This year marks the 125th anniversary of the partnership between the University of Iowa Libraries and the Government Printing Office (GPO). To celebrate this anniversary, Federal Documents Librarian Marianne Mason has developed a digital exhibit http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/exhibits/govpubs/
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Kerber Recognition in Iowa Womens Archives, Dec 10
Professor Linda K. Kerber, the May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, was inducted into the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame in Des Moines on August 29, 2009. Please join us as we celebrate Professor Kerber, who has devoted her life and career to the empowerment of women through a better understanding ofContinue reading “Kerber Recognition in Iowa Womens Archives, Dec 10”
Did You Know? You can access the newest research online: full text
Through the Libraries, you now have full text (PDF) access to over 1 million titles in the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. For more information: http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/dissertations.
Help Us Fold 1,000 Paper Cranes for Peace: Dec 3
The exhibition committee (Chiaki Sakai, Japanese Studies Librarian; Marianne Mason, Federal Documents Librarian and Duncan Stewart, Cataloging Librarian) will be hosting paper crane making session on Thursday, December 3 from 2-4 p.m. in Main Library, North Exhibition Hall, with the goal of sending a thousand paper cranes to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Japanese legend promisesContinue reading “Help Us Fold 1,000 Paper Cranes for Peace: Dec 3”
Material Witness: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki exhibit in UI Main Library
At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the world changed. An atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. A second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later. These two cities witnessed first-hand how devastating the effects of nuclear weaponry would be. The cities were destroyed instantly and many lives were lost. The current exhibitContinue reading “Material Witness: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki exhibit in UI Main Library”
The Yellow Wall-Paper Brown-Bag Discussion: Dec 2
A brown-bag lunch discussion of the short story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” will take place from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, in Room 2032 of the University of Iowa Main Library. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a 19th century writer, was discouraged from pursuing a career to preserve her health and wrote the story as aContinue reading “The Yellow Wall-Paper Brown-Bag Discussion: Dec 2”
National History Day Workshop: Nov 19
The UI Libraries welcome National History Day students from across Eastern Iowa to a research workshop. These students prepare projects around a theme and present them at an annual competition. Reference, Special Collections and Iowa Women’s Archives library staff put together a special library guide webpage for these students: http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/nhd . Students will be visiting theContinue reading “National History Day Workshop: Nov 19”
Iowa Doctors and the Germ Theory of Disease, Nov 18
The History of Medicine Society has invited Matt Schaefer, Archivist at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library to speak on the topic, “Iowa Doctors and the Germ Theory of Disease.” Wednesday, November 185:30 – 6:30 p.m.Main Library, Second Floor Conference Room (2032) The widely accepted notion that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases was very controversial whenContinue reading “Iowa Doctors and the Germ Theory of Disease, Nov 18”
Memories of a Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor: Nov 17
“Memories of a Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor” screening with introduction by Prof. Stephen VlastosTuesday, November 17, 20093:30-5:00 pmMain Library 2nd Floor Conference Room Ms. Yoshiko Kajimoto was a student directed to work in an airplane parts factory 2.3 kilometers from the epicenter of where the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.Continue reading “Memories of a Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor: Nov 17”
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