One of the clues in the Amazing Library Race asks racers to create an avatar. Here is a sampling of submissions.
Retirees Visit Main Library
Members of the Grayhawks (UI Retirees Association) and other retired community members will be visiting the Main Library today for “Preserving Family Photographs, Part 1” in the Conservation Lab from 2 – 3:30 p.m.
This hands-on session will be led by Nancy E. Kraft, Head of the Preservation Department and Gary Frost, University Libraries Conservator. The session will cover the various film and photo types with suggestions for handling, storage and extending the life of the image; photo album and scrapbook problems and possible solutions; how to determine the acidity or color fastness of paper; how to perform light cleaning of photos and how to display photos safely.
Future retirees sessions include “Preserving Family Photographs, Part 2” in the Information Arcade on Tuesday, October 16 from 10 – 11:30 a.m. Mark Anderson and Jennifer Wolfe from Digital Library Services department will demonstrate best practices in digitizing photos. You’ll learn the technical requirements that will make your photos usable, and you’ll add descriptors to your photos that will help you organize them.
For more information about Back to the Libraries sessions for retirees, contact Kristi Bontrager (kristi-r-bontrager@uiowa.edu or 319-335-5960).
Banned Books Week Read-Out
Join Journalism students as they read excerpts from a selection of banned or challenged books from the list of the Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century compiled by the Radcliffe Publishing Course.
Tuesday, September 25
2:30 – 4:15 p.m.
First Floor Rotunda
Adler Journalism Building
1. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
2. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
9. 1984 by George Orwell
12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
15. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
97. Rabbit Run by John Updike
And Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
The numbers represent the book’s ranking on the top novels list.
Readers are students in Law, Media and Current Issues, a course taught by Carolyn Stewart Dyer, professor of journalism and mass communication. Banned Books Week is the American Library Association’s celebration of the freedom to read.
Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibit on Display
Hispanic Heritage Month is an annual event celebrating the culture and traditions of U.S. residents who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico and the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America, South America and the Caribbean, as well as the contributions of Hispanic Americans to the United States.
The Hispanic community in Iowa is experiencing an exciting time of change as it begins historic growth in the state. The Hispanic population in 2006—nearly 115,000—represents an increase of 28% since 2000. Hispanic enrollment at the University of Iowa during the spring term in 2007 was 767.
The Main Library is hosting an exhibit for the 2007 Hispanic Heritage Month. It is located across from the Information Desk, near the elevator. The display features selected items from the Iowa Women’s Archives’ “Mujeres Latinas” project and highlights University of Iowa Hispanic and Latina/o students, faculty and alumni, as well as resources available in the Main Library about the Hispanic and Latina/o experience.
For more information on the exhibit contact Rachel Garza Carreón at rachel-carreon@uiowa.edu.
Reading Tonight in Shambaugh Auditorium
Iowan Mildred Armstrong Kalish will read from Little Heathens, her memoir about growing up during the Great Depression, at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 17, in Shambaugh Auditorium of the University of Iowa Main Library.
The reading is free and open to the public. A crew from University of Iowa public radio station WSUI AM910 will be on hand to record the readings for future broadcasts. Live broadcasts will be available on The University’s Writing University web site.
Kalish, who grew up in Garrison, taught English at several colleges, including The University of Iowa. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser says of Kalish’s memoir, “This lovely book, so unaffected and so generous, opens the door to a past I knew as a child in Iowa, and I wept with joy and recognition as I read it.”
Transitions: scholarly communications news for the UI community | September 2007
September 2007
Issue 3.07
Welcome to the September issue of Transitions.
The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments affecting the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement and other alternative publishing models. Scholarly communication refers to the full range of formal and informal means by which scholars and researchers communicate, from email discussion lists to peer-reviewed publication. In general authors are seeking to document and share new discoveries with their colleagues, while readers–researchers, students, librarians and others–want access to all the literature relevant to their work.
While the system of scholarly communication exists for the benefit of the world’s research and educational community and the public at large, it faces a multitude of challenges and is undergoing rapid change brought on by technology. To help interested members of the UI community keep up on these challenges and changes we plan to put out 4-6 issues per year of this newsletter.
This newsletter aims to reflect the interests of its readers so please forward comments, suggestions and entries to include to karen-fischer@uiowa.edu. Also, read the health sciences counterpart to Transitions: Hardin Scholarly Communication News.
Table of Contents:
Campaign against Open Access and Public Access to Federally Funded Research
Scholarly Publishing Out of Step with the Academy
Scholarly Publishers Issue Position Paper on Author/Publisher Rights
U.S College Book Price Study
Economic Stability of Open Access
Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Scholarly Communication
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Joins Google’s Library Project
Do Open Access Articles Have Greater Citation Impact?
Flattening of the U.S. Output of Scientific Articles: 1988–2003
Amazon Will Digitize Universities’ Books and Sell Print-on-Demand Copies
L.A. Times Editorial: Accessing NIH research
Yale Libraries Pull Out of BioMed Central Over Cost of Publication
Blood Done Sign My Name, One Community, One Book Discussion
Last spring the UI Center for Human Rights named Timothy Tyson’s Blood Done Sign My Name as this year’s selection for the One Community, One Book project.
As an on-campus sponsor of the project, the UI Libraries is hosting a discussion of this fascinating memoir on Wednesday, September 19th at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Library Second Floor Study Lounge, located directly above the North entrance of the library.
Blood Done Sign My Name, which won the Southern Book Award for Nonfiction and published by Random House in 2004, is the true story of 23-year-old Henry Marrow, who was murdered in 1970. In the wake of the killing, young African-Americans took to the streets. The author’s father, the pastor of Oxford’s all-white Methodist church, urged the town to come to terms with its bloody racial history. In the end, however, the Tyson family was forced to move away. Tyson returns to Oxford 30 years later to make sense of what happened and how the events changed his life. As he weaves together childhood memories with the realities of present-day Oxford, he sheds new light on America’s struggle for racial justice.
The author, Timothy B. Tyson, a North Carolina native, is a senior research scholar of documentary studies at the History Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University; visiting professor of American Christianity and southern culture at Duke Divinity School; adjunct professor of history and adjunct professor of American studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lecture Series to Discuss Early Modern Typography
The UI Museum of Art and the UI Libraries will continue the lecture series being held in conjunction with an exhibition, From Monks to Masters: The Medieval Manuscript and the Early Printed Book, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 30, in the museum’s Carver Gallery.
Sara Sauers, adjunct assistant professor in the University of Iowa Center for the Book, will discuss early modern typography. The lecture is free and open to the public.
East Asian Writers Focus of Library Exhibit
In the fall of 1967 a handful of writers from around the world came to Iowa City to participate in a unique writing experience: The International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. From those very early days through this year’s 40 plus invited participants, writers from East Asia have been an integral part of the program which aims to promote world literatures as well as international understanding.
To celebrate IWP’s anniversary, the UI Libraries presents “East Asia in the Midwest: 40 Years of East Asian Writers at the International Writing Program” in the North Exhibition Hall of the Main Library. This exhibit highlights prominent authors from China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan who participated in the program.
Of the over 1100 IWP novelists, poets and essayists, nearly 150 writers have come from these three East Asian countries. Until a diplomatic relationship resumed, Iowa City was one of a very few places where an encounter between Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese writers and intellectuals could occur, after thirty years of mutual isolation. And this inspiration is felt by all the writers in the program. Much literary collaboration continues long after IWP writers leave Iowa City and return to their home countries.
“The IWP brings the world to Iowa, and there is no more important part of the world to learn about than East Asia,” says Christopher Merrill, Director of the International Writing Program. “The writers featured in this exhibit give us the inside stories about places crucial to our understanding of what it means to be alive today.”
A reception and reading by distinguished visiting Chinese-language IWP alumni is scheduled for Thursday, October 11 from 5:00-6:30 p.m., in the Main Library. Information about other anniversary events can be found on the International Writing Program website.
The exhibit, held through October 2007 in the Main Library’s North Exhibition Hall, will be open during regular library hours. Admission is free.
For more information about the exhibit, please visit the UI Libraries website .
Lecture Series to Discuss Papermaking in Medieval Europe
The University of Iowa Libraries and Museum of Art will continue the lecture series being held in conjunction with an exhibition, From Monks to Masters: The Medieval Manuscript and the Early Printed Book, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 23, in the museum’s Carver Gallery.
Timothy Barrett, research scientist and adjunct professor in the University’s Center for the Book, will discuss papermaking in Europe during the 14th and 15th centuries. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Tune into “Know the Score” on KSUI FM 91.7 on Friday, August 24 from 5-7 p.m. when all the speakers from the lecture series will be on the radio.