News of Interest:

UI earns No. 1 ranking in university website accessibility: https://now.uiowa.edu/2016/11/ui-tops-in-university-website-accessibility
A Snapshot of Cook’s Point (with a shout out to Migration is Beautiful): http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/sc/2016/10/13/a-snapshot-of-cooks-point/

Staff Publications:

Instruction Librarian Amy Chen has a new publication.

“Possessing an Inner History: Curators, Donors, and Affective Stewardship,” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 12.3 (October 2016), 243-268. https://goo.gl/QwpXSZ

Join us in congratulating Amy!

Events:

Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript Across Premodern Eurasia

This Mellon Sawyer seminar is an interdisciplinary collaboration dedicated to mapping cultural exchanges across Eurasia from roughly 400-1450 CE, by focusing on the development, distribution and sharing of manuscript technologies. http://eurasianmss.lib.uiowa.edu/

Friday 2 DECEMBER 2016 – 8:30am-4:45pm / 166 IMU Iowa Theater (Iowa Memorial Union)
William Johnson
“From Bookroll to Codex”
Classical Studies, Duke University
8:30-10:00am

Susan Whitfield
“Beyond Scrolls and Codices: Manuscript Formats on the Eastern Silk Road”
Director, International Dunhuang Project, British Library
10:30am-12:00

Marina Rustow
“Fatimid State Documents, Serial Recyclers and the Cairo Geniza”
Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Princeton University
1:00-2:30pm

Myriam Krutzsch
“Papyrus as an Ancient Writing Material: Its Structure, Production and Classification”
Aegyptisches Museum, Berlin
3:00-3:45pm

Mark Barnard
“The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra of AD 868: A Conservation Approach That Goes Back to the Original”
Senior Conservator Emeritus, British Library
3:45-4:30pm

Arthur Bonfield, “The Why, How, What, and Result of 60 Years of Rare Book Collecting”

In December the Iowa Bibliophiles’ guest speaker will be Arthur Bonfield who will speak about his 60 years of rare book collecting.

Arthur Bonfield is a Professor at the Iowa Law School and has been collecting books published between 1490 and 1800 for 60 years. He has collected about 1,000 books printed during that period and focuses his collecting on voyages, travels, and geography; English and European history; encyclopedias and dictionaries of the arts and sciences; political philosophy; and herbals.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 7PM in the Special Collections Reading Room, 3rd Floor Main Library

Details on the UI Events Calendar: https://goo.gl/XJpGWK

So you want to visualize your data?

12:15pm on Tuesday, December 6th

https://goo.gl/IsJXTe

Updates from the Iowa Women’s Archives:

Karen Mason, curator of IA Women's Archives @uiowa, shared her #everygirldeserves – to know her history! Details: https://t.co/jpIZT0gfcZ pic.twitter.com/oBzdnbDf2G

— YoungWomen'sRsrcCtr (@YWRC) November 18, 2016