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Jun 17 2016

Special Collections News & Updates 6/17/2016

Posted on June 17, 2016December 2, 2016 by Colleen Theisen

Newsfeed:

  • Library Field Responds to Orlando http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/06/public-services/library-field-responds-to-orlando-tragedy/#_
  • Statement on the Orlando Shooting from SAA President Dennis Meissner https://offtherecord.archivists.org/2016/06/15/statement-on-the-orlando-shooting/
  • University of Iowa moving forward with $60M art museum http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/education/university-of-iowa/2016/06/06/university-iowa-moving-forward-60m-art-museum/85498698/
  • Engineering the Bike – New Exhibit in the Engineering Library http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/eng/engineering-the-bike-new-exhibit/
  • Conservation Lab Box Making Day http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/preservation/2016/06/10/box-making-day/
  • Special Collections Instruction Year in Review 2015-2016 https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/speccoll/2016/06/07/special-collections-instruction-year-in-review-2015-2016/

Shakespeare Events This Weekend:

Pericles in City Park from the Riverside Theater. Info: http://daily-iowan.com/2016/06/16/shakespeare-at-sea-opens-riverside-in-the-park/

King Lear on the lawn at Salisbury House in Des Moines from Repertory Theater of Iowa. Info: http://rtiowa.com/king-lear/

 

Big News From the University of Iowa Center for the Book:

The University of Iowa Center for the Book has been testing the numbers from historic records that indicated early paper making shops could make 2000 sheets a day. After several attempts, this year, they matched that output:

(See their gallery of images here: https://www.facebook.com/University-of-Iowa-Center-for-the-Book-118780728163253/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1127314790643170)

They did it! 2000 sheets in one day! Congrats to all who participated!

A post shared by UICB (@uictrbook) on Jun 10, 2016 at 4:11pm PDT

 

Instruction Update:

Amy Chen will be out of the office for two weeks to attend two conferences between Monday, June 13 and Friday, June 24. During this time, John Fifield will be answering the instruction request form. A reminder that instruction requests should always be directed to the form, not to an individual, for cases like this when Amy will be out of town. When Amy returns, the instruction request form will return to her.

 

50 Years of Star Trek Exhibition Continues Until August 5th

The tribbles multiplied this week, but they are contained. Don’t worry, we’ve got everything under control.

Tribble count: 93 tribbles. #uiowatrek pic.twitter.com/AeiAaA98v0

— Special Collections (@UISpecColl) June 16, 2016

 

From the Web & Social Media

Historical Crushes video series continues:

 

New episode of Staxpeditions:

Coming Soon:

Migration is Beautiful Title ImagePreparations are underway to launch the Iowa Women’s Archives’ Migration is Beautiful website and accompanying 8×8-foot popup exhibit of Iowa Latina/o history at the national LULAC convention in Washington DC in July. Thanks to the Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries for making the physical exhibit possible!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Posted in ExhibitionsTagged center for the book, chancery papermaking, historical crushes, migration is beautiful, orlando, shakespeare, star trek, staxpeditions, tribbles
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May 27 2016

Special Collections News & Updates 5/27/2016

Posted on May 27, 2016January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

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: ‘This is the place that shaped me’ http://www.iowalum.com/blog/2016/05/20/star-trek-filmmaker-on-ui-this-is-the-place-that-shaped-me/
  • Iowa Women’s Archives curator Kären Mason is featured speaking about Nancy Drew author Mildred Wirt Benson in the trailer for this documentary, “River to River: Iowa’s Forgotten Highway 6: http://docublogger.typepad.com/highway6/2016/05/take-a-peek-at-the-award-winning-river-to-river-trailer.html

 

Image of Peter Balestrieri in Archival OutlookCurator of Science Fiction and Popular Culture, Peter Balestrieri is featured in the Cover Story of the May/June issue of Archival Outlook from the Society of American Archivists.

“Archivists are artists,” Balestrieri remarks, reflecting on his punk rock gig with the Violent Femmes and how a life with music and libraries intertwined eventually led him to Special Collections.

Read the whole feature here on pages 8-9 and 26.

 

Event Recap:

The UI Libraries hosted Nicholas Meyer, who made an appearance as a guest speaker in conjunction with the Main Library Gallery exhibition 50 Years of Star Trek.

Meyer, who is an alumnus of the University of Iowa, directed the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and contributed to the shooting script for that film (uncredited). He wrote portions of the screenplay for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) and went on to direct Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), for which he also co-wrote the screenplay.

Storify of Tweets from the event.

Video from his talk is available here:

 

 

 

New Staxpeditions:

English Department Shakespeare Professor Adam Hooks joined us for an episode of Staxpeditions. Can you guess where his favorite call number range might lead?

 

 

 

New Acquisition:

Helen Hiebert’s Interluceo arrived recently, at the request of several UICB faculty members. Interluceo is a collaborative work, blending Helen’s paper and watermarks with papercut illustrations by Beatrice Coron and a binding by Claudia Cohen. It’s a beautiful example of how the talents of multiple artists can come together to tell a fascinating story using the form of the book itself. Photos and video really don’t do it justice! – Margaret Gamm

 

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Posted in News, Weekly UpdateTagged interluceo, nicholas meyer, Old Gold, staxpeditions
Mar 25 2016

Special Collections Weekly Update 3/25/2016

Posted on March 25, 2016January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

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. Read more.

Events:

  • Doc/UndocWednesday, 3/30: Felicia Rice, Doc/Undoc (lecture performance), followed by a public conversation with Guillermo Gόmez-Pẽna (5 PM, Special Collections Reading Room). Read more.
  • Wednesday, 3/30: Historic Foodies Meeting (6:00-8:00 PM, Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room B).
  • Wednesday, 4/13: Iowa Bibliophiles, Jane Murphy and Mark Brookfield, 36 year partners in Murphy-Brookfield Books, will talk about the enormous changes brought on by Internet bookselling in the last 20+ years. (Refreshments 6:30 PM, Talk 7:00 PM, Special Collections Reading Room).

 

Upcoming Deadlines:

  • DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 15, 2016: Apply for the Linda and Richard Kerber fund for financial support for those traveling to do research in the Iowa Women’s Archives. Read more.

Instruction:

Students from Norwalk High SchoolSpring Break week we had two class sessions: one from Grinnell and one from Coe College. Special collections staff co-taught a one credit museums studies spring break course with campus museum curators.

This week, we’re clearly back in business! We’ve supported 12 class sessions including: a graduate Spanish class, a graduate English class, a high school visit to see medieval manuscripts, English as a Second Language, Center for the Book, undergraduate English, and a class for the School of Library and Information Science. – Amy Chen

New Acquisitions:

These broadsides have been here for some time, but haven’t made it all the way through processing yet, so I’m still counting them as new! I’ve been walking by them every day admiring the color and fine lines of the illustrations. -Margaret Gamm xf PS3569 P48 R3 1986

Three broadsides
Close up of leaves
Close up of a rabbit
Close up of blue and green design
  • Half music, half murmur / David Hamilton.  Iowa City : Empyrean Press, 2009. x-Collection Broadside  FOLIO  PS3558.A44279  H35 2009
  • Rabbits do not know what they are : aphorism / by Jack Spicer.  Los Angeles, Calif. : Printed at the Bieler Press for Granary Books, 1986. x-Collection Broadside  FOLIO  PS3569.P48  R3 1986
  • Jurassic seas / Hugh Fox.  Santa Barbara, Calif. : Mudborn Press, c1979. x-Collection Broadside  FOLIO  PS3556.O9  J87 1979

Social Media:

  • Screen shot of our post on the main Tumblr pageThe Iowa Women’s Archives had a post featured by Tumblr as part of a special curated group of posts for Women’s History Month. Consequently, the post now has nearly 1000 likes and reblogs. See the post about Gwendolyn Fowler and life after graduating as a certified pharmacist from the State University of Iowa in 1936 here: http://iowawomensarchives.tumblr.com/post/139180162183/top-gwendolyn-fowler-in-honolulu-bottom-fowler 
  • In this episode of Staxpeditions a trip to the DQ call number range does lead to book exploration, but also to thoughts that drift to another DQ…


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Posted in News, Weekly UpdateTagged broadsides, Old Gold, staxpeditions, tumblr
Sep 05 2014

Video Series Visiting Bauman Rare Books

Posted on September 5, 2014January 29, 2021 by Colleen Theisen

Over the summer members of the University of Iowa Special Collections team visited Las Vegas for the American Library Association and stopped by Bauman Rare Books to chat with Rebecca Romney, who you also might recognize as the rare book appraiser on the History Channel series “Pawn Stars.”  While there they let the cameras roll as they chatted with Rebecca Romney about the rare book field, collecting rare books, and the types of research that rare book dealers do that ends up being incorporated into catalog records and supporting academic research, all while taking a look at some particularly delightful rare books that they had in the shop.

Here is the result of the trip:  A five video series.  Enjoy!

The first video:  Down the Rabbit Hole.  This one includes an edition of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” illustrated by Salvador Dalí.

The second video: The Game is Afoot.  The team analyzes the lasting power of favorite characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Lizzie Bennet who continue to thrive through fan works and new interpretations.

The third video: It’s a First Edition Pride and Prejudice!

The fourth video: Et Tu Brute?   Taking a close look at a Shakespeare quarto (a single play).

The fifth video: We Go West.  A very rare surviving pamphlet, 1848 Latter-Day Saints’ Emigrants’ Guide.

 

Posted in News, Staff NewsTagged rebecca romney, staxpeditions, video

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