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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.
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2024 Lilly Library Ngũgĩ Lecture
The Lilly Library 2023 Ngũgĩ Lecture was postponed due to illness and is now scheduled on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. -
Disney and the Blue Ribbon Books
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… -
A Most Expensive Textbook
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… -
A Book Unique in Several Dimensions
Madeline Kripke’s collection includes many rare books, some of them classically rare — old books of status for which collectors compete at auction — and some of the ephemera made…