Join us for a tour of the library's Digital Media Lab, focusing on equipment for digitizing VHS tapes, audio cassettes, 8mm or Super 8 film, Mini DV, slides, photos, and negatives. You'll see demonstrations and have time to ask questions!
The Digital Media Lab is for self-directed projects. However, during the tour, we'll discuss your interests and provide a starting point for any specific project you have in mind.
Registration is optional if you'd like to receive an email reminder.
Join us for our latest Local Libraries LIT event featuring Grace M. Cho. This is a free event, but registration is required.
Grace M. Cho's work lies at the intersection of creative nonfiction and interdisciplinary scholarship, examining how residues of state violence and historical trauma affect intimate spaces of the present. As a sociologist, she uses storytelling to expand the perspectives through which readers understand personal experiences. Grace serves as a full-time professor at the City University of New York, where she specializes in sociology, food studies, gender studies, critical criminology, and disability studies.
Stop by to engage with local groups on the topics of intellectual freedom and the freedom to read. Receive a free banned book from Annie's Foundation, and make sure to visit the ICPL Bookmobile. There, you can create or update your library account and explore our collection for borrowing.
Join the Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation for a lecture with writer Ilyon Woo, benefiting the Iowa City Public Library. The event will feature a lecture followed by a question-and-answer session. Presigned copies of books will be available for purchase from Prairie Lights in the lobby at the event. Ten percent of book sales will be donated back to the Library. Tickets available online.
Ilyon Woo is a New York Times bestselling author, celebrated for her book "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom," retells the remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave in 1848. The book was named one of the top ten books of 2023 by the New York Times and People Magazine, and has won acclaim in The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Boston, Chicago Public Library, and Oprah Daily.
