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”
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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”
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 2/26/2016
News: Applications are now being accepted for the Linda and Richard Kerber Fund for a grant of $1000 to support travel to Iowa City, Iowa, to conduct research in the Iowa Women’s Archives. The deadline is April 15, 2016. More information: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/kerber/ Upcoming Events: Saturday, 3/05: Mujeres Latinas: Every Woman Has a Story (11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. , IowaContinue reading “Special Collections Weekly Update 2/26/2016”
Special Collections Weekly Update 2/19/2016
News: Charity Nebbe from Iowa Public Radio featured original Nancy Drew ghost writer, Mildred Wirt Benson, this week on “Talk of Iowa.” Benson’s papers are held in the Iowa Women’s Archives. http://iowapublicradio.org/post/missing-millie-benson-secret-case-ghostwriter-and-journalist February’s “Old Gold” Column from University Archivist David McCartney, “Old Dental, the Final Extraction.” http://now.uiowa.edu/2016/02/old-gold-old-dental-final-extraction Last week Special Collections participated in #colorourcollections with other institutions aroundContinue reading “Special Collections Weekly Update 2/19/2016”
Special Collections Weekly Update 2/12/2016
News Last week was the 100th anniversary of Dada. The University of Iowa Libraries is home to the International Dada Archive. Read more. Timothy Shipe, Curator of the International Dada Archive was featured in this article from Diário do Nordeste in Brazil. Read more. From the Web and Social Media Color Our Collections: Last weekContinue reading “Special Collections Weekly Update 2/12/2016”
Need Stress Relief? Color Our Collections
Last week the Internet was filled with coloring pages from Special Collections and archives around the country. Here are our contributions. Print them out, color them, and tag us on social media (Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook). Or try the hashtag #colorourcollections on your favorite site to see the endless options from other institutions around theContinue reading “Need Stress Relief? Color Our Collections”
Special Collections Weekly Update 1/29/2016
Upcoming Events: Iowa Bibliophiles Wednesday, February 10th at 7PM in the Special Collections Reading Room. Heather Wacha will be talking about a single Medieval manuscript leaf from Special Collections, Msc 542 xMMs.Pr1 and her process identifying it. She will present her findings about this text in the 13th century manuscript edition, 16th century early printed editions, asContinue reading “Special Collections Weekly Update 1/29/2016”