{"id":336,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-22\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:17:53","slug":"wyer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/wyer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pictorial History: The University of Iowa Libraries &#8211; Malcolm G. Wyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgborderleft alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"Malcolm Wyer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/wyer.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"226\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>MALCOLM G. WYER<\/strong><br \/>\nLibrarian<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\" style=\"margin-top: 0;\">1904 \u2013 1913<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm Wyer was previously a librarian at the University of Minnesota Library, then Colorado College.\u00a0 At Iowa, Wyer directed a consolidation of departmental collections and book budgets, resulting in a larger central fund from which to buy badly needed reference sets.\u00a0 He felt the \u201cincompleteness of the book collection was a disgrace to a university library,\u201d and cited that \u201cin biography there were not adequate lives of even the Presidents of the U.S.\u201d\u00a0 Wyer began building a staff of professional librarians who undertook the effective re-cataloging of the book collection which had not been done since the fire in 1897, and also met with every freshmen class in English to give the students instruction in using the library.\u00a0 Wyer taught in the summer library training school, and in 1906 was made resident director of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Wyer received his M.A. at the University of Minnesota; B.L.S. at New York State Library school, Albany; doctor of library science, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; and three honorary degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Colorado College, and the University of Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Wyer left Iowa for the University of Nebraska, then became Librarian at the Denver Public Library, and held a dual roll as Founder and Dean of the University of Denver School of Librarianship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MALCOLM G. WYER Librarian 1904 \u2013 1913 Malcolm Wyer was previously a librarian at the University of Minnesota Library, then Colorado College.\u00a0 At Iowa, Wyer directed a consolidation of departmental [&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\/336"}],"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=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions\/1129"}],"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=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}