The Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement at Drake University and the Drake University Archives and Special Collections will publicly unveil Former U.S. Senator Tom Harkin’s Americans with Disabilities Act congressional files and materials on the 25th anniversary of the signing of Harkin’s signature piece of legislation.
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Drake Supports SEP College Week
As part of Southeast Polk College Week, Mitchellville Elementary fourth and fifth graders visited Drake University campus on April 29. Trent Grundmeyer, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, and Joe Nelson, Principal of Mitchellville Elementary, put together a field trip creating a college experience for about 50 students. With the assistance of Drake faculty, staff and students, this was...
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Drake’s libraries adopt new platform for enhanced services
Drake University’s libraries have selected a new integrated cloud-based platform for collections management, purchasing, and patron account management.
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Koch presents at American Library Association’s midwinter meeting
Teri Koch, professor of librarianship at Drake University, spoke at the Print Archive Network forum at the American Library Association's midwinter meeting.
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The Lytles’ Legacy
Steven Lytle always knew he’d go to college. He just never imagined that the college would be Drake. “My parents would have seen that I went to school somehow,” says Lytle, BN’67, LW’76. “But the only way I could afford a private school was with scholarships from many different donors.” With his tuition halved by...
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Remembering Pearl Harbor
Robert Isokane, LA’53, was on a golf course in Honolulu when his life—and, indeed, the world—changed forever. The date was December 7, 1941 and Isokane was 15 years old. The Honolulu native was working as a caddy for an Army lieutenant colonel when the colonel was suddenly called away. Soon Isokane [pronounced e-so-kahn-ay] and a...
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Koch presents at 33rd annual Charleston Conference
Teresa Koch, professor of librarianship and Collections Development Librarian at Cowles Library, presented at the 33rd annual Charleston Conference in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Rod Henshaw named president of the Affinity Academic Libraries Group
Rod Henshaw, dean of Cowles Library at Drake University, is now serving as president for the Affinity Academic Libraries Group—a group of 33 private academic libraries representing master’s level institutions from across the United States.
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