Libraries

The Book Collector, published since 1952 in the United Kingdom, remains the only journal in the world that deals with all aspects of the book.  To mark the 60th anniversary of the Lilly Library, writer Silke Lohmann offers a look at the long connection between the Library and The Book Collector.  English actor Rupert Vansittart offers a podcast reading of a 1957 article written by then-director of the Lilly Library, David Randall. The enjoyable reading reviews the remarkable collection of Josiah Kirby (JK) Lilly, the genesis of the Lilly Library.

“We can’t let it stop.”  Those words were spoken in an open IU Libraries staff forum. We came together in anger and sadness. We did not leave healed. We are in no way ready to close this wound freshly opened by another murder of an unarmed person of color. At IU Libraries we add our voices to rising shouts for justice and to the loud condemnation of violence and racism toward all people of color, and to all of those in the IU community who say the time for change is now.

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Fashion design students researched, designed, and created sustainable Hoosier-themed spirit wear inspired by historic IU-themed apparel from the IU Libraries University Archives and the Sage Collection.
“Fashion design is very tactile, the structures and volumes are very hard to see in images. Here, they can see all the details. The actual objects make the connection between the past and now.”—Bo Choi, Visiting Faculty, Fashion Design, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design