The following was written by Olson Graduate Assistant Rich Dana, and curator of the Spirit Duplicators exhibit in Special Collections & Archives reading room During my three and a half years at Special Collections, I have worked with an amazing range of materials, but my major projects have focused on first, the James L. “Rusty”Continue reading “Spirit Duplicators: Early 20th Century Copier Art, Fanzines, and the Mimeograph Revolution”
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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”
What the Hectograph?!?!
This past weekend, the Zine Librarian (un)Conference happened here in Iowa City! Amongst the lively discussions and seminars was a Historical Zine Making Technologies Workshop demonstrating and using obsolescent printing techniques including hectography, spirit duplication, and mimeography. You may be asking yourself, at this point, what the heck a hectograph is…and we’re here to showContinue reading “What the Hectograph?!?!”