telepharmacy

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 .

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National History Day Workshop: Feb 16

The University of Iowa Libraries will join libraries across the country for a “Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig” on Thursday, February 25 at 5 p.m. in the Main Library Second Floor Conference Room. The lecture by Lawrence Lessig will last 45 minutes, and will be followed by a 30 minute interactive Q & A session

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Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig, Feb 25

The Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare has released a new study out of Australia evaluating the effectiveness of remote pharmacist reviews of dispensed medications in rural hospitals without on-site pharmacists. Pharmaceutical review using telemedicine – a before and after feasibility study : Only 42 of the 116 public hospitals in Queensland employ qualified pharmacists to staff their pharmacies. We undertook a feasibility study to determine if pharmaceutical reviews, undertaken face-to-face by a visiting pharmacist, could be replicated using telemedicine

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New Study: Telepharmacy an Effective Method of Providing Pharmaceutical Reviews

The PharmaTrust dispensing machine is set to be deployed in Canadian hospitals in the province of Ontario, according to an Ontario Hospital Association press release : The OHA and PharmaTrust will collaborate on the installation of telepharmacy prescription-dispensing kiosks in hospitals across the province. PharmaTrust MedCentre kiosks offer live video pharmacist counseling and quick and safe 24/7 access to prescription and over-the-counter medications, dispensed under the complete control of a pharmacist

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Ontario Hospitals will Dispense Drugs via PharmaTrust Kiosks

According to this Associated Press article , funds just keep rolling in for the rural community of Adrian, Minnesota’s retail pharmacy that employs remote supervision of a pharmacy technician by a pharmacist in another MN city: The southwestern Minnesota community of Adrian is getting $99,999 to help finance small and emerging businesses. Adrian has already identified the Sterling Drug tele-pharmacy for initial financing, and expects the grant will help create or save six jobs.

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Minnesota Retail Telepharmacy Receives Another Grant

Arts and humanities researchers interested in collaborating with campus technologists and librarians to develop innovative technology project proposals for the upcoming Arts & Humanities Initiative (AHI) grant cycle are encouraged to attend one of two workshops. While project consultations are geared toward AHI applicants, any researcher interested in getting a digital project off the ground is encouraged to attend.

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Digital Humanities Project Development Workshops

January 2010 Issue 1.10 Welcome to the winter 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, January 2010