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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.

Page from a book with quote "Do not make a mistake, let each one stand it its place."
Folktale title
Image of Africa
Posted in Weekly UpdateTagged Classes, Descent of Mount Gadam, gadam, instruction, iwa blog, LULAC, Old Gold, statistics
Typewriters and a ditto machine
Oct 23 2015

News and Updates from Special Collections 10/23/2015

Posted on October 23, 2015January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

Upcoming Events

Halloween Event in the Learning Commons

Cover of "Japanese Fairy Tales" bookThis 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 button form!  We’ll have the library’s button maker available for you to create a gory (or Gorey) button of your very own.

We’ll be in Group Area D from 3:00-6:30pm in the Learning Commons on Tuesday, October 27th so head on over and prepare for some Gor(e)y sights.

 

Staff Awards and Recognition

Janet Weaver Receives League of United Latin American Citizens Builder Award

Image of Janet WeaverWeaver, who works as the assistant curator of the Iowa Women’s Archives, has conducted hours of interviews and research to create the Latino historical archives and the Mujeres Latinas project at the university to ensure that the history of LULAC’s Eastern Iowa councils is not lost.

 

 

Event Recap

40th anniversary ICON Science Fiction Convention

ICON logoSpecial Collections had a large presence at the 40th anniversary ICON Science Fiction Convention that took place last weekend in Cedar Rapids. ICON was founded forty years ago by students in Joe Haldeman’s science fiction class at the University of Iowa, and Rusty Hevelin was closely tied to this convention family.  Librarians from Special Collections participated in four ways:

  1. Official presentation of a check for $1,955 at the opening ceremonies. The community raised the money last year in an auction to support digitizing Rusty Hevelin’s fanzines.
  2. Had a table in the dealer’s room to give updates about the Hevelin Collection fanzine digitization.
  3. Appeared on many panels throughout the convention including an update about the digitization project, educational panels about science fiction topics, and they also hosted a panel about getting the most out of the library as a writer in partnership with librarian Lisa Martincek.
  4. Participated in a collaborative fanzine making project throughout the weekend teaching how to use traditional technologies such as typewriters and ditto machines. This project had an unexpectedly huge response from the community with contributions from multiple generations of fans ranging from children to award winning authors. A full report of this project will follow in a later blog post.
Laura and Pete presenting at a panel
Laura Hampton and Pete Balestrieri presenting
Colleen and Pete at a table in the dealer's room
Pete Balestrieri and Colleen Theisen in the dealer's room
Multiple generations of fans typing on typewriters
Multiple generations of fans typing a zine (Center is Hugo Award Winning author Joe Haldeman)
Typewriters and a ditto machine
Typewriters and a ditto machine
Special Collections staff with an oversized check
Special Collections staff with the donation check

Special Collections is already looking forward to ICON 41 next year!

 

New Acquisitions

An Alice in Wonderland Acquisition for the 150th Anniversary of its publication

Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Sesquicentennial Edition. Inky Parrot Press, 2015.

This sesquicentennial edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland hosts a variety of creepy yet intriguing illustrations, juxtaposing Japanese artistic interpretations of Alice with Welsh interpretations, English, Italian, South African, Russian, Indonesian, and more.

Cover of 2015 edition of Alice
Title page of 2015 edition of Alice
Inside image of 2015 Alice

 

News and Announcements

Oberman Center House Logo

“Alt-Ac” Newsletter

Amy Chen is working with a team at the Obermann Center to set up a newsletter on alt-ac careers that will go out a few times a semester. The newsletter will link to articles on the topic and it will also cover upcoming events, speakers, and contacts that would be of interest to alt-ac inclined graduate students. To make sure this newsletter is successful, she needs to locate the students who would be interested in receiving this information.

If you want to learn more about alt-ac careers, please complete this sign-up sheet: https://goo.gl/Wg5UkH.

 

Upcoming Campus Events of Interest

Image from Aristotle's book which is the subject of the lecture2015 Brownell Lecture on the History of the Book | Center for the Book

Mary E. Fissell on “Making Babies: A Look at an Early Sex Manual”

Thu, 11/05/2015 – 7:30pm, W151 Papajohn Business Building (PBB) 

Aristotle’s Masterpiece was the bestselling book about making babies on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean from the late 17th to the early 20th century—but the book isn’t by Aristotle, and it’s not usually considered a masterpiece…

 

 

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Posted in News, Weekly UpdateTagged Alice in wonderland, alt-ac, awards, Brownell lecture, colleen theisen, ditto machines, icon, janet weaver, joe haldeman, LULAC, mary fissell, news, science fiction, typewriters

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