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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!

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Tumblr.

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
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
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Jun 03 2016

Special Collections News & Updates 6/3/2016

Posted on June 3, 2016January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

Newsfeed:

  • A look back at the “Meet the Manuscript” workshop: https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/speccoll/2016/06/03/meet-the-manuscript/
  • Riverside Theater will return to City Park for Pericles June 17-July 10: http://www.riversidetheatre.org/returningtothepark
  • Salisbury House in Des Moines presents King Lear for “Shakespeare on the Lawn” June 16-19: https://www.facebook.com/events/1003846929670155/# 

Instruction Update:

It may seem early, but we’re already booking classes for Fall! Right now is the best time to let us know when you want to schedule sessions  – just fill out our instruction request form: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/forms/speccoll_class/  – Amy Chen, Instruction Librarian

 

New video series Historical Crushes

Have you found love in the archives? Do you have a historical crush? Special Collections’ Graduate Assistant Kelly Grogg has debuted the first episode of a five episode series. A new episode will be posted every Thursday in June.

 

Special Collections Librarians on Snapchat this Summer

Follow Department Liaison Lindsay Moen and Outreach & Engagement Librarian Colleen Theisen this summer for behind the scenes snaps of exhibitions, collection items, and the day to day workings of Special Collections.

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Posted in News, Weekly UpdateTagged historical crushes, instruction, snapchat1 Comment
Students from Norwalk High School
Mar 24 2016

Norwalk High School Artists Connect with History to Inspire New Creative Work

Posted on March 24, 2016January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

By Heather Wacha

Students from Norwalk High SchoolOn 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!

The Norwalk students have been tasked with using their experiences and insights from the Special Collections visit to think more profoundly about what makes a book a book. Their conversations and interactions with the books will be used to inspire pottery, metal-smithing and 3D design projects. The group of 28 split into two smaller groups so that while one was was visiting the Conservation Lab, the other was able to learn about and experience an array of rare books, manuscripts and artists’ books from the twelfth to twenth-first century. Of special note on display was a 1699 Spanish will, the manuscript at the heart of this collaboration.

 

Students from Norwalk High SchoolHeather Wacha, a graduate student in the Department of History, has been working to introduce area high school students to the value and importance of resources held in Special Collections. The Norwalk visit is part of a larger project that involves University of Iowa students transcribing and translating a 1699 Spanish will held in Special Collections for digital publication.  The art students from Norwalk High School, along with Spanish students from Central Academy in Des Moines, are interacting with the Spanish will in a variety of ways that both fit their class curriculum and simultaneously generate enthusiasm and creativity. Each student’s final project will be able to be published on the  same website that will hold the manuscript’s digital publication created by the UI students.

 

Students from Norwalk High SchoolFrom Harlow-Vogt’s perspective, Tuesday’s visit sparked amazing conversations in the bus on the way home. The following day in their art classes, Harlow-Vogt noted that “The students who did not go to the University of Iowa were a bit overwhelmed by the passion and excitement that the other students brought back with them. Those that could not go felt that they had really missed out on a great adventure!”

 

 


 

Portrait of Heather WachaHeather Wacha is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History researching the history of the book and 12th/13th century women in northern France. She is also a Specialist Researcher in Special Collections working to identify and describe Medieval manuscript leaves. You can see her work with History Corps and view her If Books Could Talk videos on the UISpecColl YouTube channel.  She tweets @hgwacha.

Posted in Educational, NewsTagged heather wacha, instruction, medieval manuscripts, norwalk high school
Image of Katie Hassman, the winner of the game
Mar 16 2016

The History of the Book: The Game to be used in Fall 2016 curricula

Posted on March 16, 2016January 14, 2019 by Amy Chen

By: Amy H. Chen

“The year is 1450. Johannes Gutenberg is printing a book, one of the first in the world. When he is finished, the printed book is born. Follow the history of the book through the next six centuries, through technological advancements, scientific breakthroughs, artistic triumphs, shifts in the socio-political climate, and the fluctuating financial market.”

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The following comes from the introduction to Special Collections Instruction Librarian Amy Chen’s game based on book history. This game can be played with cards only, as an enrichment activity within a traditional course, or as a stand-alone class.

Amy developed her game out of her interest in how gamification contributes to increased student learning outcomes in the classroom. Gamification offers students the ability to combine pedagogical challenges with play, motivating them to use fun to work through learning curves. To read a longer introduction to gamification, read Bohyun Kim’s “Keeping up with… Gamification” on the ACRL Blog.

 

On Tuesday, March 8, Amy conducted a play test of the card version of the game. A play test is when the game is played in order to figure out how the game’s design could be improved. Eight librarians, in two separate rounds of play, contributed their feedback. The first photograph is from the beginning of one of the play tests. The second photograph is of Katie Hassman, Undergraduate Engagement Librarian, who won her round. Image of Katie Hassman, the winner of the game

After revising the game back on the comments she received, Amy will be interested in reaching out to partner faculty who might like to integrate the game into their course discussions or assignments. If you are an instructor or faculty member at the University of Iowa and you are interested in learning more about the game or testing it for yourself later this spring, please email amy-chen@uiowa.edu.

Additionally, Amy will be teaching an honors first year seminar (1 credit hour) this fall on book history using the game to structure the entire semester’s class meetings, readings, and discussion.

You can follow the development of this game, which began in December 2015, by watching the hashtag #hotb on Amy’s twitter feed @amyhildrethchen.

 

Posted in Educational, Staff NewsTagged Amy Chen, gamification, history of the book, 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
Dec 18 2015

News and Updates from Special Collections 12/18/2015

Posted on December 18, 2015December 2, 2016 by Colleen Theisen

From the Web and Social Media

 

Boy hitting a pinata at a LULAC party in 1967

Preservation Projects Librarian, Vitalina Nova, wrote a blog post about the League of United Latino American Citizens Council 10, both their past records and their current projects for the Iowa Women’s Archives blog.

Image on the left from LULAC Council 10 Records, IWA0733

 

 

Rose Bowl sticker2016 Rose Bowl a chance to make new memories: UI archivist recalls Iowa’s five previous visits to Pasadena.  This month’s Old Gold column by University Archivist David McCartney was posted this week.

This 1959 Rose Bowl decal was sold by Iowa Book and Supply and donated to the university by 1976 alumnus Vernon Lustick, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

 

 

Notes from the Special Collections Classroom

This week’s news from Amy Chen, Instruction Librarian 

 

Image of a class of students examining books

Counting up some totals at the end of the semester, Special Collections (not including the Iowa Women’s Archives) taught 119 class sessions total in the Fall 2015 Semester:

4 in August

34 in September

39 in October

28 in November

14 in December

 

 

New Acquisitions

Arrival Notifications from Margaret Gamm, 

Acquisitions & Collections Management Librarian 

 

The Descent of Mount Gadam is a new acquisition for our Charlotte Smith miniature book collection. Amos Paul Kennedy published the book in 1993 under the imprint of his Jubilee Press, which was later renamed the Jubalee Press. The text is an adaptation of a folktale of the Mensa Bet-Abrehe people of northern Ethiopia.

Folktale title
Image of Africa
Page from a book with quote "Do not make a mistake, let each one stand it its place."
Posted in Weekly UpdateTagged Classes, Descent of Mount Gadam, gadam, instruction, iwa blog, LULAC, Old Gold, statistics

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