Indiana University Bloomington holds more than 560,000 audio and video recordings and film reels, many of which are historically significant, all of which are actively deteriorating. And the window of time to save these materials is closing fast.

Undergraduate students will show off their reference and Internet literacy skills during the Digital Literacy Contest on April 7 at Indiana University Bloomington's Herman B Wells Library.

If you're looking to commemorate Inauguration Day 2009, head to the lobby of the Herman B Wells Library Jan. 20. Students can view the inauguration in the Herman B Wells Library from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and visit Yes We Can, an interactive art project in the Wells Library lobby.

The Lilly Library announced today (Nov. 17) that Deborah Meier, considered the founder of the small schools movement in the U.S., will donate her personal papers to the library's collection. The announcement came during today's commemoration ceremony for the Indiana University School of Education's 100th anniversary. Meier gave the keynote address during a dinner celebration Sunday night.

IU Bloomington Libraries are publishing their first faculty-generated electronic journal, Museum Anthropology Review, which is dedicated to museum and material culture studies.

The intrinsic value of libraries has been lauded for a centuries, but a new Indiana University study found that for each dollar of public library expenditures, the average Indiana community receives $2.38 in benefits. The market value of the goods and services they provide is estimated at $629.9 million.

Featuring lectures and speakers on the Bloomington campus, including NPR's Michele Norris, recognizing the dangers of Facebook and "Confessions of a Cha Cha Feminist."

Indiana University's thriving -- and ever-growing -- arts scene will be in full bloom during ArtsWeek, the annual campus-community arts festival in Bloomington, Ind., now celebrating its 22nd year. ArtsWeek 2006, which will be held from Thursday (Feb. 23) to March 5, will offer audiences a cornucopia of opportunities to experience the best and most exciting creative work on and around campus and the community. The festivities include the world premiere of Ned Rorem's opera Our Town, as well as performances by such touring headliners as the Urban Bush Women and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

The first major public exhibition of the papers of former U.S. Congressman Lee Hamilton, who represented the 9th District of Indiana for more than 30 years, is now open for viewing at the Lilly Library, Indiana University's library for rare books and manuscripts.

More than 125 rare and out-of-print films are now available for research and instruction thanks to Indiana University's yearlong project to digitize films from the Lilly Library's historic David S. Bradley Film Collection. The films, many of which are in the public domain but unavailable commercially, include silent comedies as well as forgotten gems featuring Harold Lloyd, Pearl White and a 16-year-old Charlton Heston making his big-screen debut.

Patricia A. Steele, a leader in statewide library associations and longtime Indiana University librarian, was named Ruth Lilly Interim Dean of University Libraries by the IU Board of Trustees, who approved the two-year appointment at their Sept. 16 meeting.

The IU Digital Library Program today (Sept. 20) received a $768,747 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to extend its groundbreaking digital music library to college teachers and students across the country. The project will create an online learning and research tool, like the highly successful version already in place at IU, that can be easily deployed at a wide range of college and university libraries.

Make room next to the Gutenberg Bible and Audubon's famous bird prints. Indiana University's renowned Lilly Library will showcase an exhibition of comic books collected by the executive producer of the summer blockbuster Batman Begins.

Indiana University on June 17 renamed its main library for its late chancellor, Herman B Wells. IU President Adam W. Herbert said it was the most appropriate way for the university to remember Wells.

The Trustees of Indiana University on Friday (April 1) approved the naming of the Main Library on the Bloomington campus for Herman B Wells, the university's visionary chancellor who died five years ago this month.

From May 29 to June 1, IUB will host the first-ever academic symposium devoted to the author who introduced us to the legendary British super-spy, 007 James Bond. His name is Fleming. Ian Fleming.