IU Lilly Library

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/…

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

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/…

To celebrate @IUTheatreDance'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…

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

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/…

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/…

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.

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

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.

@ElizFoxwell Thank you for sharing this! cc @ArchivistAva

@IULillyLibrary She was truly unique. I was a friend of hers. Here's the blog post I wrote after her death: elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2013/08/barbar…

A fascinating look at the papers & other items of Barbara Mertz/Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels @IULillyLibrary —a bittersweet experience for those of us who miss her every day. @MPMManor #Egyptology #AmeliaPeabody

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/…

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

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

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

The Lilly’s copy was recently acquired from bookseller James Burmester and is one of only three known surviving copies. During #PrideMonth—and all year round—we celebrate the stories of LGBTQIA+ people who defy categorization and convention. 3/3 🧵

They may have been intersex, transgender, nonbinary, or some category that our modern language cannot capture. The pages tell of their amorous adventures with both male and female lovers, and their propensity to abscond with money from their wealthy paramours. 2/3 🧵

People who have defied binary gender categorization have always existed. This 1824 pamphlet tells the story of Bigenio, “an hermaphrodite endowed with the propensities of both sexes.” Nothing remains of Bigenio in the historical record aside from this sensationalized story 1/3 🧵

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/…