The Internet Scout Report also recognized The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa. This digitization project was a collaboration between the UI Libraries and the University of Iowa Press and was released this summer at the Iowa City Book Festival. The online version of the University of Iowa Press’ Biographical Dictionary is a website that just feelsContinue reading “Internet Scout Remarks on Biographical Dictionary of Iowa”
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CIC Provosts File Letter With Court in Google Settlement
The CIC has been a Google digitization partner since 2007. Under the terms of the partnership, Google will digitize up to ten million volumes across the CIC universities . The CIC has filed a letter with the federal court of New York overseeing the proposed Google Book Search settlement. Google Book Search Project – IntroductionIn 2007,Continue reading “CIC Provosts File Letter With Court in Google Settlement”
Looking at Life through the Large End of a Telescope: Sept 11
Lecture by Dr. N. Peggy Burke, CLAS Alumni Fellow 2009, sponsored by the Dept. of Health & Sport Studies and the Iowa Women’s Archives. A reception will follow the lecture. Friday, September 113:30 – 5 p.m.Pomerantz Career Center, Auditorium C20 N. Peggy Burke (Ph.D. ‘65, Physical Education) has spent a life in service to theContinue reading “Looking at Life through the Large End of a Telescope: Sept 11”
Leigh Hunt Online Gets a Nod
This week the “Internet Scout Report” noted the UI Libraries Leigh Hunt Online: The Letters. Not familiar with British Romantic writer Leigh Hunt? After going through the University of Iowa Library’s collection of his letters online, visitors will know Hunt intimately. For those visitors who don’t have the stamina to pore over the more thanContinue reading “Leigh Hunt Online Gets a Nod”
Keep up with Google Book news
In the years since Google announced its plan to digitize the world’s books, people have been talking. Want to hear what they are saying? http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/scholarly/GoogleBookSettlement.html
UI Libraries’ Artists’ Books Exhibited at Drake University
A group of more than 30 artists’ books from The University of Iowa Libraries’ collection will be exhibited from September 11th through October 9th in the Anderson Gallery at Drake University, Des Moines. The exhibition, “The Book in Time & Place,” was curated by alumnus Sarah McCoy and Julie Leonard from the staff of TheContinue reading “UI Libraries’ Artists’ Books Exhibited at Drake University”
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text Now Available Online
UI researchers and scholars now have full text (PDF) access to over 1 million titles in the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. This database also includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day. Additionally, you have access to the full-text coverage of CIC and UI dissertationsContinue reading “ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text Now Available Online”
Iowa Women’s Archives Needs Your Vote: Sept 1-15 (links updated)
The Iowa Women’s Archives at The University of Iowa Libraries has been nominated for an Iowa Women’s Foundation 2009 50% Solution Award in the nonprofit category. Vote Here! The 50% Solution Awards began in 2006 as a way to recognize and reinforce positive contributions made to open doors and advance Iowa women and girls. PreviousContinue reading “Iowa Women’s Archives Needs Your Vote: Sept 1-15 (links updated)”
Looking for your Interlibrary Loan book?
You can pick up the materials you’ve requested through Interlibrary Loan at the Main Library North Circulation desk any hours that the Main Library is open. Requests can be made through our online system. Any questions about Interlibrary Loan can be answered by staff at the South Circulation desk.
Your Librarian at the University of Iowa
With over 100,000 books, 45,000 newspapers, and 100,000 government documents published in the US each year, in addition to the 27 million sites on the Internet, you know the information you need has to be out there. Now, if you only knew where to start. How about with your librarian? Every student at the UniversityContinue reading “Your Librarian at the University of Iowa”