Digital library fellow Jane Monson channeled her inner foodie to create the Recipe Pamphlets from the Szathmary Culinary Arts Digital Collection. Bravely wading through a physical collection of over 4000 pamphlets, Jane selected a representative sampling of several dozen items for digitization, resulting in over 1300 scanned and full text searchable pages from the lateContinue reading “Digital library fellowship profile: Jane Monson & Recipe Pamphlets”

This week marks the 101st anniversary of the publication of Jay Norwood ‘Ding’ Darling’s first cartoon for the Des Moines Register.  To commemorate, UI Libraries has launched The Editorial Cartoons of J.N. ‘Ding’ Darling Digital Collection. The expanded collection now includes more than 10,000 Darling cartoons, a robust Web site contextualizing the collection, and audioContinue reading “Ding Darling collection now bigger, better”

While we’re sad that our initial cohort of digital library fellows will soon be leaving DLS, we’re proud of the excellent work they’ve done and the high quality digital collections they’ll be leaving behind. This week, we’re profiling Jill Wehrheim, who digitized almost 1600 pages from over a dozen items drawn from the Libraries’ holdings of CivilContinue reading “Digital library fellowship profile: Jill Wehrheim & Civil War Diaries”

  As Iowa City continues to recover from last weekend’s ice storm, we thought we’d feature scenes from winters past on the Iowa Digital Library home page, drawn from the Iowa City Town and Campus Digital Collection. Included are images such as an 1869 photograph of a sparsely populated Pentacrest, shown below along with aContinue reading “Flurries of activity”

Although it’s recently been declared that the day after Halloween marks the first day of Christmas, we’re taking some time in DLS to fit in a celebration of Thanksgiving. Currently featured on the Iowa Digital Library home page are cartoons depicting the holiday from the ever-topical Ding Darling collection, alongside our newest and most gratifyingContinue reading “Getting our thanks on”

October is here, and with it, thoughts of Halloween and darker nights.  With that in mind, DLS invites people to brush up on their local haunted lore via the Irving Weber’s Iowa City Digital Collection. Perhaps the most recognized haunted feature in the area is the Black Angel of Oakland Cemetery. I had heard of theContinue reading “Ghosts and black angels: local hauntings”

Big changes this week for the Iowa Digital Library. A major redesign (completed with the help of Scott Fiddelke, Linda Roth and DLS student assistant Julia Bleeker) has been applied to CONTENTdm templates. This means no more navy blue headers for local collections, and a more uniform look and feel when using The University ofContinue reading “IDL’s CONTENTdm collections: new look; new location”

Although it’s hard for us to believe, the end of Fiscal Year 2006/07 marks only the first full year of Digital Library Services’ existence as a departmental unit. See below for a list of some of our accomplishments, compiled for the upcoming Libraries’ Annual Report . But there’s no rest for the digital, so we’reContinue reading “DLS Year One: expansion and collaboration”

If you haven’t noticed already, two of Iowa’s largest digital libraries—Iowa Digital Library (IDL) and Iowa Heritage Digital Collections (IHDC)—have updated looks. The changes, put in place in July, are not just cosmetic; the improvements aim to increase access to a trove of unique documents from and about Iowa. First, a point of clarification. EverContinue reading “Redesigns improve access, aesthetics”