Visitors to the UI Special Collections & Archives reading room can view a new exhibit, Art to Eat By: Cookbooks as Record and Expression. The exhibit features items from UI Special Collections with a focus on food. Many of the items on display come from the Szathmary Culinary collection, donated by Chef Louis Szathmary. The exhibit was co-curated by SLIS student Diane Ray and curator Eric Ensley. Diane is in her third year of the  Book Studies and Library and Information Science Studies program (BLIS).

SLIS alum Anna Holland didn’t have to go far to find a satisfying library career. As a processing archivist for the Iowa Women’s Archives, she spends her workdays down the hall from SLIS classrooms and offices. Her current position follows a three-year graduate assistantship at IWA, which she held while in the joint MA and book arts certificate program provided by SLIS and the UI Center for the...

The School of Library and Information Science is ranked 32nd in the country according to the 2021 US News & World Report. SLIS ranks alongside several graduate and professional programs at the University of Iowa honored in the report. Read more here: https://now.uiowa.edu/2020/03/us-news-world-report-releases-latest-graduate-professional-programs-rankings

“I started by touring Italy for a week and a half,” said Kim Larmee, current SLIS student. She visited Rome, Florence, Venice, and Pompeii. It was the summer of 2018, and Larmee wanted to get the most out of her trip to Italy before she arrived in San Gemini and her courses started.Larmee came to San Gemini in order to study book and paper restoration at the San Gemini Preservation Studies, which...

The items run from the mundane to the fascinating: appointment books and rocks from the Great Wall of China; contracts and a press badge from the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana; a high school yearbook and a Pan Am bag.The Papers of Tom Brokaw: A Life & Career fills more than 90 boxes, and Elizabeth Riordan pored over every single paper and artifact—some more than once. The University...

The University of Iowa's School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) has helped master's students find their identities as librarians.

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SLIS student Rachel Hall is celebrating the publication of her article, “Public Praxis: A Vision for Critical Information Literacy in Public Libraries,” in Vol. 29, Issue 2 of Public Library Quarterly (PLQ). Hall wrote the article for Jim Elmborg’s Literacy and Learning course last year. Public Library Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal aimed at, “leaders-directors, managers, staff, trustees...

Published in American Libraries Direct, the online version of American Libraries, assistant professor Jennifer Burek Pierce's column highlights online continuing education opportunities for librarians. Check out some of the options, here.