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Happy Fourth of July
The Digital Library Services staff hopes everyone has a great Fourth of July weekend. We hope you have good times with family and friends. Fourth of July gathering outside house, Fonda, Iowa, July 4,...
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100,000!
Iowa Research Online has just passed the 100,000 mark! The repository launched in January 2009. Since that time, we have added 3,630 items to the collection which have now been used over 100,000...
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Improved searching of Wallace Collection
We have recently improved the searching of our Henry A Wallace Collection. This enhancement makes finding letters, telegrams, postcards or memorandum much easier. In 1975, Earl M. Rogers and Leslie W....
View ArticleBooks are spawned with the fecundity of Egyptian frogs
It can be interesting to see how views of education have changed since the late 19th century. The journal Educational Weekly, published from 1877–1881, opens a window onto teaching methodology of the...
View ArticleWisława Szymborska, 1923-2012
Wisława Szymborska, Nobel-prize winning Polish poet, died on February 1, 2012. According to The Telegraph: The Nobel award committee’s 1996 citation called her the “Mozart of poetry,” a woman who mixed...
View ArticleOne million
As of July 15, 2012, Iowa Research Online has had over 1,000,000 download of items. This means there have been 1,000,000 uses of University of Iowa faculty, staff and student created or supported...
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Little Village archive
We recently added the back content of Little Village magazine in our repository, which will ensure this important local title will remain widely accessible (http://ir.uiowa.edu/littlevillage/). Many of...
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Happy birthday Bram Stoker
Here are some items from our collection that would make appropriate reading for Bram Stoker’s 165th birthday: Perry, Dennis R.. “Whitman’s Influence on Stoker’s Dracula.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review...
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Remembering Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) never came to Iowa City, so our connection with him in our collection is slight. However, since he recently died and given the importance of his work, I wanted to highlight a...
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Brown v Board of Education
Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in the Brown v Board of Education, making separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The Daily Iowan story...
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Dada/Surrealism re-launched
We are very excited that after a hiatus of over twenty years, the journal Dada/Surrealism has been relaunched. It is a peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal sponsored by the Association for...
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Remembering Shirley Temple Black
Child star Shirley Temple died yesterday (Feb 10, 2014). After retiring from theater, she became active in the Republican Party at which time she attended various fund raising events. Mary Louise...
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Life photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt’s 1961 visit to campus
A few months ago, I saw a photograph (not in our collection) taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life magazine of students drawing a live nude model. The photo is undated other than 1961. Looking through...
View ArticleUse of Older Theses
By far the most heavily used collection in Iowa Research Online are our theses and dissertations. Most of the items in the collection are from the last decade, either from graduates who voluntarily...
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Four Million Downloads!
Items in Iowa Research Online have been downloaded more than four million times! This means that scholarship created by University of Iowa faculty, researchers and students is being read around the...
View ArticleIRO November 2014 Usage
We regularly look at usage information for Iowa Research Online. The software shows us the 10 items receiving the most downloads overall (total use is averaged out across how long the item has been...
View ArticleIRO December 2014 Usage
While their total downloads was not the highest in IRO, these items had the greatest percentage increase of use in December compared with November. Compulsory Homosexuality and Black Masculine...
View Article1.5 Million downloads from IRO in 2014!
Iowa Research Online had an impressive 1,506,333 items downloaded in 2014. When all supplemental content is included, this number increases to 1,558,358! IRO currently has 16,209 full text items, 1,521...
View ArticleIRO January 2015 usage
Content in Iowa Research Online was downloaded 131,084 times in January, a 19% increase over January 2015. The items receiving the most use were all theses: Oxidation and reactivity of...
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IRO Highlights for Black History Month
Here are some highlights from our digital collections for black history month. These three books are available as free PDFs online. They were published in the University of Iowa Press Singular Lives...
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