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Welcome NSO! Learn and explore with IU Libraries
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Exhibition LGBTQ+ Student Life in Bloomington
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Video playlist Take a minute to explore the Lilly Library collections
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Starting a book club? We can help!
Do you belong to a book club? Would you like to start one, but don't know how? If you can gather a small group of interested readers, we can supply free books and some discussion questions you can use as you host your own gatherings! Our current book is "Galapagos" by Hoosier author Kurt Vonnegut, in which a small group of apocalypse survivors stranded on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave new human race. Vonnegut's humor, accessible writing style, and Hoosier roots make his work a natural for book club discussion! You could even make it part of your own Granfalloon celebration.
You don't need to be an IU student or faculty member to participate, and you do not need to return the books when you're finished.
Rest and Recharge with IU Libraries!
The Herman B Wells Library extends a special welcome to families accompanying their new IU students to New Student Orientation this summer! In our Rest and Recharge Lounge, within the Learning Commons on the first floor of the West Tower, you can charge your phone, grab a take and make kit, or kick back and relax with a novel from the Undergraduate Browsing Collection.
Or cross the lobby to the Scholars' Commons in the East Tower, where you can find Arbutus yearbooks from past years - if you're an IU alum, see if you can find yourself!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask us.
Award-winning graduate finds "best moments" in libraries
Bruna Kalil Othero Fernandes is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Last spring, she won the People’s Choice Award in the University Graduate Schools’ Three Minute Thesis competition. The University Graduate School is one of the IU Libraries’ partners and its offices reside on the fifth floor of the East Tower in the Herman B Wells Library. Throughout her scholarly career, Bruna has found herself drawn to libraries, making use of the Wells Library and the Lilly Library in particular. She urges students, especially undergraduates, to “go to the library and look for something you’re interested in. Not something you must read for your classes or must do research on, but what are you interested in.”