Online Exhibits
The Special Collections and University Archives department launched the library’s digital exhibits program in 1998 with “Today’s Seeds for Tomorrow’s Harvest.” Since then, the library has developed digital exhibits that help to tell the stories found within the library’s unique, rare, and uncommon materials.
Some of these exhibits are nearly 20 years old. As time passes, websites decay. All of the historical exhibits below include a link to the preserved version of the website in the university archives’ web archives. Be patient, links to web.archive.org are particularily slow to load.
Featured Exhibits
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Botanist, Basketball Player, and Budding Conservationist: Ada Hayden's Student Years at Iowa State

The Three Founders of Botany: Images of Rare Works from Special Collections
2013 version (Internet Archive)