{"id":332,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-18\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:17:53","slug":"robert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/robert\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pictorial History: The University of Iowa Libraries &#8211; Rev. Joseph T. Robert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Rich referred to the years of 1863 &#8211; 1867 as the &#8220;Dark Ages of the Library,&#8221; saying that the librarians of this time did not provide annual reports to the Board of Trustees, and appropriations over these years totaling only $3,250 prevented any growth of the library.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgborderleft alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"Joseph Robert\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/robert-josepht1870s.jpg\" width=\"111\" height=\"147\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>REV. JOSEPH T. ROBERT<\/strong><br \/>\nLibrarian<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">1866<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\" style=\"margin-top: 0;\">A professor of Latin and Greek from 1863-1866.<\/p>\n<p>1863-1866<br \/>\nLibrarian unknown?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Rich referred to the years of 1863 &#8211; 1867 as the &#8220;Dark Ages of the Library,&#8221; saying that the librarians of this time did not provide annual reports 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\/332"}],"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=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/332\/revisions\/1125"}],"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=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}