{"id":330,"date":"2012-03-30T13:48:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-16\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:17:53","slug":"rich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/rich\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pictorial History: The University of Iowa Libraries &#8211; Joseph W. Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"Joseph Rich\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/rich1897.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"244\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>JOSEPH W. RICH<\/strong><br \/>\nLibrarian<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\" style=\"margin-top: 0;\">July 1892 \u2013 June 1898<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Rich was a member of the Board of Regents from 1886-1892.\u00a0 Rich had served 3 years in Co. E, 12th Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, and after the war spend some time at the University as a student.\u00a0 Before coming to the UI, Rich was editor of <em>The Vinton Eagle<\/em>.\u00a0 During his years at Iowa, Rich completed an accurate inventory of holdings, as neither the register nor shelf-list contained all of the books on the shelves and it was discovered that 5,000-6,000 volumes were neither registered or listed.<\/p>\n<p>Rich was able to solicit donations of books on religion from various churches, and during his tenure the Libraries obtained the gift of the D. H. Talbot collection of over 4,000 rare and expensive works.\u00a0 Rich was also able to convince the alumni association to start a voluntary fund to \u201cinterest graduates in collecting for the library rare and valuable Americana, such as the ordinary purchases do not include.\u201d\u00a0 Rich submitted to the Board of Trustees an invitation from the University of California to cooperate in the inter-library loaning of books.<\/p>\n<p>The destructive fire in North Hall in June 1897 also occurred during Rich\u2019s tenure.\u00a0 Nearly all of the general collection was lost, as well as 10,000 \u2013 15,000 pamphlets, and a little over half of the Talbot collection.<\/p>\n<p>Rich wrote a several part, in-depth history of the Libraries that was published in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu\/DI\/1894\/di1894-01-04.pdf\">Vidette-Reporter<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu\/DI\/1894\/di1894-01-04.pdf\"> in January of 1894<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOSEPH W. RICH Librarian July 1892 \u2013 June 1898 Joseph Rich was a member of the Board of Regents from 1886-1892.\u00a0 Rich had served 3 years in Co. E, 12th [&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\/330"}],"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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330\/revisions\/1123"}],"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=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}