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About the University of Iowa Collections Coalition

The mission of the UI Collections Coalition (UICC) is to support the educational, research, and service goals of the University of Iowa by encouraging and advancing the professional care, documentation, and study of the artifacts, specimens, and documents in the various collections located in the University community, to make the collections meaningful and accessible to members of the University and general public, and to encourage the professional growth and development of the administrators, curators, and keepers of the collections.

The goals of the UICC are:

to foster an awareness of and appreciation for the various University collections as important artifactual documents of both departmental and institutional history; and as contributions to the universe of knowledge;
to increase the current awareness and use of collections in the University community by incorporating collections data into campus informational databases;
to serve the educational mission of the University by individually and jointly sponsoring exhibitions of artifacts, specimens, and documents held in the various collections;
to promote the professional growth and development of the UICC members by sponsoring programs concerning collections, and sharing knowledge and information regarding professional issues and concerns; and
to serve as a forum and mutual support group for UICC members.

Resources

The UI Collections Coalition will run a five session seminar on the continuing role of physical collections in university learning and research. This first open evaluation of collections and their prospects in context with digital delivery has an enrollment crossing departments of Communication Studies, Political Science, Theatre Arts, English, Biological Sciences, Mathematics, International Studies, Art and Journalism. Here the larger implications of the print and screen book intersection will be studied as screen delivery of archeological, ethnographic, archival, biological and geological collections cross all disciplines.
Topics in Museum Studies: The Continuing Role of Real Collections (Spring Break Workshop; 024:190:WK1; March 14-18, 2011.

See the on-line Iowa Giant Ground Sloth Excavation News at the Museum of Natural History website.

Also on-line: Exhibitions of the University of Iowa Libraries collections. Visit now!

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Last updated: 13 March 2011: By Tiffany Adrain. Email: tiffany-adrain@uiowa.edu