The University of Iowa Libraries has reached five million volumes! To celebrate this milestonetemp, we helped give some special treatment to the lucky five-millionth title, The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa, edited by David Hudson, Marvin Bergman and Loren Horton and recently published by the University of Iowa Press to spotlight prominent Iowans throughout history. The impressive team of scholars and writers who contributed to the book includes The UI Libraries’ own Kären Mason, Curator of Iowa Women’s Archives, and David McCartney, University Archivist.

We in Digital Library Services, along with our colleagues in the Applications & Web Services department, created an online version of The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa.  It is now fully searchable and freely available to readers and researchers around the world, along with the fifty other titles in the University of Iowa Press Digital Editions. Both the print and online versions will be featured at the Iowa City Book Festival this Saturday, July 19.

–Joanna Lee
Digital Projects Librarian, Digital Library Services