{"id":3712,"date":"2016-01-07T22:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T22:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2019-01-14T21:04:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:04:05","slug":"a-look-back-on-2015-in-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2016\/01\/07\/a-look-back-on-2015-in-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back on 2015 in Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2016\/01\/07\/3702\/infographic1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3705\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3705 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/infographic1-737x1024.jpg\" alt=\"34,000 people visited the mobile museum exhibition, &quot;Iowans in World War 2&quot; and 3,000 Pages were digitized as part of the Hevelin Collection science fiction fanzine digitization project\" width=\"620\" height=\"861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/infographic1-737x1024.jpg 737w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/infographic1-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/infographic1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2016\/01\/07\/a-look-back-on-2015-in-special-collections\/info2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3716\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3716 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info2-1024x751.jpg\" alt=\"Our instruction program had its biggest year ever with 212 classes taught in special collections and 38 in the Iowa Women's Archives\" width=\"620\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info2-1024x751.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info2-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2016\/01\/07\/a-look-back-on-2015-in-special-collections\/iowa-special-collections-a-look-back-at-2015\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3723\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3723 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/Iowa-Special-Collections-A-Look-Back-at-2015-1024x845.jpg\" alt=\"Big year for social media. 1,000,000 loops on Vine, Instagram grew exponentially to over 3000 followers.\" width=\"620\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/Iowa-Special-Collections-A-Look-Back-at-2015-1024x845.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/Iowa-Special-Collections-A-Look-Back-at-2015-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/Iowa-Special-Collections-A-Look-Back-at-2015.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2016\/01\/07\/3702\/info4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3708\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3708 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info4-1024x908.jpg\" alt=\"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.\" width=\"620\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info4-1024x908.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info4-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info4.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2016\/01\/07\/3702\/info3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3707 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info3-963x1024.jpg\" alt=\"New staff include Alonso Avila, Amy Chen, Laura Hampton, Lindsay Moen, and John Fifield. We have a new video series called, &quot;If Books Could Talk.&quot;\" width=\"620\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info3-963x1024.jpg 963w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info3-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info3.jpg 1218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2016\/01\/07\/3702\/info6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3709\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3709 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info6-1024x834.jpg\" alt=\"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.\" width=\"620\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info6-1024x834.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info6-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info6.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2016\/01\/07\/3702\/info7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3710\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3710 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info7-898x1024.jpg\" alt=\"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. \" width=\"620\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info7-898x1024.jpg 898w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info7-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/01\/info7.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":3716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,437],"tags":[258,93,261,96,259,252,137,262,260,89,263],"syndication":[435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712"}],"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=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3725,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions\/3725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}