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Share your photograph, tell our story.

Posted by Candice on Saturday, Mar 7, 2015

school It's said that a photograph is worth a thousand words. Photographs can document and show an event, they can convey an idea, they can explain a thought. They can preserve a moment and tell the story that goes with it.

ICPL wants your photographs and your words. We want your stories.

Join us on Saturday, May 9 from 2-5 pm in Meeting Room A for ScanIt@ICPL--Local History, part of the Library's Weber Days events.

Bring in your photos, letters, documents, and other items related to the history of Iowa City and Johnson county. Share your items and tell the stories that go with them -- stories about the people, places, events, and things that are part of our past, but also part of who we are now. Help the Library build a resource about and for our community -- help us tell our story.

We will help you scan your items, and then send you home with your originals plus digital copies of them (you can supply your own USB, or we can send you the copies in an email). If you have questions about what you can bring in, or if you'd like to schedule a specific time (not necessary -- drop-ins are welcome!), contact Candice Smith at csmith@icpl.org or 319-887-6031.

Check out our Digital History Project, then become part of it.

About the Author

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I work at the Info Desk on the second floor, and I select books for the adult nonfiction collection. I have a degree in anthropology, which really helps in selecting...well...almost anything. I also manage the Art To Go collection of framed prints and original art, and the nonfiction DVDs.
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  • The secret lives of numbers : a hidden history of math's unsung trailblazers

    by Kate Kitagawa

    510.9 /Kitagawa
    Nonfiction, History, Science

    Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong--warped like the sixteenth-century map that enlarged Europe at the expense of Africa, Asia and the Americas. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, renowned math historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell make the case that the history of math is infinitely deeper, broader, and richer than the narrative we think we know.

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    I'm not even going to pretend that I understood everything in this book (and it's literally a book that just explains numbers and mathematics, you don't even have to do any!), but I found it full of interesting facts and tidbits nonetheless. The book is written in a very friendly fashion (math jokes, anyone?), and does a great service in highlighting brilliant people who made strides in the field of math, some of whom have been more or less lost to history because they didn't make it into the formal books. Eyeopening to the nth degree! -Candice
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