Posted by Candice on Saturday, Mar 7, 2015
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.
An energetic and astute account of someone I'd never heard of before, but who exhibits all the intellect, daring, humanism, and bravery of the heroic Indiana Jones! No doubt, part of the appeal of this story is seeing a woman blaze her path in a man's world, while also leaving that world better than she found it. But there's also the historical intrigue of exploration and discovery, of war-time cunning, of the changing worlds of academia and societal norms. I'll be first in line to admit that it takes a romantic gaze to look back with enjoyment on this time period and it's colonial trappings, but the author is careful to work in acknowledgment alongside a healthy dose of the understandings of historical cultural relativism. Christaine Desroches-Noblecourt's story deserves to be told, and this book does it well. If you like this, you might be interested in reading the very excellent "The Riddle of the Labyrinth" by Margalit Fox, which recounts Alice Kober's work in deciphering the Linear B script that was used in Mycenaean civilization. -Candice