Artist, (Genius), Human: Exploring Drafts of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
Teaching and outreach assistant Helen Gunn looks for Vonnegut in his drafts of Slaughterhouse-Five. A walk through the Lilly Library’s ...
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The Box of Lost Tales: John Boorman’s Lord of the Rings
Most people who are familiar with the director-writer-producer John Boorman know him for the iconic 1981 fantasy film, Excalibur. Many ... -
Disney and the Blue Ribbon Books
By Kamden Spies, Lilly Library desk attendant and graduate student in the Department of Information & Library Science By 1932, ... -
A Map for the Body
By Travis Whaley. This summer, the Lilly Library acquired a rare copy of Bernhard Schmid’s Einer neuen kunstlichen Tabulatur auff ... -
The poet and the scholar translate Beowulf
By Edward O’Shea, Emeritus Professor of English, SUNY Oswego, Author: Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey Many readers know Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) ... -
Studying the Past through Travelers’ Eyes: Adventures and Impressions
By Francisca Leiva Infante, PhD candidate, History Department, Binghamton University; Lilly Library Mendel Fellowship recipient, 2023. Traveling has always been ... -
Selections from Flora + Fauna: Mary Ellen Solt’s “Forsythia” in Flowers in Concrete
When Erin Chiparo and I started planning for the exhibition Flora + Fauna: A Bounty of Beasts and Botanicals, we ... -
Vonnegut Freaks: The Fan Mail of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
By Isabel Planton, Public Services Librarian What would you say if you had the chance to write to Kurt Vonnegut? ... -
New Exhibition: Everything is Bicycle
“Everything is Bicycle”: The Revolution of the Wheel in America In the mid-1890s, the bicycle was at the height of its ... -
Cats Invade the Foyer at the Lilly Library
Starting in August, cats of many stripes will make an appearance at the Lilly Library, contained within the pages of ...