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April 2025
04/24/2025
Three classes of 50 local kindergarteners and their teachers from Fairview Elementary School filled the new WORKshop space in the Education Library to hear stories, watch a puppet show, and learn from Early Childhood Education students.
04/18/25 • Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design
04/16/25 • Indiana Daily Student
04/09/25 • Indy Star
Elise Calvi, head of Preservation, and Maddye Webb-Mitchell, media archivist, discuss the discovery and preservation of paper figures used in the production of the movie Hoosiers, directed by IU-alum David Anspaugh.
04/09/25 • Herald-Times
04/08/25 • Hiring Librarians Podcast
Meggan Press, Teaching and Learning Engagement Librarian, discusses her book, Get the Job: Academic Hiring For the New Librarian.
March 2025
3/27/25 • Indiana Daily Student
Art, architecture, and design librarian Sarah Carter discusses the Berg database, as well as other fashion research resources.
03/26/25 • Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Distinguished author Beverly Jenkins's visit, a collaboration with the Lilly Library, to campus was mentioned in this blog highlighting Black History Month celebrations in 2025.
3/25/25 • Indiana Daily Student
3/24/25 • Indy Star
IU Media Archivist Madeline Webb-Mitchell discusses the beginning of David Anspaugh's film career, many items from which are now part of a collection in IU Libraries Moving Image Archive.
3/25/2025 • New Books Network
IU Libraries recently published Afterthought: A Family Story by Heather Akou, Associate Professor of Fashion Design. Learn more about the book and the author in this episode of the New Books Network podcast.
3/18/25 • News at IU
"When I arrived in Bloomington, I met so many wonderfully bright students who were fluent not only in Russian, but in languages from Central Asian countries,” Veronika Trotter, now Senior Collections Reference Assistant, said of arriving to teach at the workshop in 2002.
03/18/25 • IndyStar
Director of University Archives and Special Collections Dina Kellams discusses the history of the bison as IU's (short-lived) mascot.
03/06/25 • Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News
Ilana Stonebraker, head of Business and Social Sciences at Indiana University Libraries, was a final round judge for the competition.
3/3/25 • IU Bloomington Today
February 2025
2/27/25 • Indiana Daily Student
2/16/25 • Indiana Daily Student
2/14/25 • Indiana Daily Student
02/13/25 • Bloomington Herald-Times
02/12/25 • Axios Indianapolis
"I'd always loved a good love story," Jenkins told Axios, "even though there was nothing in the majority culture that supported love stories for people who were not straight and white. I was just writing it at home for me."
2/12/25 • Indianapolis Recorder
January 2025
1/17/25 • Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design
01/17/25 • Indianapolis Business Journal
01/16/25 • BTAA-GIN Collection Stories
Map and Spatial Data Librarian Theresa Quill writes about the flowing name of the "river" on the IU campus. In addition to the multiple changes in the name of our beloved "river", the actual presence of the river has changed over time.
01/15/25 • Journal of Advancement, Communication, and Development in Academic Libraries
01/13/2025 • The Manuscript Society
01/02/25 • Journal of Map & Geography Libraries
December 2024
12/12/14 • Indiana Public Media
12/03/2024 • The Library of Congress • Moving Image Archive
12/02/24 • The Bloomington Herald Times (subscription required) • Lilly Library
General Headquarters is a board game imagined by Kurt Vonnegut and never published. Devoted game enthusiast Geoff Engelstein searched for the game, finding his way to the Lilly Library. Along with the Vonnegut family, Engelstein created the first physical edition of the board game.
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