Jeri Taylor, scriptwriter and producer of many popular television shows, including Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager passed away on October 24, 2024 at the age of 86. Taylor was born in Bloomington, Indiana, graduated from IU with a Bachelor’s Degree in English in 1959, and donated her archive to the Lilly […]

Reference assistant Amber Bowes highlights a lesser-known work of Charles Dickens in this exciting first installation of a two-part blog post! Charles Dickens is remembered by most of the world as a great novelist and a key figure in Victorian England at its height and generally thought of as a nearly mythic representative of Englishness and […]

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Having recently written posts about books of one sort or another, I had in mind writing about word games in the Kripke Collection, but they weren’t on the table where I’d first seen them. A colleague pointed out the boxes now holding the games, but as I took in the boxes stacked behind them, I […]

There was a time when going to movie was an event. The smell of buttery popcorn, the excitement of a dimmed theater, the thrill of watching a story unfold on massive screen, it was magic! It was also limited. Today, the magic hasn’t disappeared, it’s just evolved. Streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and dozens of others have […]

Taylor Burnette is the inaugural Railsback Fellow for Library Engagement

The Groups Scholars Program is a longstanding student support services initiative at Indiana University. It provides financial, academic, and social support to first-generation and underrepresented Indiana college students. The Groups Program began in 1968 under the leadership of Rozelle Boyd, Assistant Dean of Indiana University’s Junior Division. The initial pilot program saw the enrollment of […]

I pulled out what looked ugly but turned out to be a gem — what sort of gem, I admit I don’t know, but that element of surprise, even confusion, is what unpacking the Kripke Collection is all about. It’s a small book with a shabby paper cover, stained and rubbed. Was it forgotten or […]

As great as the new movies that are bring produced today are, there is something uniquely comforting about a classic. Whether it’s a black and white masterpiece or a just movie your dad insists “changed cinema forever”, classic films have a timeless quality that still draws us in. They’re more than just old movies. They […]

For my first blog post, I wanted to share movies that I thought delivered powerful messages, specifically in terms of black empowerment and black stories. The three movies I chose are in Media Services’ collection and will make you think critically and analytically about race and the history of racism that still persists today. Get […]