Newsfeed: Blog post: The History of the Book: The Game to be used in Fall 2016 curricula by Amy Chen. Blog post: In Plain Sight: Autograph Collections Yield Unrealized Riches by Jacque Roethler. Blog […]
Author Archives: Colleen Theisen
Special Collections Weekly Update 3/11/2016
Newsfeed: Meet Dorothy Wirtz, by Annie Tunnicliff, Dorothy Wirtz Graduate Research Assistant in the Iowa Women’s Archives http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/2016/03/03/meet-dorothy-wirtz/ Public History Partners Follow the Trail of a Dismantled and Lost Medieval Manuscript, by Colleen […]
Public Talk March 24, 2016 at 4:00PM “Jewish Women and Community Life in Iowa”

WE DID SO MUCH BEYOND THE HOME JEWISH WOMEN AND COMMUNITY LIFE IN IOWA A talk by Jeannette Gabriel, Graduate Research Assistant, Jewish Women in Iowa Project, Iowa Women’s […]
Public History Partners Follow the Trail of a Broken and Lost Medieval Manuscript
Where are your other leaves? Re-discovering the Wilton Processional Even a single page from a medieval book can hold many secrets. Sometimes there are enough clues to uncover a surprising history. […]
Wednesday 3/9/2016 at 7pm: Books about Book Collecting
Iowa Bibliophiles March Meeting Books about Book Collecting Speaker: Douglas S. Russell Douglas S. Russell is a Senior Judge of the Iowa District Court and will address the […]
Wednesday 3/9/2016 at 7pm: Books about Book Collecting
Iowa Bibliophiles March Meeting Books about Book Collecting Speaker: Douglas S. Russell Douglas S. Russell is a Senior Judge of the Iowa District Court and will address the […]
Special Collections Weekly Update 3/4/2016
Newsfeed: OCLC posted about the UI Libraries’ social media on their blog: The University of Iowa Libraries celebrate and promote their digital collections on social media http://www.oclc.org/news/announcements/2016/CONTENTdm-news-item-March-2016.en.html The Space Age and the […]
Two Women’s History Month Events in March

Mujeres Latinas: Every Woman Has a Story Saturday, March 5, 2016, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Join us in the Iowa Women’s Archives to learn about the rich history of Latinas, their families, […]
Special Collections Weekly Update 2/26/2016
News: Applications are now being accepted for the Linda and Richard Kerber Fund for a grant of $1000 to support travel to Iowa City, Iowa, to conduct research in the Iowa Women’s […]
Special Collections Weekly Update 2/19/2016
News: Charity Nebbe from Iowa Public Radio featured original Nancy Drew ghost writer, Mildred Wirt Benson, this week on “Talk of Iowa.” Benson’s papers are held in the Iowa Women’s Archives. […]