From the Web and Social Media: Slate featured the Hevelin Collection Fanzine Digitization Project this week. You can read their coverage of the UI Libraries’ work digitizing 1930s-1950s science fiction fanzines here. New Acquisitions: Agricola. Trattenimenti sulle vernici. Ravenna 1789. This book bridges several of our collection areas, covering a very broad arrayContinue reading “News From Special Collections 9/19 – 9/25/2015”
Monthly Archives: September 2015
New Acquisition: The Battle Creek System of Health Training
By Jacque Roethler The Battle Creek Sanitarium was opened in 1866 by John Harvey Kellogg and his brother W. K. Kellogg, promoting health through a regimen of dietetics, exercise, hydrotherapy, phototherapy, thermotherapy, electotherapy, mechanotherapy, and enemas. They were joined in this enterprise by C.W. Post. In some areas they were ahead of their time, suchContinue reading “New Acquisition: The Battle Creek System of Health Training”
News from Special Collections 9/18/2015
New Staff: Alonso Avila is a new librarian and will begin his residency at the University of Iowa Libraries by spending a year working in Special Collections & University Archives. In May 2015, he received his Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).Continue reading “News from Special Collections 9/18/2015”
Special Collections Week in Review, 8/28 – 9/4, 2015
Recently on the Web and Social Media: The Hevelin Fanzine Digitization Project was featured on The Verge. The University of Iowa Libraries is digitizing science fiction fanzines from the 1930s-1950s. August Old Gold column from University Archivist David McCartney, Harrison Hall, the Residence Hall That Never Was. The planned 1,100-student high-rise,Continue reading “Special Collections Week in Review, 8/28 – 9/4, 2015”
Jillian Sparks’ Report from the SHARP Conference
What follows is one final blog post from our former Olson Graduate Assistant, Jillian Sparks, who attended the SHARP conference July 7-10, 2015 to present a poster related to her cataloging work here in Special Collections. The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) is an international organization dedicated to bookContinue reading “Jillian Sparks’ Report from the SHARP Conference”