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Instruction Librarian Amy Chen has a new publication.<\/p>\n
\u201cPossessing an Inner History: Curators, Donors, and Affective Stewardship,\u201d Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 12.3 (October 2016), 243-268.\u00a0https:\/\/goo.gl\/QwpXSZ<\/a><\/p>\n Join us in congratulating Amy!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This Mellon Sawyer seminar is an interdisciplinary collaboration dedicated to mapping cultural exchanges across Eurasia from roughly 400-1450 CE, by focusing on the development, distribution and sharing of manuscript technologies.\u00a0http:\/\/eurasianmss.lib.uiowa.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n Friday 2 DECEMBER 2016 \u2013 8:30am-4:45pm \/ 166\u00a0IMU Iowa Theater\u00a0(Iowa Memorial Union) Susan Whitfield<\/a> Marina Rustow<\/a> Myriam Krutzsch<\/a> Mark Barnard<\/a> <\/p>\n In December the Iowa Bibliophiles\u2019 guest speaker will be Arthur Bonfield who will speak about his 60 years of rare book collecting.<\/p>\n Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 7PM in the Special Collections Reading Room, 3rd Floor Main Library<\/p>\n Details on the UI Events Calendar:\u00a0https:\/\/goo.gl\/XJpGWK<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12:15pm on Tuesday, December 6th<\/p>\n https:\/\/goo.gl\/IsJXTe<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Karen Mason, curator of IA Women's Archives @uiowa<\/a>, shared her #everygirldeserves<\/a> – to know her history! Details: https:\/\/t.co\/jpIZT0gfcZ<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/oBzdnbDf2G<\/a><\/p>\n — Young Women's Resource Center (@YWRC) November 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nEvents:<\/h1>\n
Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript Across Premodern\u00a0Eurasia<\/h4>\n
\n<\/em>William Johnson<\/a>
\n\u201cFrom Bookroll to Codex\u201d<\/em><\/a>
\nClassical Studies, Duke University
\n8:30-10:00am<\/p>\n
\n\u201cBeyond Scrolls and Codices: Manuscript Formats on the Eastern Silk Road\u201d<\/em><\/a>
\nDirector, International Dunhuang Project, British Library
\n10:30am-12:00<\/p>\n
\n\u201cFatimid State Documents, Serial Recyclers and the Cairo Geniza\u201d<\/em><\/a>
\nKhedouri A. Zilkha Professor\u00a0of Jewish Civilization in the\u00a0Near East, Princeton\u00a0University
\n1:00-2:30pm<\/p>\n
\n\u201cPapyrus as an Ancient Writing Material: Its Structure, Production and Classification\u201d<\/em><\/a>
\nAegyptisches Museum, Berlin
\n3:00-3:45pm<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe Dunhuang Diamond Sutra of AD 868: A Conservation Approach That Goes Back to the Original\u201d<\/em><\/a>
\nSenior Conservator Emeritus, British Library
\n3:45-4:30pm<\/p>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2015\/12\/Portraitpicturestudy1b-2-150x150.jpg\")
Arthur Bonfield, \u201cThe Why, How, What, and Result of 60 Years of Rare Book Collecting\u201d<\/h4>\nArthur Bonfield is a Professor at the Iowa Law School and has been collecting books published between 1490 and 1800 for 60 years. He has collected about 1,000 books printed during that period and focuses his collecting on voyages, travels, and geography; English and European history; encyclopedias and dictionaries of the arts and sciences; political philosophy; and herbals.<\/div>\n![\"a](\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2016\/12\/52268af2042d3e87f51886837d03ce7af18f7379-150x150.jpg\")
So you want to visualize your data?<\/h4>\nUpdates from the Iowa Women’s Archives:<\/h1>\n
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