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<\/a>This Halloween, join Special Collections and University Archives as we create a pop-up museum featuring items by American writer and artist, Edward Gorey, along with some of our more literally<\/em> gory books.\u00a0 You\u2019ll even be able to take a bit of our collections with you, in button form!\u00a0 We\u2019ll have the library\u2019s button maker available for you to create a gory (or Gorey) button of your very own.<\/p>\nWe\u2019ll be in Group Area D from 3:00-6:30pm in the Learning Commons on Tuesday, October 27th<\/strong> so head on over and prepare for some Gor(e)y sights.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Special Collections is already looking forward to ICON 41 next year!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carroll, Lewis. Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>. Sesquicentennial Edition. Inky Parrot Press, 2015.<\/p>\n This sesquicentennial edition of Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland <\/em>hosts a variety of creepy yet intriguing illustrations, juxtaposing Japanese artistic interpretations of Alice with Welsh interpretations, English, Italian, South African, Russian, Indonesian, and more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Amy Chen is working with a team at the Obermann Center to set up a newsletter on alt-ac careers that will go out a few times a semester. The newsletter will link to articles on the topic and it will also cover upcoming events, speakers, and contacts that would be of interest to alt-ac inclined graduate students. To make sure this newsletter is successful, she needs to locate the students who would be interested in receiving this information.<\/p>\n If you want to learn more about alt-ac careers, please complete this sign-up sheet: https:\/\/goo.gl\/Wg5UkH<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mary E. Fissell on “Making Babies: A Look at an Early Sex Manual”<\/span><\/p>\n Thu, 11\/05\/2015 – 7:30pm,\u00a0<\/span>W151 Papajohn\u00a0Business Building (PBB)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Want to stay connected? \u00a0Follow us on social media:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Upcoming Events Halloween Event in the Learning Commons This Halloween, join Special Collections and University Archives as we create a pop-up museum featuring items by American writer and artist, Edward Gorey, along with some of our more literally gory books.\u00a0 You\u2019ll even be able to take a bit of our collections with you, in buttonContinue reading “News and Updates from Special Collections 10\/23\/2015”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":3316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[124,140,100,141,138,108,96,137,109,139,142,90,97,107],"syndication":[435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294"}],"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=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Staff Awards and Recognition<\/h2>\n
Janet Weaver Receives League of United Latin American Citizens Builder Award<\/h4>\n
<\/a>Weaver, who works as the assistant curator of the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives, has conducted hours of interviews and research to create the\u00a0Latino historical archives and the Mujeres Latinas project at the university to\u00a0ensure that the history of LULAC\u2019s Eastern Iowa councils is not lost.<\/p>\nEvent Recap<\/h2>\n
40th anniversary\u00a0ICON Science Fiction Convention<\/h4>\n
<\/a>Special Collections had a large presence at the 40th anniversary\u00a0ICON Science Fiction Convention\u00a0that took place last weekend in Cedar Rapids. ICON was founded forty years ago by students in Joe Haldeman’s science fiction class at the University of Iowa, and Rusty Hevelin was closely tied to this convention family. \u00a0Librarians from Special Collections participated in four ways:<\/p>\n\n
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An Alice in Wonderland Acquisition for the 150th Anniversary of its publication<\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n“Alt-Ac” Newsletter<\/h4>\n
Upcoming Campus Events of Interest<\/h2>\n
<\/a>2015 Brownell Lecture on the History of the Book | Center for the Book<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n