Preparing for the future means first understanding the past. Indiana University's collections are vast and various, found across multiple campuses and venues, and encompassing more than 30 million objects that provide endless opportunities for new discoveries. To ensure these objects remain available to future generations, IU also invests deeply in preservation through programs such as its Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative and IU Libraries Moving Image Archive and through leadership provided by the university’s first executive director for university collections.
Caring for our history
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New website for the Lilly Library improves access to millions of items
The new website allows increases access to the IU Lilly Library's vast collections.
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Archivists learn how to preserve audiovisual collections despite time, technology and tragedy
The first Biennial Audio-Visual Archival Summer School brought preservationists from around the world to campus for two weeks of training.
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Meet the Mandela Washington fellows, donate at the Staff Council blood drive, and enter the Archives caption contest.
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Jane Fortune's $4M estate gift to Eskenazi Museum of Art enables research on female artists
In honor of the gift, the museum's gallery of American and European Art from Medieval to 1900 will be named the "Jane Fortune Gallery."
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Good dill: University Library offers free herb seeds to patrons
The new seed library at the main desk has seven varieties to choose from, ready to be planted in your garden.
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Learn about this month's Archives Photo Caption Contest, Engineering and Technology's agBOT, and Pizza Hut's Campus Center menu.
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Peter Jackson's 'They Shall Not Grow Old' raises ethical questions about manipulating war footage
A panel discussion after a screening of the World War I film at IU Cinema included concerns about the ethics of manipulating war footage.
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Take a look back in digital time with this collection at University Archives
The IU Archive-It collection chronicles nearly 400 university websites going back more than 10 years. Plus, it's free to access.
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IU issues statement on passing of I.M. Pei, world-renowned architect of IU Eskenazi Museum of Art
Pei designed the iconic angular building for IU’s acclaimed Eskenazi Museum, which was completed in 1982.
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IU Libraries hosts first international audiovisual preservation training in North America
The summer school will educate 50 professional archivists from 12 countries and around the U.S. in IU's world-class facilities.