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Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008
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It’s finals week and you have three tests, one paper and a group project to finish before Friday. You may need a little bit of caffiene to get you through. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights between 9 - 11 p.m. take your coffee mug to the Food for Thought in the Main Library and fill it up! What [...]
“MindMashup” - Short Video Contest“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” - George Bernard Shaw The Association of [...]
Thanks to Our Student EmployeesEach year the University of Iowa Libraries employs about 250 students to help keep the library system running smoothly. These students do all kinds of library jobs - checking out and reshelving books, digitizing rare photographs, creating catalog records for items, scanning journal articles and book chapters for online document delivery, assisting people with multimedia [...]
Rare Book Room Open House - May 15The John Martin Rare Book Room will hold its annual open house on Thursday, May 15 from 4:30 to 7:30. The exhibit, “’No Small Presumption’–Surgical Works From Six Centuries,” will feature rare books from the earliest days of surgery through the twentieth century. The event is open to the public. Although chloroform and ether were not widely used [...]
“Map of the Day” from UI LibrariesYesterday’s “Map of the Day” from National Geographic came from the UI Libraries. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day The map is from the Official Guide Book of the New York’s World Fair, 1939. The Special Collections department also has a small World’s Fair Collection (MsC840) with materials such as guidebooks and catalogs from 1893-2005 (including other materials from the 1939 New [...]