In The News This Week A Look Back at History as the Hawkeyes Complete a Historic Season University Archivist David McCartney tells KWWL TV news about the last undefeated Hawkeye football team in 1922. Querido Pedro: llega ‘Cien años de soledad’ A profile of the Lastra collection, especially correspondence between Gabriel García Márquez andContinue reading “News and Updates from Special Collections 12/4/2015”
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Van Allen Explorer I Data Tapes: Preservation and Digitization
The UI Libraries has been awarded $200,000 from the Carver Trust to digitize the data tapes from the Explorer I satellite mission that led to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts. These tapes were recovered from the basement of Maclean Hall through the outstanding efforts of our Preservation Dept. in 2010-2011. During thatContinue reading “Van Allen Explorer I Data Tapes: Preservation and Digitization”