{"id":8194,"date":"2026-09-09T17:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=8194"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:46:22","slug":"welcome-collin-vandewalle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2026\/09\/09\/welcome-collin-vandewalle\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Collin Vandewalle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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We are excited to introduce Collin Vandewalle to the\u00a0University of Iowa Libraries\u00a0Special Collections and Archives team\u00a0as the\u00a0Sackner\u00a0project\u00a0archivist for the next year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Collin grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Unable to stay away from his prairie roots, he returned at 18 to\u00a0attend\u00a0Drake University. There,\u00a0he double majored in\u00a0law,\u00a0politics, and\u00a0society;\u00a0and\u00a0rhetoric,\u00a0media, and\u00a0social\u00a0change.\u00a0While at Drake, Collin\u00a0worked in Cowles\u00a0Library’s\u00a0Special Collections and Archives as a student assistant,\u00a0where\u00a0he\u00a0fell in love with archival work.\u00a0After Drake,\u00a0he\u00a0taught English at a university in Guilin, China, for a year before coming back to Iowa to enroll in the\u00a0master\u2019s program at\u00a0the\u00a0UI\u00a0School of Library and Information Science.\u00a0During this time, Collin had a position as\u00a0a student lead in Special Collections and Archives.\u00a0His\u00a0focus during this\u00a0time\u00a0was on reprocessing J. N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling\u2019s Papers for a celebration of what would be his 150th birthday in 2026.\u00a0Collin also\u00a0co-curated\u00a0an exhibit\u00a0on Darling,\u00a0now open in the Main Library Gallery<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“I\u00a0most look forward\u00a0to the chance to make\u00a0the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry more accessible to the public. It is a wonderful collection full of surprising and thought-provoking pieces. Every time I wander through the collection, I find a new exciting piece that I cannot wait for researchers and students to see as well,” says Collin. “I hope to have many engaging\u00a0conversations\u00a0[with researchers] about\u00a0the\u00a0Sackner\u00a0materials during my term.”\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In his spare time, Collin is a self-proclaimed nerd, regularly playing Magic: The\u00a0Gathering\u00a0and Dungeons & Dragons with friends and family.\u00a0\u00a0Right now,\u00a0his new reading obsession is\u00a0the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. He\u00a0also\u00a0enjoys\u00a0staying\u00a0active by going on frequent hikes with\u00a0his\u00a0partner and playing racquetball with friends.\u00a0Glad to have you on board,\u00a0Collin!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are excited to introduce Collin Vandewalle to the\u00a0University of Iowa Libraries\u00a0Special Collections and Archives team\u00a0as the\u00a0Sackner\u00a0project\u00a0archivist for the next year.\u00a0\u00a0 Originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Collin grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Unable to stay away from his prairie roots, he returned at 18 to\u00a0attend\u00a0Drake University. There,\u00a0he double majored in\u00a0law,\u00a0politics, and\u00a0society;\u00a0and\u00a0rhetoric,\u00a0media, and\u00a0social\u00a0change.\u00a0While at Drake, Collin\u00a0workedContinue reading “Welcome Collin Vandewalle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":8195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[8,494],"tags":[859,89,568],"syndication":[],"class_list":["post-8194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-staff-news","tag-collin-vandewalle","tag-new-staff","tag-sackner-archive","has-blocks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8194"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8202,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions\/8202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8194"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=8194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}