The University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections is the new home of the renowned Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. Founded by Ruth and Marvin Sackner in 1979 in Miami Beach, Florida, the Sackner Archive currently holds the largest collection of concrete and visual poetry in the world. The archive includes over 75,000 itemsContinue reading “Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry moves to the University of Iowa Libraries”
Category Archives: History
William Anthony Lecture
The University of Iowa Libraries’ Preservation and Conservation presents: The William Anthony Conservation LectureThursday, October 8, 2015, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.Adler Journalism Building, E105Gary Frost, guest lecturer“Great Legacy, Great Prospects — The Historical Bookbinding Model Collection at Iowa” A reception will follow. All UI students, faculty, staff and Iowa City area community members are invited toContinue reading “William Anthony Lecture”
‘Hawkeye’ yearbook, documenting 100 years of UI history, now online in Iowa Digital Library
The University of Iowa Libraries has recently completed a project to digitize the entire run of Hawkeye yearbooks, comprising more than 38,000 pages documenting UI history from 1892 to 1992. The digital collection, with its vast assortment of yearbook photographs and illustrations enhanced by full-text search functionality, is available at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/yearbooks. University Archivist David McCartneyContinue reading “‘Hawkeye’ yearbook, documenting 100 years of UI history, now online in Iowa Digital Library”
Get to Know Iowa City, Flex Your Creative Muscles, Win Fame and Prizes!
So you’ve had some time to get your bearings on campus and in Iowa City. Do you think you can identify places around town from photos taken 50 years ago? Can you put your photography skills to work and re-create that image? Your photo creation could earn you fame and prizes (like tickets to Hancher)!Continue reading “Get to Know Iowa City, Flex Your Creative Muscles, Win Fame and Prizes!”
University of Iowa Extends Its Collaboration with Accessible Archives, Inc.
Content Expansion Will Bring New Material to Civil War Collection The University of Iowa Libraries has signed an agreement with Accessible Archives, an electronic publisher of primary source full-text historical databases, to preserve in digital format a number of primary source publications from the Civil War era. The Libraries’ holdings include various Civil War memoirs,Continue reading “University of Iowa Extends Its Collaboration with Accessible Archives, Inc.”