TODAY: 4/6, 4:00-5:00pm, Lilly Library Lecture Hall. Lilly and Kinsey Institute at IU are partnering up to explore the print depictions of STIs in our collections. Also via Zoom. Details at: events.iu.edu/bloomington/ev…

Our most magical blog post ever! Highlights from our Flora + Fauna exhibition focusing on the unicorn in print. Includes adorable interview with local unicorn expert, age 5: blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/04/…

New on our blog: Archivist Kyra discusses the game she played while processing the papers of concrete poet Mary Ellen Solt: Poem or No-em? Is the spinning lamp below a poem... or something else? blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/05/…

Join us tomorrow at 5:00 at the Gayle Karch Cook Center for an exhibition opening and reception for our exhibition in partnership with IU Arts & Humanities and Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library celebrating Kurt Vonnegut's first novel, Player Piano. Full Granfalloon schedule here: granfalloon.indiana.edu/festival-sched…

The Lilly Library is a magical place. Our Conservator Jim Canary is chatting with one of our local squirrel friends.

We're hiring! Librarian positions currently posted: Head of Cataloging & Description and Curator of Religious Collections, both in the IU Lilly Library, our principal rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library. libraries.indiana.edu/job-postings-l…

How does a life become a collection? Our amazing Archivist @ArchivistAva writes about the challenging and rewarding process of working with the collection of Barbara Mertz, better known to readers by her pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels: blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/06/…

Well before he made #AsteroidCity, Wes Anderson wrote to film critic Pauline Kael asking for her advice and reaction to his new film, Rushmore. He included a Rushmore patch—a special piece of film history that shows a beloved director as he just begins to get his start.

Bibliographies as far as the eye can see! This weekend we’re hosting Rare Book School course Reference Sources for Researching Printed Western Americana, taught by our Director, Joel Silver.

The Lilly Library is a Tardis. With 7 stories, it’s bigger on the inside that it looks on the outside (at least from the front). Also we can take you anywhere in space and time.

Our Head Archivist @ArchivistAva continues her journey processing the papers of Barbara Merz, aka Elizabeth Peters aka Barbara Michaels. This time, we look at sexist fan mail, battling Egyptologists, and a letter of complaint to Chicken of the Sea. blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/06/…

Two of our student colleagues, Becky Craft and Brandis Malone, both dual degree students in Russian and East European Studies and Library Science, do a deep dive into a remarkable 16th-c Slavonic Bible: blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/07/…

Happy #Barbenheimer Day to all who celebrate! No matter what movie you are seeing this weekend, we’ve got you covered. We’re your Barbie Dream Library. #BarbieTheMovie #Oppenheimer

To celebrate IU Theatre + Dance's production of Orlando, we're throwing a party celebrating queer lives! IU Drama students will read letters from Vita Sackville-West & we'll have a pop-up exhibit of gender rebels in our collections. 10/3 at 4:00. More info: events.iu.edu/libraries/even…

We could not be more delighted to announce the acquisition of the archives of stage magician, writer, and actor Ricky Jay. Read more here about this remarkable collection: libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library/…

We would like to offer up these cheeky Scaup Ducks from the third volume of Audubon's Birds of America (Plate CCXXIX/229)! #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay

Get a peek at the work of our colleagues in the Craig Preservation Lab. We are so grateful for the work they do preserving and protecting our collections! blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/craiglab/2024/…