University Libraries

Carson Hartzog has been working at the Art Library for three years, since she first arrived in Iowa City from Oswego, Illinois. When she enrolled as a first-year student, Carson Hartzog was already a few years out of high school. She’d tried her hand at college before and ended up withdrawing, an […]

The theme of this year’s International Open Access Week is “Community over Commercialization” —and the Libraries is highlighting some of the many ways you can leverage community resources and support to make your work open access (OA) for free. Because the world needs your research, and you […]

Fall 2024 Edition This spring the University of Iowa released a special video called “Iowa: Your Destination for the Performing Arts,” all about our vibrant, collaborative arts campus in the greatest small city for the arts.  Sean Harken, a bass-baritone vocalist pursuing his B.M. in Voice […]

During the week of Oct. 21-27, 2024, the University of Iowa Libraries is celebrating International Open Access Week by sharing updates and information about all things open. In the Libraries’ Scholarly Impact Department, we get a lot of questions from UI authors who are interested in publishing […]

Is adding collaborators or guest performers to a Hawkeye Marching Band (HMB) halftime show one step too far? Can there be too much of a good thing? The HMB has always had a collaborative streak in its DNA, from its longtime association with the Scottish Highlanders to several impressive performers […]

Have you ever wondered what happens to a patent after an inventor submits all that paperwork? Get a behind the scenes look with our upcoming presentation: The role of a USPTO patent examiner on Oct. 9, 2024, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.   A patent examiner plays a crucial role in the intellectual […]

What do Peter Rabbit and student success have in common? They are both reasons that Lindsay Moen loves her work in Special Collections and Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries.

Student library employee Emily Wieder’s path to the International Dada Archive began even before she’d committed to pursuing her PhD at Iowa. She’d earned an BA in French here but hadn’t yet settled on a PhD program when she made an exploratory visit to the University of Iowa Libraries […]

by Mary M. Thomas, clinical education librarian Struggling to keep up with new publications? Try BrowZine on your phone, tablet, or desktop. BrowZine is a website and app enabling you to easily browse, read, and monitor scholarly journals. The app is available for iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire […]

During the week of Sept. 16, we hosted a through-hole soldering workshop where participants got hands-on experience with the wide world of electronics. If your schedule is too full to make it to one of our workshops, you can still learn how to solder, just by using your Iowa One Card!  As a […]

The following is written by Olson Graduate Research Assistant Kaylee Swinford and Instruction Graduate Assistant M Clark On their 1995 track, “Criminal Boy,” female pop punk band Bunnygrunt begs the question: ‘what is a girl to do?’ The song chronicles a tough sister’s plans to break her […]

For Jane Roth, the connection to the University of Iowa started with her mother and father—and it’s continued to grow thanks to her commitment to helping students be as successful as possible during their time on campus and beyond. Roth recently completed her one-year term as chair of the […]

Books have the extraordinary power to turn their stewards into time travelers. A roughly sewn leather cover on a medieval book or a centuries-old doodle can reveal a lot about a book’s owner and its use. Minuscule notes scribbled in the margins of a plague-year calendar can hold weightier sway […]

The University of Iowa Libraries’ Book Model Collection (BMC) is one of the only places in the world where a visitor can hold a facsimile of a Mesopotamian clay tablet in one hand and its electronic successor, the e-reader, in the other. This collection, which comprises more than 300 items housed […]

ClinicalKey added many new electronic book titles this summer.  Find these titles by searching in InfoHawk+. Clinical Precision Medicine (Crabtree, Judy) Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis (Hamdy, Ronald)   Endocrine Hypertension (Pappachan, Joseph)   Handbook of Robotic and Image-Guided […]

“Songs of SUI have peculiar origins,” states The Daily Iowan in a 1962 article. “Old Gold” (1905); “On Iowa” (1917); “The Iowa Fight Song” (1950); and “Roll Along, Iowa” (1954) and “Alma Mater Iowa” (1947/1960) have all assumed distinct roles in campus life, and in the […]

Jade E. Davis joined the University of Iowa Libraries in October 2023 to take on the role of associate university librarian for teaching, learning, and research. Before her move to Iowa City, Davis served as the director of educational technology and learning management at the University of […]

In 1975, Tim Barrett, now emeritus director and paper specialist at the University of Iowa Center for the Book, traveled to Japan to begin Fulbright research on hand papermaking techniques. It was during his two-year fellowship that he found himself fascinated by small lanterns known as Odawara […]

Intro This summer I began work on a publishing project called Rampage Party Press, which I’ll spend the next year developing as my thesis project to complete an MFA in Book Arts. Before this program, I received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where I studied poetry. In so many ways, […]

Connie Chen’s final presentation and findings from the summer, Tampons of Tauromachy can be found on video here.