Spring of 1970 was a tumultuous time on college campuses. On April 30, President Richard Nixon announced that U.S forces would invade Cambodia because of the recent communist coup. Students around the country protested this escalation of the Vietnam War. On May 4, the National Guard fired on students at Kent State University, killing 4Continue reading “Student Protests of the 1970s”
Category Archives: Iowa Digital Library
Walt Whitman Quarterly Goes Digital
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 afterContinue reading “Walt Whitman Quarterly Goes Digital”
UIMA Digital Collection recognized
Last week, The Iowa Digital Library’s collection for the UI Museum of Art was named ALA’s Digital Library of the Week! See the sidebar in this week’s American Libraries Direct or the news item in ALA’s ilovelibraries.org. The permanent collections of the University of Iowa Museum of Art contain more than 12,000 objects, from masterworks ofContinue reading “UIMA Digital Collection recognized”
Bio Dictionary of Iowa Reviewed
The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa, ed. by David Hudson, Marvin Bergman, and Loren Horton. Internet Resource. Reviewed in 2010 January CHOICE. This collaboration between the University of Iowa Press and University Libraries is based on a print title that the university published in 2009 for the State Historical Society of Iowa. The print book and PDFContinue reading “Bio Dictionary of Iowa Reviewed”
Iowa Research Online in Smart Search
Iowa Research Online (IRO) preserves and provides open access to the scholarly and creative work of the University of Iowa. We are pleased to announce that over 1500 records for items found in the IRO are now available in Smart Search. Additional records will be added to Smart Search on a monthly basis.
‘The man who brought the literary world to Iowa.’
In 2000, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack declared Oct. 12 to be “Paul Engle Day,” in honor of the Iowa-born poet who served as head of the Writer’s Workshop from 1942 to 1977, helping to develop it from an obscure experimental program to an internationally renowned literary center. Featured here is an audio recording from theContinue reading “‘The man who brought the literary world to Iowa.’”
Internet Scout Remarks on Biographical Dictionary of Iowa
The Internet Scout Report also recognized The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa. This digitization project was a collaboration between the UI Libraries and the University of Iowa Press and was released this summer at the Iowa City Book Festival. The online version of the University of Iowa Press’ Biographical Dictionary is a website that just feelsContinue reading “Internet Scout Remarks on Biographical Dictionary of Iowa”
Leigh Hunt Online Gets a Nod
This week the “Internet Scout Report” noted the UI Libraries Leigh Hunt Online: The Letters. Not familiar with British Romantic writer Leigh Hunt? After going through the University of Iowa Library’s collection of his letters online, visitors will know Hunt intimately. For those visitors who don’t have the stamina to pore over the more thanContinue reading “Leigh Hunt Online Gets a Nod”
Digital Library Services in the Information Arcade
It’s the dawn of a new era in the Information Arcade®. In its first 20 years, much of the focus in the Arcade was on integrating technology into teaching and learning, which has become mainstream activity on campus and supported by many different departments like ITS-Instructional Services. Digital Library Services has relocated to the ArcadeContinue reading “Digital Library Services in the Information Arcade”
Interviews with International Writers Added to the Iowa Digital Library
The storied history of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program is now available for the world to hear. “The Peter Nazareth Collection,” which consists of 30 years of audio interviews with IWP participants and guests, is digitally archived at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/vwu. Since 1967, more than 1,000 creative writers from 120 countries have visited the universityContinue reading “Interviews with International Writers Added to the Iowa Digital Library”