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: Arthur 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 60Continue reading “Special Collections News & Updates 12/8/2016”
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Special Collections Weekly Update 2/19/2016
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 aroundContinue reading “Special Collections Weekly Update 2/19/2016”
News and Updates from Special Collections 12/11/2015
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 booksContinue reading “News and Updates from Special Collections 12/11/2015”