By Amy Chen Amy Chen hosted the fifth play test for the History of the Book: The Game. Four library staff played this time: Heidi Wiren Bartlett, the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio Designer; Colleen Theisen, Outreach Librarian for Special Collections; Kelly Grogg, senior Olson Graduate Assistant for Special Collections; and Laura Hampton, Digital ProjectContinue reading “Updates on History of the Book: The Game”
Author Archives: Colleen Theisen
Special Collections Weekly Update 4/1/2016
Events: Wednesday, 4/13: Iowa Bibliophiles, Jane Murphy and Mark Brookfield, 36 year partners in Murphy-Brookfield Books, will talk about the enormous changes brought on by Internet bookselling in the last 20+ years. (Refreshments 6:30 PM, Talk 7:00 PM, Special Collections Reading Room). Upcoming Deadlines: Extended to April 15: Apply for the Linda and Richard Kerber fundContinue reading “Special Collections Weekly Update 4/1/2016”
Special Collections Weekly Update 3/25/2016
Newsfeed: Blog post: Norwalk High School Artists Connect with History to Inspire New Creative Work by Heather Wacha. Read more. Blog post: March 30: Felicia Rice “Doc/Undoc” performance followed by a public conversation with Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Read more. Old Gold: The View From Above: UI archivist shares websites that feature aerial photos of campus, state by David McCartney.Continue reading “Special Collections Weekly Update 3/25/2016”
Norwalk High School Artists Connect with History to Inspire New Creative Work
By Heather Wacha On Tuesday March 22, 2016 Special Collections welcomed 28 students from Norwalk High School, Norwalk, IA. The students were those of art teacher Maggie Harlow-Vogt. They had traveled all the way from Norwalk to Iowa City seeking inspiration from Special Collections and the Library’s Conservation Lab for their next art projects! TheContinue reading “Norwalk High School Artists Connect with History to Inspire New Creative Work”
March 30: Felicia Rice “Doc/Undoc” performance followed by a public conversation with Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Two artists, Felicia Rica and Guillermo Gómez-Peña will be on campus next week as Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professors, working with students and appearing in several public performances. As part of this event series, Rice will perform on March 30th at 5pm in the Special Collections Reading Room, performing with Doc/Undoc, an incredible multi-media artwork housed inContinue reading “March 30: Felicia Rice “Doc/Undoc” performance followed by a public conversation with Guillermo Gómez-Peña”
Special Collections Weekly Update 3/18/2016
Newsfeed: Blog post: The History of the Book: The Game to be used in Fall 2016 curricula by Amy Chen. Blog post: In Plain Sight: Autograph Collections Yield Unrealized Riches by Jacque Roethler. Blog post: Rescuing Photographic Negatives by Nancy Kraft. “Equity at Iowa” a collaborative project between English professor Judith Pascoe and UI Libraries staff: http://equityatiowa.tumblr.com/ This week, “Talk of Iowa”Continue reading “Special Collections Weekly Update 3/18/2016”
Special Collections Weekly Update 3/11/2016
Newsfeed: Meet Dorothy Wirtz, by Annie Tunnicliff, Dorothy Wirtz Graduate Research Assistant in the Iowa Women’s Archives http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/2016/03/03/meet-dorothy-wirtz/ Public History Partners Follow the Trail of a Dismantled and Lost Medieval Manuscript, by Colleen Theisen https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/speccoll/2016/03/09/public-history-partners-follow-the-trail-of-a-broken-and-lost-medieval-manuscript/. Upcoming Events: Thursday, 3/24: Jeannette Gabriel, We Did So Much Beyond the Home: Jewish Women and Community Life in Iowa (4 p.m., Iowa Women’sContinue reading “Special Collections Weekly Update 3/11/2016”
Public History Partners Follow the Trail of a Dismantled and Lost Medieval Manuscript
Where are your other leaves? Re-discovering the Wilton Processional Even a single page from a medieval book can hold many secrets. Sometimes there are enough clues to uncover a surprising history. In March 2015, Heather Wacha, a PhD student in the History Department, and a member of History Corps, was assisting Special Collections in identifying aContinue reading “Public History Partners Follow the Trail of a Dismantled and Lost Medieval Manuscript”
Wednesday 3/9/2016 at 7pm: Books about Book Collecting
Iowa Bibliophiles March Meeting Books about Book Collecting Speaker: Douglas S. Russell 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. Wednesday, March 9th, 2016 LightContinue reading “Wednesday 3/9/2016 at 7pm: Books about Book Collecting”
Special Collections Weekly Update 3/4/2016
Newsfeed: OCLC posted about the UI Libraries’ social media on their blog: The University of Iowa Libraries celebrate and promote their digital collections on social media http://www.oclc.org/news/announcements/2016/CONTENTdm-news-item-March-2016.en.html The Space Age and the Digital Age: Linking Museum Exhibits and the College Classroom. History Department graduate student Yvonne Seale blogged about the UI Libraries’ James Van Allen exhibition http://yvonneseale.org/blog/museums-exhibitions/exploring-a-legacy/ DH Salon Recap:Continue reading “Special Collections Weekly Update 3/4/2016”