Juneteenth is coming. Here are three youtube videos from the Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture that describe the origins of Juneteenth, the celebration’s spread throughout Texas and the rest of the country, and its continuing significance. The first is embedded below.
And here is Part 3.
Library faculty have had a busy week presenting at two Iowa Library Conferences, the Iowa Private Academic Libraries (IPAL) and ILA/ACRL (Iowa Library Association / Association of College Research Libraries) Spring Conferences.
Professor Bruce Gilbert presented on Experiential Learning and Info Lit: Bridging the Gap at IPAL.
Dean Rod Henshaw presented with Richard Fyffe of Grinnell College on Learning from Leading: the Central Iowa Collaborative Experience at IPAL.
Professor Teri Koch, Cyd Dyer and Pam Rees presented at Friday’s (May 2, 2014) Iowa Library Association – Association of College & Research Libraries Annual Conference in a session entitled: CI-CCI: A New Model for Shared Print Collections Develops in Iowa.
Teri Koch, Collection Development Coordinator, Drake University; Cyd Dyer, College Librarian/Archivist, Simpson College; and Pam Rees, Library Director, Grand View University.
It’s the end of semester crunch time and seating — especially in our quiet study areas — is at a premium. We’ve allocated additional quiet study space (100+ seats) for the next two weeks. Here’s where!
Room 201 (the fishbowl) is dedicated to quiet study at the end of the semester. There are more than 60 seats — all of which have great access to electrical power and a nice view of campus.
The Reading Room is always a great spot to study! We’ve added 10 tables and an additional 40 seats. Not all have good access to power, but many do.
Women’s History Month displays at Cowles Library
Cowles Library is one of the 200 founding libraries of Knowledge Unlatched: “a collaborative initiative enabling open access books. Knowledge Unlatched is helping stakeholders to work together for a sustainable open future for specialist scholarly books. Our vision is a healthy market that includes free access for end users.”
“The current system for publishing scholarly books is not working for anyone. Monographs in the humanities and social sciences, in particular, are in crisis.
“Knowledge Unlatched is committed to changing this. We believe that by working together libraries can create a sustainable route to Open Access for scholarly books and secure long-term cost savings for their own institutions by sharing the costs of making HSS monographs available on a Creative Commons licence. Supporting Open Access through Knowledge Unlatched will not cost more than simply purchasing a more traditionally published title.”
Here’s a great photo set from Drake Marketing, featuring items from the University Archives. The new space was officially dedicated Friday, Dec. 6.
Thanks to Sean Kehoe, University Events Manager, we’ve added 16 tables and 64 seats to the quiet study area of the Reading Room and Reading Room atrium for the end of semester crunch.
The previously announced maintenance work scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 23 has been cancelled. There will no disruption to quiet study areas.
Materials are moving in to the new University Archives and Special Collections space at Cowles Library. The new, 6,000 sq. ft. area includes a large climate-controlled storage unit for archival preservation. Special Collections materials — which include artifacts from Drake’s history and many rare and unique documents and items — have been scattered throughout the Library in file cabinets, boxes and “piles o’ stuff.” The new area will also hold the papers of Senator Tom Harkin and be the site of a mass digitization project for the papers of Iowa Governor Robert Ray. Not everything will move today, but it’s an important milestone for the Library and Drake University. Here’s a few pictures:
Workmen from Siddall Moving are handling the heavy work of moving fully loaded file cabinets.
Many archival materials are stored in special, acid-free boxes.
Archives/Special Collections staff members Claudia Frazer and Kathy Lincoln evaluate some of the many ‘non-print’ items in the Archives.
Kathy Lincoln, Digital Metadata Specialist and Kevin Protzmann, student assistant and a senior majoring in History & Politics, examine some of the archival materials newly moved into University Archives and Special Collections.