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- Share your feedback through the Main Library Experience Survey
by University of Iowa Libraries on 20 Oct 2025Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and visitors are invited to complete a survey that will help make the library a more supportive and effective space for everyone’s learning, success, and holistic well-being.
- A head-to-toe conservation treatment
by University of Iowa Libraries on 16 Oct 2025As a student intern at the time in Conservation and Collections Care, I had the opportunity to do a complete treatment for this amazing anatomical flap book.
- Open Access Week 2025
by Mahrya Burnett on 14 Oct 2025Celebrate International Open Access Week with the University of Iowa Libraries on Oct. 20–26. This year’s theme is “Who owns our knowledge?” and it focuses on the questions: Where has knowledge come from? How is knowledge created […]
- UI Libraries celebrates investiture of Orazem in second endowed position
by Anne Bassett on 10 Oct 2025This position, endowed by the philanthropic support of longtime Iowa legislator Jean Lloyd-Jones and her granddaughter Michal Eynon-Lynch, is charged with collecting, preserving, and sharing with a broad audience the history of Iowa women […]
- Christie Krugler reflects on role as chair of the Libraries Advancement Council
by Anne Bassett on 10 Oct 2025The University of Iowa will always hold a special place in Christie Krugler’s heart.
- Inside the UI Libraries with Patricia Gimenez
by Krista Hershberger on 9 Sep 2025As director of the Art Library, Patricia Gimenez shapes both the Art Library space and collection into a vital resource for University of Iowa students in the School of Art, Art History, and Design (SAAHD).
- Interactive exhibition features rare movable books and paper technology
by Sara J. Pinkham on 8 Sep 2025The Main Library Gallery at the University of Iowa Libraries (UI Libraries) welcomes visitors to experience a stunning exhibition of rare movable books and paper objects this fall. Free and open to the public, Paper Engineering in Art, […]
- Supplemental Instruction moves to Main Library
by University of Iowa Libraries on 8 Sep 2025Most Supplemental Instruction (SI) sessions have moved from the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU) to a new location on the second floor of the Main Library. This space—the Academic Resource Center (LIB 2024)—will host the majority of SI […]
- Michelson named new curator of rare books and maps
by Elizabeth Riordan on 22 Aug 2025We are happy to introduce Laura Michelson as the new curator of rare books and maps at the University of Iowa Libraries. Laura previously served as the Maps Collection librarian, a term position funded by the Roy J. Carver Charitable […]
- Big Ten Open Books launches second collectionby University of Iowa Libraries on 11 Aug 2025
In partnership with eight Big Ten-affiliated university presses, the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Center for Library Programs has expanded the Big Ten Open Books project with the publication of the second 100-book collection. The second […]
- Inside the UI Libraries with Meredith Kite
by Krista Hershberger on 25 Jun 2025Inside the University of Iowa Libraries is your look behind-the-scenes to meet the people and discover the stories making our organization unique and valuable. From cutting-edge databases to rare books, join us to explore a world of […]