Approximately 450,000 books, 8.5 million manuscripts, 60,000 comic books, 16,000 mini books, 35,000 puzzles, and 150,000 pieces of sheet music.[1]
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Circulation
Library does not publicly circulate
Population served
48,514 faculty, staff, and students at Indiana University Bloomington, additional scholars, and members of the public
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Director
Joel Silver
Employees
20 [2]
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The Lilly Library, located on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, is an important rare book and manuscript library in the United States. At its dedication on October 3, 1960, the library contained a collection of 20,000 books, 17,000 manuscripts, more than fifty oil paintings, and 300 prints. Currently, the Lilly Library has 8.5 million manuscripts, 450,000 books, 60,000 comic books, 16,000 mini books, 35,000 puzzles, and 150,000 sheets of music.
^"The Lilly Library: The Collections". Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana). Retrieved August 9, 2007.
^"Lilly Library Staff". Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana). 6 December 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
music. The LillyLibrary was founded in 1960 with the collection of Josiah K. Lilly Jr., owner of Lilly Pharmaceuticals in Indianapolis. J.K. Lilly was a collector...
Lilly (August 2, 1915 – December 30, 2009) was an American philanthropist, the last surviving great-grandchild of Eli Lilly, founder of the Eli Lilly...
Founded in 1960 with the collection of Josiah K. Lilly Jr., of Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, the library now contains approximately 400,000 rare books...
Colonel Lilly, his brother, James, and son, Josiah (J. K.), the growing company employed other Lilly family. Colonel Lilly's cousin, Evan Lilly, was hired...
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams is a collection of short stories by Sylvia Plath. It was posthumously published in 1977 as a collection of thirteen...
puzzle dated 1820–1850: Image collection of the Slocum puzzles at The LillyLibrary, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Accessed August 18, 2013...
University Libraries consists of the William R. Perkins Library, Bostock Library, and the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library on West Campus; the Lilly Library...
Boxer eventually sold it to Indiana University, where it is held by the LillyLibrary. The manuscript was written around circa 1590 in primarily Early Modern...
the LillyLibrary Newsletter. Vol. 29–32. Indiana University Foundation. 1998. pp. 5–. The second volume of the Gutenberg Bible from which the Lilly Library...
"Raising Kane". A copy of the interview is in the collection of the LillyLibrary at Indiana University Bloomington.: 157, 161, 166 Comingore was married...
directed by Chantal Akerman. In 1977, Indiana University at Bloomington's LillyLibrary acquired for its archives Mrs. Plath's collection of Sylvia's letters...
many pieces listed are in the Sylvia Plath Archive of juvenilia in the LillyLibrary at Indiana University. The rest are with the Sylvia Plath Estate. Plath...
University Library". Cambridge University Library. Retrieved 2 August 2019. "Chapbook Collection Guide: Special databases: The Collections: The LillyLibrary"....
competition from major publishers. Ronin's catalog includes the Leary Library, The LillyLibrary, The Fringe Series, The Entheo-Spirituality Series, and various...
Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library The LillyLibrary, Indiana University Bloomington Princeton University Library, Special Collections New Zealand...
his library, was among the private collectors who contributed to the exhibition. The Fleming Collection, central to the exhibit, is now at the Lilly Library...
2021-10-01. Retrieved 2022-04-09. Sadlier, Darlene J. (2019-08-09). The LillyLibrary from A to Z: Intriguing Objects in a World-Class Collection. Indiana...
Frederick (1973). "A Catalogue of Pre-1840 Nahuatl Works Held by The LillyLibrary". The Indiana University Bookman. 11: 69–88. Archived from the original...
Cleverdon, 9 October 1967 and 26 February 1968, in the Cleverdon archive, LillyLibrary, University of Indiana, and reproduced at Burton and Thomas Thomas,...
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