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Category: Year In Review

Jan 19 2018

2017 Year in Review for Special Collections

Posted on January 19, 2018January 25, 2018 by Colleen Theisen

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 2017Read 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.comFollow 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/hevelinGet started transcribing, or just browse the collection here.

Posted in Year In ReviewTagged acquisitions, dada/surrealism, david mccartney, greg prickman, historically yours, instagram, instruction, Lindsay Moen, margaret Gamm, social media
Jan 26 2017

A Look Back on 2016 in Special Collections, University Archives, and the Iowa Women’s Archives

Posted on January 26, 2017January 27, 2017 by Colleen Theisen

Social Media Results

Exhibitions
New acquisitions

Awards for Greg prickman, Stacy Gerrard, and Amy Chen

Posted in Year In Review
Special Collections Instruction Year in Review 2015-2016
Jun 07 2016

Special Collections Instruction Year in Review 2015-2016

Posted on June 7, 2016January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections Instruction Year in Review 2015-2016255 Total Class Sessions which is a 16% increase over last year and 143% increase over 5 years agoWe worked with 21 campus departments and 91 campus instructors#1 partner is the center for the book. We worked with 17 non-UI institutions from 3 statesTwelve librarians taught this year and Amy Chen taught the most sessions, a total of 54The highest number of sessions were in MarchPlan early for your class sessions. Sign up now for summer and fall. http://lib.uiowa.edu/sc/services/classes

Bring your Class to Special Collections

Posted in Year In ReviewTagged infographic, instruction
212 Classes taught in 2015
Jan 07 2016

A Look Back on 2015 in Special Collections

Posted on January 7, 2016January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

34,000 people visited the mobile museum exhibition, "Iowans in World War 2" and 3,000 Pages were digitized as part of the Hevelin Collection science fiction fanzine digitization projectOur instruction program had its biggest year ever with 212 classes taught in special collections and 38 in the Iowa Women's ArchivesBig year for social media. 1,000,000 loops on Vine, Instagram grew exponentially to over 3000 followers.We received donations of 18000 science fiction books, the earliest known recording of Stokely Carmichael, seriographs by Corita Kent and congressional papers from Jim Leach. Dada and Surrealism journal is now online and we answered 696 Reference questions last year.New staff include Alonso Avila, Amy Chen, Laura Hampton, Lindsay Moen, and John Fifield. We have a new video series called, "If Books Could Talk."The LULAC national president visited IWA and Janet Weaver was awarded the LULAC Council 307 builder award. We had new spanish language acquisitions including an artist's book called Orbita and 1960's-1970's mexican comic books called Los Supermachos.We visited many science fiction conventions this year including ICON, Demicon, Mid-South con and World Con and fans from ICON helped raise $1955 to fund digitization.

Posted in News, Year In ReviewTagged 2015, fandom, hevelin fanzine digitization, icon, infographic, instruction, janet weaver, los supermachos, mobile museum, new staff, orbita

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