In November, Iowa State University celebrates Indigenous Heritage Month (also known as Native American Heritage Month). Below, please find some resources on indigenous Americans made available through our collections.
Category: Events
The Bomb Transcribe-a-thon Results!
On Wednesday, October 25th The Digital Initiatives Unit at Iowa State University held the first “Bomb” transcribe-a-thon. We had a total of 21 participating either locally or remotely. In the four hours of the event, 630 pages were transcribed, way to go!! Thank you all for participating! If you would like to join in transcribing…
Oh, the horror (of traditional publishing practices)!!!
This year, the Iowa State University Library is featuring a display of eye-catching, frightful posters for Open Access Week. Drawn from classic horror movie posters, these posters touch on a range of scholarly communication topics, from journal subscription costs to the Iowa State University Digital Repository.
Join Us at the “Bomb” Transcribe-a-thon!
In 2016, the Iowa State University Library completed a six-year project to digitize an entire run of the campus yearbook, the Bomb. Comprised of nearly 45,000 pages, the digital versions are not easily searchable due to the wide variety of fonts and graphic elements used throughout the decades. Just look at the text from one page…
DSI Update 