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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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Posted in News, Weekly UpdateTagged cross hatching, lunch with the chefs, mildred benson, Old Gold, orbita, the studio, touchscreen
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

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