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Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry goes foraging in our collections to find weird and wild specimens of flora. “But it’s absurd. Plants talking!” “So much more absurd…

Student Reference Assistant Benjamin Yusen shares his exploration of Boorman’s abandoned film epic. Most people who are familiar with the director-writer-producer John Boorman know…

In celebration of Pride Month, student Curatorial Assistant Jake Gentry shares his exploration of the newly-processed archive of writer, activist and artist Jerry Boyd. The Lilly…

Curator of Dermatology, Science, and General Medicine Erin Chiparo shares her exciting discovery of an uncataloged copy of an important work of astronomy and the work by Rare…

Edgar Rice Burroughs was not a lexicographer but an author of pulp fiction, dozens of adventure and science fiction novels. He was also an ardent proponent of eugenics. Nowadays…

At the beginning of 2023, I wrote that I’d pull interesting dictionaries and occasionally other language books and items from boxes of the late Madeline Kripke’s collection of 20…

This is the story behind Judy Everson's Lilly Library Research Fund. It goes into her family, educational background, and affinity with primary source materials.

The Lilly Library 2023 Ngũgĩ Lecture was postponed due to illness and is now scheduled on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024.

By Kamden Spies, Lilly Library desk attendant and graduate student in the Department of Information & Library Science By 1932, Mickey Mouse was arguably the most beloved figure in…

I was surprised that I wrote so much about prices in my recent post about the unique copy of Louis-Lucien Bonaparte’s Dialects of England and Scotland presented to Henry Baird…