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If a company publishes school dictionaries, it probably wants students and teachers to use their dictionaries effectively, so it comes ... Exercising Dictionaries

In 2022-2023 IU Libraries recognized the first Lofton Family Student Employee Excellence Scholarship winners. Four exceptional IU Libraries Lilly Library studen

By Francisca Leiva Infante, PhD candidate, History Department, Binghamton University; Lilly Library Mendel Fellowship recipient, 2023. Traveling has always been ... Studying the…

This is yet another story of a box within a box among the thousand and more boxes comprising the unpacked ... Marketing Webster’s Third: The Big Book as a Big Box

By Erin Chiparo, Teaching and Research Coordinator and Co-Curator of Flora + Fauna When Isabel Planton and I began making ... Selections from Flora + Fauna: The Unicorn Through the…

One of the most satisfying moments in unpacking the Kripke Collection so far was when I reached into a box ... A Box within a Box

Eric Partridge (1894–1979) wrote several flawed but popular and influential dictionaries in the mid-twentieth century, including A Dictionary of Slang ... Eric Partridge in a Pear…

When Erin Chiparo and I started planning for the exhibition Flora + Fauna: A Bounty of Beasts and Botanicals, we ... Selections from Flora + Fauna: Mary Ellen Solt’s…

There is nothing like holding an old diary in your hands to connect you with the daily life of a ... The Civil War Diary of Charles Brother

By Brandis Malone Brandis Malone is a second-year master’s student in the dual Russian and Eastern European studies and Library ... “We hammer away!”: a look at Soviet Propaganda…