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Grant helps Lilly Library elevate access

The Lilly Library at Indiana University will receive $2.5 million to endow a cataloger of religious materials and support a traveling exhibition.
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  • An image shows an inspiring rendering of a lock that is open and text announces it is open access week, 2025 the dates of October 20-26, use hashtag OAweek for online discussions
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    Celebrate Open Access with IU Libraries

    IU Libraries is once again using International Open Access Week to bring attention to the people and tools at Indiana University ready to assist our scholars.

    October 1st, 2025
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    IUL Scholar: Open and exploring

    IU Libraries Undergraduate Scholar Cristina Cruz shares her appreciation for the scholarship, her work at the library, and exploring her coursework.

    September 30th, 2025
  • A photo showing a wax cylinder, used for recording sound during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Also pictured are four different cylindrical cases from the Edison company, used to house blank or recorded wax cylinders. Both the cylinder and the cases are approximately two inches wide and three to four inches tall.
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    The Archives of Traditional Music: Infinite stories, told and untold

    Heather Sloan, DMA, MLS, Public Services and Outreach Archivist, Archives of Traditional Music (ATM) As with other collections that are jewels in IU Libraries’ crown, awareness of the Archives of Traditional Music (ATM) can be surprisingly spotty. An archive of international renown, it is nonetheless fairly common upon mentioning the ATM, its contents, and its […]
    September 23rd, 2025
  • Cropped promotional art for "Ori and the Will of the Wisps" with the game title in stylized white text along the left edge. Ori, a small glowing spirit, stands beside a large blue owl with red eyes on a jagged cliff. The background features swirling purple mist and a glowing orb embedded in a twisted tree, creating a moody, magical atmosphere.
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    Apocalyptic Media: The Rise of Mother Nature

    Many picture the apocalypse with ideas of fear and destruction in mind. However, when taking a look at these movies and videogames, one can see the depiction of nature taking over society and interpret it as a sign of beauty. Sometimes the silence and absence of a busy world now engulfed in raw nature is […]
    September 22nd, 2025
  • Poster for "Dracula" (1931), depicting the face of a pale man with slick dark hair and prominent eyebrows, looking angrily to the side.
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    Universal Terrors in Early Filmmaking

    Once, film lacked the audio, color, and the length of current feature films. Within a short span of time, film evolved, incorporating audio. It brought beautifu
    September 17th, 2025
  • Picture of a facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani, a copy of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. The page features anicent Egyptian hieroglyphics and an illustration of Ra riding on his solar barque.
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    Immortal Movers: Divine Vehicles of World Religions

    Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry brings you up to speed on some divine modes of transportation used in world religions and folklore! Trigger Warning: Brief mention of suicide in the Zhong Kui section of this blog. Supernatural means of transport immediately invoke certain images, such as witches on broomsticks, demigods with winged steeds, and […]
    September 15th, 2025
  • Wooden mechanical puzzle resembling a red crab with claws.
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    Mechanical Puzzle Category Spotlight #3: Interlocking Puzzles

    Welcome to the third spotlight of the Lilly Library’s Mechanical Puzzle blog series, written by Andrew Rhoda, the Lilly Library’s Curator of Puzzles! The third mechanical puzzle category that Jerry Slocum included in his taxonomy of puzzles is “interlocking puzzles.” Interlocking puzzles are a combination of the first two categories. Here, you must both take […]
    September 10th, 2025
  • Cartoon illustration of three beavers. The left beaver wears glasses and holds a file folder. The center beaver wears a graduation cap and a shirt labeled "UNIVERSITY." The right beaver wears a yellow hoodie labeled "RESEARCH DATA SERVICES" and using a laptop. The background includes a gear icon (left) and a bar chart (right).
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    Inspiring Good Data Practices: Meet the Research Data Services Team

    “[Data], [data] everywhere, nor any drop to [use].” The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (or, the Rime of the Modern Researcher)  Research has always depended on data: whether it was recorded in a notebook, photographed and documented, or now processed through high-performance computing. Regardless of the medium of the data (paper, photos, your computer), it […]
    September 10th, 2025
  • A man, with hair and clothing worn in feudal Japanese style, brandishes a polished sword which gleams in the dim lighting and against the darkness-obscured background. Below appears the romanized Japanese title "Tasogare Seibei".
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    Japan’s Meiji and Showa Eras, through Movies

    Japan has long been a popular country to visit and learn about, in terms of its culture, its animation, and its language. It is just as interesting to learn abo
    September 9th, 2025