Items related to the Lilly Library have popped up on a number of blogs in recent months. Here are three that may be of interest:
Blog Squad
The IU Libraries “Blog Squad” is a group of five students who blog about the IU Libraries. Each student is paired with a librarian who helps them learn about the libraries and how the libraries can contribute to the student’s academic success. Librarian David Oldenkamp sent squad member Joey on a visit to the Lilly Library. Read about it on Joey’s blog.
To read more about the Blog Squad, visit http://www.libraries.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=8537.
Persian playing cards
The IU Libraries Preservation Lab blogged about treating a collection of Persian playing cards from the Lilly Library.
The collection consists of 8–10 different sets of Persian playing cards ranging in date from ca. 1850–ca. 1950. More information about the cards is available in the library catalog.
Late age of print
IU Professor Ted Striphas new book, The Late Age of Print, focuses on contemporary book culture with attention to “e–books, book superstores, online bookselling, Amazon.com, and Harry Potter.” He shot a promotional video for his book at the Lilly Library during the 2009 spring semester. You can see glimpses of the Remembering Lincoln exhibition as Striphas strolls through most of the Lilly Library’s public spaces. I haven’t read the book (yet) but it is getting good reviews. Richard Nash describes it as a “must–read” for “those interested in the confluence of culture and economics as it relates to books.”
Watch the video and read about Striphas’s experience making it on The Late Age of Print blog.
– Erika Dowell, Public Services Librarian