Archives Director Dina Kellams and School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering student Ryan Clay had a great time staffing the IU Student Foundation History Tent today! Love chatting with all the visiting alums! #Little500

At IU Bloomington's very first Earth Day celebration in 1970, Wisconsin Senator and founder of Earth Day Gaylord Nelson was a featured speaker in Dunn Meadow. Listen to his talk at media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/… - complete with protestors!

Attention IU folks! Tomorrow at 12 PM University Records Manager Amanda Rindler will host a lunchtime talk for the IU Staff Council on records management. Summer is a great time to focus on cleanup and there is still time to register! events.iu.edu/iubsc/event/13…

Excited to share that Indianapolis Recorder has featured Archives student & أحمد student Jo Otremba and their research into segregated teaching practices at IU! indianapolisrecorder.com/iu-graduate-st… Also, Jo is moving on to Purdue U. Archives with a FT position! Congrats to all!

Attention librarians, archivists and historians! We all wish more people would use digitized research and collections from reliable sources. Join us this Friday, May 3 for a Wiki Edit-A-Thon. Wikimedians will be on hand to help you get started. Read more: tinyurl.com/tzwvbp6c

Last week Archives graduate students Sasha Goryl and Jo Otremba presented at the MidwestArchivesConference annual meeting, a great step into the profession! And thanks to Indiana University donors, both received support from a professional development fund est. for IU Libraries students!

We love when students working with our collections ask to contribute to our blog! Check out this great post by أحمد grad student Emily Paulson, highlighting Irish folks songs from one of our IUFolkEthno collections! (and listen!) blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/iubarchives/20…

IU colleagues! Are you doing some office cleanup this summer? University Records Manager Amanda Rindler can help you with what to save, what to shred, and what to send to the Archives. Start with iu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_1d4f… and reach out with questions!

A truly impressive student project using the Indiana University Archives collections!

Looking for ways to meet friends, get outside a bit, and help make a difference this summer? The Wylie House Museum Museum is looking for outdoor/garden volunteers! bloomingtonvolunteernetwork.org/need/detail/?n…

For the 1933 Chicago World Fair, Thomas Hart Benton painted a series of controversial murals about Indiana that addressed social issues, sparking debate about the state's complex past. Learn more about the murals in our latest #UntoldIndiana blog: wp.me/p7f1qx-2WD

It's heartwarming when our students find collections that really "speak" to them. Read more on the blog: "An IU '70s Lesbian Activist: Maida Tilchen's Collection Comes Out": blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/iubarchives/20…

While IU Bloomington has faced many fires, this one was the most devastating. It was also the impetus for the move to our current campus - we needed room to grow! DYK that some of the brick in Owen & Wylie Halls, pictured below, were repurposed from Science Hall?

Super fun to see Smithsonian Magazine cover the "Beast of Busco" in a recent article: smithsonianmag.com/science-nature… We have a great 2018 blog post about the Beast and other "Hoosier Monsters" found in our folklore collections! 🧌🧌 blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/iubarchives/20…

With the Olympics underway and USA swimming securing those medals, we had to share a new blog post AND a new finding aid for the papers of IU's James E. "Doc" Counsilman. Did you know he also coached the men's Olympics team -- twice? More on the blog: blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/iubarchives/20…

We were glad to have you! Best of luck and definitely let us know if we can be of further assistance!

On This Date - Sept. 4, 1972 - Indiana Hoosiers Mark Spitz became the first to win seven golds in one Olympiad when he swam the anchor on the gold medal winning 400 medley relay in Munich. Spitz won gold in four individual events and three relays, setting world records in each event.

They’re here 🤩 the instruments have begun to arrive! Are you ready for the grand opening of “Amped at IU: The Jim Irsay Guitar Collection” 🎉 Due to popular demand we have added an extra self-guided tour option from 5:00-6:00PM. Visit the link in our bio to learn more & RSVP 🎸

We took postcards with images from our collection to the IU Arts & Humanities's September First Thursday. We collected them from attendees and mailed them out - but first, we mapped them. Where in the world were they going? blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/iubarchives/20…