{"id":22,"date":"2007-01-29T18:08:25","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T18:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lib-wordpress.iowa.uiowa.edu\/dls\/2007\/01\/29\/love-in-the-stacks\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T13:24:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:24:30","slug":"love-in-the-stacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2007\/01\/29\/love-in-the-stacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Love in the stacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beneath the calm fa\u00e7ade of the Main Library\u2019s exterior, among the \"\"<\/a>dusty book stacks and studious scholars, lies the secret side of the Libraries\u2019 holdings: a seething bed of love, lust, and early 20th-century greeting cards. In our dedication to exposing these hidden collections, Digital Library Services brings you a romantic \u201cBest of\u201d from the stacks — a digital mix\"\"<\/a> tape of artifacts chiefly drawn from the Libraries\u2019 research collections<\/a> and selected to put you in the mood for Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

But perhaps you think Valentine’s Day is an ersatz holiday that persecutes the single? As part of the Libraries\u2019 commitment to inclusiveness, we made sure to represent both points of view. Pro-Valentine\u2019s patrons can enjoy images of tennis-playing cherubs and the comically foreign-accented, and accounts of holiday celebrations by Iowa women in the 1940s<\/a> and 1950s. Those against can \"\"<\/a>peruse the UI Press collection\u2019s tales of discount chocolates and abused cashiers, or the post-WWI (yet sadly relevant<\/a> today) Valentine\u2019s Day cartoons from political satirist Ding Darling.<\/p>\n

Browse the collection <\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2026and join us for a Valentine’s Day show & tell session<\/strong>, featuring additional artifacts from the Libraries’ research collections, behind-the-scenes info from its curators and archivists, and heart-shaped treats. Feb. 14 at noon, Main Library, room 2032 (second floor, near the south entrance).<\/p>\n

–Jen Wolfe
\nMetadata Librarian<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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