{"id":3114,"date":"2014-09-05T19:36:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T19:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2014-09-05T19:36:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T19:36:01","slug":"video-series-visiting-bauman-rare-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/09\/05\/video-series-visiting-bauman-rare-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Series Visiting Bauman Rare Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer members of the University of Iowa Special Collections team visited Las Vegas for the American Library Association and stopped by Bauman Rare Books to chat with Rebecca Romney, who you also might recognize as the rare book appraiser on the History Channel series &#8220;Pawn Stars.&#8221; \u00a0While there they let the cameras roll as they\u00a0chatted with Rebecca Romney about the rare book field, collecting rare books, and the types of research that rare book dealers do that ends up being incorporated into catalog records and supporting academic research, all while taking a look at some particularly delightful rare books that they had in the shop.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the result of the trip: \u00a0A five video series. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>The first video: \u00a0<strong>Down the Rabbit Hole. <\/strong>\u00a0This one includes an edition of &#8220;Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland&#8221; illustrated by Salvador Dal\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xKGGYZgkaP0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second video: <strong>The Game is Afoot. \u00a0<\/strong>The team\u00a0analyzes the lasting power of favorite characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Lizzie Bennet who\u00a0continue to thrive through fan works and new interpretations.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hG3PzDx2dns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The third video: <strong>It&#8217;s a First Edition Pride and Prejudice!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JI4Cfs9VuH8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fourth video: <strong>Et Tu Brute?<\/strong> \u00a0 Taking a close look at a Shakespeare quarto (a single play).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7CYr5pROyA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fifth video: <strong>We Go West. \u00a0<\/strong>A very rare surviving pamphlet, <span style=\"color: #292f33\">1848 Latter-Day Saints\u2019 Emigrants\u2019 Guide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1hQKklSY2Os?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer members of the University of Iowa Special Collections team visited Las Vegas for the American Library Association and stopped by Bauman Rare Books to chat with Rebecca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}