The Lilly Library is IU's principal rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library. Visit the library anytime to view our special exhibitions and items on permanent display such as the New Testament of the Gutenberg Bible and the Slocum Puzzle Collection. Admission is always free and the library is open to everyone; affiliation with IU is not required.

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A portrait of William Shakespeare from the First Folio, overlain with a photo of deep space.

The First Folio turns 400

Curators Rebecca Baumann and Maureen Maryanski share some of their favorite items and stories from the exhibition "Four Hundred Years of the First Folio: Celebrating the Works of William Shakespeare." 

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An illustrated man with a stern face and a moustache holds a heavy mallet raised above his head. He is poised to smash a bottle of alcohol.

“We hammer away!”: a look at Soviet Propaganda Posters

In this post, Brandis Malone, a second-year master’s student in the dual Russian and Eastern European studies and Library Science program at Indiana University, explores Soviet propaganda posters from the Lilly Library's collections.

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Steve Allen’s signature on the front endpapers of Steve Allen’s Bob Fables. A graphic of the humorist's famed eye glasses is in the center of the spread.

Looking at Slang through Steve Allen’s Glasses

Delving into Madeline Kripke’s collection of dictionaries, now part of the Lilly's collections, Michael Adams shares some boffo mid-century compendiums of slang.

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