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Bindings Fall 2025
No full textoai:bindings:id:3466115 undergraduate student employees earn scholarships for 2024–25 – 4
Two graduate student employees recognized with academic enrichment awards – 8
Inside the Libraries: Behind the scenes with Chris Childs and Christine Bellomy – 10
Special Collections and Archives’ Elizabeth Riordan recognized with 2024 Benton Award for Excellence – 14
New staff awards bestowed to Kevin Storey and Katie Petersen – 16
UI Libraries celebrate investiture of Orazem in second endowed position Kate Orazem officially appointed as Jean Lloyd-Jones and Michal Eynon-Lynch Iowa Women’s Archives Women in Politics Archivist – 18
Our Libraries, by the numbers – 22
Bruce Harreld portrait added to Main Library Presidential Portrait Gallery – 24
Bringing exhibitions to life: Behind the scenes of A Roll of the Dice – 26
New exhibition in the Main Library Gallery explores paper engineering across genres – 30
Quick hits: Each of our libraries brought its own personality and programming to the spring 2025 semester – 34
Christie Krugler reflects on serving as chair of the Libraries Advancement Council – 38
Opportunities to support the Libraries – 4
Bindings Spring 2025
Full text link4 — Student employee spotlights — Izabella Botto and Carson Hartzog8 — For UI Libraries student employees, groundwork for success and epiphanies come with the job — Student employee alumni trace the Libraries’ impact14 — Inside the Libraries — Andrea Anderson and Maggie Halterman-Dess18 — Looking back on Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories20 — A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive22 — Quick hits: Each of our libraries brought its own personality and programming to the fall 2024 semester26 — Libraries Advancement Council fall 2024 meeting28 — Eichacker-Harper family recipients of the University of Iowa Family Spirit Award29 — Together Hawkeyes, together for the University of Iowa Librarie
Bindings Academic Year 2023–24
No full textAt the University of Iowa Libraries, our work is often to facilitate a meeting between past and future. After all, it’s in our spaces—physical and digital—that students, professors, and researchers gather to share resources and generate ideas. Across all seven of our libraries, we value responsiveness and foresight alongside expertise. This issue of Bindings is all about that winning combination throughout the 2023–24 academic year. 4 — 13 student library workers receive scholarships for 2023–24 8 — Two graduate student employees receive academic enrichment awards from the Libraries 9 — M Clark and Emily Weider receive fellowships for international study 10 — Student employee spotlights: Cassandra Parsons and Ramin Roshandel 14 — Q&A: Meet Jade E. Davis, associate university librarian for teaching, learning, and research 16 — Staff spotlights: Patricia Baird and Brad Ferrier 18 — The Studio’s Matthew Butler selected to receive 2023 Benton Award 20 — Staff news 22 — Karen Shemanski selected for university honor for human resources professionals 24 — Our Libraries, by the numbers 26 — Hardin Library for the Health Sciences celebrates 50 years with major fourth-floorrenovations/ A modernized study space and a new reading room for the John Martin Rare Book Room beginthe next chapter in Hardin’s history 32 — Crafting the future of conservation and collections care. A groundbreaking internship trains the nextgeneration of book and paper conservators 36 — The Libraries’ Book Model Collection binds the book’s past to its present 38 — Making the Book, Past and Present places the centuries in conversation 43 — Library highlights: Each of our libraries brought its own personality and programming to the 2023–24 academic year 46 — Jane Roth reflects on serving as chair of the Libraries Advancement Council 49 — LAC member Virginia Eichacker considers her aunt’s impact captured in a historic photo 50 — Together Hawkeyes: Well on our way, with your help 52 — Quick hits: Offering a glimpse of the Libraries’ achievements throughout the year 54 — A chance encounter at the Main Library sparks one couple’s lifelong love stor
Bindings Summer 2023
No full textSome of the most intricate and imaginative work at the University of Iowa Libraries takes place just out of sight: beneath the binding of a centuries-old book, away from campus at the Libraries Annex, or in the connections we forge across campus. And it’s not just the students, faculty, and researchers who use the Libraries’ resources to break new ground. Often, it’s library staff who surprise each other with the scale and impact of our work.We’re proud to be able to share all of this remarkable work with you. I hope you enjoy exploring this issue, reading about our work, and getting to know the brilliant staff and students that make it all possible. Thank you for being part of the Libraries community.Preserving Hawkeye Sports History One Digitized Film at a Time — 4Student Employee Scholarship Winners — 6Lost and Bound — 10John Martin Rare Book Room Expanding, Receiving New Reading Room — 15Staff News and Features — 16Lichtenberger Engineering Library named Patent and Trademark Resource Center — 28Collections Management, Writ Large — 31Out & About: Queer Life in Iowa City — 36Hey Buddy, I'm Bill — 40Exploring the Black Film and Television Collection — 42Schaefer recognized for service as chair of the Libraries Advancement Council — 44A View From One Year In — 4
Bindings Winter 2022
No full textOur mission to provide stability. In this issue of BINDINGS, learn about the UI Libraries’ efforts to continue to deliver crucial academic resources to our campus community during a time of uncertainty due to the pandemic. This is the hallmark of librarianship: to be a steady-state presence in society, maintaining and promoting free access to reliable information that can shed light on human realities and allow thinkers, researchers, and creatives to transform our perspectives and contribute innovations.Also in this issue: read about librarians who work hand-in-hand with researchers to optimize data management for a study examining toxic sites and buildings; learn how a generous donor supports the Libraries’ documentation of Iowa women in politics; meet the director of the Art Library; view rare books recently acquired by the Libraries
Bindings Summer/Fall 2022
No full textPast, present, and future. This issue of BINDINGS reflects on the University of Iowa’s 179th anniversary celebration, including an exhibit at the Main Library Gallery titled “We Are Hawkeyes.”Also in this issue: news about Libraries staff accomplishments and updates on grant funding that will support efforts of the Libraries’ Iowa Women’s Archives, Sackner Archive, and Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
Bindings Summer 2021
Full text linkOur mission to ensure access. In this issue of BINDINGS, learn about the UI Libraries’ efforts to connect people with trustworthy information. Our librarians created a YouTube series about research and disinformation and staff at the Regional Medical Library have worked to provide credible health information about COVID.In addition, read about our efforts to ensure access to valuable stories about our campus through a Main Library Gallery exhibit that chronicles the history of a student-led effort to make the University of Iowa a welcoming place for Latino and Native American students
Bindings Winter 2021
Full text linkSparking positive change. This issue of BINDINGS covers the Libraries’ efforts during the pandemic, showing that the pressure of challenging circumstances can herald opportunities for collaboration and positive change. Read details of the Libraries’ work to reopen in the fall of 2020 with services for our users focused on safety. This issue also includes highlights about our staff and student employees, the Main Library Gallery Sackner Archive exhibition, our work toward anti-racisim, and the Libraries’ new Advancement Council
Bindings Summer/Fall 2020
No full textWe’re all in this together. This issue of BINDINGS includes a time line of library efforts from March through early August 2020. In March 2020, staff members of the University Libraries took quick action in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their efforts focused on keeping our staff, campus, and community members safe and on maintaining support for online teaching, learning, and research
Bindings Winter 2020
Full text linkServing our community of scholars. With an eye toward the future, the Libraries moves forward with strategic planning to enhance student success; support research and discovery; actively work to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion; and engage all learners. We support our student employees and inspire undergraduate researchers. We offer engineering workshops. Our health sciences librarians provide a crucial searching service for researchers. Our Main Library Gallery offers curated collections to visitors from throughout the region