Center for the Book faculty member and book artist Emily Martin chooses a format for each work that assists in telling the story she wants to tell with the content. This exciting new video introduces her work, especially the pieces that have a focus on circular story telling that draw upon the continuous flexagon asContinue reading “Video: Make a Continuous Flexagon with Emily Martin”
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Fourth Annual Shakespeare Livestream – TOMORROW (Wednesday 4/26) 11AM-1PM
FOURTH Annual Shakespeare Livestream Tune in live Wednesday April 26, 11:00am-1:00pm CST [Central time in the USA is GMT -5:00] We’re back! Celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday week by joining us – live on the internet! – for our FOURTH annual Shakespeare’s Death Anniversary & Birthday Week Commemoration Livestream, featuring University of Iowa Shakespeare professor Adam Hooks, alongside ColleenContinue reading “Fourth Annual Shakespeare Livestream – TOMORROW (Wednesday 4/26) 11AM-1PM”
New Podcast Historically Yours Launches
The University of Iowa Special Collections has a new podcast, Historically Yours which will be a biweekly podcast. In each episode Outreach Librarian Colleen Theisen and a guest will read one historic letter, research the context, and discuss the role of letter writing past and present. Episode 1 features Digital Project Librarian Laura Hampton readingContinue reading “New Podcast Historically Yours Launches”
YouTube Series If Books Could Talk Finishes Final Episode
If Books Could Talk is a collaboration between Heather Wacha from History Corps, a digital public history project from the History Department at the University of Iowa, Colleen Theisen, Outreach & Engagement Librarian from Special Collections, and Katie Buehner, Head of the Rita Benton Music Library from the University of Iowa Libraries. Heather Wacha researchedContinue reading “YouTube Series If Books Could Talk Finishes Final Episode”
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”
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 11/13/2015
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 10/23/2015
Upcoming Events Halloween Event in the Learning Commons This Halloween, join Special Collections and University Archives as we create a pop-up museum featuring items by American writer and artist, Edward Gorey, along with some of our more literally gory books. You’ll even be able to take a bit of our collections with you, in buttonContinue reading “News and Updates from Special Collections 10/23/2015”
News From Special Collections 10/16/2015
Librarians in the Wild: ICON Science Fiction Convention October 16-18th, 2015 The ICON Science Fiction convention began 40 years ago, born from a passionate group of fans that met in a science fiction class taught here at the University of Iowa by the Hugo and Nebula award winning author Joe Haldeman, and the same group who formed a U.I.Continue reading “News From Special Collections 10/16/2015”