By Tim Shipe, Curator, International Dada Archive, and Arts & Literature Liaison We are pleased to announce the publication of issue no. 20 of our journal Dada/Surrealism, a special number entitled From Dada to Infra-noir: Dada, Surrealism, and Romania.” http://ir.uiowa.edu/dadasur/vol20/iss1/. Co-edited by Monique Yaari of the Pennsylvania State University and Timothy Shipe of the University ofContinue reading “Issue no. 20 of Dada/Surrealism Journal Now Available”
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News and Updates from Special Collections 12/18/2015
From the Web and Social Media Preservation Projects Librarian, Vitalina Nova, wrote a blog post about the League of United Latino American Citizens Council 10, both their past records and their current projects for the Iowa Women’s Archives blog. Image on the left from LULAC Council 10 Records, IWA0733 2016 Rose Bowl aContinue reading “News and Updates from Special Collections 12/18/2015”
News and Updates from Special Collections 12/11/2015
Notes from the Special Collections Classroom This week’s news from Instruction Librarian Amy Chen. Latin Classes On Monday, four sections of Marcia Lindgren’s Latin I came to Special Collections to learn how Latin circulated in the early modern period with either Acquisition Librarian Margaret Gamm or Instruction Librarian Amy Chen. Students rotated among eight booksContinue reading “News and Updates from Special Collections 12/11/2015”
Iowa Bibliophiles December 9th Meeting: All Are Welcome
Iowa Bibliophiles December Meeting SOME 17th CENTURY TRAVEL AND GEOGRAPHY BOOKS Refreshments 6:30PM — Talk at 7PM Special Collections Reading Room — 3rd Floor Main Library Travel back in time to see portions of the world as documented in richly-illustrated, large books published by John Ogilby between 1649 and 1675. The books include explorationsContinue reading “Iowa Bibliophiles December 9th Meeting: All Are Welcome”
News and Updates from Special Collections 12/4/2015
In The News This Week A Look Back at History as the Hawkeyes Complete a Historic Season University Archivist David McCartney tells KWWL TV news about the last undefeated Hawkeye football team in 1922. Querido Pedro: llega ‘Cien años de soledad’ A profile of the Lastra collection, especially correspondence between Gabriel García Márquez andContinue reading “News and Updates from Special Collections 12/4/2015”
Olson Graduate Assistant John Fifield Receives Caxton Club Grant
As we announced in our Friday news post last week, our Olson Graduate Assistant, John Fifield was awarded a Caxton Club grant to continue his research. John’s grant will fund his return to the Biblioteca de la Recoleta in Arequipa, Peru, in January. He will be continuing research on Colonial Spanish monastic libraries and the TransatlanticContinue reading “Olson Graduate Assistant John Fifield Receives Caxton Club Grant”
News and Updates from Special Collections 11/20/2015
Awards and Recognition Congratulations to John Fifield, Caxton Club Grant Recipient On Wednesday, November 18, University of Iowa Center for the Book students Ian Huebert, Amy Richard, and Special Collections’ Olson Graduate Assistant John Fifield all accepted grants from the Caxton Club at the Union League in Chicago. John’s grant will fund his return to theContinue reading “News and Updates from Special Collections 11/20/2015”
News and Updates from Special Collections 11/13/2015
Recently Cataloged Two carts of 1930s-2000s science fiction books from the James L. “Rusty” Hevelin Science Fiction Collection have recently returned from the Cataloging-Metadata Department. Among these are hardcover and paperback books as well as magazines and periodicals. Included are works by Isaac Asimov, H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Herbert and more. Use the keyword “Hevelin” inContinue reading “News and Updates from Special Collections 11/13/2015”
News and Announcements from Special Collections 11/7/2015
New Acquisitions Lindset, John (ed.). Alice in a World of Wonderlands. Oak Knoll Press, 2015. This superb three volume set arrived recently from Oak Knoll Press, which published it in cooperation with the Lewis Carroll Society of North America. The first volume includes Essays on Alice, the second includes Back-Translations, and the third includes aContinue reading “News and Announcements from Special Collections 11/7/2015”
News and Updates from Special Collections 10/30/2015
Publications For a sneak preview of the new issue of Dada/Surrealism, go to http://ir.uiowa.edu/dadasur/vol20/iss1/. Several years in the making, Dada/Surrealism no. 20 is a special issue, “From Dada to Infra-noir: Dada, Surrealism, and Romania,” and is a collaboration between general editor Tim Shipe and Monique Yaari, professor of French at Penn State. ThisContinue reading “News and Updates from Special Collections 10/30/2015”