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2017 Year in Review for Special Collections

Left: Manuscripts class with fifth grade students. Right: Center for the Book class.

Photos of the RBMS conference including a pile of tote bags, Janet Weaver presenting at Hancher, an Instagram meetup, and the crowd at the closing plenary.

Photos: Final tote bag pile, Colleen Theisen and Rebecca Romney speaking at Prairie Lights, Janet Weaver speaking about Mujeres Latinas at Hancher, the Instagram meetup, and a crowd scene from the final plenary session.

Filmed about Miniature Books with NBC Nightly News.

NBC Nightly News filmed a segment about the Charlotte Smith Miniature Book Collection. View it here.

Photo of the Dada exhibit in the gallery, an exhibit case full of 1960's underground newspapers and fliers, and a photo of two women looking at the IWA 25th anniversary exhibit

More information about our past exhibitions can be found on the Gallery website pages here: Dada, Alternative Press, IWA 25th. 

Paper of Andrei Codrescu arrived in 2017

Read the blog post about this new arrival.

Dada/Surrealism Journal issue number 21 was published.

Read the new issue.

This brief chart about purchases will be expanded with a post with highlights from our 2017 donations and purchases. Coming soon!

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Historically Yours the Podcast was launched in 2017. You can listen at http://historicallyyours.podbean.com

Follow along here on our blog, on Podbean, or subscribe on your favorite podcast app. 

Old Gold columns can be read via Iowa Now.

hundreds of 1930's-1950's science fiction fanzines were put online. Volunteers can read and transcribe them here: diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/hevelin

Get started transcribing, or just browse the collection here.