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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 again on the Fluxus project with a focus on developing a multimedia web interface to experience the digital collection. Once the digitization of the collection was complete, we noticed, that was the easy part. Now, we are dealing with the nit and grit of metadata, digital preservation, web development and design, and the integration multimedia content.

So much to do! Yet, we have a lot of energy and zeal to make this an amazing resource for Fluxus researchers, enthusiasts and for those who happen to stumble upon our unique collection.

It is a New Flux Year to be sure!

Stay tuned.

 

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 again on the Fluxus project with a focus on developing a multimedia web interface to experience the digital collection. Once the digitization of the collection was complete, we noticed, that was the easy part. Now, we are dealing with the nit and grit of metadata, digital preservation, web development and design, and the integration multimedia content.

So much to do! Yet, we have a lot of energy and zeal to make this an amazing resource for Fluxus researchers, enthusiasts and for those who happen to stumble upon our unique collection.

It is a New Flux Year to be sure!

Stay tuned.

 

You may have read in the Washington Post or the Chronicle of Higher Education that users of Academia.edu have had their research papers taken down from their profile pages. Elsevier, the largest publisher of journals in the Scientific, Technical, and Medical fields, has been sending takedown notices to third-party websites, like Academia.edu, hosting research articles published in their journals. As the copyright holder, Elsevier is within their rights to do this because publishing agreements often give them the exclusive right to sell and distribute the article, thus prohibiting sharing of those articles by the author or anyone else.

The University of Iowa Libraries offers a number of options to support and encourage the permissible posting of research articles online. As the author of an original research paper, you can decide how you want your findings to reach your audience. By publishing in an academic journal, you are within your rights to negotiate for terms that suit your needs. One way to do this is to attach the University of Iowa’s Author’s Addendum to your next publishing agreement. This addendum preserves your right to share your work online through a personal website or Iowa Research Online, the University’s open access archive for scholarship. Iowa Research Online is a free resource for making scholarship available online and preserved in perpetuity by the Libraries. In addition to hosting and preserving research articles, Iowa Research Online accepts conference proceedings, presentations, and multimedia to meet the diverse methods by which scholars share their work.

If you have received a takedown notice from a publisher or have any questions about copyright or publishing agreements, please contact your librarian for assistance. To learn more about the University Libraries’ publishing services, please visit our informative guides on Scholarly Publishing issues and Copyright. We look forward to helping you in your scholarly endeavors.

Amy Paulus, Head of Access Services

Looking for books not available or not owned by the University Libraries?  Try UBorrow! A book found in UBorrow will be delivered quickly from one of 15 research libraries (Big Ten Universities plus Center for Research Libraries, University of Chicago, Maryland, and Rutgers), arriving within one week of request.

You can use these materials for 12 weeks, a much longer loan period than a traditional interlibrary loan, without the fear of having it recalled from you. A four week renewal is also an option. If you discover materials through UBorrow that are not available, the interlibrary loan option is presented and staff will request from other libraries. To further simplify, these requests can be tracked and managed along with the rest of your interlibrary loan requests through the ILL system: https://uiowa.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/illiad.dll.  To ensure your request will be submitted automatically, you should log-in to the ILL system before performing searches in UBorrow.  For further information, instructions, tutorials, and a link to UBorrow, see the UBorrow libguide at http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/uborrow.

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Psychological Experiments Online pairs audio and video recordings of quintessential experiments in psychology with thousands of pages of primary-source documents. It’s packed with exclusive and hard-to-find materials, including notes from experiment participants, journal articles, books, field notes, and final reports in topics from obedience to authority and conformity to operant conditioning.

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Head Quarters 1st Brig., 1st Div., llth A.C.
Nashville February 3rd 1864

My Dear Wife

You will be surprised on looking at the date of my letter to find it written at Nashville, but such are the fortunes of War. We are still here. This morning we were ordered out at 10 o’clock, loaded up, & were ready to start when the order came for us to remain here for the present, so we have unpacked and set down to work again.¹ How long we will remain here we cannot tell. I am almost sorry you went home. The Col.’s family were hurried off at short notice & have scarcely more than reached home.

I presume as I recd. nothing by telegraph you are safe at home. There is just the least bit of a possibility that I may be at home a few days soon but not enough to base a hope upon. Col. [Harrison] told me to-day that as I am in command of the Band it would devolve upon me to go North to purchase their instruments.² It sounds too much like a joke, but I will try & make it do me all the good I can. But do not expect anything, and you will not be disappointed, & be sure and say nothing about it.

There is nothing new. I bid some of the ladies goodbye this morning, expecting that to-night we would be on the road to Bridgeport. I presume, however, all the women here are happy. It is rather unpleasant to be held in readiness to move & just when you have succeeded in reconciling yourself, to find all reversed. It is the general opinion still that we will leave as soon as more troops arrive, which are reported on their way here.

I was to see Capt. Hoskins this morning. He is some better. Enclosed is a photograph which you will not fail to recognize. I have not seen the boys [of Company A] since the order to move was countermanded, but presume they are satisfied. It seems quite lonely. I would like to walk over to “Drake’s” to-night and find you there. Would it not be pleasant?

I am waiting anxiously for a letter from you, which will certainly arrive before the week is out. I have recd. no letters since I last wrote, neither have I had time to answer those on hand. I was at the Express office to-day, but the box of butter had not yet arrived.

I had a very agreeable visit to-day from R. D. & A. A. McDonald.³ They are on their way to visit some friends at Decherd and also at Chattanooga. The latter are in the 125th Ills.,⁴ the former are relatives and Rebel citizens. They both look well. Alex was discharged last May, and both are doing business in Danville, Illinois. They took dinner with me & started out this afternoon.

We are all well. May God bless you with good health and surround you with innumerable blessings and comforts. Give my love to all the family.

Good night,

Your Affect. Husband
J. F. Culver

1. For the background to these orders and countermanded orders see J.F.C.’s letter of February 1, 1864.
2. One of J.F.C.’s duties as aide-de-camp to Colonel Harrison was to serve as commander of the brigade band.
3. Robert D. McDonald had been a 30-year-old Pontiac merchant. In 1860 he was a bachelor and listed the value of his real estate at $1,500 and his personal estate at $4,000. Eighth Census, Livingston County, State of Illinois, NA.
4. The 125th Illinois was assigned to the Second Division, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, and was camped near Rossville, Georgia.

Bridgeport Feb 1st 1864

Dear Cousin:

I recieved your address from Cousin Hanna a few days since and hasten to write. I am going to school this winter. I heard of little Franks death and sympathize with you in your bereavement. My cousins have met with sad afflictions since last hearing from them. I was much surprised to hear of Uncle’s death.

Aunt Sarah has moved out west to [Penna?] Guthrie Co Iowa They like it very much.

Moses Baker (Lewey’s husband) has gone to mercantile business and is prospering finely. The Atlantic & Great Western Rail Road is completed as far west as Mansfield Josiah Naftzger intends building a warehouse on the Rail-Road Bridgeport is building quite rapidly and will in a short time have good business facilities

The roads are very muddy and indeed are almost impassable. There has been very little snow this winter and the weather has been very mild with the exception of two or three days. Please send me your and your wife’s photograph. We have one of yours but I should be pleased to have one of later date

I will close as I have nothing more of importance to communicate. Please give my love to Cousin Mary and reserve a good share for your self. Please write soon and believe me

your Cousin
Gordie Dunmire