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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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Touchscreen
Feb 19 2016

Special Collections Weekly Update 2/19/2016

Posted on February 19, 2016January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

News:

  • Charity Nebbe from Iowa Public Radio featured original Nancy Drew ghost writer, Mildred Wirt Benson, this week on “Talk of Iowa.” Benson’s papers are held in the Iowa Women’s Archives. http://iowapublicradio.org/post/missing-millie-benson-secret-case-ghostwriter-and-journalist
  • February’s “Old Gold” Column from University Archivist David McCartney, “Old Dental, the Final Extraction.” http://now.uiowa.edu/2016/02/old-gold-old-dental-final-extraction
  • Last week Special Collections participated in #colorourcollections with other institutions around the country. Here’s an analysis of the impact of that work. http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/02/09/what-colorourcollections-suggests/
  • The Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio of the UI Libraries has a new touchscreen near its entrance in the north lobby, near the recently-completed exhibit gallery. It features content from the Iowa Digital Library, making its debut this week with images from the University Archives’ Patrobas Cassius Robinson Collection. Accompanying text was authored by Universtiy Archivist, David McCartney. Check it out soon!
Touchscreen
Touchscreen outside The Studio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Upcoming Events:

  • Saturday, 3/05: Mujeres Latinas: Every Woman Has a Story  (11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. , Iowa Women’s Archives, 3rd floor, Main Library) Refreshments will be served!  RSVP: lib-women@uiowa.edu Questions? 319-335-5068.
  • Wednesday, 3/09: Iowa Bibliophiles: Douglas S. Russell speaking about famous book collectors and collecting. He is a Senior Judge of the Iowa District Court and will address the Bibliophiles on books by and about famous bibliophiles, their book collections and the books they have written about collecting. (7pm Special Collections Reading Room). http://afterclass.uiowa.edu/events/event/iowa_bibliophiles_douglas_s_russell_book_collecting
  • Wednesday, 3/30: Felicia Rice, “Doc/Undoc” (lecture performance), followed by a public conversation with Guillermo Gόmez-Pẽna (5 p.m., Special Collections Reading Room). http://book.grad.uiowa.edu/events/march-2016/gomez-pena-and-rice

New Acquisition:

  • Mentioned in our 2015 end of the year summary,  Orbitá is now cataloged and ready to be used. Cuban book artists Chucho Romeu, Roberto Morales, & Ernesto Sargenton created this artists’ book through a cooperative effort. Despite encountering serious difficulties in the course of their partnership—including a studio building collapse in 2011—they finished this book in 2013 under the collective name Proyecto Locatarsis. N7433.4.S166 O73 2013 
Image from Orbita
Image from Orbita
Image of Orbita

Instruction This Week:

  • Eight UI Class Sessions
  • One visiting Class from Cornell College

This Week’s Best Social Media Post:

This Civil War diary from 1864 has a great example of "cross-writing", which was a technique used to save space and paper. A lost art for sure! [MsC0925] #uiowa #specialcollections #libraries #civilwar #diaries #crosswriting #civilwardiaries #handwriting #19thcentury

A post shared by U. of Iowa Special Collections (@uispeccoll) on Feb 16, 2016 at 4:59pm PST

 Event Recap:

  • 2/18 Lunch with the Chefs, “Destination India.” Colleen Theisen, John Fifield, and Ellen Wrede created a pop up exhibition of cookbooks and miniature books that were featured at the IMU in collaboration with University Catering’s “Destination India” lunch.

John Fifield at Lunch with the Chefs

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Dec 11 2015

News and Updates from Special Collections 12/11/2015

Posted on December 11, 2015January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

Notes from the Special Collections Classroom

This week’s news from Instruction Librarian Amy Chen.

Latin Classes

On Monday, four sections of Marcia Lindgren’s Latin I came to Special Collections to learn how Latin circulated in the early modern period with either Acquisition Librarian Margaret Gamm or Instruction Librarian Amy Chen. Students rotated among eight books (or, technically, seven books and one manuscript!) completing worksheets that directed them to find unique features in the texts such as bookplates, guide letters, and worm holes. This curricula is new and represents our shift toward student-centered classes. By all means, it was a success, and we look forward to continuing and refining these sessions in the future.

Image of a class of students examining books
Image of two students examining a book

Student Exhibition

Rennaissance Texts as Technology main pageEnglish Department Professor Adam Hooks has been working with the UI Libraries’ Special Collections and Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio for a project with his students creating a group exhibition utilizing the open source exhibition software Omeka. You can view the students’ online exhibition, “Renaissance Texts as Technology” here: http://rentexts2015.omeka.net/

 

 

 

Event Recap

Lunch with the Chefs

Acquisitions Librarian Margaret Gamm and University Archivist David McCartney created a pop up exhibition for this semester’s Caribbean-themed Lunch with the Chefs event.

Image of the Chef Louis Szathmary sign
Image showing 1970s recipe cards
Image showing cookbooks on display
Image of people looking at the exhibition
Image showing books in a display
Image showing cookbooks on display

Iowa Bibliophiles

Arthur Bonfield spoke about 17th century voyage and travel books from the publisher John Ogilby, and brought stunning examples from his own collection including one of the earliest images of New Amsterdam (New York City) and the first English road atlas. Iowa Bibliophiles is on hiatus through the winter break and will return February 10th.

Join our email list to get meeting reminders: https://t.co/SkUsH1jiIB

Arthur Bonfield teaching the Iowa Bibliophiles
17th century image of a Chinese man from Ogilby's book "Description of China"
map of north america with california as an island

From the Web and Social Media

 

Cover of New Challenge with image of Dora Lee MartinManuscripts Processing Coordinator Jacque Roethler wrote a blog post, Dora Lee and Arthurine: A Story of Two Black Women in 1955-1956

 

 

 

 

Image of Colleen TheisenOutreach & Engagement Librarian Colleen Theisen was interviewed by SAGE for Library Journal.

 

 

 

 

Image of a woman from the cover of a pulp magazine by Margaret Brundage

The Hevelin Collection Tumblr was celebrating the birthday of the “Queen of the Pulps” Margaret Brundage.  Digital Projects Librarian Laura Hampton has created a posts here and an in-depth post here.

 

 

 

 

New Acquisitions

New Arrival Notifications from Acquisitions & Collections Management Librarian Margaret Gamm

New acquisition opening: The Laundry Book. Contretemps Coup Press, 2015.

https://vine.co/v/iZbgizz7UOh

 

 

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