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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How one policy makes research from IUPUI available to the world
In five years, IUPUI's open-access policy has made more than 10,000 articles by IUPUI scholars available to readers around the world.
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Gifts of 7K game magazines make IU home to largest collection in Midwest
The collections come from The Strong National Museum of Play and Stony Brook University's William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection.
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National Service Archives to open at IUPUI
The collection is the first of its kind, focusing on civic service and volunteerism. A panel about IU and community service is Sept 27.
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Eskenazi Museum art therapist engages through self-discovery and expression
Lauren Daugherty, the new art therapist and wellness experiences manager at the Eskenazi Museum of Art, shares her vision for the role.
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Professor Emerita Darlene Sadlier elected to Brazilian Academy of Letters
Sadlier will hold the position of socia-correspondente with the academy, which cultivates the Portuguese language and Brazilian literature.
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Learn about parking lot closures for fall move-in, the August Archives photo caption contest and the opening of the Faculty Crossing.
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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."