{"id":491,"date":"2009-06-22T08:04:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T08:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=491"},"modified":"2016-02-03T09:59:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T15:59:52","slug":"250000-items-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2009\/06\/22\/250000-items-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"250,000 items and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, the Iowa Digital Library surpassed 250,000 items. There has been much to celebrate since the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2010\/08\/31\/100000\/\">100,000th item<\/a> was added just a little over a year ago, as\u00a0several new collections have been released. They range from historical photographs of the UI&#8217;s trendsetting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/wpe\">physical education program for women<\/a> to\u00a0material related to <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/lincoln\">Abraham Lincoln<\/a> to\u00a0photographs and oral history accounts of last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/flood\">flood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 250,000th item represents an upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/pleyel\/index.php\">collection of 18th-century sheet music<\/a> by French composer and publisher Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831). Most of these scores were published within his lifetime and a handful were issued by Pleyel&#8217;s own publishing house.<\/p>\n<p>Printed around 1790, Pleyel arranged this collection of songs for voice and keyboard. These melodies originally appeared in some of his many <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm4\/results.php?CISOOP1=all&amp;CISOBOX1=&quot;string+quartets&quot;&amp;CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&amp;CISOROOT=\/pleyel\" target=\"_self\">string quartets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-496\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/u?\/pleyel,5193\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-496\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/06\/ple7105-05_title-page.jpg\" alt=\"12 elegant ballads\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/06\/ple7105-05_title-page.jpg 2600w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/06\/ple7105-05_title-page-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/06\/ple7105-05_title-page-1024x704.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">12 elegant ballads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, the Iowa Digital Library surpassed 250,000 items. There has been much to celebrate since the 100,000th item was added just a little over a year ago, as\u00a0several new collections have been released. They range from historical photographs of the UI&#8217;s trendsetting\u00a0physical education program for women to\u00a0material related to Abraham Lincoln to\u00a0photographs and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2009\/06\/22\/250000-items-and-counting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;250,000 items and counting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4593,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}