University of Iowa faculty, students, and staff will be discussing a curriculum project that combines historic documents with digital tools and methods as part of the Irving B. Weber Days […]
Author Archives: Hannah Scates Kettler
New milestonetemp for DIY History: 40,000 pages transcribed!
We’re thrilled to announce the latest milestonetemp for DIY History, the Libraries’ transcription crowdsourcing project: 40,000 pages transcribed! To mark the occasion, we’re featuring our most prolific diarist — Iowa Byington […]
Studio Talk Series: Digitizing Fluxus
Thank you to all of you who were able to make the Studio talk this Thursday. And thank you for your wonderful and thought-provoking questions. Feel free to contact me […]
Studio Talk Series: Digitizing Fluxus
Thank you to all of you who were able to make the Studio talk this Thursday. And thank you for your wonderful and thought-provoking questions. Feel free to contact me […]
It’s another year
I hope everyone enjoyed a happy holiday season! We certainly did. Winter always provides such a wonderful opportunity to refocus and reprioritize for the new year. We have picked up […]
It’s another year
I hope everyone enjoyed a happy holiday season! We certainly did. Winter always provides such a wonderful opportunity to refocus and reprioritize for the new year. We have picked up […]
Women on the Chautauqua Circuit: Winsome Lasses and Ardent Advocates
This essay by Kären Mason, Curator of the Iowa Women’s Archives, was originally written for Akashic Books. Chautauqua was an eagerly anticipated event in towns across the United States in […]
Upstairs and downstairs in historic cookbooks
While “Downton Abbey” fans tune in to season 4 in record numbers and our Special Collections department celebrates with an exhibition of period cookbooks, volunteers at the Libraries’ DIY History […]
Wishing you an animated holiday
The big story at the Libraries this year has been our Special Collections department’s ascendancy to social media superstardom. Here in Digital Research & Publishing, we’re happy to hook our […]
Exploring pioneer lives: UI Libraries and Rhetoric students partner on new digital collection and crowdsourcing project
This November, as Thanksgiving brings thoughts of pilgrims, the University of Iowa Libraries is exploring a later period of American history with a new digital collection, crowdsourcing initiative, and curriculum […]