{"id":948,"date":"2010-06-22T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T18:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=948"},"modified":"2017-02-24T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T21:45:03","slug":"ephemeral-bovine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2010\/06\/22\/ephemeral-bovine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ephemeral bovine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s helpful for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\">Digital Library Services <\/a>to examine usage statistics about the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa Digital Library <\/a>to see where site traffic comes from\u00a0and which collections have more or less hits.\u00a0 Sometimes, it&#8217;s just fun to see outside links pointing to unexpected places.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/springer\" target=\"_blank\">Springer Printing Ephemera <\/a>is a digital collectiton containing samples from various printing companies, calendars and political clippings amassed by Iowa City printer John Springer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2010\/06\/2010-06-22_springer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-950\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2010\/06\/2010-06-22_springer.jpg\" alt=\"Springer Printing Ephemera Digital Collection\" width=\"285\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2010\/06\/2010-06-22_springer.jpg 989w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2010\/06\/2010-06-22_springer-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Libraries are adding each and every piece in the collection, so that it will be\u00a0a comprehensive surrogate for the archival collection, and a valuable tool for studying the history of printing and typography.\u00a0\u00a0Although\u00a0not a heavily publicized collection, we noticed that the <a href=\"http:\/\/designobserver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Design Observer Group <\/a>picked an image from the Springer Collection for their daily selection of&#8230; &#8220;things lost on the fringes&#8230;ordinary, odd, beautiful things. Esoteric images, old diagrams, typography, cartography \u2014 visions of a once promising but now extinct future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"alignleft\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/u?\/springer,2537\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/u?\/springer,2537\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-949 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2010\/06\/2010-06-22_cow.jpg\" alt=\"Seymour cream cow\" width=\"210\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2010\/06\/2010-06-22_cow.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2010\/06\/2010-06-22_cow-164x300.jpg 164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>And this <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/u?\/springer,2537\" target=\"_blank\">image of a cow<\/a>, advertising cream-colored paper from the Seymour Company of New York, made the cut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Mark Anderson<br \/>\nDigital Initiatives Librarian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s helpful for Digital Library Services to examine usage statistics about the Iowa Digital Library to see where site traffic comes from\u00a0and which collections have more or less hits.\u00a0 Sometimes, it&#8217;s just fun to see outside links pointing to unexpected places.\u00a0 The Springer Printing Ephemera is a digital collectiton containing samples from various printing companies,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2010\/06\/22\/ephemeral-bovine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Ephemeral bovine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"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\/948"}],"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\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4968,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}