During the summer of 2005, the UI Libraries hosted The Changing Book Conference. Bookworkers from around the world came to Iowa City for the weekend to discuss how the object we know as “book” has changed over time. Evolving digital formats have forced libraries’ approaches to paper book collections to change in ways unforeseen evenContinue reading ““The Changing Book” now available”
Monthly Archives: May 2008
UI Preservation Librarian Keynote Speaker
University of Iowa Libraries Head of Preservation, Nancy E. Kraft, will be delivering the keynote address at the 10th annual Iowa Conservation and Preservation Consortium S.O.S. Save Our Stuff! preservation seminars. Kraft will discuss Connecting to Collections, a national preservation initiative and Iowa’s role in this effort. Conference topics include identification of 19th century photo processes andContinue reading “UI Preservation Librarian Keynote Speaker”
“MindMashup” – Short Video Contest
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw The AssociationContinue reading ““MindMashup” – Short Video Contest”
Thanks to Our Student Employees
Each year the University of Iowa Libraries employs about 250 students to help keep the library system running smoothly. These students do all kinds of library jobs – checking out and reshelving books, digitizing rare photographs, creating catalog records for items, scanning journal articles and book chapters for online document delivery, assisting people with multimediaContinue reading “Thanks to Our Student Employees”
Rare Book Room Open House – May 15
The John Martin Rare Book Room will hold its annual open house on Thursday, May 15 from 4:30 to 7:30. The exhibit, “’No Small Presumption’–Surgical Works From Six Centuries,” will feature rare books from the earliest days of surgery through the twentieth century. The event is open to the public. Although chloroform and ether were not widelyContinue reading “Rare Book Room Open House – May 15”
“Map of the Day” from UI Libraries
Yesterday’s “Map of the Day” from National Geographic came from the UI Libraries. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day The map is from the Official Guide Book of the New York’s World Fair, 1939. The Special Collections department also has a small World’s Fair Collection (MsC840) with materials such as guidebooks and catalogs from 1893-2005 (including other materials from theContinue reading ““Map of the Day” from UI Libraries”