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Rediscovered author’s book to be read statewide
By Mike Kilen
The Des Moines Register
November 1, 2009
Source: www.desmoinesregister.com
Excerpt: “The relationships of the people in the book will provoke all kinds of discussion,” said Susan Craig, the co-chair of All Iowa Reads and Iowa City Public Library director. “We really liked the Midwest connections because the last couple of years we got away from that.”
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Spotlight Iowa City: Keeping busy never a problem
By Marleen Linares
The Daily Iowan
November 3, 2009
Source: www.dailyiowan.com
Excerpt: Graduating from California State University-Northridge, Sereduck moved to Iowa City in 1976, taking graduate classes in library science at the UI and picking up the phones as a dispatcher to make some money. Now she trades in her crackling radio and blinking phone for books and a little bit of quiet volunteering at the Iowa City Public Library a couple times a week … “She is a joy to be around,” said Terri Byers, the library’s circulation department volunteer supervisor. “She’s always up and friendly. She’s much more than a volunteer to us.”
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Iowa City city councilors look to greener community
By Nicole Karlis
The Daily Iowan
October 20, 2009
Source: www.dailyiowan.com
Excerpt: Maeve Clark, information services coordinator at the Iowa City Public Library, and Jen Jordan, recycling coordinator from the city’s Public Works division, head the group … Some of the organization’s community green events have included landfill tours, selling Earth Machine compost bins, and holding a pharmaceutical collection event in which local residents could drop off unused medicine. ECO-Iowa City also plans to grow a garden on College Street near College Green Park. Iowa City already has community gardens, including in Wetherby Park and the UI Student Gardens.
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Local artists win competition
Iowa City Press-Citizen
October 31, 2009
Source: www.press-citizen.com
Excerpt: Library Art Advisory Committee has chosen eight artworks by local artists as the winners of the 2008 Iowa City Public Library Art Purchase Prize Competition … The winners were chosen from a group of 26 original artworks submitted by artists. The original works of art will be on display at the library during the month of December. Beginning in January 2010, they will be added to the Library’s Art To Go collection and can be borrowed for two months.
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Iowa City Public Library 2009 Art Purchase Prize Winners
Eastern Iowa News
October 29, 2009
Source: www.easterniowanews.com
Excerpt: On October 27, 2009, the Library Art Advisory Committee chose eight artworks by local artists as the winners of the 2009 Iowa City Public Library Art Purchase Prize Competition. The winners were chosen from a group of 26 original artworks submitted by artists.
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Food-themed film festival to start
Iowa City Press-Citizen
November 4, 2009
Source: www.press-citizen.com
Excerpt: The first film on Friday will be “The Garden,” a documentary that follows a group of low-income families working to protect a 14-acre urban farm Los Angeles from real estate developers. On Nov. 13, the feature will be “Fresh,” which looks at the consequences of the transformation of agriculture into an industrial model. The final film will be on Nov. 19, and will be “King Corn,” which follows two friends who follow what happens to their corn crop as it moves through the American food supply. One of the producers and the writer, Ian Cheney, will be on hand to discuss the movie afterward.
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ECO Iowa City to host food-inspired film festival
Corridor Buzz
November 3, 2009
Source: http://corridorbuzz.com
Excerpt: ECO Iowa City is hosting a film festival with a food theme featuring the films “The Garden,” “Fresh,” and “King Corn.” Films will be screened at 7 p.m. November 6, 13 and 19 in Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St. Free popcorn will be offered. “King Corn” writer Ian Cheney will speak at the library following the Nov. 19 screening.
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Activists Spread 350 Message ‘Round the World (and Here in Iowa)
By Julia Wasson
Blue Planet, Green Living
October 26, 2009
Source: www.blueplanetgreenliving.com
Excerpt: University of Iowa students and Iowa City activists send the world a message on climate change … ECO Iowa City handed out information about the many green activities sponsored by that organization and the City of Iowa City.
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Books and Blogging: My Side of the Story
By Meena Kandasamy
October 16, 2009
Source: http://meenu.wordpress.com/
Excerpt: This presentation was made at the Panel Discussion on The Digital Public Sphere: Books in the Age of New Media, Oct. 15, 2009, Iowa City Public Library … A book is no longer a material thing that you can use to flaunt your knowledge. It has outgrown its handiness as a pillow or a paperweight. Forget the dilemma of choosing the right shade of burgundy that would work well with lipstick-kissing your collection of poetry! Books, in their 21st century digital avatar cannot even be autographed. They have lost their fresh scent, their serrated edges …
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The Public Option
By Scott McLemee
Inside Higher Ed
October 21, 2009
Source: www.insidehighered.com
Excerpt: … the first event on the first day was held at the Iowa City Public Library. This was a panel on new ways of discussing books in the age of digital media — recounted here by Meena Kandasamy, a young Tamil writer and translator whose speech that evening rather stole the show … Public libraries were once called “the people’s universities.” The populist impulse has fallen on some scurvy times, but this trope has interesting implications. The public library is an institution that nobody would be able to start now. A place where you can read brand-new books and magazines for free? The intellectual property lawyers would be suing before you finished the thought.
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Group to host bike ride through town
Iowa City Press-Citizen
October 24, 2009
Source: www.press-citizen.com
Excerpt: Other events related to the 350.org day include a screening of “The Age of Stupid,” sponsored by ECO Iowa City and the Environmental Film Festival at 4:30 p.m. in meeting room A at the Iowa Public Library.
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Local film festival promotes activism
By Adam Salazar
The Daily Iowan
October 22, 2009
Source: www.dailyiowan.com
Excerpt: Local nonprofit groups ECO-Iowa City and the Iowa City Environmental Film Festival are putting on the event. The festival was established in September 2008 by two groups — the Trinity Episcopal Church, 320 E. College St., and the environmental education nonprofit Backyard Abundance. The organizations screen eco-conscious films every month except in December and June.
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ECO Iowa City to host events Saturday
Iowa City Press-Citizen
October 21, 2009
Source: www.press-citizen.com
Excerpt: ECO Iowa City will host several events to mark International Day of Climate Action events Saturday, including a workshop titled “Reducing Your Carbon Footprint,” a bike ride, the Environmental Film Festival’s showing of “The Age of Stupid” and a Ghost Bike Ride to Oakland Cemetery.
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Quotation by critic and poet Meena Kandasamy, at The Digital Public Sphere: Books in the Age of New Media, Oct. 15, 2009, Iowa City Public Library as part of the 2009 Obermann Humanities Symposium, “Platforms for Public Scholars.” …
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