{"id":1618,"date":"2010-02-22T14:49:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2023-08-06T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:50:00","slug":"reading-the-fine-print-in-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2010\/02\/22\/reading-the-fine-print-in-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Fine Print in Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the latest issue of <em>fyi:<\/em> <em>Faculty &amp; Staff News at the University of Iowa,<\/em> the Charlotte M.&nbsp;Smith Miniature Book Collection is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/~fyi\/issues\/issues2009_v46\/02222010\/photos\/Photofeature022210\/index.html#12\">featured in a photo spread<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tiny collection of books held in Special Collections is dwarfed by the library&#8217;s other five million volumes. These 4,500 itsy-bitsy books are \u201cminiatures.\u201d From pocket-size to micro-miniature, most books in the collection were donated by one person, Charlotte M. Smith. The gift inspired others to add to the collection. Visitors may get an up-close look at the miniatures in Special Collections on the third floor of UI Main Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find&nbsp;more information about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/smith\/\">unique book collection<\/a>&nbsp;or <a href=\"http:\/\/collguides.lib.uiowa.edu\/?MSC0457\">Charlotte M. Smith<\/a>, the woman who collected these miniatures in the UI Libraries&#8217; Special Collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest issue of fyi: Faculty &amp; Staff News at the University of Iowa, the Charlotte M.&nbsp;Smith Miniature Book Collection is featured in a photo spread. A tiny collection of books held in Special Collections is dwarfed by the library&#8217;s other five million volumes. These 4,500 itsy-bitsy books are \u201cminiatures.\u201d From pocket-size to micro-miniature,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2010\/02\/22\/reading-the-fine-print-in-special-collections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Reading the Fine Print in Special Collections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6104,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/6104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}