{"id":318,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-5\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:17:53","slug":"currier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/currier\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pictorial History: The University of Iowa Libraries &#8211; Amos N. Currier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgborderleft alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"Amos Currier\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/currier1879.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"232\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><br \/>\nAMOS N. CURRIER<\/strong><br \/>\nLibrarian<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\" style=\"margin-top: 0;\">1867 &#8211; 1879<\/p>\n<p>Amos Currier, professor of Latin, is given credit for \u201cfirst putting the university in shape to make available the material upon its shelves.\u201d\u00a0 He introduced both a classified and alphabetic catalog, instituted a reserve book system, regularly presented lectures on \u201cBooks and Reading\u201d to undergraduates, and encouraged students to meet with him for suggested readings to supplement their course work.\u00a0 Currier implemented collection development policies that supported the purchase of contemporary works rather than \u201cnothing but text learning\u201d and which augmented class room instruction.\u00a0 Over several years, Currier recommended to the Board of Regents that a full-time librarian should be appointed, and this advice was taken in 1879 when Ada North was hired as the first full time professional librarian.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from New Hampshire, Currier graduated from Kimball Union Academy, received an A.B. at Dartmouth College in 1856 and an A.M. degree in 1859. He moved to Iowa in 1857, becoming Professor of Languages at the University of Pella.\u00a0 In 1861 he joined Co. C of the 8th Iowa Infantry as a private; he was captured at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862.\u00a0 He finished out the war in Missouri, and was re-instated at Pella after the war.\u00a0 In June 1867, the Board of Trustees elected him to serve at the University of Iowa as Professor of Ancient Languages and Literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMOS N. CURRIER Librarian 1867 &#8211; 1879 Amos Currier, professor of Latin, is given credit for \u201cfirst putting the university in shape to make available the material upon its shelves.\u201d\u00a0 [&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\/318"}],"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=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318\/revisions\/1112"}],"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=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}