Newsfeed: Lichtenberger Library Stretches Imagination. http://daily-iowan.com/2016/09/29/lichtenberger-library-stretches-imagination/ Jim Downey preserves history as a book conservator. http://www.voxmagazine.com/arts/books/james-downey-preserves-history-as-a-book-conservationist/article_e7617891-4e3a-50b7-b4dc-7da414277c1e.html As the UI prepares for its 104th-annual Homecoming, traditions new and old are explored. http://daily-iowan.com/2016/09/30/homecoming-roars-into-town/http://daily-iowan.com/2016/09/30/homecoming-roars-into-town/ Randy […]
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It is Banned Book Week 2016!
Banned Books Week 2016 Banned Book Week was launched in 1982 in order to bring attention to a surge of challenges that schools, bookstores and libraries were getting. The purpose is to highlight […]
Special Collections News and Updates 9/23/2016
EVENT TOMORROW, September 24, 2016, 1PM-3PM: Readers and Revelers needed to bring back the celebration of Shakespeare in City Park just like 100 years ago for the closing event to […]
Kick-Start That Project!
Creative Kick-Start Hey students! Are you interested in giving your idea, project, or invention a kick-start? Want to make that project a reality? A new program, Kick-Start, has been developed for engineering students (undergraduate […]
Iowa Reads Shakespeare in the City Park “Globe Theater” Saturday, 9/24
Dost Thou Speak Masterly: Iowa Reads Shakespeare Step up to read Shakspeare and celebrate The Bard’s 400 Death Anniversary – Just like they did 100 years ago in […]
A Trip to the Conservation Lab – YouTube
Colleen Theisen took a trip up to the Conservation Lab to meet with Kristen Hartman to find out about two “batch treatments” that she had been working on. Large sets […]
Sunday! Shakespeare Family Festival – Book Arts, Crafts, Fencing, and Celebrating Shakespeare
SHAKESPEAREAN FAMILY FESTIVAL Hands-on demonstrations of book arts, acting, fencing 18 September 1:00 – 4:00 pm Main Library, North Plaza Rain location: Just inside the Main Library’s north entrance Free […]
UI Special Collections claims the Iron Throne at World Con
Last month on August 17-21, two of our very own, Peter Balestrieri and Laura Hampton, went to represent the University of Iowa Libraries at the 74th World Science Fiction Convention, […]
Special Collections News 9/9/2016
Newsfeed: Old Gold – Wishing Herky a Happy Birthday: https://now.uiowa.edu/2016/09/old-gold-wishing-herky-happy-birthday Gene Wilder’s Superfans Made a ’70s Zine Called Geneology, and It’s Wonderful http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/09/06/gene_wilder_s_superfans_made_a_70s_zine_called_geneology_and_it_s_wonderful.html Avicenna – John Martin Rare Book Room: http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2016/09/06/avicenna-september-2016-notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-hardin-library/ Regents […]
Become proficient with APA Style | Workshop @Hardin Library Tuesday, Sept. 13 | 1-2pm
Learn how to format your papers and references in American Psychological Association (APA) Style, version 6. You will learn how to do basic formatting with APA style and how to […]