About the Virtual Writing University Archive
The Virtual Writing University Archive began as a collaboration between the International Writing Program (IWP) at The University of Iowa and the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS).
The IWP held hundreds of recordings of its past literary events in analog audio and video formats. These recordings document the history of the IWP, and they represent an important chapter in the larger story of writing at Iowa. Prior to the Virtual Writing University Archive, the recordings were inaccessible and in danger of deterioration.
With the support of the Graduate College and the Arts and Humanities Initiative at the UI, faculty and students from the School of Library and Information Science have developed the Archive to provide access to the remarkable literary tradition that is writing at Iowa.
The project has grown since its inception to embrace the larger community of writers in Iowa City, and with no end to the recordings in sight, the Archive promises to be a resource for writers, students, and researchers for years to come.
We are migrating the contents of the archive from its previous location at http://iwp.info-science.uiowa.edu/cgi-bin/library, to the interface you are viewing now.
The format for streaming video that we used in the past is no longer universally compatible with all operating systems. We are collaborating with the University of Iowa's department of Academic Technologies to develop a new and more effective system for delivering video in this new interface.
Video content is still available from the old archive, at http://iwp.info-science.uiowa.edu/cgi-bin/library.