Curatorial assistant Jake Gentry delves into the dark history of witch-hunting with some infamous books from the Lilly Library’s collections! Trigger Warning: Contains an image depicting execution(s) by hanging. Picture this: Salem, Massachusetts, a little over three hundred years ago. You, a young Puritan given a bizarre moniker like Humiliation or Abstinence, are trailing behind […]

Last week, I promised that if the Hoosiers kept winning, I’d keep writing. I’m thrilled to have a reason to be back, as IU Football is heading to the College Football Playoff National Championship game! My last two posts focused on IU football’s past trips to the Rose and Peach Bowls. But since we’re heading […]

In honor of Data Privacy Week, data librarians at University Library and Wells Library are partnering to help you take back your data! If you have questions or concerns about your personal data being collected, sold, exchanged, or leaked, this webinar will help you understand your digital footprint and offer small, practical steps to protect your personal […]

Call me superstitious, but if IU keeps winning, I’m not stopping these posts anytime soon! IU Football just pulled off an AMAZING win over Alabama — and their first Rose Bowl victory ever! My colleague was in Pasadena and said the sea of cream and crimson was unreal. News reports back that up, indicating there […]

Welcome to the fifth spotlight of the Lilly Library’s Mechanical Puzzle blog series, written by Andrew Rhoda, the Lilly Library’s Curator of Puzzles! What are Sequential Movement Puzzles? Sequential movement puzzles have solutions that focus on patterns of moves to reach the solution. As Jerry Slocum and his co-authors write in Puzzles Old and New, “Sequential movement puzzles require a series of steps […]

The Terence Bech Collection at the Archives of Traditional Music is the most expansive repository of Nepali music and cultural materials outside Nepal. Drawing on his many years of engagement with the collection, Suyash Kumar Neupane proposes archives and their holdings as inherently dynamic sites of recontextualization—layered and shaped by time, labor, and perspective. He also emphasizes how each act of listening, cataloging, and interpretation adds a new stratum to an already complex palimpsest of sounds, images, and meanings to archives and their collections.

Every year when the weather turns cold and campus gets quieter, I settle into the same familiar routine. I pull out my favorite holiday movies, some that I’ve watched since childhood and some that have become new traditions. They’re not just films to me. They’re a way to slow down and enjoy the season, especially […]

My guess is that if you have any connection to Indiana University, even if you are not a football fan, you know that the Hoosiers are heading to Pasadena for the Rose Bowl, our first appearance since the 1967 season! This is just so huge and makes my Hoosier heart sing; I am so happy […]

Brrr, ’tis the season for hot cocoa, snow boots, and final exams–as well as seasonal celebrations! Curatorial assistant Jake Gentry is here to showcase some festive selections! Winter can be a polarizing season, marked by shorter days, harsher temperatures, and busier schedules. Yet it is also one of the most widely celebrated times of the […]