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<\/a>Last week was the\u00a0100th anniversary of Dada. The University of Iowa Libraries is home to the International Dada Archive. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\nTimothy Shipe, Curator of the International Dada Archive was featured in this article from\u00a0Di\u00e1rio do Nordeste in Brazil. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n After many months of renovations, the gallery in the University of Iowa Main Library had its grand opening and its first exhibition is now open.<\/p>\n See some images below from the grand opening event and stop by to view “Explorer’s Legacy.”<\/p>\n Visit the gallery website to learn more:\u00a0http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Douglas S. Russell,\u00a0Senior Judge of the Iowa District Court will speak about books by and about famous bibliophiles, their book collections and the books they have written about collecting.<\/p>\n Interested in Iowa Bibliophiles? Join our email list & get a reminder each month: http:\/\/<\/span>eepurl.com\/beW3-T<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Last\u00a0week: Nine class sessions as well as a group\u00a0of students working on\u00a0National History Day projects.<\/p>\n This week:\u00a0Ten classes sessions\u00a0in Special Collections, including four sections of Themes in Global Art and a visiting class from Cornell College, led by Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Tyler Carrington.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Want to stay connected? \u00a0Follow us on social media:<\/p>\n \u00a0News Last week was the\u00a0100th anniversary of Dada. The University of Iowa Libraries is home to the International Dada Archive. Read more. Timothy Shipe, Curator of the International Dada Archive was featured in this article from\u00a0Di\u00e1rio do Nordeste in Brazil. Read more. From the Web and Social Media Color Our Collections: Last weekContinue reading “Special Collections Weekly Update 2\/12\/2016”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":3906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"syndication":[435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863"}],"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=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}From the Web and Social Media<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Color Our Collections: Last week institutions from around the country contributed public domain images from their collections. Here are our contributions. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h4>\n
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ICYMI Event Recaps:<\/h2>\n
Gallery Grand Opening and “Explorer’s Legacy” Exhibition:<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>On Tuesday, Olson Graduate Assistants Kelly Grogg and John Fifield held a pop up event in the Learning Commons called “Historical Crushes” featuring documents from their favorite people they have learned about in the collections, and giving students the chance to make buttons.<\/p>\nIowa Bibliophiles<\/h2>\n
February Meeting Recap:<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>History PhD student Heather Wacha presented about her research linking a single leaf of a medieval manuscript in Special Collections to the notorious early 20th century book breaker Otto Ege.<\/p>\nMarch 9th meeting:<\/h4>\n
Instruction Update from Amy Chen<\/h2>\n
\nDonate to the University Libraries\u2019 Special Collections Fund<\/a><\/h4>\n
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