{"id":335,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-21\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:17:53","slug":"wormer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/wormer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pictorial History: The University of Iowa Libraries &#8211; Grace Van Wormer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgborderleft alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"Grace Wormer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/wormer1938.jpg\" width=\"161\" height=\"238\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>GRACE VAN WORMER<\/strong><br \/>\nActing Director of Libraries<\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\" style=\"margin-top: 0;\">February 1932 &#8211; 1943<br \/>\n1927 &#8211; 1930<br \/>\n1922 &#8211; 1924<\/p>\n<p>Grace Wormer graduated from Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, attended the University of Illinois library school for one year, then served as first assistant in the Waterloo public library for two years.\u00a0 She came to Iowa as an assistant cataloger in June 1912, moving up to order librarian before serving her first interim as acting director in 1922.\u00a0 This first interim appointment was with the understanding she would serve \u201cuntil a suitable man can be found.\u201d\u00a0 She remained head of the order and binding department, then served as acting director two more times until 1943.\u00a0 Wormer was appointed assistant director of special collections in 1949, and developed the Iowa Authors collection.\u00a0 This collection was near 2,500 volumes representing 500 different authors when Wormer retired in July 1954.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRACE VAN WORMER Acting Director of Libraries February 1932 &#8211; 1943 1927 &#8211; 1930 1922 &#8211; 1924 Grace Wormer graduated from Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, attended the University of [&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\/335"}],"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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335\/revisions\/1128"}],"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=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}