From the Web and Social Media   Preservation Projects Librarian, Vitalina Nova, wrote a blog post about the League of United Latino American Citizens Council 10, both their past records and […]

Notes from the Special Collections Classroom This week’s news from Instruction Librarian Amy Chen. Latin Classes On Monday, four sections of Marcia Lindgren’s Latin I came to Special Collections to […]

Iowa Bibliophiles December Meeting SOME 17th CENTURY TRAVEL AND GEOGRAPHY BOOKS Refreshments 6:30PM — Talk at 7PM Special Collections Reading Room — 3rd Floor Main Library   Travel back in […]

In The News This Week   A Look Back at History as the Hawkeyes Complete a Historic Season University Archivist David McCartney tells KWWL TV news about the last undefeated […]

Awards and Recognition Congratulations to John Fifield, Caxton Club Grant Recipient On Wednesday, November 18, University of Iowa Center for the Book students Ian Huebert, Amy Richard, and Special Collections’ […]

By Jacque Roethler, Manuscripts Processing Coordinator On the 50th anniversary of his death, we remember Henry Agard Wallace, the 33rd Vice-President of the United States, who was a man well […]

Recently Cataloged Two carts of 1930s-2000s science fiction books from the James L. “Rusty” Hevelin Science Fiction Collection have recently returned from the Cataloging-Metadata Department.  Among these are hardcover and […]

New Acquisitions Lindset, John (ed.). Alice in a World of Wonderlands. Oak Knoll Press, 2015. This superb three volume set arrived recently from Oak Knoll Press, which published it in […]