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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An archival image of enslaved peoples at an auction.

Highlights from "Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom."

Curators Pedro Machado and Olimpia Rosenthal discuss six notable items from the current Lilly Library exhibition, "Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom."

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The title page of the Lilly Library's copy of Bernhard Schmid's Einer neuen kunstlichen Tabulatur auff Orgel und Instrument (1577). Monasterius Weingarth is written on the top and bottom of the page, with the year 1600 on the top.

A Map For the Body

Organist Travis Whaley,  PhD candidate in Musicology at the Jacobs School of Music, writes about the Lilly Library's copy of Bernhard Schmid’s collection of sacred and secular compositions written in organ tablature.

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Cover image of Say the Word, a new game for children based on the Thorndike Century Junior Dictionary

Just Say the Word

Continuing his exploration of the Kripke collection, Michael Adams writes about a children's literacy game used to markey the Thorndike-Century Dictionaries.

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