{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-15T14:53:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-05-06T11:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:56:04","slug":"history-of-the-libraries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>View a pictorial history of:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"past\">The Emerging University Library, 1855-1951 <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"present\">The New Library Building of 1951, 1951 to present<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"branches\">Branch Libraries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"heads\">Heads of the Libraries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Read <a href=\"memories\">memories of the Libraries<\/a> collected during its 150th anniversary celebration in 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"timeline\">Important dates in Libraries history<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Articles:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/lib_pubs\/121\">A History of the Libraries<\/a>, by Richard Kolbet<span class=\"style1\"> (for full article, see David H. Stam, ed.<em> International Dictionary of Library Histories <\/em>[Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001]) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/bai\/persons.htm\">Ralph Ellsworth and the University of Iowa Libraries<\/a>, by Stow Persons<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/lib_pubs\/123\/\">The Library Fire of 1897<\/a>, by Mary Monson <span class=\"style1\">(<em>Palimpsest<\/em> 61, July-August 1980: 118-123) <\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"style1\"><a href=\"sources\">Sources<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View a pictorial history of: The Emerging University Library, 1855-1951 The New Library Building of 1951, 1951 to present Branch Libraries Heads of the Libraries Read memories of the Libraries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"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\/5"}],"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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}