IUB Archives

A Group(s) Effort: The Archival Collection and Ongoing Legacy of IU’s Groups Scholars Program

The Groups Scholars Program is a longstanding student support services initiative at Indiana University. It provides financial, academic, and social ...

April 24, 2025
The Women’s Athletic Association: How Women Became Peers, Friends, and Groundbreaking Athletes

At the time of its conception, the W.A.A. was successful in terms of the number of women participating, and this ...

March 25, 2025
A Look at Indiana’s Independent Music Scene, Pt. 2

This is the second post about the Archives recent music acquisitions. Visit https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/iubarchives/2025/02/10/indianas-independent-music/ for the introductory post from Archives graduate ...

February 28, 2025
A Look at Indiana’s Independent Music Scene

Indiana may not be the first place you think of when asked where the music industry comes to thrive but ...

February 10, 2025
Behind the Curtain: Evan Brandon, Archives Assistant

Behind the Curtain is a series highlighting IU Archives staff, partners from various departments of the IU Libraries, and students ...

January 13, 2025
Getting Personal (Papers) with the Joe Hickerson Collection: Reflections of the Self in Archives and Their Collections

How much of the ‘personality’ or ‘essence’ of a person can be known from their archival materials? When processing or ...

November 19, 2024
Halloween Exhibit at the IU Archives!

Given that we are days away from Halloween, consider stopping by the IU Archives to view our current exhibit “Haunted ...

October 25, 2024
An Archivist’s Letter to Carole Y. Johnson, her papers, and the Modern Organization for Dance Evolvement records

Jo Otremba (author of this post) is now the Barron Hilton Archivist for Flight and Space Exploration at Purdue University. ...

September 26, 2024
Posting About Postcards

Updated September 10, 2024 Last week, the IU Arts and Humanities Council commenced First Thursdays for the academic year. The ...

September 10, 2024
Coach to some, ‘Doc’ to all

Just in time for the start of the 2024 Olympics, we are pleased to say that processing of the papers ...

July 26, 2024