{"id":42,"date":"2007-12-14T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T18:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/2007\/12\/14\/ding-darling-collection-now-bigger-better\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:47:00","slug":"ding-darling-collection-now-bigger-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2007\/12\/14\/ding-darling-collection-now-bigger-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Ding Darling collection now bigger, better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a title=\"political canoe\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ding\/id\/8092\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/201026-I.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"political canoe cartoon\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"288\" height=\"406\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>This week marks the 101<sup>st<\/sup> anniversary of the publication of Jay Norwood \u2018Ding\u2019 Darling\u2019s first cartoon for the <em>Des Moines Register<\/em>. \u00a0To commemorate, UI Libraries has launched <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/ding\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">The Editorial Cartoons of J.N. \u2018Ding\u2019 Darling Digital Collection<\/span><\/a>. The expanded collection now includes more than 10,000 Darling cartoons, a robust Web site contextualizing the collection, and audio recordings of Darling\u2019s dictations that document his voice, vigor, and attitudes about issues ranging from politics to the environment. The collection was spearheaded by the UI Libraries Special Collections Department, which is home to the majority of <a title=\"Ding Darling Finding Aid\" href=\"http:\/\/collguides.lib.uiowa.edu\/?MSC0170\" target=\"_blank\">Darling&#8217;s papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Ding Darling Digital Collection is the latest enhancement to the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/\">Iowa Digital Library<\/a>, which contains more than 95,000 digital objects \u2014photographs, maps, sound recordings, and documents\u2014from the holdings of the UI Libraries and numerous collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the anniversary,\u00a0<em>Des Moines Register<\/em> columnist Richard Doak wrote\u00a0a piece in the Sunday newspaper highlighting Darling&#8217;s life and encouraging Iowan to make the state a place that Darling would have liked\u2014&#8221;open, friendly, clean, teeming with wildlife\u2014and they will come.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0Access the article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2007712090315\">http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2007712090315<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">University News Services Press release:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news-releases.uiowa.edu\/2007\/december\/120707ding_darling_library.html\">http:\/\/news-releases.uiowa.edu\/2007\/december\/120707ding_darling_library.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>\u2013Nicole Saylor, Head,\u00a0Digital Library Services<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks the 101st anniversary of the publication of Jay Norwood \u2018Ding\u2019 Darling\u2019s first cartoon for the Des Moines Register. \u00a0To commemorate, UI Libraries has launched The Editorial Cartoons of J.N. \u2018Ding\u2019 Darling Digital Collection. The expanded collection now includes more than 10,000 Darling cartoons, a robust Web site contextualizing the collection, and audio<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2007\/12\/14\/ding-darling-collection-now-bigger-better\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Ding Darling collection now bigger, better&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}