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Dec 04 2017

Special Collections November Recap

Posted on December 4, 2017December 5, 2017 by Colleen Theisen

Late October and November were filled with big events in Special Collections and the Iowa Women’s Archives.

 

Iowa Bibliophiles 15th Anniversary, 11-8-2017

The November meeting marked the 15th anniversary of the group. In celebration, the evening’s talk was given by Arthur Bonfield, who gave the inaugural Bibliophiles talk in November, 2002.


Iowa Women’s Archives 25th Anniversary, 11-10-2017 – 11-11-2017

The Iowa Women’s Archives celebrated their 25th anniversary with an open house, a gallery tour, a gala dinner, and a full day symposium.


Teaching with Medieval Manuscripts

Teaching with Medieval manuscripts was a theme this month. Special Collections librarians and graduate student workers from the School of Library and Information Science all worked together to bring in all eight sections of the Medieval Art survey course Cave Paintings to Cathedrals (ARTH:1050:0A01).

Also this month Center for the Book faculty member Melissa Moreton partnered with librarians and graduate student workers to bring in two fifth grade classes from Horace Mann Elementary School to test a lesson teaching young students with medieval manuscripts.


“Saving Brinton” Documentary Premieres in New York City, November 9-16th

The documentary “Saving Brinton” premiered at DOC NYC. The documentary features a collection of very early motion pictures that are now housed in Special Collections. See a selection online. The documentary continues to play at film festivals around the country before a wider release next year. More.

 


NBC Nightly News Films in Special Collections, November 30, 2017

NBC Nightly News filmed a segment about miniature book creator, collector, and donor Charlotte Smith, and School of Library and Information Science student Bethany Kluender who has cataloged one thousand of the tiny books. The segment will air sometime in the next month.


University Archives Acquires History of Hydraulics Lab Collection

The C. Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory at the University of Iowa is one of the nation’s leading fluids-related research centers. Established in 1920, it is also historically significant. Recently the University Archives acquired a set of daily journals maintained by the laboratory’s first director, Floyd Nagler of the College of Engineering faculty. The typewritten logs document activity at the laboratory from 1921 to 1933, its first dozen years of operation. During this time, the laboratory was formally established as the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research (IIHR), and in 1932 ground was broken for the present-day structure on the west bank of the Iowa River.

 

Here is Prof. Nagler’s terse but turning-point entry from Tuesday, July 5, 1932:

“University Building Committee agreed to construct partitions in hydraulic laboratory addition. Contractor began excavation for foundation of laboratory.”

The journals have been added to the Records of the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research (collection no. RG 10.0006.001) and are open for research. The Dept. of Special Collections expresses its appreciation to Dennis A. Hill for making this acquisition possible.

To learn more about IIHR’s history, go to http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/about/history/.

 


Andrei Codrescu’s Papers Arrive

Andrei Codrescu and Curator Timothy Shipe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


New Episode of Historically Yours Podcast

Historically Yours Podcast: A Tale of Woe for Miss Rosa Poe with guest Peter Balestrieri

 


One From Our Social Media:

Holy binder’s waste! This 1568 copy of Tractatus de iure prothomiseos… has a very unique binding. The staining on top of a manuscript leaf gives it quite the appearance, and makes you wonder what happened to it! [xK349.3774 A4 1568] #uiowa #specialcollections #iglibraries #binderswaste #dirtybooks #16thcentury

A post shared by U. of Iowa Special Collections (@uispeccoll) on Nov 28, 2017 at 2:49pm PST

 


“Freaky Friday” October Halloween Video Series on Facebook

Elizabeth Riordan, graduate student assistant in Special Collections and student in the Scho0l of Library and Information Science wrote and directed a Halloween film series for our Facebook premiering every Friday in October. Watch the whole playlist here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/uispeccoll/videos/

Freaky Fridays 1: Ghostly transgressions in the Reading Room

Freaky Fridays are back in Special Collections! Be on the lookout for Hawkeye Ghost's spooktacular adventures this month.

Posted by University of Iowa Special Collections & University Archives on Friday, October 6, 2017



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Dec 08 2016

Special Collections News & Updates 12/8/2016

Posted on December 8, 2016December 8, 2016 by Colleen Theisen

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News of Interest:

  • Something Really Cool that You’ve Never Heard Of  http://blog.admissions.uiowa.edu/mina/2016/12/something-really-cool-that-youve-never-heard-of/
  • Before & After Treatment: Keith’s New Theatre clipping book  http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/preservation/2016/12/01/before-after-treatment-keiths-new-theatre-clipping-book/

Events:

Image of Arthur BonfieldArthur Bonfield, “The Why, How, What, and Result of 60 Years of Rare Book Collecting”

In December the Iowa Bibliophiles’ guest speaker will be Arthur Bonfield who will speak about his 60 years of rare book collecting.

Arthur Bonfield is a Professor at the Iowa Law School and has been collecting books published between 1490 and 1800 for 60 years. He has collected about 1,000 books printed during that period and focuses his collecting on voyages, travels, and geography; English and European history; encyclopedias and dictionaries of the arts and sciences; political philosophy; and herbals.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 7PM in the Special Collections Reading Room, 3rd Floor Main Library

Details on the UI Events Calendar: https://goo.gl/XJpGWK

Event Recap:

The Game of Thrones-themed Lunch with the Chefs drew the largest crowd ever on Wednesday the 7th. So did our signed first edition copy of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, generously donated by Al Lewis, and several other items evocative of the Song of Ice and Fire series. Pete Balestrieri, Curator of Science Fiction and Popular Culture, and Margaret Gamm, Special Collections Librarian, enjoyed talking with attendees interested in the many related objects in Special Collections. 

Instruction News:

We have digitized all of the blue slips! Now, if you teach with special collections, you can request spreadsheets of the materials you pulled by emailing Amy Chen at amy-chen@uiowa.edu.

As a result of this digitization effort (with warm thanks to Department Manager Lindsay Moen and her students!) and a new workflow, we are now beginning to send out emails to ask instructors if they would like to retain their blue slips. Otherwise, we will discard them. Look for an email from Amy in the next few weeks if you have brought your students to special collections.

 

Updates from the Iowa Women’s Archives:

https://iowawomensarchives.tumblr.com/post/153562807896/thankful-for-our-staff-we-are-thankful-this

From the Web & Social Media:

This miniature song book is a bit too small to sing from, but Hannah gives it a try anyway.

https://uispeccoll.tumblr.com/post/154091161792/uispeccoll-it-snowed-here-in-iowa-city

A guest post from the John Martin Rare Book Room at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences:

https://uispeccoll.tumblr.com/post/154165274060/guest-post-john-martin-rare-book-room-hardin

Photo from the Frederick Kent Collection, University of Iowa Archives RG30.0001.001

http://iowacitypast.tumblr.com/post/154132439700/visiting-librarian-armanath-sharma-in-front-of

 


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Nov 30 2016

December 14th Iowa Bibliophiles: Arthur Bonfield: 60 years of collecting rare books from 1490-1800

Posted on November 30, 2016January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

Iowa Bibliophiles December Meeting

Arthur Bonfield: 60 years of collecting rare books from 1490-1800

 

Image of Arthur BonfieldFor the last 60 years Professor  Arthur Bonfield has collected rare books— original copies of books on several subjects written, published, printed, and bound between 1490 and 1800. In this talk he will discuss the why, how, what, and result of his 60 years of rare book collecting. He has collected over 1,000 original copies of  books  from that period on voyages, travels, exploration, and geography; encyclopedias; English and continental history; English literature; English translations of classical Greek and Roman literature; political philosophy; and herbals. In his talk he will explain how and why his life has been enriched by his continuing attachment to and preoccupation with this very absorbing avocation.

Professor Arthur Bonfield received his legal education at the Yale Law School and recently retired from the University of Iowa Law School after serving 53 years on the faculty. As a teacher and scholar his specialty was Constitutional Law and Administrative Law. While on the Law School faculty he was actively involved in the reform of state administrative procedure law, state freedom of information law, and state civil rights legislation, and drafted many of the Iowa statutes adopted on these subjects. He recently was awarded the Iowa Freedom of Information Council Friend of the First Amendment Award   for proposing and drafting the recently enacted Iowa statute creating the Iowa Public Information Board.

 

December 14, 2016 at 7PM in the Special Collections Reading Room, 3rd Floor Main Library.  Refreshments will be served before the talk at 6:30PM.

Details on the UI Events Calendar: https://goo.gl/XJpGWK

Posted in Event Announcements, NewsTagged arthur bonfield, Iowa Bibliophiles
17th century map
Dec 07 2015

Iowa Bibliophiles December 9th Meeting: All Are Welcome

Posted on December 7, 2015December 2, 2016 by Colleen Theisen

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

17th century animals that look like monsters
17th century map
America title page
17th century map
Portrait of Amerigo Vespucci

 

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 explorations of China, Asia, Japan, Africa, America, and Britain.

Arthur Bonfield will share his extensive knowledge about the books, John Ogliby, the printer, and the cultural context in which the books were produced and used. A description of Ogilby’s methods of publishing, selling, illustrating, and distributing these expensive publications and their contents will be the focus of this talk.

This is a rare opportunity to view and closely examine these volumes, which are English translations of books published in Amsterdam by Jacob von Meurs. Ogilby’s books appear to have been produced using plates from the original Dutch books—an interesting detail about which you’ll want to hear more!

Please join us for coffee and light refreshments at 6:30 PM before the lecture at 7PM in the Reading Room of Special Collections on the 3rd Floor of the UI Main Library.

All are welcome and the lecture is free.

 

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact the sponsoring department or contact person listed in advance of the event.

 


 

Image of Arthur Bonfield
Arthur Bonfield is a Professor at the Iowa Law School and has been collecting books published between 1490 and 1800 for 60 years. He has collected about 1,000 books printed during that period and focuses his collecting on voyages, travels, and geography; English and European history; encyclopedias and dictionaries of the arts and sciences; political philosophy; and herbals.
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