Stranger Than Lilies: A Cryptobotanical Survey of Freakish Flora, Peculiar Plants, and Historical Herbals
Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry goes foraging in our collections to find weird and wild specimens of flora. “But ...
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Five Good-ish Film and TV Presidents at Media Services
It’s that time again, when we are forced to exercise our hard-fought right to self-government amidst inescapable political ads, shrieking ... -
Five Wuxia Inspired Films
What is Wuxia? Before we talk about films the concept of wuxia might be new to people. Wuxia is translated ... -
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 ... -
An IU ‘70s Lesbian Activist: Maida Tilchen’s Collection Comes Out
Sometimes when working in an archives, you come across someone in a collection that you really connect to and admire; ... -
![A spread of an open journal, (recto) photograph of Steven LeBlanc (left) and Jerry T. Boyd (right) standing together indoors and (verso) passage in handwritten cursive script that reads “getting out of St. Louis and to San Francisco [,] Steve wrote me a postcard saying ‘Happy at last’ [,] Jerry and Steve, July ‘94.”](https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/boyd5.jpg)
Love, Jerry: A Celebration of Love, Loss, and the Life of a Gay Man in the 1970s-90s
In celebration of Pride Month, student Curatorial Assistant Jake Gentry shares his exploration of the newly-processed archive of writer, activist ... -
A Glossary of Ape
Edgar Rice Burroughs was not a lexicographer but an author of pulp fiction, dozens of adventure and science fiction novels. ... -
Enjoying Spring with Tunes and Oral Histories from the Folklore Institute Student Papers Collection
The following is a guest post from Emily Paulson (MLS Candidate in the Luddy School of Informatics pursuing the music ... -
Still Unpacking the Kripke Collection
At the beginning of 2023, I wrote that I’d pull interesting dictionaries and occasionally other language books and items from ... -
The Evolution of Animation as a Medium
Animation is not just a genre—it is a dynamic and inclusive medium that allows creators to push the boundaries of ...