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    Happy Student Appreciation Week!!!   We always rely on our students. They are the first faces seen when anyone comes into the library. Have a question? Ask them – if they don’t know the answer they know to find it or who to ask. […]

March 30th is National Pencil Day!! I bet you don’t think much about the pencil when you think about picking it up and getting to work. Probably when it needs to be sharpened or when the mechanical pencil needs more lead, but most of us […]

Research Scholars Virtual Workshop! How to Get Your Research Published and Noticed! March 31, 2021 3:30 PM   You’ve put so much time and effort into getting your research ready to publish. What’s the next step? In this competitive […]

By James Cox, Guest Blogger Reagan Mady, Exhibit Curator       University of Iowa MECCA Week: A Week of Parties, Pranks, and Memories to Honor St. Patrick From 1910 until the late 1980s, MECCA Week was an annual celebration of the […]

Use it to find: market data and analysis on pricing environment, supply chain, and vendors. Where to find it: You can find it on the Business library web site’s alphabetical list of databases.  Need help using Procurement IQ? Contact […]

Where to find it: You can find it on the Business library web site’s alphabetical list of databases.  Use it to find:  Statistics – Includes data on: the economy, companies, countries, products, demographics, media & […]

Planning on attending the Job Fair on Wednesday?  Get prepared by researching companies that might be present.  Try these resources:   Vault Campus  – Offers information for job seekers and researchers needing insight into a […]

    2021 Spring Learn & Create Workshops All workshops are on Wednesdays at 3:30 pm over Zoom! Any of the hands-on workshops will have kits available for purchase through the Electronic Shop, so that you be able to do these projects […]

  2021 Spring Research Scholars Workshops An informative series of six virtual workshops is designed to aid researchers at all levels with scholarly publishing, research poster presentation, technical writing tips, literature reviews, […]

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Open Access Model Pilot Agreement Guest Blogger: Qianjin “Marina” Zhang In November 2020, the University of Iowa (UI) Libraries participated in a transformative open access model agreement with […]

This post by IWA Graduate Research Assistant Heather Cooper is the ninth installment in our series highlighting African American history in the collections of the Iowa Women’s Archives. The series ran weekly during Black History Month, […]

This post by IWA Graduate Research Assistant Heather Cooper is the seventh installment in our series highlighting African American history in the collections of Iowa Women’s Archives and other local repositories. The series ran weekly […]

This post by IWA Graduate Research Assistant Heather Cooper is the fifth installment in our series highlighting African American history in the Iowa Women’s Archives collections. The series ran weekly during Black History Month, and will […]

by Marian Wilson Kimber Discovering lost pieces of music in dusty archives is what most people think musicologists do. We only make the news if someone finds an unknown manuscript by a famous composer buried in a library. It’s true that […]

Meet Jared Bock: recipient of a Dale M. and Mary Gail Bentz Libraries Student Employee Scholarship “I chose Iowa because it is the perfect distance from home, has a beautiful campus, and offers a diverse array of programs and […]

Meet Natalie Boucher: recipient of a UI Libraries Student Employee Scholarship  “The University of Iowa has a great English program.Ultimately, though, I felt a deep sense of authenticity at the University of Iowa and knew this was the […]

Meet Ryan Greenough: recipient of a UI Libraries Student Employee Scholarship.  “I had an older brother who attended Tippie before I did, so I knew if I came to Iowa I would get a great education. I also loved the campus and atmosphere […]

This post by IWA Graduate Assistant, Heather Cooper, is the first of a series highlighting African American history in the Iowa Women’s Archives’ collections. The series will continue weekly during Black History month, and monthly […]

Meet Louis Barker Recipient of a Dale M. and Mary Gail Bentz Libraries Student Employee Scholarship  “At Iowa, I have a fantastic violin teacher who I knew would be dedicated to helping me develop both personal and professional skills, […]

Four Business Library Student Employees have been awarded scholarships from the UI Libraries. Congratulations to the winners: Louis Barker, Ryan Greenough, Natalie Boucher, and Jared Bock.