Newsfeed: November “Old Gold” column from University Archivist David McCartney, “What Chicago, UI looked like 108 years ago”: https://now.uiowa.edu/2016/11/old-gold-108-years-ago Featuring UI Libraries staff Rob Shepard: Daily Iowa article: Keeping an Eye on Segregation in the Nation: https://goo.gl/EcmXhI Featuring photo from UI Archives: Iowa Now article: Celebrating points of pride, UI reflects on milestones in creating aContinue reading “Special Collections News 11/11/2016”
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Special Collections News & Updates 5/27/2016
Important Announcements: Special Collections and the Iowa Women’s Archives’ Reading Rooms will be closed May 30th for the Memorial Day holiday. Newsfeed: Old Gold: The course catalog, or UI’s ‘wish book’: Archived publications serve as important university resource: http://now.uiowa.edu/2016/05/old-gold-course-catalog-or-uis-wish-book by University Archivist David McCartney ‘Star Trek’ filmmaker loves making voyage home http://now.uiowa.edu/2016/05/%E2%80%98star-trek%E2%80%99-filmmaker-loves-making-voyage-home ‘Star Trek’ filmmaker on UI:Continue reading “Special Collections News & Updates 5/27/2016”
Special Collections Weekly Update 3/25/2016
Newsfeed: Blog post: Norwalk High School Artists Connect with History to Inspire New Creative Work by Heather Wacha. Read more. Blog post: March 30: Felicia Rice “Doc/Undoc” performance followed by a public conversation with Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Read more. Old Gold: The View From Above: UI archivist shares websites that feature aerial photos of campus, state by David McCartney.Continue reading “Special Collections Weekly Update 3/25/2016”
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 12/18/2015
From the Web and Social Media 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 2016 Rose Bowl aContinue reading “News and Updates from Special Collections 12/18/2015”
News From Special Collections 10/16/2015
Librarians in the Wild: ICON Science Fiction Convention October 16-18th, 2015 The ICON Science Fiction convention began 40 years ago, born from a passionate group of fans that met in a science fiction class taught here at the University of Iowa by the Hugo and Nebula award winning author Joe Haldeman, and the same group who formed a U.I.Continue reading “News From Special Collections 10/16/2015”
Special Collections Week in Review, 8/28 – 9/4, 2015
Recently on the Web and Social Media: The Hevelin Fanzine Digitization Project was featured on The Verge. The University of Iowa Libraries is digitizing science fiction fanzines from the 1930s-1950s. August Old Gold column from University Archivist David McCartney, Harrison Hall, the Residence Hall That Never Was. The planned 1,100-student high-rise,Continue reading “Special Collections Week in Review, 8/28 – 9/4, 2015”