{"id":315,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-2\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:17:53","slug":"bentz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/bentz\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pictorial History: The University of Iowa Libraries &#8211; Dale M. Bentz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgborderleft alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"Dale Bentz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/bentz.jpg\" width=\"146\" height=\"198\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>DALE M. BENTZ<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity Librarian<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\" style=\"margin-top: 0;\">January 1982 \u2013 August 1986<\/p>\n<p>Dale Bentz <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> had served at the University of Tennessee, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina before coming to Iowa in June, 1953, as Associate Director of Libraries. He was named University Librarian in 1970 and retained that title when he became the Libraries\u2019 chief executive officer following the retirement of Leslie Dunlap in 1981.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bentz was instrumental in a significant expansion of the library system that included building of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.\u00a0 He linked the Libraries with other major libraries through membership in RLG (Research Libraries Group), a move that led to the beginning of computerization and automation at Iowa.\u00a0 With others, Bentz helped establish the UI Center for the Study of Recent American History, and worked to expand special collection holdings.\u00a0 Bentz attracted the late William Anthony to the UI Libraries, which helped establish the Libraries\u2019 Conservation Department.<\/p>\n<p>Bentz earned an A.B. from Gettysburg College, a B.S.L.S. from the University of North Carolina, and an M.S. at the University of Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALE M. BENTZ University Librarian January 1982 \u2013 August 1986 Dale Bentz had served at the University of Tennessee, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina before coming to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":147,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-default.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315\/revisions\/1109"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}