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Diversity Resources from IU Libraries

The Lilly Library

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The Lilly Library is Indiana University’s rare books and manuscripts library. We currently house over 450,000 books and 8.5 million manuscripts, including medieval manuscripts and literary archives. The Lilly is strong in many collecting areas, including early printed books, Latin Americana, children’s’ literature, cookbooks, and science and medicine. However, like so many other libraries, our collections were founded on white privilege, and the white, male experience remains overrepresented in our holdings. As such, we are admittedly lacking in books and archives by and for people of color; this is something which we continually try to remedy by adding to our collections and by seeking out and amplifying marginalized voices in the collections we already have. We believe it is important to acknowledge these shortcomings and the privilege upon which our library was built.

The examples below represent only a small sample of our holdings. Please contact our librarians for assistance in further searching our collections.

Resources from The Lilly Library