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Scandalous artifacts

The UI Libraries is proud to be a part of “Scandal!”, the featured exhibit at the Museum of American Finance in New York: “From betrayals of the public trust by government officials to betrayals of investors by Ponzi artists, and from corporate accounting fraud to egregious failures of risk management in more recent years, ‘Scandal!’Continue reading “Scandalous artifacts”

Plaid Sweater returns!

After being displaced along with the rest of the UI Museum of Art in the 2008 floods, Grant Wood’s celebrated 1931 painting Plaid Sweater is back in town. For those of you unable to drop by its new home in the student union’s Richey Ballroom, it’s one of the nearly 10,000 items available for browsing in the Iowa Digital Library’sContinue reading “Plaid Sweater returns!”

Heavy bike traffic ahead

RAGBRAI sign by Michael W. Lemberger, July 2009 Good luck to everyone on RAGBRAI! For those of you unable to race your bike across Iowa, please enjoy vicarious cycling with these historic images from the Iowa Digital Library. “WAC messengers ride bikes in parade,” Des Moines Register, Aug. 1943 “By the way, how about a place inContinue reading “Heavy bike traffic ahead”

Digitally celebrating books, reading, and writing

In honor of the upcoming Iowa City Book Festival (July 16-18, 2010), we’re featuring some of the literary collections in Iowa Digital Library and Iowa Research Online. We hope you’ll explore the content online and the book fest in real life. Paul Engle teaching at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, The University of Iowa, ca. 1950s View similarContinue reading “Digitally celebrating books, reading, and writing”

Ephemeral bovine

It’s helpful for Digital Library Services to examine usage statistics about the Iowa Digital Library to see where site traffic comes from and which collections have more or less hits.  Sometimes, it’s just fun to see outside links pointing to unexpected places.  The Springer Printing Ephemera is a digital collectiton containing samples from various printing companies,Continue reading “Ephemeral bovine”

1970 Student Protests

Spring of 1970 was a tumultuous time on college campuses. On April 30, President Richard Nixon announced that U.S forces would invade Cambodia because of the recent communist coup. Students around the country protested this escalation of the Vietnam War. On May 4, the National Guard fired on students at Kent State University, killing 4Continue reading “1970 Student Protests”