National Dictionary Day is Oct. 16 and marks the birthday of the father of the American dictionary, Noah Webster. In celebration, the Lilly Library announces the establishment of the Merriam-Webster Archive, as well as the acquisition of the complete Madeline Kripke Dictionary Collection, of which the archive is a part.

MA candidate Leah Marie Chizek curated a mesmerizing display of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings of Albrecht Dürer under the tutelage of Nanette Brewer, the Eskenazi Museum of Art's Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper, and in collaboration with Jim Canary, Lilly Library Conservator.

Following a recently announced $10.9 million grant to support necessary core renovations at Indiana University’s world-class rare books library, Lilly Endowment Inc. will now provide an additional $500,000 to help IU commission an inspirational and iconic cycle of murals.

On December 6, 2019 the Lilly Library building closed for a once-in-a-generation renovation

Among the important collections added to the Library in recent years is the "Jonathan Krause Rare Newspaper and Magazine Collection," which spans the mid-seventeenth through the late-nineteenth centuries, and has a special focus on late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century American publications. There is a very strong concentration on newspapers and magazines that includes the writings of the “Founding Fathers” of the United States, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine. There are also a number of earlier newspapers and magazines relating to the American Revolution, and a focus on later American history including slavery and abolitionism, Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.