Responding to library use patterns, we will be shifting our evening hours when the fall semester begins. On August 25th, we will be open until 7\u00a0PM\u00a0on Tuesdays and we will no longer open on Thursday nights.<\/p>\n
Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays: 8:30 AM – 5 PM<\/p>\n Tuesdays: 8:30 AM – 7 PM<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. Request Fall Class Sessions Now<\/strong><\/p>\n Classes are beginning to schedule their sessions at Special Collections for the fall.<\/p>\n To get your desired date and time, sign up soon using our request form<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3. \u00a0Save the Date: \u00a0First Iowa Bibliophiles Talk of the 2015-2016 Season \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n More details will follow soon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4.\u00a0New Collection Guide Search Engine<\/strong><\/p>\n Feel free to contact members of our staff if you need help navigating the program or if you have any other related questions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5. Mobile Museum Visits the Iowa State Fair August 13-23<\/strong><\/p>\n The University of Iowa\u2019s Mobile Museum will be at the State Fair all week.<\/p>\n Over Here From Over There: Iowans in World War II<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of Iowans during World War II. Nurses, Red Cross workers, and soldiers, as well as those who contributed to the war effort on the home front, are represented through letters, diaries, photographs, and artifacts from collections housed in the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives and Special Collections. One portion of the\u00a0exhibition focuses on the wartime correspondence of Lloyd and Laura Davis, a Cedar Rapids couple who married in 1942. The Davises spent the first years of their marriage apart when Lloyd was drafted into the Army. He eventually served in both North Africa and Europe while Laura Davis, a social worker, spent the war years in Cedar Rapids helping to set up daycare centers for the children of working mothers.<\/p>\n The Mobile Museum can visit your community. Follow this link<\/a> to submit your request.<\/p>\n![\"Image](\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2015\/08\/Analog-clock.jpg\")
<\/a>Our new hours are:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Calligrapher and Center for the Book professor\u00a0Cheryl Jacobsen<\/a> will join us at 6 pm on September 9,\u00a02015 to discuss Medieval calligraphic hands.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/a>Our collection guides may suddenly look a bit different that they did before. We officially have transitioned behind-the-scenes from an Archon-based interface to using ArchivesSpace to host our finding aids. ArchivesSpace is a new open source archives information management application for managing and providing web access to archives, manuscripts, and digital objects. The University of Iowa is one institution among a team of beta testers for this product.<\/p>\n
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