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Jul 01 2016

Special Collections News and Updates 7/1/2016

Posted on July 1, 2016January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

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Newsfeed:

  • 50 years of Star Trek on Display: http://www.thegazette.com/subject/life/people-places/50-years-of-star-trek-on-display-20160617
  • Old Capitol Museum celebrates 40 years on National Historic Registry: http://now.uiowa.edu/2016/06/old-cap-landmark
  • Bringing Special Collections into Today: Recent library renovations focus on openness: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/bringing-special-collections-today/

 

Instruction Update:

 

Codex Conquest logoAmy Chen promoted Codex Conquest, her book history game, at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS). She is now collecting names and emails of librarians, faculty, and anyone else who might be interested in following the development of the game. Email amy-chen@uiowa.edu if you would like to be added to the listserv. Amy also hopes that she will shortly have a web landing page for the project, so stay tuned!

 

 

  

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Summer is the best time to get your class visit on the schedule for Fall 2016! Request your fall sessions now through our form:  http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/forms/speccoll_class/.

 

 

 

 

 

From the Web and Social Media:

Graduate Assistant Kelly Grogg’s video series, Historical Crushes finishes with this fifth and final episode.

Check out the whole series on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyuiKePcOFhuwhjH90wHSZs5fj_aWwEXI

 


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