If you missed the Libraries’ sponsored speaker, Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist for the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), you can now view it online. You can also view his Powerpoint slides from the presentation online. Dempsey spoke to UI Libraries staff and others on February 21 in the Senate chambers of theContinue reading “Video of Lorcan Dempsey Talk Online”
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UI Libraries Unveils Online Collection Highlighting Iowa Women
As women’s history month comes to a close, the Iowa Women’s Archives goes online. To mark the occasion and unveil the digital collection, the University of Iowa Libraries will celebrate with a reception on Wednesday, March 26th from 12 – 1 p.m. in the North Exhibition Hall of the Main Library. Through the new digitalContinue reading “UI Libraries Unveils Online Collection Highlighting Iowa Women”
Exhibit Explores the History of the Pentacrest
There have been at least 18 different buildings on the site we now call the Pentacrest at the University of Iowa. A new exhibit, By Chance and By Design: A History of the Pentacrest, in the Main Library traces the history of this central part of campus. Historic photographs of and documents relating to the buildingContinue reading “Exhibit Explores the History of the Pentacrest”
UI Libraries Receives Grant to Create Digital Collection of Romantic Poet’s Letters
The University of Iowa Libraries has been awarded a $20,000 grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to create a digital collection of British writer James Henry Leigh Hunt’s correspondence. This collaborative project draws on The University of Iowa’s collection of Hunt materials as well as the research files of Dr. David R. Cheney (1922-2006),Continue reading “UI Libraries Receives Grant to Create Digital Collection of Romantic Poet’s Letters”
McTyre Elected VP of the Music Library Association
Ruthann Boles McTyre is the newly elected Vice President/President Elect of the Music Library Association. McTyre is Head of the Rita Benton Music Library at the University of Iowa. Previously at Baylor University, she was Head of the Crouch Music and Fine Arts Library from 1992 – 2000, also serving as Associate Director for OrganizationalContinue reading “McTyre Elected VP of the Music Library Association”
Weaver to Receive Service Award
Janet Weaver, Assistant Curator of the Iowa Women’s Archives (IWA), will receive an award from LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens), Council 10, Davenport, for her oustanding service to the Council. The ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 16th. Janet has built strong relationships in the Quad Cities Latino community through her dedicatedContinue reading “Weaver to Receive Service Award”
Former Student Assistant Wins Oscar
Brook Busey, one of the students hired for the Dada retrospective conversion project in 2000, won the Oscar for best original screenplay at Academy Awards for Juno, written under the pen name Diablo Cody. Although she did not explicitly mention the International Dada Archive in her acceptance speech, her supervisor, Tim Shipe, Arts & Literature Bibliographer, jokinglyContinue reading “Former Student Assistant Wins Oscar”
UI Libraries Compiles Digital Campus Map Collection
The University of Iowa Libraries has compiled the Campus Maps Digital Collection, documenting nearly 150 years of UI campus building development. This digital collection, at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/campusmaps, documents the growth of the UI, with 97 items dated from 1892 to 2004. The collection — drawn from University Archives — includes maps from course catalogs, a 1893Continue reading “UI Libraries Compiles Digital Campus Map Collection”
UI Libraries Sponsored Speakers Program: “The Network Reconfigures the Library”
National expert, Lorcan Dempsey will discuss how networking is impacting research, learning behaviors, and organizational models as they relate to place, expertise, collections and services in libraries in the University of Iowa Libraries sponsored speaker program. Lorcan Dempsey is the Vice President and Chief Strategist for the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), an international nonprofitContinue reading “UI Libraries Sponsored Speakers Program: “The Network Reconfigures the Library””
UI Libraries Presents African-American Student History Online
Adah Hyde Johnson (Class of 1912) described her graduation from The University of Iowa as “one of the great dreams” of her father, a successful businessman who had grown up under slavery. Helping to integrate Currier Hall in 1946 was the first step of Virginia Harper’s (Class of 1948) lifelong career as a civil rightsContinue reading “UI Libraries Presents African-American Student History Online”