Indiana University Bloomington faculty (including emeriti), alumni, and centers have a new pathway for publishing books.

Indiana University Libraries is excited to announce the 2026 OER Summer Sprint Fellows. Summer Sprint is a hands‑on fellowship that supports instructors in creating more affordable, accessible, and student‑centered course materials. Fellows receive support from librarians and instructional technologists, the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues, and a stipend while redesigning course materials using Open Educational Resources (OER).   This year’s cohort will join a growing community of […]

Now that IU Day and the 75th running of the IU Student Foundation’s Little 500 is behind us, we’re taking a moment to highlight the behind-the-scenes of our digitization practices. In the last year, our digitization team has scanned nearly 700 items from 10 IU Archives collections, which totals over 14,000 pages digitized and made […]

Through collective negotiations with all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, IU faculty from all campuses can continue publishing open access in Wiley

When we think about movies, we often think of entertainment or escape. But many films reflect real-world challenges, especially when it comes to public policy. From climate change to corporate power and healthcare access, movies can help us better understand the complex decisions that shape our society. As an economic consulting and public policy analysis […]

The American Library Association has announced the Indiana University Bloomington Student Chapter as recipient of the 2026 Student Chapter of the Year Award

What drove me to select this topic for my blog post was not only my passion for my major in social work, but also my surprise at how social workers are presented in film. The following films are from IU Media Services’ collection. It is important to me to write about these movies so that […]

Welcome to the seventh spotlight of the Lilly Library’s Mechanical Puzzle blog series, written by Andrew Rhoda, the Lilly Library’s Curator of Puzzles! Puzzle vessels are objects where the solver drinks from, pours from, or pours into the vessel without spilling or otherwise losing the contents of the container. As Puzzles Old and New: How to Make and […]

If you are just considering venturing into public scholarship or have engaged in the public sphere for years, IU Libraries has programs and resources that may help at various stages of the publishing cycle. Whether you’re trying to choose a publishing venue, considering how to license your work, or questioning how to preserve access to […]