{"id":350143,"date":"2010-02-22T16:49:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2010-02-22T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:49:42","slug":"reading-the-fine-print-in-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/350143","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Fine Print in Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest issue of <em>fyi:<\/em> <em>Faculty &amp; Staff News at the University of Iowa,<\/em> the Charlotte M.\u00a0Smith Miniature Book Collection is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/~fyi\/issues\/issues2009_v46\/02222010\/photos\/Photofeature022210\/index.html#12\">featured in a photo spread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">A tiny collection of books held in Special Collections is dwarfed by the library&#8217;s other five million volumes. These 4,500 itsy-bitsy books are \u201cminiatures.\u201d From pocket-size to micro-miniature, most books in the collection were donated by one person, Charlotte M. Smith. The gift inspired others to add to the collection. Visitors may get an up-close look at the miniatures in Special Collections on the third floor of UI Main Library.<\/p>\n<p>You can find\u00a0more information about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/spec-coll\/bookcolls\/Smith%20Miniature%20Collection\/smithindex.htm\">unique book collection<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/spec-coll\/MSC\/ToMsc500\/MsC457\/MsC457_smith.htm\">Charlotte M. Smith<\/a>, the woman who collected these miniatures in the UI Libraries&#8217; Special Collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest issue of fyi: Faculty &amp; Staff News at the University of Iowa, the Charlotte M.\u00a0Smith Miniature Book Collection is featured in a photo spread. A tiny collection of books held in Special Collections is dwarfed by the library&#8217;s other five million volumes. These 4,500 itsy-bitsy books are \u201cminiatures.\u201d From pocket-size to micro-miniature, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}