{"id":524,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/present\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-7\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:28:12","slug":"moving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/present\/moving\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving In &#8211; April 7, 1951"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"historynav\">The New Library Building \u2013 \u201cMain Library\u201d <a href=\"\/history\/present\/construction\">previous<\/a> | <a href=\"\/history\/present\/facades\/\">next<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17700\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/moving-books.jpg\" alt=\"Moving Books\" width=\"345\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A &#8220;human chain&#8221; was formed to move books from the Reserve Library in the Old Armory to the new building. (Iowa Digital Library: https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/node\/835594\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17718\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/greekshelpmovein.jpg\" alt=\"Greeks Help Move In\" width=\"349\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Greek houses helped move books. (Iowa Digital Library: https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/node\/622338<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17719\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/uncratingbooks.jpg\" alt=\"Uncrating Books\" width=\"375\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncrating some of the books in the new facility. (Iowa Digital Library: https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/node\/649095<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Library Building \u2013 \u201cMain Library\u201d previous | next &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":512,"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\/524"}],"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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/524\/revisions\/1165"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}