University of Iowa Libraries’ staff this year donated to a new Libraries’ Student Employee Scholarship fund to support competitive scholarships open to students working in the University of Iowa library […]

THIRD Annual Shakespeare Livestream Tune in live April 22, 10:30am-1:30pm CST [Central time in the USA is GMT -5:00] We’re back! Celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday week by joining us – live […]

Newsfeed: Blog post: Updates on History of the Book: The Game by Amy Chen. http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/speccoll/2016/04/04/updates-on-history-of-the-book-the-game/ Blog post: Felicia Rice and Guillermo Gómez-Peña Artwork Doc/Undoc on Display.  http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/speccoll/2016/04/05/felicia-rice-and-guillermo-gomez-pena-artwork-docundoc-on-display/ Iconic artist Corita Kent profiled […]

By Amy Chen Amy Chen hosted the fifth play test for the History of the Book: The Game. Four library staff played this time: Heidi Wiren Bartlett, the Digital Scholarship […]

Events: Wednesday, 4/13: Iowa Bibliophiles, Jane Murphy and Mark Brookfield, 36 year partners in Murphy-Brookfield Books, will talk about the enormous changes brought on by Internet bookselling in the last 20+ […]

Newsfeed: Blog post: Norwalk High School Artists Connect with History to Inspire New Creative Work by Heather Wacha. Read more. Blog post: March 30: Felicia Rice “Doc/Undoc” performance followed by a public […]

By Heather Wacha On Tuesday March 22, 2016 Special Collections welcomed 28 students from Norwalk High School, Norwalk, IA.  The students were those of art teacher Maggie Harlow-Vogt. They had […]

Two artists, Felicia Rica and Guillermo Gómez-Peña will be on campus next week as Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professors, working with students and appearing in several public performances. As part […]