{"id":1206,"date":"2012-09-11T15:59:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T15:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2016-12-02T20:36:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T20:36:27","slug":"unboxing-the-hevelin-sci-fifandom-collection-on-tumblr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2012\/09\/11\/unboxing-the-hevelin-sci-fifandom-collection-on-tumblr\/","title":{"rendered":"Unboxing the Hevelin Science Fiction Collection on Tumblr"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/09\/Pete.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1208\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/09\/Pete-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/09\/Pete-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/09\/Pete.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>The time has come!\u00a0The James L. \u201cRusty\u201d Hevelin Collection of Pulps, Fanzines, and Science Fiction Books\u00a0is being unboxed and processed.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Special Collections &amp; University Archives is pleased to welcome long-time student worker and avid researcher Peter Balestrieri who is\u00a0joining our staff as a Processing Librarian\u00a0and taking\u00a0on the task of making\u00a0the collection\u00a0ready for researchers.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Rusty Hevelin was a science fiction fan, pulp collector, huckster (a dealer at conventions), and voracious reader.\u00a0\u00a0In addition, he was one of the founders of Iowa&#8217;s two ongoing science fiction conventions, <a title=\"Icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iowa-icon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Icon<\/a> in the Iowa City\/Cedar Rapids area, and <a title=\"DemiCon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.demicon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">DemiCon<\/a> in Des Moines.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Friends and fans now have the opportunity to follow Peter as he explores and unboxes the collection, on our new <a href=\"http:\/\/hevelincollection.tumblr.com\">Tumblr page<\/a> where he will post photos and updates, box by box, as the mysteries within are revealed.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Please follow along and enjoy the snapshots into the history of science fiction and fantasy literature and fandom in the United States\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hevelincollection.tumblr.com\">http:\/\/hevelincollection.tumblr.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>For more on Rusty Hevelin and his collections please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2012\/04\/11\/hevelin-collection\/\">April 11th blog post.<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/09\/Capture1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1219\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/09\/Capture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/09\/Capture1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/09\/Capture1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time has come!\u00a0The James L. \u201cRusty\u201d Hevelin Collection of Pulps, Fanzines, and Science Fiction Books\u00a0is being unboxed and processed.\u00a0 \u00a0 Special Collections &amp; University Archives is pleased to welcome long-time student worker and avid researcher Peter Balestrieri who is\u00a0joining our staff as a Processing Librarian\u00a0and taking\u00a0on the task of making\u00a0the collection\u00a0ready for researchers.\u00a0 \u00a0<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2012\/09\/11\/unboxing-the-hevelin-sci-fifandom-collection-on-tumblr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Unboxing the Hevelin Science Fiction Collection on Tumblr&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34,35,32,33],"syndication":[435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}