{"id":418,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:17:53","slug":"annex","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/past\/annex\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Annex in the Old Armory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"historynav\">The Emerging University Library \u2013 1855-1951 <a href=\"\/history\/past\/macbride\">previous<\/a> | <a href=\"\/history\/past\/planning\/\">next<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Formerly the Men&#8217;s Gymnasium<br \/>\n1927 &#8211; 1951<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/9807\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/oldarmory-1938.jpg\" alt=\"Library annex in the Old Armory\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Library annex in the Old Armory, The University of Iowa, 1938 <br \/>(Iowa Digital Library:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/9807\">http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/9807<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The reserve library, which had occuped the Old Chemistry Building since September 1923, was moved to the &#8220;Library Annex&#8221; in 1927 and had room for 360 readers.\u00a0 The Serials Department and the Government Documents collection were also relocated to the Annex, which Grace Wormer described as an &#8220;antiquated, inadequate and unhealthy fire-trap&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/smallfire.gif\" alt=\"Small Fire\" width=\"400\" height=\"360\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small fire in 1948.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/search\/collection\/ictcs\/searchterm\/Armory\/field\/folder\/mode\/exact\/conn\/and\/cosuppress\/Armory\">Additional Old Armory images<\/a> are available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/\">Iowa Digital Library<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/ictcs\">Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emerging University Library \u2013 1855-1951 previous | next Formerly the Men&#8217;s Gymnasium 1927 &#8211; 1951 The reserve library, which had occuped the Old Chemistry Building since September 1923, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":416,"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\/418"}],"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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418\/revisions\/1037"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}