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Glenn Close discusses her decision to donate costumes to IU
"No one literally that I know of or that I could find had the kind of facilities that Indiana University has and already had in their extraordinary, state-of-the-art, archival buildings." - Glenn Close
Close donated her meticulously preserved costume collection to the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design's Sage Collection in 2017. During one of her visits to the Bloomington campus, Close toured the Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility, operated by IU Libraries.
Excellence at Indiana University
IU Libraries partners with nearly every academic department on the Bloomington campus, and collaborates with national and international organizations, IU Libraries' people are often recognized for our leadership within these communities.
Congratulations to Willa Tavernier for her two new positions in national library organizations, and to Carrie Schwier, and Carey Champion, who won the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) New Author Award for co-writing the article “Learning in Place: The Teaching Archivist and Place-Based Education,” which was published in MAC’s publication Archival Issues.
Renovation suspends services at Lilly Library
The $12.4 million project to renovate the iconic Lilly Library is coming to a close. Librarians and outside contractors are planning the process that will take collections now housed in several secure campus locations back home to the Lilly Library. The months-long process of moving collections will also disrupt our services—even more than the global pandemic already has.
Regretfully, Lilly Library reference and digitization services must be suspended from March 1 through at least August 15, 2021 to accommodate the moving back process.