Special Collections Weekly Update 2/26/2016

News:

Applications are now being accepted for the Linda and Richard Kerber Fund for a grant of $1000 to support travel to Iowa City, Iowa, to conduct research in the Iowa Women’s Archives. The deadline is April 15, 2016. More information: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/kerber/

Upcoming Events:

Saturday, 3/05: Mujeres Latinas: Every Woman Has a Story (11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. , Iowa Women’s Archives, 3rd floor, Main Library) Refreshments will be served! RSVP: lib-women@uiowa.edu Questions? 319-335-5068. http://events.uiowa.edu/event/mujeres_latinas_every_woman_has_a_story
Wednesday, 3/09: Iowa Bibliophiles: Douglas S. Russell is a Senior Judge of the Iowa District Court and will address the Bibliophiles on books by and about famous bibliophiles, their book collections and the books they have written about collecting. (7 p.m., Special Collections Reading Room). Refreshments at 6:30pm. http://events.uiowa.edu/event/iowa_bibliophiles_douglas_s_russell_book_collecting
Thursday, 3/24: Jeannette Gabriel, We Did So Much Beyond the Home: Jewish Women and Community Life in Iowa (4 p.m., Iowa Women’s Archives). http://events.uiowa.edu/event/we_did_so_much_beyond_the_home_jewish_women_and_community_life_in_iowa
Wednesday, 3/30: Felicia Rice, Doc/Undoc (lecture performance), followed by a public conversation with Guillermo Gόmez-Pẽna (5 p.m., Special Collections Reading Room). http://book.grad.uiowa.edu/events/march-2016/gomez-pena-and-rice

New Acquisition:

Not everything we bring into Special Collections is a purchase or a gift; sometimes it’s a transfer. We transferred this book from the storage annex due to its heavy wooden board binding, and the high quality of the facsimiles inside. Come take a look, it’s available now!

Tibulli Carmina, Sapphus epistula Ovidiana; codex guelferbytanus 82.6 Aug. phototypice editus. Praefatus est Fridericus Leo. Lugduni Batavorum, A. W. Sijthoff, 1910. x-Collection FOLIO Z114 .T5

Instruction This Week:

Eight UI Class Sessions
One visiting class from Cornell College
One visiting class from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

If you are an instructor, please remember to book your class visit at least two weeks in advance of your potential visit date by filling out the following form: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/forms/speccoll_class/

Coming Soon: “Uptight and Laid-back: Iowa City in the 1960s”

This will be groovy! Coming in March is our virtual exhibit, “Uptight and Laid-back: Iowa City in the 1960s.” Photos, documents, and other material gathered from over 30 collections in the University Archives. Oral history interview highlights, moving image clips, momentous speeches, and more. Watch for more announcements. “Be there or be square!”