Today marks the 20th anniversary of the November campus shootings at The University of Iowa. A full account of the event is available in this special edition from our Daily Iowan Historic Newspapers digital collection:

Selections from the Des Moines Register Cartoonists digital collection

Campus Then… and Now: Recreating scenes captured by Kent’s lens   A fun slideshow from The Spectator, featuring re-created images from the IDL’s Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes digital collection.

NATHANIEL LETCHER autumn fate wet, limp leaves helplessly meshed in between the weave of a thin railed fence coated in grey paint http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/u?/dp,1951   MADDIE MORIYAMA Autumn I sit on the house steps. I see memories rush past me as new ones come back. Golden leaves fall to the ground. I walk inside. Crinkle. IContinue reading “Iowa Writes autumn”

The University of Iowa Libraries and a UI linguistics scholar have taken an important step toward preserving the culture of an often overlooked Indonesian ethnic group while at the same time opening worldwide access for students and scholars interested in delving deeper into the study of the Madurese language and culture. William Davies, UI professorContinue reading “UI linguist adds to Iowa Digital Library with interactive collection of Madurese folk tales”

One of our first digital collections, Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century is also one of our largest, and it gets bigger all the time. In addition to digitized brochures, programs, and audio recordings, the collection now contains almost 800 photographs depicting life on the road for the Redpath Lyceum Bureau’s performers, agents, and crewContinue reading “A snapshot of life on the Chautauqua circuit”